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Hi Simon > On 30 Nov 2014, at 23:36, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Excuse my ignorance but what is the iPhone 4g? I can only find spec for > 4 and 4S. Oops - I meant 4S > > Why does it need upgrading? Slowing down and battery life bombing. But it is a good question and I am now wondering why! > > What do you actually use on it? Email, web, text and calls, social media updates, wordpress blogging, mapping (directions), information storage. > > There are a lot of good value Android phone covering the whole range of > offerings, from amazing cameras, to loads of storage, about the only > thing not stunningly catered for is "loads of battery life". > > Main pain with Android is if the vendor drops support for Android > updates, so either go with one promising long support for Android, or a > device supporting one of the variants (e.g. Cyanogen Mod, or Replicant). > > Firefox OS promise to avoid this pitfall, and provide proper free > software, but as far as I can tell you'll struggle to get better > hardware spec than an iPhone 4 with Firefox OS. Thanks for the above. I suppose answering the why upgrade - probably because i want to navigate away from Apple and start using Linux fully. Kind regards Richard Brown 07834 770027 Community Organiser http://bodmincommunity.co.uk/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq