“Apple’s iPhone 4 provides the most silky smooth user experience on the planet with the firm’s A4 processor running the show. The more powerful dual-core A5 chipset from Apple’s iPad 2 should somehow improve on that already-phenomenal experience, and it will empower Apple’s new golden child, Siri,” Zach Epstein writes for BGR. “It should be noted that I was hugely skeptical of Siri’s significance ahead of Apple’s event on Tuesday, but I’m now singing a different tune. I think the concept and technology behind Apple’s new personal assistant service are phenomenal, and while Siri might not be a huge draw for consumers in the near term, the long-term implications are tremendous. Apple just made smartphones much, much smarter.”
“On the outside, there is no question that the iPhone 4S is the same device as its predecessor,” Epstein writes. “It might have a revised antenna system, but the similarities are so great that Apple had to include the Newsstand icon in marketing images depicting the phone’s home screen as no distinction would be made otherwise. But is that such a bad thing? The iPhone 4 is still an engineering feat, and I’m not sure a more attractive smartphone exists to this day.”
Epstein writes, “The numbers will do the talking over the next few quarters, and I expect Apple’s iPhone sales to continue on the same skyward path right up to next year’s iPhone 5 launch and beyond.”
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Yeah, what he said!
Yeah – HE SAID it… and when this is STANDARD on the iPAD3… SIRI shall be KING!
Everything is gonna change THEN – its a game changer.
Much better. I’m tired of the bashing.
I’m going to buy one Friday (or whenever I can get online) and pass my old iPhone 4 to my wife and her 3GS to some other family member.
My boss will buy one Friday (I am so desperate to get her off of her 3G). I think Siri will be amazing for her needs.
I watched the demo yesterday, I don’t know what any of these naysayers are complaining about (I’m looking at you Ballmer’s Left Nut). The iPhone 4S meets all of my expectations, then again maybe because that’s because I read all the rumors that the phone would be called “iPhone 4S”.
In the iPhone 5, the one feature I am anxious to see is inductive charging, so I don’t have to carry a cable around with me and maybe a small integrated solar charger (if my damned TI calculator in the 80s could have one why not my phone in 2011?).
An NFC chip so my iPhone could substitute for a credit card would be nice, but I see so many security holes with it that I’d rather it were done right than soon.
An edge-to-edge screen is okay, if more pixels don’t mean less battery life, but if I need more real estate I have a MacBook Pro, a Mac Pro, and two iPads.
And LTE is available in my city, so why do I care a single whit about LTE and it’s battery hogginess (if I wanna drain my battery I’ll play Words with Friends).
The one announcement that Apple made yesterday that was a real game changer was the iPhone 3GS for free. I am utterly surprised that no one picked that up. Why bother to get a feature phone if a real iPhone can be had for free? That is the nail in the coffin for Nokia and it will leave Motorola gasping.
Both NFC and LTE (will be ready in 2013) too immature.
Ditto. 4G LTE iPhone 5 not out ’til Spring 2013. No new iPhone next year.
I agree. When I read one of Balmers posts I knew for sure Apple had a winner. BLN is alway wrong as I am sure you have noticed. I am ordering mine 12:01 Friday. I am really Siri-us to get my hands on one. Like you, the wife gets my 4 and grandson gets her 3GS.
As voice becomes the more useful way to get things done then screen size become less important. Thumbs and fingers aren’t what the device was designed for. Perhaps Apple sees this already.
I saved this article for last so I wouldn’t go home shaking
Uh, Apple just made Apple’s smartphone a whole lot smarter. No one else’s!
Don’t you just love critics & analysts, bunch no talent can’t trolls. iPhone 4S rocks, two will shortly be in my household.
I just hope that in the future apple can let you customize Siri commands to do things such as launch applications…for example “Siri, launch the flashlight…” Siri:” launching flashlight” all from the lock screen…
Of coarse it is only the beta, Siri is gonna be the next big hit for apple you all will see. I will also be upgrading my iPhone 4 for a 4S
That’s what I keep thinking… it’s only a freaking beta!!!
Now if I could only type.
That’s what they said about the first Newton’s in the 90s.
And I think people are going to find that Apple has integrated Siri to such an extent in the iPhone 4S that it will blow away the current Siri app.
It never ceases to amaze me that most every Apple product that’s been released doesn’t live up to (or exceed) expectations UNTIL people actually start using them.
You nailed it.
Yea, it was the same way for the first ipad. The 4s is going to be huge. I’m ordering mine on Friday.
Exactly, vision doesn’t seem to extend much beyond the nose
If you believe to bloggers/media, Apple always falls from grace. Media/bloggers also said they were disappointed at iPad, since it was just a giant iPod touch.
The fact is, however, it is not bloggers/media who buy Apple’s products, it is mass of people who do not even know or care that “iPhone 5” “had to” be released.
Now that’s the smartest thing I have read on this.
We all forget that Joe blow and the family do not read this crap. They just by the stuff.
4S Is a disaster and a horrible start for Cook! No 4G support? No larger screen? No external changes? What’s the point? Complete letdown as 99% bad reviews confirm! What a joke!!!
What a clot!
Some would say that reviews don’t confirm squat, except for the twisted biases of the reviewers
Could you repeat in botswana native language plz? (Lame rotten apples)
Strike one: iPhone 4 antenna gate. Strike two: iPhone 4S failure to manage expectations. Strike three: Tim’s no Steve – who have we got we can try next?
Unfortunately this is not baseball so they don’t strike out. On the contrary, they’ll go back to lying in the weeds, waiting for the slightest excuse to leap up in outrage yet again
“I was hugely skeptical of Siri’s significance ahead of Apple’s event on Tuesday, but I’m now singing a different tune.”
That seems to be the refrain with every major Apple product release – hardware or software.