iPhone 4s

[Millhouse]

Anyone getting one?

[Medic82]

Anyone getting one?

HELL NO!

[captain spaulding]

Nope just got my Samsung Galaxy S2 and could not be happier. 

[Neil]

Very nice but as with all Apple gear, a bit too spendy.

[ryan1835]

i like it for the camera and siri i think ill probably get the next iphone though

[Mercury]

I have the iphone 4 and from what i hear its not worth upgrading to the 4S.   

[ryan1835]

gotta hand it to apple releasing a new iphone days after blackberry break

[Neil]

Been looking over the new stuff.

Siri looked cool until I saw that it required net connection.  Considering the very patchy state of 3G that'll be a no no in a lot of the UK

Not sure about the icloud thing either, seems like if you want to acess the data from a PC it has to be running Vista SP2 or above.  Every PC I come across still runs XP   And what about Linux users?  I can't see any way of acessing via browser so looks a bit pants from here 

[Threeme2189]

Nope.
Until My Sony Ericsson kicks the bucket I see no need to upgrade.

[ryan1835]

Been looking over the new stuff.

Siri looked cool until I saw that it required net connection.  Considering the very patchy state of 3G that'll be a no no in a lot of the UK

Not sure about the icloud thing either, seems like if you want to acess the data from a PC it has to be running Vista SP2 or above.  Every PC I come across still runs XP   And what about Linux users?  I can't see any way of acessing via browser so looks a bit pants from here 

well its probably a clever bit of marketing, might make more people move to mac. One day i hope to get a macbook pro but this laptop has a few years left yet

[tattoosteve99]

I might. I'm due for an upgrade. And the new features are pretty good. Supposedly fixed the antenna and signal problems.

[jzmtl]

Mind you all that fancy new camera and voice control are standard on phones several months older than it. 

[mvyrmnd]

I'll be replacing my 4 with a 4S in December when my contract's up.

[Reinier]

Anyone getting one?

HELL NO!

+1

[tattoosteve99]

I'll be replacing my 4 with a 4S in December when my contract's up.

+100  at least someone agrees with me :p

[Grant Lamontagne]

Seen this? 



Def

[Mike 56]

I have had my iPhone4 for about a year i love it it is a great phone. I won,t be upgrading it. What i do like about the new iPhone4s is the price will drop to 100.00 on the iPhone4. I need to buy one for my wife.
Mike

[Whoey]

No thanks, I'm fine with my Motorola Defy for now...

[tattoosteve99]

Seen this? 



Def

:p. If it wasn't for apple smartphones wouldn't be smart!

[captain spaulding]

Seen this? 



Def

Seen this? 



Def

 

:p. If it wasn't for apple smartphones wouldn't be smart!

That's hilarious.


I do agree with you there steve, but the video is still quite funny. 

[tattoosteve99]

Well yes it is buts that's beside the point.

[turnsouth]

Seen this? 



Def

:p. If it wasn't for apple smartphones wouldn't be smart!

Do you mean that when in 2007 Apple produced a phone that was basically an expected evolution, building on what Palm, Windows, and BlackBerry had been doing for 10 years?

[Mercury]

Yea but they lacked the ability to fully visualize and finalize a grand idea.  Don't get me wrong, I am a PC user through and through, and I love Android, but Apple made it cool to have a phone that received emails.  Blackberry made an incredible business tool, but holding my Work Blackberry(2010 Curve) in one hand and my Iphone 4 in the other hand, it was hard to see why Blackberry/RIM is still in business.

[captain spaulding]

All I have to say is im typing this on my galaxy S2. 

[Mercury]

Seen this? 



Def

Hilarious!

[MirrorEdge]

NO
Unless it was a gift 
Because I have my iPhone 3GS and I am happy with it

[Grant Lamontagne]

Yea but they lacked the ability to fully visualize and finalize a grand idea.  Don't get me wrong, I am a PC user through and through, and I love Android, but Apple made it cool to have a phone that received emails.  Blackberry made an incredible business tool, but holding my Work Blackberry(2010 Curve) in one hand and my Iphone 4 in the other hand, it was hard to see why Blackberry/RIM is still in business.

I was sending and receiving emails on my Palm Pilots while Apple was still trying to sell brightly colored desktops.  Of course in those days it was only when I synced my Palm with my PC because wifi wasn't around in those days.

