With the eyes of the world hoping to see a completely brand new iPhone unveiled last Tuesday, many were left disappointed (including me…sigh).
As they did with the previous phone – the 3G – Apple have made some upgrades under the bonnet and bolted the letter ‘S’ onto the end of the name.
These tweaks include a better camera, a faster processor and a revolutionary new voice command application called ‘Siri’.
So the question is, who should consider getting the iPhone 4S?
Lets investigate.
Happy snappers
Apple reckons the 8MP camera on the 4S is probably the ‘best camera ever on a mobile phone’.
And with 60% more pixels than the highly regarded iPhone 4 camera, they might well be right.
The new A5 chip boasts an image signal processor that’s supposedly as good as many DSLR cameras.
With HDR technology on board too, you can capture three shots in an instant and the 4S will use the best parts of all three to produce the clearest all round image. Fancy.
Without question, Apple have placed huge emphasis on the strength of their camera offering, so if you’re obsessed with photos, this is without doubt the phone for you.
Multi-taskers
The 4S boasts the same A5 chip as the iPad 2, meaning you get twice as much power and seven times faster graphics than the original iPhone 4.
What this also means is you can have multiple apps open without slowing down the phone. So if you’re the kind of person who likes listening to music whilst playing games and sending texts, the 4S will let you do all of that significantly quicker.
And because the A5 chip is so efficient, it actually improves battery life rather than using more juice. So that’s better performance using less power – an impressive combination.
No hands free? No problem.
With Apple’s revolutionary voice-recognition app, Siri, you can control the iPhone 4S with your voice.
That means you can dictate texts, listen to texts, ask the time, get the weather forecast and accomplish hundreds of other tasks without even touching the phone.
Early testing suggests this technology works brilliantly, leading many to speculate that it could completely change the way we interact with our phones in the future.
Erm…anyone really
Despite the disappointment of not seeing a brand new iPhone, the 4S is unquestionably the best all round handset currently available.
If the Samsung Galaxy S II upped the anti, the 4S matches it and then raises the bar again.
What you have to ask yourself is ‘what is this phone not doing well?’
The answer is ‘very little’.
Having ironed out the antenna problems of the original iPhone 4, doubled the speed of web downloads, introduced cloud-based storage and offered up hundreds of other upgrades and improvements, the 4S is a colossus.
It could be 6 months or even a year before we see the iPhone 5, but as stop-gaps go, this is remarkably impressive.
On the outside it might look the same, but don’t be fooled. Under that slick exterior lies a much more powerful beast.
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