iPhone 4S Review - Walt Mossberg - Personal Technology. Sometimes, as we all know, looks can be deceiving. While Apple’s latest iPhone doesn’t look different, and may not be the kind of blockbuster people expect from the late Steve Jobs’s company, it thinks different, to quote one of Apple’s old ad slogans. Inside its familiar-looking body there lurks a nascent artificial-intelligence system that has to be tried to be believed. Apple’s fifth-generation iPhone, the $199 iPhone 4S, goes on sale Friday with a new operating system and a new cloud-synchronization service called iCloud. But, while its insides have been significantly improved, the phone’s exterior design is identical to that of last year’s iPhone 4, which Apple says is the best-selling smartphone in the world.
I’ve been testing the 4S for about a week to see how it differs from the previous model. The standout feature, not available in other iPhones, or in any other phone I’ve seen, is Siri. Despite Siri, the iPhone 4S isn’t a dramatic game-changer like some previous iPhones. iPhone 4S CPU Clocked At 800MHz Is 73% Faster Than iPhone 4, Twice As Fast As Galaxy S II, And All Other Android Phones. Advertisements According to benchmark results posted earlier today, the iPhone 4S is the fastest smartphone – both in general and graphical performance – in the world, beating superphones like Samsung Galaxy S II and Motorola Droid Bionic.
The news comes from AnandTech – an online computer hardware magazine which is known especially for extensive, in-depth reviews – in a post where they discuss different benchmark scores of the iPhone 4S and compare them with competitors from the Android camp. We were expecting to hear news of iPhone 4S standing toe-to-toe with competing smartphones, but as it turns out, Apple’s upcoming smartphone actually beats them by a considerable margin, and this isn’t the biggest surprise! From AnandTech: The results are pretty much as expected. Using the Geekbench for iOS app, it has been revealed that the dual-core Apple A5 chip that powers the iPhone 4S is actually underclocked to 800MHz (compared to 900MHz on iPad 2). The iPhone 4S. Wednesday, 12 October 2011 This is the easiest product review I’ve ever written. The iPhone 4S is exactly what Apple says it is: just like the iPhone 4, but noticeably faster, with a significantly improved camera, and an impressive new voice-driven feature called Siri.
Siri Siri feels like old-school Apple. Newton-esque, at least in spirit. Sculley-era Apple was obsessed with this sort of thing — natural language processing, the computer as “digital assistant”. It’s also sort of the antithesis of everything prior in iOS. iOS is explicit and visual. I tried the same things Scott Forstall demoed on stage. I was out running errands today, walking through the city. Me: “Set an alarm for 9 AM.” Siri: “It’s set for 9 AM.” Me: “Change that to 10 AM.” Siri: “I changed your alarm to 10 AM tomorrow.” Me: “Cancel that alarm.” Siri: “I deleted your 10 AM alarm.” Me: “Thank you, Siri.” Siri: “Your wish is my command.” In a sense, Siri is like a second interface to iOS. Here’s an example. Speech-to-Text Camera. Apple iPhone 3GS Disappoints at 2009 WWDC. Oh, That Explains the iPhone 4S Pre-Ordering Success. Wendy Li, writing for The International Business Times: However, when iPhone 4S was launched, Apple fans were disappointed somehow, for they were expecting the redesigned iPhone 5 as rumors suggested.
Naturally, many analysts had predicted a subdued response to iPhone 4S. But no one foresaw that the tech genius Jobs would suddenly pass away, only one day after iPhone 4S was released. Jobs’ demise stirred sadness and grief around the world and it’s believed that Jobs’ untimely death has rocketed demand for iPhone 4S from consumers. Sure, that’s the explanation. It certainly couldn’t be that people love what they’ve heard about the iPhone 4S and simply want to buy one and would have done the same even if Steve Jobs hadn’t died, and that the “4S is disappointing” naysayers are the same bunch of dummies who dismissed the iPad 2 and iPhone 3GS as well.
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