Flashback: iPhone 4, the phone that made Apple a camera and display powerhouse
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- steva
- JiH
- 15 Sep 2019
all time best dizayn phone ever
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- Anonymous
- xj5
- 15 Sep 2019
As much as i hate Apple this iphone 4 to the iphone 5s were the only iphones worth buying anything up from that point till now was overpriced garbage.
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- John
- fx@
- 15 Sep 2019
The iPhone 4 exceeded all expectations and the screen had 3D like experience. The new iPhones hold back on technology while pushing prices ever higher and price gouging accessories
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- JBv
- 15 Sep 2019
best phone ever.I belive game changer phone in the plannet
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- Carol
- nUF
- 15 Sep 2019
THE-TRUTH-REVEALER, 15 Sep 2019Oh this phone was the best! I remember the experience of us... moreYeah, i also remember how cool those days were, when every iphone user could not make a call, while i was doing it from basements. Those were good days, when i could laugh at people that were pretty much giving up on everything just to hold an iphone...a sorry islab... ah i miss those days, was fun to realise how many m'''n walk the streets yealing at their devices and frustrating cause nobody head them, i actually saw one slamming the ground with his "beautifull islab", ah what days were those days. Well now apple after stealing Nokias antena design got better, in the mean time they pay a lot of Nokia pattents to actually be able to make their slabs a phone so people can make a call. Youp, this people actually do innovate.... others innovations.
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- Carol
- nUF
- 15 Sep 2019
Kangal, 15 Sep 2019The original iPhone (2G) paved the way for phones to transf... moreWait, what? This device was destroyed by Nokia N8 in pretty much everything: Display, CAMERA, Battery life, call quallity, funtionality, multimedia and sales. As for design it has nothing, absolutly nothing agains Nokia N9, a design that this days is copied even by apple. When Nokia was doing extremly beautifull design with 2.5 D curved glass display, the others were all 10 years behind it, as of now, they all copied it. Android and ios also had nothing against MeeGo, or Symbian. Both WAY better systems in those times then the uselles ios and pretty much buggy and chaotic android.... both of them with high privacy issues, a problem that stll domiates till this days.
Going back to samsung, a company with devices that were pretty much soled under the "it is an apple device, but cheapper" moniker, and apple that was pretty much a useless phone, since the most important part of it was brocken and you never had signal... is very hard to call them good or paving ways devices... but what happened? Well, ignorance is always a bliss and if it is succesfull, it really does not mean it is also good. But good marketing,, trolling and moking combined with a lot of ignorance coming from a lot of people that never had a smartphone and did not even knew they existed... perfect combination to call yourself the first smartphone and sell you half backed devices at high prices. Add Elope the mole their and you have Nokia, the only real competitor struggeling to find their way so they lost it and two of the most great OS's this world ever seen got abandoned paving the way for android and IOS to grow in a pretty much fast phase till a point where there was nothing to be done against them, meaning, windows phone came a bit too late, but not the sales were the problem, microsoft and it's plan of buying Nokia was.
- Kangal
- RN8
- 15 Sep 2019
AnonF-85937, 15 Sep 2019This was the first iPhone I truly liked, the design was abs... moreFun fact, Steve was still working with Apple until he died in 2011. Projects such as Siri and the design of the iPhone 5 were the last things he overlooked.
I personally think the iPhone 5/5S/SE are the best designs because the front glass is nice and sleek, the sides are blocky and easy to grip, and the back is made from Aluminium meaning they don't crack if dropped. I find that design is more ergonomic than the iPhone 6/6S/7 design, which feels too thin and rounded for my tastes. The iPhone 8 has a glass back which is worse, but at least it can do Wireless Charging slowly (under 10W) at the same rate as it does Regular Charging (under 10W)... wait, that's not worth the trade-off !!
The iPhone X/r/S/11/Pro/Max design is the worst.
Looks horrible with the notch, weird aspect ratio, the slippery bezels, and fragile-smudgy-glass backside. Then again, almost all phone designs have been bad the last 5 years.
