The owners of iPhone 4S and iPad 2 received good news from Apple: the devices will receive the iOS 9. Contrary to expectations, the company decided to take a esticadinha in support of both and upgrade them, albeit with limited functionality. But the question is: is it worth buying old versions of the smartphone and tablet? The TechTudo brings an analysis for you.
iPad or iPhone 6 Plus? See if still worth buying the Apple tablet
You can still find?
Launched in 2011, the iPhone 4S can still be found in online stores as an alternative “more affordable” smartphone of Apple . Even lagged, the unit has an average price of $ 1100 in major retailers in the country, which is very expensive.
Another important point is that Apple itself no longer sells over the phone in their official store for some time. This is clearly an indication that the phone should drop support also becoming outdated software, which is terrible for those poor many applications.
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But the iPad 2 was not found in the official Apple store, or at major retailers in Brazil, indicating that support for the tablet is even lower than the telephone. Therefore, it is possible that many users find the tablet only secondhand and without warranty valid in Brazil, which is a considerable risk
Screen:. Lower and lower
Apple resisted for a long time, to present an iPhone with larger screen, but changed his mind on the iPhone 5, which is 4 inches, and joined from time to trend in the model 6 and 6 Plus, which are 4.7 and 5.5 inches, respectively. Meanwhile, the iPhone 4S continues with 3.5-inch screen, displayed from the first iPhone.
Although the screen size involves the user’s taste, one must consider that the standards of market today revolves around the size of the iPhone 6: 4.7 inches. That is, the tendency is for developers to launch applications and games more suited to larger displays and difficult to use on the iPhone 4S or simply not compatible.
In the case of the iPad 2, the size is the same adopted in the new iPad Air 2: 9.7 inches. The big difference is due to the resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels, ie, nowhere near the Retina display of the latest models, which have up to 2048 x 1536 pixels and a much higher density.
Performance: the heel of Achilles
If you have any point at which user should have problems when buying the iPhone 4S or iPad 2, is the device performance. Several model owners have reported a drop in productivity after upgrading to the iOS 8 , with slowdowns and even crashes. Although Apple promises an optimization to the new version, it is highly unlikely that the devices have a very significant improvement
The iPhone 4S and the iPad 2 share the same hardware store. A dual-processor core Apple A5 1 GHz and 512 MB of RAM, which can be quite late. This makes it likely that the iOS 9 comes to equipment limitations and quite a few new features.
dock Input: view the incompatibility
The iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S also share another characteristic: the old dock input 30 pins. Replaced by lightining pattern from the iPhone 5, the old connector Apple no longer used gradually for accessory manufacturers. This means that the owners of the smartphone and tablet old will have a harder time finding products that are compatible with your own.
There is also to be considered that in Wire breakage case, replacement tends to be increasingly difficult. After all, Apple no longer sells the model and the trend is that it fails to sell accessories for them soon.
After all, it is worth or not?
The desire to have an iPhone or iPad is still very present in the lives of many people, but we must be careful not to turn it in frustration. Although many stores offer installment of the iPhone 4S in two years and it is possible to find the iPad 2 for a friendly price, the purchase can not be a good choice.
First, the value of £ 1100 is quite high for a phone whose support should not be extended again. Also, you can find devices with Android and Windows Phone with a price like that, but with much more robust configurations and that will meet the user smoothly.
There is no doubt that Apple is able to offer a great service to their customers and that the iPhone and iPad have features that go beyond the “ostentatious”. However, as the saying goes: the cheap can be expensive
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