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iPhone 4S was my first and favorite smartphone. Glass front/back with a metal edge. Back when phones were hand-sized they were a lot harder to drop.
by wlesieutre 9y ago
iPhone 4S was my first and favorite smartphone. Glass front/back with a metal edge.
Back when phones were hand-sized they were a lot harder to drop.
- NathanCH 9y agoiPhone 4/4S design was awesome. It's funny how Apple is calling this an all-new glass design when other phones on the market have a similar design and Apple themselves had this design five years ago.
- jsjohnst 9y ago> all-new glass design It's technically true, it is all new. No other phone was the same (just very very damn similar). Yes, it's a cheap marketing phrase that's meaningless, kinda par for the course with an Apple keynote.
- djrogers 9y agoIt is an all-new design - they never said or even implied that being all glass was new, but it is clearly an all-new design.
- Shivetya 9y agoand it created a wonderful market for people sell replacement back glass. still does it really matter? how many phones are not in cases?
- mynegation 9y agoNo kidding, iPhone 4/4S was a paramount of iPhone design and it all went downhill from there. I was almost literally crying when I had to upgrade my iPhone 4 that got unbearably slow and dated, to monstrosity that is iPhone 6.
- Lammy 9y agoWhy not get an iPhone SE?
- manmal 9y agoIt was not available when iPhone 6 came out.
- wlesieutre 9y agoI did! I'd actually switched over to Android after the iPhone 4S, to an Xperia Z3 compact from fall 2014. That was competing against the iPhone 6 when Apple had apparently abandoned what I consider to be comfortably sized phones. With the iPhone SE I was happy to come back.
- thirdsun 9y agoI actually think it's disappointing that the SE has it's own release schedule. I simply want a small phone with the same high end internals, but I'm not willing to wait and see if a new SE will come in spring. By that time it almost makes sense to wait for the next iPhone...and probably repeat this thought process. The SE should be part of the yearly refresh.
- laichzeit0 9y agoCompletely agree. It was the most beautiful of all iPhones. It was bound to get shit the next iteration. After all, gotta iterate right? Gotta do something different, "better"...
- freehunter 9y agoInterestingly enough, they iterated to something that I think is far uglier than any other model, and then frustratingly have stuck by it for three years, four years by the time they might possibly replace it.