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.
Spec sheet, Smeck sheet. It’s customer satisfaction and user experience that counts. Both phones have 8MP sensors but I have ZERO doubt that the 4S will blow all other phone cameras away. So, there’s a great example of a spec sheet value that is meaningless.
Oh man. Drop your pants and get a ruler… Sheez.
The dimensions are wrong in both sheets, the S2 is actually thicker than iPhone4 (see court decisions in UK).
LOL, love the bit about HDTV Remote Control considering Samsung themselves make an app for the iPhone to control their HDTVs. I use it all the time… Can’t even get their own hit piece right…
Things I love about android phones.
1) You can change the battery. You have no idea how many times I’ve “saved someone’s life,” by providing them with a spare socket from my power strip to charge their iphone in the airport. My android phone has a spare battery, so I never need to worry.
2) Ability to unlock the phone without going to the manufacturer. I travel overseas a lot. Using a gevey sim and having to dial 911 just to use a sim card from another country is ridiculous. With my android phones, I don’t think I’ve ever spent more than 15 minutes unlocking the phone for another carrier.
While I would absolutely love to have a phone with 64 gigabytes of internal space. I’m not willing to pay 850 USD for a phone with no upgrade potential. At least give me an external sd card slot so I can move up to 96!