iPhone 4 review: The 2010 redesign — the Retina display and FaceTime began here.
A defining iPhone — Retina and FaceTime started here.
The iPhone 4’s flat glass-and-steel design and Retina display reshaped the industry. "Antennagate" aside, it is one of the most influential phones ever — and now a museum piece.
01Display
40/10040/100 is one of the weaker display results among flagship phones of 2010 — 22 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
02Camera
30/10030/100 is one of the weaker camera results among flagship phones of 2010 — 24 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
03Performance
12/10012/100 is one of the weaker performance results among flagship phones of 2010 — 37 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
34/10034/100 is one of the weaker battery results among flagship phones of 2010 — 21 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
58/10058/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2010.
06Value
22/10022/100 is one of the weaker value results among flagship phones of 2010 — 23 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
- Introduced the Retina display — a generational leap in sharpness.
- Launched FaceTime video calling.
- Iconic flat glass-and-steel design.
- Multitasking arrived with iOS 4.
- "Antennagate" — gripping the phone could drop signal.
- Single-core A4; 512 MB RAM.
- No LTE; stuck on iOS 7.
- Discontinued — a vintage device.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 50-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .