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Apple announces iPhone 4S |
laffen
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Apple today announced iPhone 4S with A5 processor, 8 megapixel camera, 1080p HD video capture and iOS 5 operating system
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The new Apple CEO Tim Cook was the host of today's Apple event. It is hard to have the same charisma as the former Apple CEO Steve Jobs so he skipped the blabla and went directly to the core of the event. Namely praise Apple products and tell everyone how fast the Apple market share has grown compared to competitors. The Apple App Store is printing money for Apple. They have paid out 3 billion US to developers. Apple itself is keeping 30% of the cost of each and every app which means they have had a revenue of 1,28 billion the last quarter. Over 18 billion apps have been downloaded so far and over 1 billion apps are being downloaded each month.
iOS 5, Apples new operating system will be available on October 12th. It was announced and released to developers earlier this year. The iOS 5 introduces iCloud Storage, a 5GB free cloud storage for Mail, Documents and Backup. Purchased music, apps, books and Photo stream do not count against the storage limit. Finally, the new iPhone 4S was introduced. It has a A5 dual core processor which are up to 2x faster. iPhone 4S also have dual core graphics which are promised to be 7 times faster. The battery time has increased from 7 to 8 hours on 3G talk time. 2G talk time, 3G browsing, video and music playback has got the same battery time as the iPhone 4. Time on Wi-Fi browsing has decreased from 10 to 9 hours. Apple has made the iPhone 4 a world phone which means that it has support for both GSM and CDMA networks. The older iPhone 4 came in either GSM or CDMA versions. 
As all the other high-end smartphones, the iPhone 4S now has got a decent 8 megapixel camera. And like many dual core models, the iPhone 4S can capture 1080p HD video. Apple bought the company Siri back in April which was know for the creation of an app good at voice recognition. The app could understand commands such as "send a taxi to my house" using GPS and speech-recognition technology. The features developed by Siri is now integrated into the iPhone 4S. It works with English, French and German languages and will work with built-in apps such as maps, calendar, maps and contacts. Siri will only run on iPhone 4S. On October 14th, iPhone 4S will be available in U.S, Canada, Australia, U.K, France, Germany and Japan. 21 European countries plus Mexico will get the new phone on October 28th. Surprisingly, Apple has announced a smartphone in two colours. iPhone 4S will be available in white or black. iPhone 4S will be sold in 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB versions. The price for these are 199$, 299 and 300$ respectively. The older iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS will still be available for sale. 99$ for iPhone 4 8GB and the 3GS will be free on contract. To sum up the announcement and look at what new the iPhone 4S brought us: - Combined GSM and CDMA networks (GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900, UMTS 850/900/1900/2100, HSPA 14.4/5.8, CDMA EV-DO Rev.A 800/1900)
- 8 megapixel camera
- 1080p video capture
- A5 dual core processor
- Bluetooth 4.0
- iOS 5
- iCloud
- Siri
The iPhone 4S size is identical to iPhone 4 but it has gained 3 gram weight. Something not being highlighted today was the introduction of Bluetooth 4.0. iPhone 4S is the first smartphone we know of having version 4.0 of the low energy Bluetooth stack. |
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masseur
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The queue starts here!
I'll be getting another white, of course, and 64gb.
The upgrades here, combined with the iCloud, Siri, music match etc are going to make the iphone 4S even hard to put down for me
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adsada
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How this will be popular is still beyond me, Apple fans have waited 16 months and for what? Really anything revolutionary at all? No just keeping up with other manufacturers.
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korbindallis
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crap nothing new in this announcement
Samsung Galaxy Note
or
Nexus Prime
FTW |
daviep
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might not see the usual big queues outside apple stores on release day |
Bonovox
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The 1080p,8 meg camera & dual core is nice. But. After 16 months why did they not re-design & have a larger screen?? And why did they not move that gap with the antenna issue was??
Phone?? What phone?? |
etaab
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I dont think it does keep up with other manufacturers. And, i doubt anyone will even know the 4S has been released if they miss the news today. If they walk past an Apple store, i dont think they'd even notice the S on the end of the 4.
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masseur
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as I said elsewhere, this is clearly a refresh while they focus on the software and icloud aspects.
@etaab, perhaps they should have called it the 4gs? as the 3gs certainly got very noticed and it wasn't a particularly major upgrade from the 3g
and tell me any manufacturer who consitantly provides the number of software and/or hardware feature upgrades that Apple has in the iPhone in the last 4 years?
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Bonovox
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Not  anyway. I guess it's the same as releasing the Arc S really.
Phone?? What phone?? |
julias
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They should rename it after today as the iphone 4F (Fail).  |
Bonovox
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 Be careful masseur will be unhappy with your comments like he was with mine 
Phone?? What phone?? |
rikken
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or iPhone S. . . . . .ucks
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julias
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On 2011-10-04 23:36:34, Bonovox wrote:
Be careful masseur will be unhappy with your comments like he was with mine
Don't worry masseur can take a joke and is no Apple fanboy. (I think?) |
xperia_man
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What a Load of crap apple needs to realise you can only try this once as they did with the 3G to 3GS stands for iPhone4Shit
I was hoping this would beat the HTC Titan the only thing better is the 32GB and 64GB storage
APPLE this is your Failure point . |
mriley
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I think everyone was expecting a shift like we saw between the 3GS to the 4G. Although, since when was that how Apple ran the company? They're all about small fairly minor upgrades between models but market those changes as revolutionary. That's how they make their money, it's pretty rare that you get such a great revolutionary improvement between products.
What I wanna know is why didn't Tim Cook present the iPhone 4S instead of some random person that nobody's seen before?
The only exciting thing about the launch was Siri, imo.
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