I just swapped carriers, now C Spire has announced they are getting the Iphone 4 S in a couple of weeks. lol. Talk about timing. lol
The NEW iPhone 4S Discussion
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Yeah, looking forward to seeing how the Droid Prime screen compares to my wife's iPhone 4.
Wow. I just read the words on that poster. Wow.
Can't compare with earlier phones, but I am pleased with the battery life, no screen issues, no issues on Verizon, and the camera is incredible. Obviously, when you sell 4-5million phones, there are going to be some problems, but it felt like they were reaching looking for things to complain about. And I am not surprised there will be some global issues with Siri, or with the AI being able to easily interpret all accents and dialects, never mind other languages.
I just finished watching the MacBreak Weekly from the TWiT network. They had a good discussion about the camera and how battery life with iOS 5 may be slightly less than previous versions. The panel seemed to think it was either "Find my iPhone" hitting the GPS or the iCloud sync running in the background.
They had a tip about enabling "Custom Vibrations" in the Accessibility Settings, then going into Sound settings and create a custom vibe. You can tap out on the screen a special pattern of vibrations and give it a name. Then, in Contacts, you can assign the special vibration to that person so when you get called/texted/FaceTimed, you can tell who it is by their custom vibe.
And, of course, more fun with Siri. The general consensus was that Apple would bring Siri to the iPad 2, and the only reason they wouldn't bring it to existing iPhone 4 users would be the need for the dual-core A5 ARM processor. They thought an iPod using the A5 might be coming eventually.
They had a tip about enabling "Custom Vibrations" in the Accessibility Settings, then going into Sound settings and create a custom vibe. You can tap out on the screen a special pattern of vibrations and give it a name. Then, in Contacts, you can assign the special vibration to that person so when you get called/texted/FaceTimed, you can tell who it is by their custom vibe.
And, of course, more fun with Siri. The general consensus was that Apple would bring Siri to the iPad 2, and the only reason they wouldn't bring it to existing iPhone 4 users would be the need for the dual-core A5 ARM processor. They thought an iPod using the A5 might be coming eventually.
An interesting review from The Daily: It?s got guts - WWW.THEDAILY.COM
I think if the tech in this phone was in a different case, the haters would be jumping for joy. The hate is very much misplaced. And the thing that is SO compelling to me is how fast and well optimized the device is running on a mere 512MB of ram. Android devices have to have 1GB of ram to deal with the unoptimized nature of the OS AND the constant threat of CHANGES to it from google itself.
Gizmodo had a great piece on this aspect: Why the iPhone 4S Only Has 512MB of RAM
I think if the tech in this phone was in a different case, the haters would be jumping for joy. The hate is very much misplaced. And the thing that is SO compelling to me is how fast and well optimized the device is running on a mere 512MB of ram. Android devices have to have 1GB of ram to deal with the unoptimized nature of the OS AND the constant threat of CHANGES to it from google itself.
Gizmodo had a great piece on this aspect: Why the iPhone 4S Only Has 512MB of RAM
but then you may not buy the newest version
they will include as little as possible
theres no reason they couldnt have done lte this go around
now next summer when they do lte they will sell just as many
I've been pretty content with the 4S so far. The biggest wow factor to me is the screen resolution and battery life. The EVO didn't have AMOLED or anything close to Retina.
I'm even inpressed with how quickly the phone boots or reboots up. The EVO was a good 2-3 minutes before it was remotely ready to go, and in the last few months it would be close to 5 minutes before it came back up.
I'm even inpressed with how quickly the phone boots or reboots up. The EVO was a good 2-3 minutes before it was remotely ready to go, and in the last few months it would be close to 5 minutes before it came back up.
Preordered mine from AT&T at one of there corporate owned stores on 10/7. Order STILL stays "In Process". Waiting.
We preordered with Verizon on the 7th and because the rep on the phone waited until the 12th to process the preorder we were told our delivery date would be the 28th. Fortunately the store had plenty of them on the 14th. Do any of your local AT&T stores by chance have any left?
Stopped off in the same store. Was told I was "in the queue" and couldn't do any better. As soon as they come in, they go out, he says... Meanwhile, the store was out of stock of all models as well. I don't know if they are trickling a few out to the stores to grab the impulse buyers and are letting those of us who already ordered them to sit and spin as they figure we aren't going anywhere. Meanwhile, ever since the latest software "upgrade" my 3G is constantly freezing up. One way to create demand (mine is 2 years old.... I bought the year old model in 2009 as the 3GS was out of stock and liked only paying $99 at the time... I regret it now... Apple's planned obsolescence has proved to me that you have to have the latest and greatest with them or apps will stop working within 1 year)
You are thinking like Android. It probably would never need it. AND why spend all that money on ram that isn't needed (we are talking millions and millions of phones here), instead of putting it into R&D. I have NO Doubt that the phone will be fine until my contract runs out in 2 years.
but ram is cheap
heck even storage is cheap
it doesnt cost what they charge to go from 8gb to 16gb, or 16 to 32, or 32 to 64
this is my issue with no sd cards, sd cards are a cheaper way to allow people to have the capacity they want
But why spend the extra if it doesn't need it. I think the argument in the Gizmodo piece is sound. And yes, cheap for each phone, but we're talking in the millions. Smart business decision. In the aggregate, its a LOT of money for something that is superfluous. I look at memory usage on my iPhone and even when I am running a bunch of apps, there is always free/inactive memory.
While I liked having an SD Card, lets also remember those darn things are pretty fragile. I completely toasted mine just by using the buggy camera in the OG Droid. Poof! Card is gone. 100s of photos gone. Game Over. Play Again? (With a new card).
Like it or not, that isn't the Apple way; but it works so well, I am not even concerned about it.
We still have our old iPhones, gave them to the kids to use as iPod Touches. GPS works as does app updates. 
