Just a few weeks ago, Orange Romania announces the inclusion of iPhone terminals in the sales program a refurbished smartphones, iPhone 4 si iPhone 4S becoming available for purchase. Seeing that many of you are not so confident that the purchase of such a terminal is a good investment, those from Orange they gave me the opportunity to test one iPhone 4S refurbished for a few days to see if a device of this kind is worth the money or not.
Before discussing the product, let's talk a little about the meaning of the term refurbished. A refurbished product is a device that has been returned to the seller for various reasons, has been checked to see if it has certain defects and repaired accordingly, then is put back on sale with the marking of a refurbished product. Basically, a refurbished iPhone is rigorously checked to meet all the standards of a new terminal and in essence it works exactly like a new terminal, only that it has been used more or less in the past.
In general, the range of refurbished products includes many devices that were ordered, used for a few days and returned by the buyers, in rare cases the terminals are in fact defective units, repaired and recertified. Regardless of which category this product belongs to, you can rest assured that it is checked and tested according to Apple's rules for certifying new products and will work accordingly, of course benefiting from an additional one-year warranty for the main components, including the battery .
Returning now to the iPhone 4S terminal received by Orange, I can tell you that from an aesthetic point of view it looks as if it has been taken out of the box, and the images prove this. On the functionality side, I did not encounter any problems related to the hardware, and those related to the operating system cannot be attributed to any physical defect of the terminal because you know very well that iOS has its small problems that arise from every now and then
The camera records pictures and video clips just like any other iPhone 4S terminal, in benchmarks you get exactly the same performance, the Retina Display displays the same great images and responds just as well to commands, on the connectivity side there is the same speed great, the speakers reproduce the sounds as clearly as possible, the buttons are as rigid as on the first day, so overall you will not notice any difference between a terminal of this kind and a new one. The good part is that sometimes when purchasing a refurbished smartphone you have a very high chance of receiving a terminal without any hardware problems, something that does not happen in the case of new terminals that have not gone through two verification and certification processes. Practically, the check made by the people from Orange has this aspect in mind, that is, the resale of a terminal that is as good as new, from a physical point of view, only that it was used in the past by someone else.
Now you are probably wondering why you would buy a terminal of this kind and not a second-hand one that would be cheaper. Well, the guarantee and certification offered by Orange represent the biggest part of the motivation, the possibility of purchasing the terminal at a subsidized price being the rest. By purchasing a second-hand iPhone 4S, you may no longer benefit from the warranty offered by Apple for these devices, and if the terminal is purchased from the USA, you will not benefit from the warranty at all.
Those from Orange Romania offer a 12-month warranty for the battery, touchscreen, iOS, the connectivity part, keyboard, speaker and camera, so the main functions are covered by the warranty, so if you encounter any kind of problems, they can be solved. Moreover, the people from Orange also give you the possibility to transfer the content of the old terminal to the new one, so you will be able to have all the phone numbers in the terminal in just a few seconds.
The terminals sold by Orange through this program they come with a special box in which you will find: the terminal, warranty information, a charging/data synchronization cable, a charger and a quick user guide. Having said that, you can discover Orange's offer for refurbished iPhones within this page. If you have any other questions about these terminals, please ask them using the comment form.
