“Apple Inc. unveiled Tuesday the latest generation of its iPhone, featuring a faster processing chip, better camera and voice-command capability,” John Letzing reports for Dow Jones Newswires.
“The new device, dubbed the iPhone 4S, will be priced at $199 for a 16 gigabyte version, $299 for 32 gigabytes and $399 for 64 gigabytes, along with a two-year contract from either AT&T Inc., Verizon Wireless or Sprint Nextel Corp.,” Letzing reports. “Apple also will sell an 8 gigabyte version of the iPhone 4 for $99 and offer an 8 gigabyte 3GS for free, also with a two-year wireless contract. Preorders being Friday, with the phone shipping Oct. 14.”
Letzing reports, “The demonstration seemed to underwhelm investors and online tech bloggers. Shares of Apple fell [$17.06, or 4.55%, to $357.54 as of 3:20PM EDT].
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MacDailyNews Take: There are plenty of numbers in the universe. Infinite, actually. Don’t worry, Apple, you won’t run out. Wonder what the mood would be right now had Apple simply named “iPhone 4S” the “iPhone 5?”
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Before everybody gets so underwhelmed that they fall asleep at the wheel, let’s just pick one up and tell it to take a letter, make reservations, remind us to get creamer when at the store,and email all our friends with the crisp photo of the rainbow we just took. Let’s just get real for a moment and realize that the very best phone there ever was just got greater, faster and for some cheaper.
Disappointed that all the goodies you could ever want didn’t all come at once today? Whaaaa! Get over it! It’s still the greatest piece of hardware/ software combination ever devised and will blow the competition away. While everyone is scrambling to “multitouch”
Apple says now you just have to talk to it, and barely touch it at all.
They moved the high bar again and all the complainers don’t even know where to look.
The tipping point for me was the antenna. Looks the same as the iP4 but it’s actually 2 antennas for 3G. If/when your hand is covering one it switches to the other. That, and the fact that ATT just converted my one-and-only cell tower from Edge to 3G ( having a different frequency band). If it were still Edge and if the iP4S had the same antenna design as the iP4, I couldn’t use it. I’ve already tried (3 of them in fact) and couldn’t hold a call here at the house (but my 3 3GSs can). I’m going for the iP4S and hoping I can talk with it.
I really don’t think just naming it iPhone 5 would of changed anyone’s mood. People wanted something to show everyone else THEY have the new iPhone. S and 5 on a back of what looks like an iPhone 4 doesnt do that. Changing the physical design does. If apple just made it a round back being a little thinner and did nothing different, people would be raving about it. Literally the only thing apple didn’t do was make the phone look different or give it more screen real estate. Other than that this is everything everyone wanted and expect out of the hopeful iPhone 5. People aren’t seeing how great this new phone is because they cant flaunt it without saying it’s an S.
Right…only the children have to have a phone they can show off. Actual mature adults want an awesome phone that does everything they need it to do. If it can do all those things 2x faster then before, then that’s fucking awesome. Having stuff added on top like Siri is just that much better.
BLN, you sound like someone with an agenda. I’m not against your negative comments so much as the WAY you’re posting them. The level of vitriol you are spewing is the issue.
And it is nauseating.
Well I for one will be buying an iPhone 4S. My contract is up in December and I will be very pleased to get an A5 powered iPhone.
Fantastic phone, fantastic form factor – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. iPhone 4/4S are a perfect form factor. The weight, the size, it almost feels like a piece of jewellery.
Hey, guess what, everybody? They’re following the same pattern they used with the 3G to 3Gs. Who cares what number it is? What matters is how it actually works when I use it. And from what I’ve seen, how it works will be much faster than the phone I have now.
My guess is there’s no new form factor because something wasn’t right to release it yet.
I’ve bought every generation iPhone however this time apple Failed big time and there is no way I would buy the same phone as almost a year and half ago with couple upgrades of camera and a5 chip. apple has so much time to build a better product perhaps a larger screen? its just puzzling to me as to what in the world were they busy with?? o I think I know what they were busy with they were suing other companies instead of concentrating on to build something better for the costumers. after almost a year and half the same phone with upgraded chip?? I for one am surely not getting this and most likely will try a new windows phone or android i’m pretty sure most people share my thoughts and for someone to upgrade from an existing iphone 4 to this is just plain stup*d in my opinion. Apple shouldn’t get to confident to let its user down like they’d lose customers just as fast as how fast they gained costumer base for ios example being me who bought every gen iphone and didn’t think I would be saying that today what a big let down apple!
Poor little baby, didn’t get the bigger screen he wanted!
Grow up. This was a major upgrade, a maturation of an already great phone, loading it up with software that will revolutionize how we use our phones – again!
This phone is going to fly off the shelves.
“Better for the customers”? What could be better than a voice control AI that holds the promise of eliminating texting while driving?
Get a life!
All you stupid idiots that think nothing is new or better, GO BACK TO ANDROID AND OTHER LOWLY TECH DEVICES THAT FAIL AND THAT DONT WORK PROPERLY
Every FK’n year you dumbasses all bitch and whine saying youre not impressed OHHH YAWWNNNNNN
Then guess what? SHares skyrocket higher, and people see the Light. People realize the newer IS the better.
This is simply media hype and regurgitation. A few unlicensed “journalists” cry fowl and unintelligent lambs all follow
BAHHH BAHHHH
f off and sit back while us big boys laugh our faces off at your lameness when you realize again and again youre all wrong and apple did us , err did ME good.
dumbasses all of you!
The presentation was boring, should have cut the 40 minutes of sales info down to 15.
Should have spent more time on Siri, iOS 5, cloud, advantage of a5, camera stuff, etc.
Overall what I expected, would have liked a bigger screen.
Will skip this one for the next model-the 16 core, 6″ screen with 8gb of ram and an oven mitt thrown in free ;o)
And Wall Street is always right…
Wonder why we’re in such a financial mess. Hmmmm..
Smart move Apple. No extra major tooling up costs for ‘new’ case.
Lots of clever new stuff. – Better camera, better antenna, SIRI, new IOS blah, blah. In fact the horse power of an iPad2 with a phone in a handy small form. It adds to the life of my iPad 1. I won’t need to upgrade that till iPad 4.
So an iPad Mini in a pocket case. oh and it’s a phone as well.
Still hate it, it just doesn’t dazzle like apple stuff should, so disappointed looks like my 3GS will have to soldier on and hope they launch an innovative iPhone 5 in 6 months time ;( been so looking forward to it until the launch (damp squid). Oh and did I say disappointed!
When have they ever released a new phone 6 months after the old one? Why would you think they’d start now? This is an amazingly huge update to a 3GS.
Still no where near as good as they could have made it in 16 months, samsung and htc seem manage updated phones every 3-6 months
Samsung and HTC shovel out half baked crap every 3-6 months. You haven’t got enough data to support the claim that Apple could have done more in 16 months. Without intimate knowledge of Apple’s R&D department, you’re just talking out of your ass.
What’s in a name? Would an iPhone 5 by any other name smell as sweet? Apparently not. I wonder why Apple even corners themselves with these labels? They don’t do that with iMacs or MacBook Pros, etc. Think iPhone late 2011……hmmmm.
Siri, Let met know when these people have actually figured out the significance of what has transpired today. That you can hold AI in your hand. Explain to these people that it’s not over yet, and with almost limitless server storage, incredible AI, and an incredible processor that no one really understands the workings of, Apple has again changed the world. Send them a text that says they have missed the boat, again. They did not get iTunes, either.
It’s Al Gore’s fault, isn’t it? Didn’t he “confirm” that TWO iPhones were on the way?