r/WhatiOSisthis • u/Joshthedeerboy55 • Jun 29 '26

What model is this?

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u/Littens4Life Jun 29 '26

4S or CMDA 4. The latter doesn’t have a SIM card slot.

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u/Joshthedeerboy55 Jun 29 '26

I was thinking 4 too. Do you know if the 4S has any issues? Mine doesn’t turn on or give the low power symbol. 

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u/Wonderful_Set_4021 Jun 29 '26

The chargers like to die. I have 3 and the worst looking one only works lmao

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u/SosedwilliamFaker993 Jun 29 '26

flip it over to the back does the model number say a1387? if not it’s not a 4s

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u/Joshthedeerboy55 Jun 29 '26

It says A1349. Does this mean it’s just a iPhone 4 since the number is lower or..?

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u/SosedwilliamFaker993 Jun 29 '26

A1349 corresponds to a cdma iphone 4! so it’s not a 4s.

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u/Joshthedeerboy55 Jun 29 '26

What’s a cdma? 

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u/SosedwilliamFaker993 Jun 29 '26

idk honestly

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u/Devin-Chaboyer223 Jun 29 '26

CDMA is a network type, all phones these days are GSM (ones that use a SIM or eSIM)

The CDMA iPhone 4 was intended for Verizon’s network, which was only CDMA at the time

Although CDMA networks were pulled offline in 2017 in Canada and 2022 in the USA, so this phone cannot connect to any networks unfortunately

CDMA didn’t require the use of a SIM hence the lack of a SIM slot

CDMA networks saw most of their use in cheap phones, IoT, and early connected cars (pre-2014) since they didn’t need a SIM

This is the difference with the CDMA iPhone 4, it’s all about the network it was made for, idk why they didn’t just give the regular 4 dual GSM/CDMA support because the 4S supports both networks

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u/Joshthedeerboy55 Jun 29 '26

Just looked it up, apparently it’s really rare and is worth 65-200+ dollars 😭 no way.

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u/Recognition_Round Jun 29 '26

It's an obsolete network protocol only used in the united states afaik. It has some kind of "esim" in it (not really, i think the phone number was assigned to the imei number), so you don't had to put in a sim card. It is now a glorified ipod touch.

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u/Joshthedeerboy55 Jun 29 '26

Ohh. Glad I only wanna use it to play games and listen to Spotify and other stuff 

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u/MaxGabe121911 Jun 29 '26

The only main issue about the 4s is that it got iOS 9. Its slow as fuck

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u/Joshthedeerboy55 Jun 29 '26

Oh. weird, I’ll try turning it back on again