3 Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to the iPhone 4S

[Guest]

What, no iPhone 5? No, but the iPhone 4S is here. Aside from its cost, there are several improvements and some very good reasons why you would want to upgrade from an iPhone 3GS or an iPhone 4.

3 Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to the iPhone 4S : Read more

 

[soo-nah-mee]

I can think of many more reason why I shouldn't.
Nexus Prime is one...

 

[bender3000]

Sprint and Apple? Meh. I bet I can think of a 3rd "Reason" not to upgrade to the new iPhone.

 

[DjEaZy]

... the camera is reason for me to upgrade... specially - the video camera...

 

[SneakySnake]

Nexus Prime is getting a little ridiculous though. With the res of 1200x720 they are going beyond what the need to achieve a 'retina' display. They are just wasting pixel density that your eye won't be able to pick up.

Normally this wouldn't be a huge deal to go above and beyond, but a phone's screen is one of the top battery users, and the smaller your pixels, the harder it is to push light through. Therefore they are going to be wasting battery life for absolutely no reason.

If they did a calmer 1000x600 or something you'd probably see an extra hour or two of battery life.

 

[tranzz]

3 reasons not to

1 : Apple are an immoral company. The way they behave beggars belief. There are certain things each and every person would and would not do. Apple do things against principles that most people would not. For example A cross lisence could have easily been reached with samsung but they went through litigation. This is like 2 children disagreeing over something. Rather than have the back bone to resolve it themselves Apple cries to mummy and daddy (the courts) for a 1 sided biased resolution like a spoilt petulant child.
2 : There are many more comprehensive phones out there.
3 : Other phones offer far greater value for money than a shiny apple toy. I say this based on a large article from E3. If you want not just a comparison between apple and android but apple users and android users it's an interesting read

Mini rant over

 

[The Greater Good]

Or... one reason NOT to buy the (kinda) new iPhone: It's made by Apple.

 

[afrobacon]

Sorry, I don't buy hardware that promotes suicide *cough*Foxconn*cough*.

 

[tranzz]

[citation][nom]SneakySnake[/nom]Nexus Prime is getting a little ridiculous though. With the res of 1200x720 they are going beyond what the need to achieve a 'retina' display. They are just wasting pixel density that your eye won't be able to pick up.Normally this wouldn't be a huge deal to go above and beyond, but a phone's screen is one of the top battery users, and the smaller your pixels, the harder it is to push light through. Therefore they are going to be wasting battery life for absolutely no reason.If they did a calmer 1000x600 or something you'd probably see an extra hour or two of battery life.[/citation]

Retinal display is a marketing term. Look up the visual assement accuities that most people can acheive. Resolve those bach from snellen accuity to near vision accuity and retinal density is much higher than the Apple devices. I did work it out and it equates to ~6/6-3 Most healthy adults easily manage 6/5 and many can see 6/4. 6/6-3 approx equates to a 50 year old with reduced accuites but then again most 50 year olds could still manage 6/5.

 

[triculious]

I think Siri is the only interesting feature of this upgraded iphone. More of a "cool" feature than an actually useful one but still the most appealing feature for human interaction. It will only be a matter of "training" the thing to understand my horrible accent.

I hope apple has fixed the ridiculous colors that the iphone 4 image capture algorithm used to screw pictures with.

I alredy have a phone which can be used worldwide and actually replaces my point-and-shoot camera, so I see very little improvements if I was to get this new iphone iteration.

If you can't guess: I do NOT have an iphone.

 

[subaru41]

3 reasons why you should buy.

1. 3.5 inch screen, lol
2. No 4G Internet, lol
3. Still no Adobe Flash, lol

The only people that buy the Apple inferior phone, I mean iPhone, is because they are ignorant, uneducated people that like to use a kids phone. They obviously know nothing about android, or upcoming Google Ice cream. 4 reasons why not to buy - Nexus Prime, Samsung Hercules, Galaxy S II, HTC Amaze. This is not including all the other great phones coming out. Has apple ever heard of options, instead of the same crappy feel of the iPhone 4 that they want to have a 2 year shelf life.

 

[dfusco]

But..but..it LOOKS the same as the old phone. I will have tell everyone why my phone (and me) are better than theirs (them).

 

[Xatos]

I understand being mesmerized by the original iPhone, but honestly, how could people possible be dumb enough to continue to buy these inferior, overpriced bug and problem-ridden phones?