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- Vegetaholic
- nEE
- 15 Sep 2019
True, 15 Sep 2019When Gsmarena Have No News They Come Up With FlashBack.Every Sunday they make flashbacks, it is been for many years, wake up
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- Techlius1
- Nue
- 15 Sep 2019
iPhone has really be on tech industry for a long time. Their experience cant be over endangered. I love iPhone and i love gsmarena
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- Vegetaholic
- nEE
- 15 Sep 2019
Complete Icona. Best design and smartphone of its time, still having iPhone 4S in my collection as best Apple iPhone creation, no doubt.
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- Xvestor
- xhm
- 15 Sep 2019
" a recipe that has been copied by just about every phone maker since."
gsm seems forgot , apple iphone 4 design inspired from sony design prototype, even steve job acknowledge how beautiful Sony design.
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- AnonD-784107
- StU
- 15 Sep 2019
Kingslayer, 15 Sep 2019iPhone 4 https://youtu.be/KEaLJpFxR9Q Crazy to think J... moreI had an Iphone 4. Brilliant phone. Fast. Had a decent camera for the time. But the OS was too restrictive. Everything needed syncing through itunes. And a few years ago i found android its good. And never looked back. Still love iphone
- Kingslayer
- 0c{
- 15 Sep 2019
iPhone 4
https://youtu.be/KEaLJpFxR9Q
Crazy to think Jony Ive and Scott Forstall no longer work for Apple and neither one got along.
For any iPhone fans accusing Google for ripping off iPhone X's gestures...
https://youtu.be/DJtYPC2b468
I know my phone history like I know my history of music, movies, video games, NBA, and horse racing. I can go detail with my time with iPhone from June 2010 until I sold it at the end of August 2013. I just don't want to because my love for Android grew the last six years or so. Looking back at the iPhone 4 fondly isn't in me and I loved it from 2010-2013.
I thought iPhones were cool from 2007-2013. Haven't really been interested them since. And I owned an SE from 2017-2019. I find iOS still annoying. I discovered Android Pie (Aug-Oct 2018) is the best version of Android software I have ever experienced and I plan to get a Pixel, Pixel 2 XL, and Essential to remain there.
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- Pabliell
- mN{
- 15 Sep 2019
9 years has passed since iPhone 4 was released, but the newest iPhone 11 still has the same 326 ppi screen, while Android world moved over 400 ppi and now made unable to see individual pixels.
Apple needs to step up their game, if they don't want to be left behind.
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- L973
- nC4
- 15 Sep 2019
...and it has the Wifis :P
(or Bluetooths, I don't remember exactly... anyone else remember?)
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- 7tV
- 15 Sep 2019
Oh this phone was the best! I remember the experience of using this phone (my boss had it, and he was quite close to me personally).
At that time, if left alone on a table, I couldn't stop myself from picking it up and admiring it.
The screen was gorgeous. Galaxy S had that oversaturated first gen superAmoled display and I much preferred the iPhone's display quality.
Camera too was ahead of its time in quality!
If only Steve Jobs was alive. He could be a pain in your keste if you were working with him, but when he pushed hard, Apple made trend-setting devices. Now, they just play catch-up to other brands.
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- AnonD-706668
- U@a
- 15 Sep 2019
Hahaha Apple is camera powerhouse ! Don’t made me laughter
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- Anonymous
- S2T
- 15 Sep 2019
Kangal, 15 Sep 2019The original iPhone (2G) paved the way for phones to transf... moreTrue words about the competition.. I remember attending Nokia training on the X7 (mid 2011), and I remember challenging the representatives from Nokia and asking them if this seriously was their answer to the Iphone 4S and Samsung Galaxy series. .now thats a fail big time 😀
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- fjc
- 15 Sep 2019
This was the first iPhone I truly liked, the design was absolutely stunning. IMO the iPhone 5 range had the worst looking design and iPhone 4 had the best look followed by the X and 11 range.