Any word on when the real iphone5 will arrive?
The 4S seems like a rather pitiful flagship by apple standards.
The 4S seems like a rather pitiful flagship by apple standards.
I'm moving on from a 3GS so I plan on getting the 4S.
In the face of all the rumors of possible updates, an S version of what we already had is underwhelming. In the past Apple has done a great job of strategically leaking info to the press when rumors were getting out of hand (iPad 2 Retina Display is a recent example) - that did not happen this time.
It's certainly possible this set of improvements adds up to a terrific phone. But the ad did nothing at all to sell that to me.
In the end, you have to evaluate the device on its own merits. The iPhone 4 may be Apple's most successful product ever, so perhaps this is just "if it ain't broke"-ism. The iPhone 4 is holding its own against all the Android competitors; is it the C.W. now that the 4S will do worse?
in consolation the iPad 3 (the real successor to the iPad) should be out within 6m.
8~9 is more likely, this year's delay was due to iCloud (and maybe a bit iOS5), not iPhone. It's not unlikely they'll snap back to June-July next year, so that the release of the new iPad and the new iOS don't drift 6 months apart.