The new Iphone 4S

leblinux · 2011-10-04T18:33:38+00:00

Features summarized about the iPhone 4S with IOS 5: (Taken from Ars Technica from the event)... First it has the A5 chip inside, same as the one in the iPa...

Dope14

ranibalaa wroteWhat? Even if he gets 15 iPhones. The Unlock takes months and sometimes years( current iPhone 4 baseband 02.10.04 and up). Who would pay 3 times more for a locked iPhone from AT&T.

what unlock ? , those come factory unlocked i believe

ranibalaa

No, not until November in the US. And only recently since the exclusive agreement with att ended. So bottom line, if he's buying them from America no way they're from the apple store and unlocked.

mezin

samer wrote
a friend of mine gets around 15 iphones per day he is 20 in california .
Your friend could be making this up, keep this in mind.

not necessarily , you'd be surprised but they don't really enforce it much, last time they just asked for my name without ID, I just kept giving them random name, ended up with 6 iphones

but the pre order thing is different i agree it's a good reflection, in the end an apple product is still an apple product and many people have been waiting for a new phone regardless if it is the 4S or the 5. For someone who doesn't have a 4 the 4S is a pretty deal.

mohammadk97

Any info about the iphone 4s price and release in lebanon?

SiMi

everything on iphone 4s is a catchup to what android phones did , dual cores , voice help , the notification system is copied from android , apple is lacking innovation , steve was mind there , with him gone , apple will be nothing but a competitor in the market , not a leader in innovation like the past.

Apple made a huge hype around the ordinary , this is their way of business , aggressive marketing ,only a phone every year only , huge rumors about it , convince your subconscious thats its the greatest phone ever , give it a very high price tag, and voila , most profitable company , but not the owner of the biggest market share
FACTS:
36% of the phones in the market are android
26% ios.

375000 apps on ios , 224000 apps on android BUT , apple store has a growth of 111% , android marketplace 544% , so you do the calculation where will this lead in few years , even blackberry has a growth of 268%.
apple has only 29% of its apps for free, while android market has 60%!!!

xterm

I like tabbouleh more than fattoush.

monkey-d-luffy

xterm wroteI like tabbouleh more than fattoush.

Made me LMAO literally :P

Glad to learn all this @SiMi and I felt the same way as you for a while (I'm an Android user) and I hope that Apple will still maintain what they got us used to; so that Android will always come with something better :P

yasamoka

xterm wroteI like tabbouleh more than fattoush.

So nowadays you moderators are allowed off-topic posts? :P

xterm

yasamoka wrote
xterm wroteI like tabbouleh more than fattoush.
So nowadays you moderators are allowed off-topic posts? :P

It's on-topic :-)

mezin

SiMi wroteeverything on iphone 4s is a catchup to what android phones did , dual cores , voice help , the notification system is copied from android , apple is lacking innovation , steve was mind there , with him gone , apple will be nothing but a competitor in the market , not a leader in innovation like the past.

It's true that the new notification system is "borrowed" from the android OS, however keep in mind that android "borrowed" a lot of features that the iOS pioneered. It's a two way street and android IMO has borrowed far more from iOS than vice versa.

As for Jobs, yes he was an innovator and many of his ideas are the center stone for the iPhone's success but bear in mind that he was a long term thinker, and to think that he hasn't planned for at least 5 years in advance is ridiculous. Even several years in the future when the first "steve free" apple products are released, I'm pretty sure they're gonna be successful.

SiMi wroteApple made a huge hype around the ordinary , this is their way of business , aggressive marketing ,only a phone every year only , huge rumors about it , convince your subconscious thats its the greatest phone ever , give it a very high price tag, and voila , most profitable company

Well in all honesty, it was the people who created a huge hype around the next iPhone release. Apple in the last era has been known for it's exceptional marketing skills that to a point that can cause the public to hype a release. I don't remember anywhere where apple said something HUGE and DIFFERENT is coming. Looking back they did the same thing with 3G and 3GS, the latter was as you know very successful too

SiMi wrotebut not the owner of the biggest market share
FACTS:
36% of the phones in the market are android
26% ios.

375000 apps on ios , 224000 apps on android BUT , apple store has a growth of 111% , android marketplace 544% , so you do the calculation where will this lead in few years , even blackberry has a growth of 268%.
apple has only 29% of its apps for free, while android market has 60%!!!

I love android don't get me wrong, my next phone might as well be the nexus prime depending on that product, however those numbers are not indicators of quality. The iphone's app store is universal and of high quality. Plus "free" apps don't attract large developers like the ones we see on the iphone however the number of free apps on android is indeed something good.

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