Why buy refurbished products?
- Refurbished products are less expensive and prices can be as low as 80 percent below retail.
- Purchasing refurbished products is beneficial to the environment as you prevent it from ending up in a landfill, thereby reducing electronic waste that contains toxic materials like cadmium and mercury.
- More often than not, refurbished and recertified products offer the most benefits as they have been returned to the manufacturer for repair and further testing. If the device performs properly after testing, it is certified as good as new and returned to the market for sale.
- Some refurbished electronics may come with same-as-new warranties. Understand whether the product is truly a refurbished electronic, and check the warranty carefully.
Apple led the smartphone invasion when they introduced their first iPhone, revolutionising the way people go on about their daily lives with their mobile phones. Nowadays, a touchscreen smartphone has become a must have for everyone, and it's no surprise that Apple has remained one of the top (if not the top) go-to brand for a smartphone. And with every new iPhone release, Apple has continued to dominate the smartphone market.
Out of the box, the iPhone 4S looks identical to its older sibling bar the distinguishing birthmark of a brace of top-mounted incisions signifying that a new antenna design lurks within. Switch on the phone, however, and things are different. Unless you're restoring the data from an older iTunes backup, the 4S doesn't require a computer for activation. You can restore the phone from an iCloud account, or set up as a new phone. If you don't have an Apple ID, you have the option to create one. The new A5 dual-core processor (as seen in the iPad 2) makes things noticeably nippier. Apps launch quicker, web pages load faster, multi-tasking is more fluid and resource-hungry apps like Pages now allow you to edit documents without any lag.