[Electronics-talk] iPhone question

[Christopher Chaltain]

That depends on what you mean. I think the cellular technology is still 
the same, so there's no reason you can't use an iPhone that you bought 
in 2007 today.

Your battery is going to loose 10% to 15% of it's capacity a year, even 
if you don't use it. Through normal use, you'll be using up cycles on 
your battery, and you only have a finite number of cycles in a LI 
battery. I would think that you'd still get 50% of your batteries 
capacity after 3 years, and your phone may still be usable for as long 
as 5 years. Of course, this depends on how heavily you use your phone 
and how quickly you go through your charging cycles.

The iPhone 4 came out in 2010, and you'll still be able to run IOS 7 on 
it. It's not being manufactured or sold new any more though. The iPhone 
4S came out in 2011 and Apple is still manufacturing these and selling 
them new. The iPhone 5 only lasted a year, and now it's no longer being 
manufactured or sold new.

I think you can safely use an iPhone for at least two years, and I 
wouldn't think there would be much of a problem stretching that out to 
three years. I think anything more than that and you should start 
counting your blessings.

On 09/15/2013 04:09 PM, Linda Bloodsaw wrote:
> How long can one continue to use an iPhone?  By that I mean if a person bought a phone in 2008 can he still use it today? I don't want to buy one if I'll only get a couple years use out of it.  Thanks.
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