iPhone 4S hands-on video demos Siri menus and impressive browser benchmarks

With the news thatApple sold over 1 million iPhone 4S units in just 24 hoursstill fresh in people’s minds, the first hands-on video with Apple’s new smartphone has hit the Internet, demonstrating browser benchmarks and giving us the first look at Apple’s new Siri technology and the options it provides on the device. Macrumors shared the video, which was originally posted to Chinese forumAppVV.com, showing Siri menu toggles that include the language settings, voice feedback and how to initialise the voice-input via Raise to Speak....

2 min · 267 words · Sally Garcia

iPhone 4S name surfaces on new Otterbox case packaging [Updated]

Otterbox case packaging for iPhones has surfaced that bears the name ‘iPhone 4S’, adding fuel to the rumors that the next iPhone will have that name. The images were posted byWill Strafach, also known as Chronic, the founder of theChronic Dev Teamhacking group.Updated below. These case packages are for an Otterbox Commuter Series iPhone case and have ‘iPhone 4S’ printed on the box. There are several shots of the packaging and they don’t look as if they were manipulated in any way....

3 min · 552 words · Charles Stevens

iPhone 4S packing CDMA and GSM looks more official as inventory entry and label surfaces

It is looking more likely by the day that one of the devices that will be revealed at Apple’s Oct. 4 iPhone event will be called ‘iPhone 4S’. The device has been added to Apple’s inventory system and a label has appeared on a Chinese forum that details a 16GB iPhone 4S,reports 9to5Mac. Yesterday evidence of iPhone 4 models bearing an N90A code name had appeared, adding to the rumors that one of the device we will see next week is a tweaked version of the current iPhone 4, which bore the code name N90....

3 min · 495 words · Cody Smith

iPhone 4S so “disappointing” that it broke Sprint records and AT&T set to double activation records

Last week, after the iPhone 4S was announced, without a new body style but still sporting impressive internal upgrades and a brand new voice control feature called Siri, some analysts were ‘disappointed’. If you’re a follower of Apple news, especially of its hardware releases, this probably didn’t come as much of a surprise. These analysts have little understanding of how Apple works or of the draw that its products have for the general public at large, not just for the technorati that were miffed about the exterior appearance of the phone not changing....

3 min · 477 words · John Valdez

iPhone 4S teardown: 512MB of RAM, bigger 5.3 WHr battery and an upgraded vibrator

As they are wont to do, iFixit hasperformed its teardownof the new iPhone. The iPhone 4S is unsurprisingly very similar to its predecessor inside apart from the new A5 processor, but there are some differences worth pointing out. The new device has been confirmed to contain 512MB of RAM after an examination of the markings on the A5 byAnandtech. The 512MB confirmation isn’t all that shocking, but it does confirm that additional memory is not necessary to run Siri, the iPhone 4S’s new voice activated assistant feature....

3 min · 484 words · Robert Gilbert
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