With your logic, why does the 4 get iOS7?!
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You can get the 4S. But don't suspect good usage in 3years! It will be easily good until the 6 releases next year and than you can buy the 6S?
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Will new 4S work ok for 2 to 3 years from now?
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With your logic, why does the 4 get iOS7?!
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You can get the 4S. But don't suspect good usage in 3years! It will be easily good until the 6 releases next year and than you can buy the 6S?
I wouldn't write it off yet, it's a dual core, and even with 256 MB of ram the iPhone 3GS ran ios 3,4,5, and 6.
Precisely.
My niece is still running a 3GS and uses it for large parts of every day.
Amazingly the battery is still good and personally she has no issue with not being able to upgrade to the latest OS.
The biggest problem you'd have over time would be the increasing number of apps that become compatible with only iOS 7 onward (for the 3GS) and iOS 8 onward (for the 4S) once updated.
Everyone is different and for her it suits her needs well, perhaps the same will be said for the OP?
I understand no iphone has been discontinued after just one year. I also know that Apple shipped the most iPhones in history last quarter but the average Sale price was lower. That to me means that the iPhone 4/4S was accounting for quite a bit of the sales. Which brings us to the 5C. If people want a mid level or entry level phone wouldn't it be smarter to make a less expensive phone to sale to those people? The iPhond 5 is still going to be more expensive for Apple to make... I'm not an analyst or have "insider" information but I have been in business and if there's something that I could to make my profit margins better, then I'm going to do...so the 5C comes in ... Cheaper to make with the same internals as the iphone 5. If I have one less expensive phone and one more expensive ... Personally if I'm in it to make money I'm going with the one that's less expensive ... It just makes sense
However if the 5C is only going to be sold in certain countries then I guess it's possible Apple keeps the iPhone 5, but if the release the 5C everywhere I just don't see the sense innot
However if the 5C is only going to be sold in certain countries then I guess it's possible Apple keeps the iPhone 5, but if the release the 5C everywhere I just don't see the sense innot
I'm sure it will be fine, it should hold out to iOS 8, sure its not going to be snappy but it will work and I'm sure it will be fine. You could wait however and see if the 5C gets any interest to you.
I am sure it will work as in "work, work". I think iOS 7 will run fine too. After that I am not sure how optimized it will be after iOS 7.
That's because the 3Gs lived from 2009 to 2012. If things were like last year, the 4s would drop to the "free with contract" spot in Apple line up and would get one more iOS change. However, all evidence show that the 4s will have a 2 not 3 year cycle, it will get dropped tomorrow and Apple has no reason to continue supporting it.
I'm still enjoying my 4S and I'm sure even though it won't get all the features iOS 7 has to offer, it will still be as enjoyable as it is today. We'll see what Apple has to offer in 2014 though. They could tempt me to upgrade then. This year, I'm sticking with my 4S.
That's because as they package them, they flash the latest GM. iOS 5 was replaced with 6 when the iPhone 5 came out.
I three years I assume the 4S will be struggling significantly if it's even supported at that time. Your app selection will likely be exceptionally limited as well.
OP, if you keep the phone in good condition, do not upgrade to other apps in the distant future that need more horsepower, and understand that iOS updates in the future that may hinder the older iPhone performance, and should not be installed to be safe, your phone should work just fine for a good while longer.
The fact that they will discontinue it has nothing to do with it being updated to the latest iOS. (iPad 3 was discontinued a year ago and will get iOS 7) If you think 4s will not be supported a year longer than the iPhone 4, you don't know what you're talking about. (+iPad mini uses the exact same internals as the iPhone 4s, and I highly doubt it will only get one update (iOS 7))
'You don't know what you're talking about'? You are a class act sir.
I am very well aware that A5 is used in iPad 2, 4s, iPad 3, and iPad mini, but then again if you look at the ORIGINAL iPad, which debut the A4 chip, it got stuck with iOS 5, while iPhone 4 continued to get updates. So it is a very valid and very likely scenario that Apple will only support iPad mini (1st gen) for iOS 8 while dropping the other 3
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iPhone 4 and 4s won't be dropped at the same time.(as far as iOS updates are concerned) It makes no sense. It would be like dropping iPad 4 and iPad 3 at the same time. The first iPad used the exact same internals as the iPhone 4, except for the RAM (it only had 256 mb of it), and it had a higher resolution display, so those would all be legitimate reasons to stop updating it. IPhone 4S is 2x faster in CPU and 7x faster in GPU. It should be fine for one more iOS update.
I hope so, I am an iPhone 4s user who plan to hang on to it for one more year. It would be great if there it is still supported next year too.
Like I said the iPhone 5 is done. It moved to the retirement aisle. However most of what you said is aggreeable
Keep in mind, 4S does not do LTE.
4S has A5 chip, does not do AirDrop w/iOS7, nor some camera features. So, future iOS's will negatively impact, as they will also have to drop more features for it to work on 4S, and it could get laggy iOS 8 & later. This phone came with iOS 5 when it was first built.
So, those two things in mind, and with Apple's announcement today, I'd recommend checking the compatibility of the 5c ...they have 4 models depending on country/carrier, if the one you use in home country will work with travel countries also, I'd strongly suggest going with iPhone 5c (A6 chip, same as iPhone 5 it replaces), if you want to keep using it for 2-3 years. Check out the models here for compatibility: http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/