The sad fact is that RIM and Blackberry are pretty well single highhandedly responsible for the smartphone phenomenon but didn't think it through well enough.  Palm had the app market but MS dominated just about everything else with WinCE- if you have a GPS in your car, it's probably running on a WinCE platform, just to give you an idea of how widespread that OS was.  If the idiots at RIM had any foresight whatsoever they could have easily developed their "App Store" long before anyone else had even considered getting into the market and "Blackberry" would be synonymous with phones the way Kleenex is with tissues, Xerox is with copiers and Leatherman is to multitools.  Unfortunately they didn't look beyond the fact that they were on top and the only game in in town to offer these kinds of features, and someone else picked up the ball that RIM didn't even know they dropped.

The iPhone didn't revolutionize the industry though, they merely took Smartphones from the hands of tech goobers (like me) and made them "cool" just as Apple had done with other products.  It's not so much innovation as it's altering or removing a stigma.

That's not to say it didn't have a significant effect- there's no denying that.  I just feel that they slapped a coat of paint on an existing product and made it more appealing to the masses as opposed to really developing something new.

Def

[GraysonK]

As of right now, no, I'm not planning on upgrading.  I did install the new iOS 5 yesterday.  I like the drop down menu but i'm trying to figure out why my calendar is showing 2010 events in 2011.  Weird.  Gotta figure out how to fix that.  Anyway.  We are going to wait and see if they come out with an actual Iphone 5 before upgrading.  I'm really really hoping that they change the body style back to somethhing similar to 3GS.  I hate worrying all the time that I'm gonna crack that glass (although the wrapsol i have on it did a really really good job the last couple of days.).  I don't care if they make a bigger screen.  I'm not a gamer and i only read my kindle stuff in small increments when i have a little down time.  I would like to see a slightly better camera, i like the drop down notification thing although I found out about it accidentally.  I like the "idea" of being able to back things up on iCloud but I'm still not sure how it works really.  Wouldn't mind a faster processor or voice command, but again not a deal breaker for me.  I use my phone for a lot of stuff but i'm still tryinng to figure out how to make everything easier overall.  I'm afraid I'm gonna have to end up paying for something like Mobile Me in order to get my calendars, email and everything in one spot. without extra clicks.  Oh well...I like my phone a lot.  so I'll deal for now. 

[turnsouth]

Yea but they lacked the ability to fully visualize and finalize a grand idea...

...The iPhone didn't revolutionize the industry though, they merely took Smartphones from the hands of tech goobers (like me) and made them "cool" just as Apple had done with other products.  It's not so much innovation as it's altering or removing a stigma...

The problem is that there was one man responsible for this. And now that he is gone, things may not fair very well for Apple...

[Grant Lamontagne]

Yes and no- Apple has two things they didn't have the last time Steve left- the first is now they have a loyal army of Mac fanboys that are going to buy whatever they produce, at least until they accidentally produce something so horrid that it defies description.  A Vista powered iPhone comes to mind.

The second is the technology- even "bad" tech nowadays is good.  Years ago you had to be really careful when buying a TV, cell phone, computer etc because it was easy to get one that was geared well away from what you wanted it to do.  Nowadays it's a different story, and even cheap no name tablets purchased from unnamed sellers in China on eBay are actually pretty good and more than capable of managing just about anything anyone needs done.  Because of this, it won't be hard to maintain a near "Jobs-era" quality level.

If Apple really wants to make the most of this, they will let quality die down just a bit over the next year or so to show what a huge impact Steve's presence (and lack thereof) had on them, then slowly over the following year or two build back up.

Realistically, Jobs excelled at one important thing- recognizing emerging trends.  Personal computing was growing and he replaced the boring old cream colored boxes with fancy colors and rounded corners.  CD's were dying out and the new media didn't exist (mp3's) so he made a special box to hold something that doesn't exist, and made it have virtually infinite capacity to hold things that didn't exist.  Then he added the ability to send and receive calls on it since phones were becoming so prevalent.  It's not that he saw a need for something and filled it, he recognized that there would be a need for said item soon and gambled that the product he had would fill the resulting need, and in so doing, shaped the emerging need around the product he had.  It was kind of a self fulfilling prophecy. 

Not to take anything away from the man- in fact I hold him in the greatest honor for all he's managed to accomplish, but some folks make it out like he was working in his basement creating the future of Apple, presented it at board meetings the next day and the day after that it went into production.  That simply didn't happen.  Given his ability to see what was coming and tailor his product to meet the need, while simultaneously directing the need to form around his product, I have no doubt that he had put together a five or ten year plan for Apple when he retired.  After all, it's not like his retirement and subsequent death was unforeseen.  One didn't need his level of clairvoyance to see that his days have been numbered for a while, and I doubt the man who was famous for having a plan wouldn't have had a plan for this.

Def