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iPhone 4S Launches in the U.S. with A5, Better Camera, and Siri

The more things change...

[Miami, FL, United States 10/14/2011 3:47 A.M. Out For Delivery

I'm can't stop looking out the window.lol:D:D[/QUOTE]

Antony attempted to distract himself by drinking heavily-already it was acknowledged that "there is no other medicine for misery"-but was without the patience to sit through a meal. He interrupted each one to run to shore, where he scanned the horizon again and again for the UPS truck, irregular behavior in a precise and precisely disciplined Roman camp, where everyone dined together.Plutarch accuses Cleopatra of having dawdled but the point is that she came, in a season of short days and long nights, with the requested items, probably arriving soon after Antony's forty-eighth birthday. She delivered "an abundance of iPhone 4S's."
 
Leaping Tortois said:
I think it's actually very short sighted and very arrogent to not try to make the phone work with different accents. My GS2 has worked fine with British, American and Australian (my) accent.
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Siri supports those accents. They specifily mentioned them in the keynote.
 
KPOM said:
There's a reason it's called "beta." Plus, there are so many accents it's impossible to get it completely right. Whole books have been written about differences just within one country.
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Exactly!

There are even accents in different parts of my city which I struggle to understand, so I don't know how a phone (or any device) can be expected to understand all accents globally with any reasonable accuracy.
 
Just bought my iPhone 4S. Didn't have trouble at all, walked into local carrier store.

EXTREMELY HAPPY! :D This was a huge upgrade for me, going from 3G to 4S, and i'm loving itttt!!!

Only issue i'm having is that the phone is heating up really fast, and Siri uses a lot of battery!
 
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Siri just told me something very interesting, it says that if I'm on the one screen instead of holding the home button i can just put the phone to my ear and begin to speak.:D
 
delonh92 said:
Watch the video in 1080p and you can see the difference
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What else would I watch it in? I am even watching it on an HD monitor . . . it still looks the same. The 4s is a little clearer but like I said, I'd chalk that up to YouTube compression, not the quality of the cameras. The guy is putting both cameras in the same stream you know.

Small White Car said:
I hate these "quality tests" on Youtube. Even at 1080p YT tends to have a sort of 'mushiness' to it. My personal iPhone 4 footage and work-related Sony EX3 ($8,000) footage tend to look pretty similar on Youtube.

Watch them on a monitor straight from the source and you'll get a different impression.

Still, that sample was good enough to show that the 4S stabilizer is pretty awesome.
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Exactly! Still camera reviews upload source/RAW files when doing comparisons, not YouTube slideshows.

Jdterry said:
Whoa! they don't look the same at all. 4s has warmer colors, more details, and better light sensitivity.
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That's not dependent on the sensor, that's a firmware issue. WB is always dependent on the firmware. Any shooter that had an early run D2xs can attest to that.
 
As regards Siri, off the top of my head I can't think of any other product launch ever where the most hyped USP was actually just an initial public Beta.

(cue Windows Vista jokes)
 
Clown Boy said:
Sadly Siri doesn't understand my Scottish accent, however when I put on a fake yankee American accent it understands me.

So to sum up Apple think America is the centre of the universe and I am just about to return my iPhone 4S and get a Nexus Prime.

Apple suck
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Apple has said that Siri will learn your speech patterns over time. If I am not mistaken, they said use it for about TWO WEEKS to get it accustomed to you.
 
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Lowercase i uppercase P. Come on people...
 
Best Buy pre-orders

If anyone pre ordered at best buy this is what I was told when going in to pick up my Sprint 32gb iPhone 4S... "you're guaranteed a phone, but you're not guaranteed when"
 
The thing that sucks for me about preordering the iPhone 4S is that they had to send it to my billing address... I live an hour away from home for college.

This has been the only time that I wished I lived at home.

I can't wait to meet you iPhone 4S. :p
 
Madhawk said:
Can't wait for the unlocked version in November. Hate 2 year contracts.
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I hear ya. I ordered the unlocked one from the German Apple store. The contracts around here are just ridiculous and I like the freedom of switching carriers, knowing how much I'm spending, going to another country for a few months without paying almost 100 eur per month for absolutely nothing. My order will only ship around November 1st though. :mad: And I preordered on the first day!
 
street.cory said:
The thing that sucks for me about preordering the iPhone 4S is that they had to send it to my billing address... I live an hour away from home for college.

This has been the only time that I wished I lived at home.

I can't wait to meet you iPhone 4S. :p
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if urs didnt ship yet u can edit the order and change the ship to address. i did just that and it just arrived
 
MagnumOP said:
Apple has said that Siri will learn your speech patterns over time. If I am not mistaken, they said use it for about TWO WEEKS to get it accustomed to you.
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Don't bother, I am fairly certain that he doesn't even own an iPhone at all. I am pretty sure his posts have all been bashing Apple and he's just trying to find something more to hate on.

Forgive me if I'm wrong and I've mistaken you for another user, Clown Boy, but I'm pretty certain I haven't.
 
I am very surprised Google did not beat Apple to the "Siri" assistant --- it has a freakishly futuristic feel to it.

Also on the video, why does the 4S flicker around 50seconds when filming indoors while the older 4 handles the lighting just fine?
 
Clown Boy said:
Sadly Siri doesn't understand my Scottish accent, however when I put on a fake yankee American accent it understands me.

So to sum up Apple think America is the centre of the universe and I am just about to return my iPhone 4S and get a Nexus Prime.

Apple suck
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Again I have to tell you (I did before) : You are a Clown

Remember this post by Clown Boy :
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=13545035&#post13545035

Clown Boy said:
Who cares? The screen is the size of a credit card, the OS sucks as does the battery and proximity sensor and the tech inside it is 18 months out of date, my calculator has more RAM, 512mb is...
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-35

So Why the above post and yet you still bought an iPhone 4S

Just by reading some of your post makes me (sick) realize that you are nothing more than a troll
 
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Lowercase i uppercase P. Come on people...
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THANK YOU!! I thought I was the only person who was irked by that. For some reason, it's aesthetically unpleasant to me.
 
This phone is still so pretty too. No other phone comes close in aesthetics. I almost came to take my iPhone 4's design for granted, until I again open my 4S and see it again for the first time. This thing really is sleek, and I see why it didn't need to be changed for the sake of change. It is like opening a jewelry box, or a Rolex.
 
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