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You know what's amazing about Apple? The iPhone 4 is still a fantastic phone. I use it every day and it runs great. It's what 3 years old now? It might be hard
by programminggeek 13y ago
You know what's amazing about Apple? The iPhone 4 is still a fantastic phone. I use it every day and it runs great. It's what 3 years old now? It might be hard to sell consumers on how great a 3 year old phone is, but gosh, it's still pretty fantastic.
I can understand why they would want to do the 5C, if only so they can get customers and developers unified around the larger device size, and so that they have a newer product that people are willing to pay for.
Still, it's astounding just how good the iPhone 4 still is, especially in light of the other phones that launched around the same time - the original Galaxy S and the Motorola Droid six months before that).
- Apocryphon 13y agoIn your opinion, what is it about Android phones that were contemporaneous to the iPhone 4 to be inferior in quality?
- jetru 13y agoLet me volunteer - slow and poor multitasking, buggy apps and lack of quality apps
- notatoad 13y agoAndroid phones that were released around the same time as the iPhone 4 were running Android 2.x and mostly not updated to Android 4.x. I still use an old Galaxy S sometimes, and it's a fine phone but android 2.3 really feels outdated.
- Widdershin 13y agoI'm running 4.2 on my Galaxy S just fine.
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- arjie 13y agoI have a Samsung Galaxy S variant (the Vibrant). It simply does not compare to anyone's iPhone 4 on the following: 1. Up to date software. 2. Responsiveness. 3. Ease of use. The iPhone 4's iOS 6 is strictly superior to the Vibrant and other Galaxy S pre-ICS Android. The former also is much more responsive on web pages, far smoother when switching apps, and quicker to the camera and GPS lock. I honestly did not believe the Galaxy S released at the same time as the iPhone 4. That is rather unbelievable. They are so far apart! I do run CyanogenMod ICS now on my Vibrant, but it doesn't match the iPhone 4.
- habosa 13y agoI'm the biggest Android fan out there and would only own an Android device ... but they don't stand the test of time as well (especially if you're not into the ROM scene). An Android phone from that era with stock software is going to be very very slow compared to an iPhone 4. I don't know why, but it's true.
- chrischen 13y agoDoes it slow down over time (why?) or was it slower to begin with?
- portmanteaufu 13y agoPrior to Jelly Bean (when "Project Butter" brought heavy optimizations and enhanced GPU acceleration to the UI), Android definitely exhibited some interface lag. Combined with older hardware, the lag makes the older handsets age less than gracefully. I'm optimistic that the more recent versions of the OS will change that for the better going forward.
- habosa 13y agoDefinitely slows down over time. This is a combination of two things: 1) Android was not very optimized for smoothness before 4.1 Also Android updates in general have addressed a lot of performance issues (TRIM in 4.3 was a big one). 2) Apps are generally coded to harness the power of modern devices. In Android the difference in power between today's devices (Quad Core 2.0Ghz) and the devices of yesteryear (Single Core 1Ghz) are massive.
- Kurtz79 13y agoI have an iPhone 4 as well, but with iOs7 coming I'm afraid it could be time to upgrade. Newer versions of the OS tend to be optimized for newer devices, I remember how my old iPod touch become slow as hell after they introduced multitasking.