Yesterday, Apple announced iPhone 4S with Apple’s dual-core A5 chip, an all new camera with advanced optics, full 1080p HD resolution video recording, and Siri, an intelligent personal assistant that helps users get things done just by asking.
With the launch of iPhone 4S, Apple also announced the launch of iOS 5, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features and iCloud, a powerful set of free cloud services that work with your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices.
Following Apple’s announcements, Samsung PR flack Kim Titus “decided to spread some iPhone 4S talking points” via email, Rene Ritchie reports for TiPb.
Ritchie asks, “Is this Samsung seizing on perceived user displeasure over Apple’s iPhone 4S announcement, or panicking slightly over what Apple’s about to drop like Mjolnir on AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint?”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Here’s the funny thing about spec sheets: Like surveys, they can be manipulated to show just about whatever you want them to show. For example, here’s another spec sheet shootout from This is my next… which will soon become The Verge:
See what we mean?
And, just because both chips are “dual-core” doesn’t mean they are equal, just as Samsung’s camera will not – we guarantee – be able to match the iPhone 4S camera. Samsung’s jiggered talking points sheet also ridiculously attempts to equate Android’s Vlingo with Siri. To anyone who knows even a little bit about both – or about Android phones’ battery life or near total lack thereof – Samsung looks like bald-faced liars.
Here’s another thing spec sheets can’t tell you: How often your phone will crash: Very rarely, if at all, with an iPhone or pretty much daily with an Android phone. Another thing not shown: Security. Apple’s iOS offers it in spades, Android most certainly does not.
The bottom line: Beware of spec sheet shootouts. They can very easily lead you to inferior wares. Hands-on reviews from respected sources are a much more valuable way to make purchasing decisions.
Samsung also says that iTunes software is required for syncing which with iOS 5 it most definitely is not… Dumb asses
Samsung- Banking on ignorance and mediocrity.
IPhone destroys all illusions – it’s the real thing.
It’s the 80s all over again!
If you don’t like 80s music, buy some newer or older tunes.
If you are talking cell phones, Motorola’s ‘Car Phone’ was a 2 pound analog brick that set me back $5000.00 bucks.
If you are talking computers, the Mac ruled from ’84 to ’89.
WTF are you talking about?
Amstrad vs Atari vs Commodore
Atari vs colecovision
They all had their spec sheet wars.
Judge Smails: “Some people just don’t belong.”
Who and what are Strategy Analysts?
Assholes that work for the institutions that ride Apple’s stock.
I love how Samsung touts it’s larger yet lower resolution screen as an advantage. lol
And lighter weight but bigger footprint. And “external storage” vs. connected to a computer with potential TB worth of music/videos. And “No memory limitations” listed right under the 16B/32GB limit. And “App Store only”, with tons more available software than their multi-marketplace whatever.
But one part they got right – the removable battery is a must on theirs, because battery life stinks!
Hardware is not as important anyway. The user experience you have on the hardware is. With Apple’s iOS 5 software and it’s ecosystem, the experience on Apple’s older iPhone 4 will still be vastly superior to just about anything else out there. (except the iPhone 4s)
Blood in the water.
Ha! I didn’t know Siri was just for Voice Activiation.
If Hubble were turned around, it would discover that Samsung is a fart nebula.
I just got my Galaxy SII and I can tell you that in some cases the iPhone 4 is just faster. The only time I see a significant difference is when I am loading a web page and I happen to find a pocket of 4G service (rare).
Given that the iPhone 4S is faster I don’t see any reason to think the phone is going to be a disappointment.
Ordering mine first thing Friday morning!
Would be interested in a browser shootout when both are on wifi
I agree with mossman down there, but I would also love it if you made a comparison video of the two phones, just to debunk all this samsung crap. 🙂
does the Galaxy 2 S have bluetooth 4.0? anyone?
Nope. It has Bucktooth 1.0, wherein its owners spit chewing tobacco, paw the ground with one foot and say, “Gollllllllly,” while wondering if they might have made a better Smartphone choice if they had learned to read before flunking out of school.
Love how Samsung used blue text to highlight supposed advantages… but in the screen resolution, they refused to blue the clearly higher-resolution screen of the iPhone (960×640 vs 800×480)
Okay. MDN’s wisdom is amazing. I’m headed to my Apple retail store now hoping there’s still a place in the line for me. I was stupid for not getting there before Tim’s scintillating presentation was over yesterday.
Good, one more available iPhone 4s for me and my wife. The less I have to wait to get an iPhone 4s so much the better. So for heavens sake don’t buy the iPhone 4s.
So the Galaxy has a larger screen…at a lower resolution. Nice.
Can’t wait to pre-order. I’m paying full price so I can save my upgrade!
Samsung says “Up to 8 hours talk time” – Is that with it plugged in?
Also I know why Apple didn’t make an LTE phone, it is because you can’t charge them faster than they drain the battery on LTE – I have a Verizon LTE hot spot and it drains on LTE faster than it can charge.. Crazy battery drain
Why even bother comparing two completely different platforms like this? The sheet shows that the S2 is better on paper in some ways, the 4S in others. Hardly an Earth shaking piece of news…
I spec not…
Every person who has the ability to be self aware and can add 1+1 needs to avoid Samdung. Unfortunately 90% are on the stupid train. Samdung is banking on that fact. Just like MS and their marketshare. All aboard on the stupid train.
Also funny is how they highlight the screen size as an advantage for the S II yet they don’t even mention how higher is Retina Display’s ppi, not to mention they throw in that fake Strategy Analytics comparison to make the Retina Display look outdated.
Oh, and removable battery is only a plus when you have piss-poor battery life such as theirs. (3 hours talk time, seriously?)
Not to mention how they highlight Gingerbread, as it a factual claim that iOS 5 is somehow inferior
A buddy has a 4g samsung phone, he says if he wants to use 4g it needs to be plugged in to watch movies otherwise he has it turned off.
Apple has R&D, QA, Dev., Marketing… etc departments and Samsung has … Copy, IP Ripoff, Bully, and Retard departments.
MDN – you’re just wrong about the crashing part. My iPhone 3G crashed frequently. After I updated it to iOS 4 it was a total disaster – always crashing and so slow that it was unusable. That experience made me switch to an Android phone. My Android phone NEVER crashes. Occasionally I am required to turn bluetooth off and back on again, but my phone never crashes.