Today Apple has announced the iPhone 4S, the latest device in Apples iPhone range. Pre-orders start on October 7th for UK (£499.00 PAYG), Canada, Australia, France and Germany with the device expected to ship to the US on October 14th and everything else comes out October 12th.
So what’s new with the iPhone 4S?
- The same iPhone 4 design
- Dual core A5 processor (and dual core graphics) (same as the iPad 2)
- 7x faster graphics
- 2x faster CPU
- Infinity Blade 2 available December 1st (takes advantage of new gaming power)
- 8 hours 3G talktime or 14 hours on 2G
- HSDPA for super fast downloads (14.4Mbps down, 5.8Mbps up)
- Can intelligently switch between the antennas for even better call quality
- CDMA and GSM compatible (on one device)
Camera
- 8 megapixels (3264 x 2448)
- 73% more light reaches the chip for improved quality and a much faster chip (1.1s for the first photo, 0.5s for the next)
- backside illumination
- Hybrid IR filter – better colour accuracy and uniformity
- 5 element lens, 30% more sharpness, and a f/2.3 aperture.
- macro mode for close shots
- 1080p video – video image stabilization & temporal noise reduction
- airplay mirroring – game on your TV
Intelligent Assistant “Siri”
- Just hold down the home button and Siri will listen in and answer your question.
- Examples
- “Do I need a raincoat today?” Siri responds “It sure looks like rain today.”
- “Wake me up tomorrow at 6am.” Siri responds “Okay, I set it [your alarm] for 6am.”
- “Find me a great Greek restaurant in Palo Alto.” Siri says (courtesy of Yelp) that she found 14 — sorted by rating.
- “Give me directions to Hoover Tower.” Siri brings up Maps, shows the route, and you’re good to go.
- “Search Wikipedia for Neil Armstrong.”
- Scott’s creating a reminder “Remind me to call my wife when I leave work.” Siri asks to confirm and makes the reminder. Siri already knew who his wife is and set up a geofence around work.
read messages aloud and lets you dictate the reply back- gets better as it learns your voice
- dictation feature works anywhere
- 16GB $199, 32GB $299, 64GB $399 (two year contract)
Cheap iPhone
8GB iPhone 4 $99 (2 year contract)
iPod Touch
- black and white versions
- 8GB costs $199, 32GB $299, 64GB $399
- available October 12th
iPod Nano
- Easier to navigate
- Pedometer to track walks and runs (implemented with the nike+ app w/o the adapter)
- FM radio
- 16 new clock faces – including mickey and minnie mouse
- 8GB costs $129, 16GB costs $149
New Apps
Find my Friends
This new app lets you see where your friends or family are using the devices GPS
- temporary sharing options
- simple privacy controls
Cards
This one was unexpected, it seems like apple has moved into the card market by allowing you to quickly and easily send card for all occasions. No news on whether this feature will be available outside the US
- $2.99 for US mail
- Free App available October 12th
- “We’ll print it out, put the address on it, and mail it. If you mail in the US, we can track it with the US Postal Service barcode, and we’ll send you a push notification when it arrives.”
iOS 5 – The top 10 new features – (see our previous iOS 5 post for more info)
Arrives October 12th
- Notifications center – all your notifications listed on lockscreen, swipe to go to that app
- iMessage – Blackberry messenger style messaging service between iOS devices
- send text, photo, video and get read receipts
- all messages push over 3G and wi-fi
- Reminders – set a reminder with location alerts
- twitter integration – deep, every app can support
- Newsstand – easy to read publications on your device – new issues download in background
- Camera
- take photos from lockscreen with a camera button
- add grid lines
- pinch to zoom
- set auto exposure and auto focus to lock
- edit photos on your device
- Tabbed browsing
- Wireless updates
- iCloud
- download music and media anytime and on any device
- automatically uploads taken pictures to the cloud
- docs can be edited on any devices and synced accross the cloud like dropbox
- available for developers to use
- daily backups of contacts, calendar etc
- iTunes Match ($24.99/year) – scans and matches your library songs to apples in the cloud to instantly put your library in the cloud – anything not found is uploaded – caches and streams to your devices
- pricing – 5GB (free), 10GB ($20/year), 20GB ($40/year), 50GB ($100/year)
Thats it! we’ll update you if we find out more. pictures in this article are taken from the live feed at thisismynext.com.
