News - iPhone 4S smashes pre-order record

[mrochester]

So the Fixed the anenna and brought their hardware inline with technology which has already been out about a year cool Im going to buy one!

They improved the antenna and brought the hardware up to date with current devices. It seems like a fairly simple concept to me.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The gf has wanted an iphone for over a year now and I have put her off for ages Ive even bought her new phones and passed down my old ones it has cost me serious money for her not to get one I probably could of bought her an iphone outright with the money I have spent but the fact she wants it to look good in front of her friends and even say she hates apps it does my head in rotten..... I'd rather buy her the £3k Mulberry bag shes after

Does she buy you expensive toys too??

[TheVoice]

thinner - Still thicker than the iPhone 4

Nope, the S2 is thinner, that was always its main design point.

Anyway, it seems most people upgrading to the 4S are people who currently have the 3GS, which makes sense really. Can't see any particularly compelling reasons to upgrade from a 4 right at this moment though.

Personally I wouldn't get one for the simple fact that it looks identical to the previous model.

[Mossy]

Does she buy you expensive toys too??

This is already on my Christmas List

http://www.native-instruments.com/#/...or-kontrol-s4/

[mrochester]

Nope, the S2 is thinner, that was always its main design point.

Anyway, it seems most people upgrading to the 4S are people who currently have the 3GS, which makes sense really. Can't see any particularly compelling reasons to upgrade from a 4 right at this moment though.

Personally I wouldn't get one for the simple fact that it looks identical to the previous model.

Sounds like you're buying devices for all the wrong reasons if you're primary concern is that it looks different from what has gone before. That seems very shallow to me.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This is already on my Christmas List

http://www.native-instruments.com/#/...or-kontrol-s4/

The bag is more expensive!! Is it actually made in the UK still??

If you did get an iPhone you could have a play with this:

http://itunes.apple.com/lv/app/fairl...427747876?mt=8

[Hicks12]

Amazing apple can get so many preorders, id thought it would have done bad on the basis it didnt look different!.

For the dualcore... apple is VERY late to the game, i think youll find my LG optimus 2x was the very first at the start of the year and still trades blows with all of them (*cough* once you get rid of the lg bloatware crap*cough*).

Samsungs display is better than the iphone, having the resolution of the iphone 4 is good but id say the samsung wins overall. I think its apples marketing again... i had a friend talking to me yesterday about it, he was saying basically OMG IT WINZ (he cant afford it lol) IT HAS 8X THE GRAPHICS OMG 8X.

I bet if you saw LG saying stuff like 10098908x better than the iphone 4 in performance it would have sold even better!. Dont know many companies that advertise like that though, they just say things like DUAL CORE and thats about it .

Cant justify the iphone at all, my o2x costs £17 p/m and at the time the iphone 4 was £45 p/m to match my contract ! I wouldnt pay that to have something like a brick (it feels like that to me, square brick!) and performs terribly compared to my phone on a technical level and also does less via software. Why pay over 2x more for a phone thats worse , i can understand the less technical person as the o2x software was terrible but as soon as custom roms go on it its the fastest phone ive used. My sister doesnt like the iphone and shes pretty bad with tech, shes just for the HTC wildfire s which ofc is no technical feat but one its small than the iphone, similar battery life and was only £10 for her p/m with loads of minutes/text/data, she is LOVING the phone albeit she keeps asking me about such and such but shes learning quickly and is preferring it to her friends iphone .


Apple 5 will be this but with a tegra 3 chip i bet haha!

[Hoonigan]

I wish my post count was higher, then I might actually be entitled to an opinion.

[Hicks12]

I wish my post count was higher, then I might actually be entitled to an opinion.

ofc you're entitled to your opinion! one of your posts was:

"I'm upgrading from the 4 to the 4S. I got my iPhone 4 just over a year ago and it's served me well, but considering I can still get £300 for it now and upgrade to the 4S for £500, who wouldn't?

Better camera, dual core processor, and not to mention the epeen"

It is a better camera and better cpu but what we are saying (well most of us) is that it only brings it up to the competition and uses the same style so you cant really use it for epeen, epeen generally is buying like an intel 900extreme chip for £1000 cains everything but only by a fraction and costs loads, epeen! If it looked slightly different id say yeah you could .

Im not seeing where your opinion has been removed? if you want to pay £200 for a new phone upgrade then your welcome to, only yourself can justify the costs etc .

[Flash477]

I must admit that I will be getting the 4S for my business, but that is mainly because I have to write web sites that will run on it and so need one for testing. I'm certainly not one to get things just because they are new and shiney - my current phone is a Nokia 6100



One thing that has always made me a bit wary of Android is when I hear about some of the bugs it has had, such as the text messaging bug where they went to different people in your address book

[Funkstar]

One thing that has always made me a bit wary of Android is when I hear about some of the bugs it has had, such as the text messaging bug where they went to different people in your address book

Every platform has had bugs of varying degrees. Android does at least have a clock and alarm subsystem that has worked for the last two years

[TheAnimus]

Every platform has had bugs of varying degrees. Android does at least have a clock and alarm subsystem that has worked for the last two years

Still not found any on my WP7 device, or WP7.5 now.....

[Flash477]

Every platform has had bugs of varying degrees. Android does at least have a clock and alarm subsystem that has worked for the last two years

I'm not quite sure what you are referring to there (out of the loop), but at least that doesn't lead to any embarrisment, or getting fired like a wrong text message would do...

[Funkstar]

I'm not quite sure what you are referring to there (out of the loop), but at least that doesn't lead to any embarrisment, or getting fired like a wrong text message would do...

Have a search about, the iPhone with iOS4 failed to fire alarms on, what was it, three separate occasions?

Yup:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...4l0.3.6.1l10l0

DST change last year, new year and DST change this year. You would think that after the first failure they would have made sure it wasn't going to happen again. But apparently not.

[dangel]

Still not found any on my WP7 device, or WP7.5 now.....

We me neither on my Android device, but i'm not sure it's conclusive

I'm not quite sure what you are referring to there (out of the loop), but at least that doesn't lead to any embarrisment, or getting fired like a wrong text message would do...

..or getting up late cos yer clock fecked up. Software has bugs, scare stories exist for many platforms the truth is usually far less dramatic (and headline grabbing) - this includes iOS. I'd certainly not be put of either iOS or Android on the basis of daily mail style guff.

[Flash477]

..or getting up late cos yer clock fecked up. Software has bugs, scare stories exist for many platforms the truth is usually far less dramatic (and headline grabbing) - this includes iOS. I'd certainly not be put of either iOS or Android on the basis of daily mail style guff.

I'm not going by any headlines, I just know that there have certainly been texts that I have sent that there are no way in hell I would want the wrong person to see....