 

[house70]

WTF is "pulling a Google"? Unless you refer to the fact that Google used voice-recognition way ahead of Apple, then you're right. Of course, Apple will always claim they invented it.
8MP cameras... already on other phones. not a selling point.
Siri... see first paragraph.
Sprint... that's relative. Some networks work better for some people, while others do the same for the rest. Not a selling point, unless Sprint does it for you.
"Good" job, as usual, Gruener; now go collect your check from Apple.

 

[darkchazz]

1 reason I won't buy a iphone 4s:
I have a Galaxy S2...

 

[acadia11]

2 reasons why not, Nexus Prime and Samsung Galaxy S2

Samsung Galaxy S2 vs Iphone 4s (mind you the galaxy has been out how long 6 monhts now)

On-board storage:

The Samsung Galaxy S II supports MicroSD card slot, so with the 16GB model only, a user can upgrade the phone’s storage to 48GB. Meanwhile, Apple is offering three iPhone 4S models, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. The iPhone 4S doesn’t support MicroSD card slot.

Data speed:

The iPhone 4S is the fastest iPhone ever, not only in the processor department, but also on data connectivity. According to Apple, the iPhone 4S supports up to 14.4Mbps download, and 5.8Mbps up, while the Samsung Galaxy S2 is an HSPA+ ready phone with 21Mbps download speed and 5.76Mbps upload. The iPhone 4S is a CDMA/GSM phone or a world phone, while Samsung is offering GSM and CDMA Galaxy S II.

Display:

The iPhone 4S sports 3.5-inch screen, with the Retina Display or 960 x 640 pixel resolution at 326 ppi, while the Samsung Galaxy S II boasts 4.3-inch (4.52 for the Sprint Epic 4G Touch and T-Mobile USA’s Galaxy S II) Super AMOLED Plus screen technology. Samsung Galaxy S II’s screen sports 217 ppi (for the 4.3-inch screen and 206 ppi for the 4.52-inch screen) with the resolution of 480 x 800. The iPhone 4S sports theoretically crisper image, but the S II’s Super AMOLED Plus is just so gorgeous.

Talk Time, internet time, battery life:

The Samsung Galaxy S II (global version) supports up to 710 hours on 2G and 610 hours on 3G standby time, talk time of 18 hours and 20 min max on 2G and 8 hours 40 min on 3G and 5 to 6 hours with the realtime active usage. Meanwhile, the iPhone 4S supports up to 200 hours on standby on 3G, talk time of 8 hours on 3G and 14 hours on 2G GSM, and supports internet use of up to 6 hours on 3G or 9 hours max on Wi-Fi.

Price:

The Samsung Galaxy S II 16GB model sports the tag price of $199.99 (AT&T, Sprint), while the iPhone 4S with 16GB will use the same tag price of $199.99. Apple is offering two other models, the 32GB for $299.99 and 64GB for $399.99. 32GB Samsung Galaxy S II is not yet available in United States.

 

[akula2]

Still no Adobe Flash? Thank God. I don't get why Flash lovers suck so high! Common, he honest to yourself that it's really annoying even today. Try to browse Google News wit Firefox Flash plugin; really makes your life dull. I would pray Flash to get killed ASAP (in Browser at least).

 

[akula2]

@subaru41 - The only people that buy the Apple inferior phone, I mean iPhone, is because they are ignorant, uneducated people that like to use a kids phone.

Get the hell out of here, you trolling idiots!

Note: I'm not an Apple fan boy but I use their products very much. So enough of your crap. Thank you.

 

[kawininjazx]

Apple needs to get with the times and put a Micro-SDHC slot in the phones

 

[demonhorde665]

7 Reasons Why I Should NOT Upgrade to the iPhone 4S

1. it's apple

2. i don't have a cell phone to start with and don't need one to make myself self feel important

3, it's apple

4. this article was written by Wolfgang Gruener as an apple stroke job

5. It's apple

6. it will probably blow up quicker faster and better than the old iphone 4 , i like my hands.

7. did i forget to mention it's apple ?




seriously though enough with the apple ego/c--- stroking articles tom's , tom's hardware used to be so much better but lately it's jsut apple apple apple. used to have cool game review shows , deccent tech articles but now it's just turning to garbage, stop tugging apple's pony they can do that them selves just fine.