iPhone 5? Nope, its the iPhone 4S

Installing now. I'm pretty happy about voice-to-text (which I'll probably end up using copy/paste from for forum/fb/etc posting on the go) and the multitasking. The Bing-vision thing looks pretty neat too.

For some reason I always thought (since the beginning of me thinking about buying an iPhone 4) that it shot HD vid at 1080p. I guess I was wrong... oh well, it's still pretty good resolution.

How do you think, after Steve Jobs death, will the iOS keep the leadership, or Android will finaly go to the top?
Altogether what do you think about apple future without Steve?Will it change ?

I was talking to my neighbor, who has been waiting for the new iPhone to come out for awhile now so he can upgrade his. I think he should look into getting another device since the recent update wiped out all of the important stuff on his phone anyways.

I think the company, and their innovation is going to tank just like it did when they fired Steve Jobs before.

sort of off the topic just a little, but I read a post by a friend last night on fb that has me thinking...

I assumed the "s" as in "iPhone 4s" might have referenced the "Siri" feature... this person posted the following:

"Ok...I'll be the first to start an urban legend. Just wondering if the IPhone 4s is really the IPhone 4Steve? If so, Apple has done it again. Probably one of the best marketing startegies todate. Honor the man and then hit the world with the best phone they have ever seen...the IPhone5. Or just leave it as a legacy. Eitherway, pretty smart strategy."

(oh and yeah, SB ... we priced them too and was a little shocked at the $749 we were told.. I really HATE to get into a 2 yr with AT&T though just to get them at a much lower price).. I don't actually have an iPhone ~gasp~ ... but my 19 y/o wants one of the new ones.. I may just stick with my LG)

I'm sure that Tim Cook is a good leader and would be able to lead Apple in good direction, but I agree with SB. Since people think of Steve Jobs as being "Apple" rather then "CEO of Apple" they would start bias towards Apple products now since Steve Jobs is dead.

I don't know about the future of Apple or the iPhone, but I'm pretty happy about my iPhone I have right now. I might upgrade to the next one available when I am eligible for it.

So I stayed up late last night and pre-ordered two of the iPhone 4S's, one for me and one for my wife. Both of our contracts had expired so it was a good time. I told my wife I just got her last year's iPhone 4, not the newest one because it cost twice as much and the bill was already getting high. She said she was okay with that, especially since she had one model better than me the last few years, but I could tell she kind of wanted the 4S. So she will be in for a nice surprise when she finds out she is actually getting the 4S too

AT&T had some serious issues with their website last night, took me forever before I was able to pre-order the phone. Then, this morning when I woke up I had a few e-mails that said my credit card could not be verified and that it would be cancelled if I didn't call them. So 25 minutes later after being on hold they redid it and all good to go. Supposed to be here next Friday, October 14, hope it actually arrives on time!

I am really excited due to the fact my phone is barely staying alive right now. Battery life seems to last just a few hours these days and I have the brightness setting really dim too and push notifications all off. So this will be a nice change!

I saw in the news that AT&T set a new record for the most iPhones sold in a 24 hour period. I guess they sold 200,000 iPhone 4S's.

My guess for the name is that it has nothing to do with the amount of features added. They've had 4G speed for a while. 5Ghz speed is common on wireless household routers nowadays so I suspect they're just about ready to release 5G internet speed on phones. They probably just want the name to go along with the new speed - a.k.a. iPhone5 has 5G speed.