“Apple introduced the world’s smartest smartphone yesterday, delivering a faster processor, faster graphics, better camera and world-changing voice assistant technologies — but it seems many in the analyst and media communities are disappointed,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “Why? Because Apple didn’t change the shape… Does this strike anyone else out there as weird?”
Evans writes, “This a seriously impressive slice of combined technology. Combined? Yes, simple voice recognition, powerful use of Internet information sources and an interesting use of maps…. I’d argue that access to Siri is a big enough reason to upgrade to the iPhone 4S all on its own.”
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Life in this country has become WAY too easy for all of
these whiny little children. People just LOOOOVE to complain. Some of those folks need a good dose of bankruptcy to get some fraking perspective.
I don’t understand the disappointment. Sure, Apple could have put the guts of the phone in a new box and called it an iPhone 5, but what for? Everything that people expected in the 5, they got in the 4S. 4G is not yet ready for prime time, as anyone with a 4G battery sucking device can tell you. If you want a device with some small expectation of all day use, you should have 3G device anyway. And you can find some semblance of a 4G network in maybe 20-25 cities. A battery draining 4G chip would be totally worthless to me. What Apple did do was create a sea change device. Ten years from now, we’re going to marking 10/4/11 as the date when everything changed for the vast majority of the population. It will be the start of the date when someone outside a lab will start speaking to a computer device in plain language and get something useful in response. It will be the date when almost everything you have on your computer at home- gigabytes of data, music, photos, and movies – is accessible to you on a hand held device at anytime or anywhere, without docking. And not just one device, but all of them, at little or no additional cost. This is stuff that was only imagined. This is stuff that appeared magical on Star Trek 15-20 years ago. If I could have guessed this was coming even 2 years ago, I would have believed it was outside my price range. As it is, I’ll be able to get an 16 Gb phone for 1/3 the price I paid for 32 Gb phone 2 years ago and won’t need the extra storage space because I have access to almost all I want from the house. How can people not see this?
We have 7 iPhones in my family Only 6 want to upgrade
HSPA hasten clocked at 42MPS in central Canada
I was on 3G contract and not allowed to upgrade with a good price to 3GS. OK, I waited for the 4, but then was denied by first ATT refusing to accept pre-order with my debit card (it’s a BOA Visa that does allow such transactions), and then the clusterfrack that was Apple’s system being too late to order. Fine. Waited, got a used 4 and happily still off contract. So no way I’m locking init a 4S and missing a 4.5 screen, gig of ram, and 4G speed that will be the 5. This is one incremental Apple screwing I don’t have to accept.
Seriously, how can you not have a half inch larger screen with less resolution by now Apple? Epic Fail. Voice commands have been around for a decade!
You need to listen to yourself. Tablets, like voice commands, were also around for a decade before Apple did what no one had ever done before – they made the first USEFUL tablet.
Tablets made by others were a “fail”.
Tablets made by Apple were “huge success”.
Voice commands made by others for smart phones were useful but did little beyond a few things. Bit of a “fail”.
Voice commands baked into the OS by Apple control vast swathes of the iPhone and can be added easily to EVERY app. That is not a “fail” at all. That is a revolution… And an epic one at that.
The sad passing of the great man himself will see the 4s as the fastest selling iphone ever. Im not being cynical its a fact.
Rest in peace Steve a true definition of the word genius