What Most People Want in a Phone
By Subadri at 27 April, 2012, 11:05 am
What do you do with your phone? If you’re like most Americans, you make some calls, take some photos, and send some texts. Maybe you kill time with some games, check Facebook or Twitter, and look things up on the Web. If that’s you, then the iPhone 4S is your phone: it’s the best Web-browsing phone, and it has finally licked the iPhone’s calling problems.
Apple has killed the “death grip”, at least on the Sprint model. The phone switches between its top and bottom antennas depending on which one is receiving a better signal, which means it’ll ignore which-ever one you’re covering with you hands.
Call quality on Sprint’s network through the phone’s earpiece was excellent in my tests. The earpiece goes loud, there’s a touch of side tone, and I didn’t hear any distortion at high volumes.
Pour same data into this baby, and wow , it’ll go. As long as Adobe Flash isn’t a key part of your life, the i{hone 4S is the Fastest Web phone ever. It benchmarks faster than any Android Gingerbread phone and faster than any Windows Phone.
The great browsing speed comes in part from the new dual-core A5 processor (the same one used in the iPad 2), and in part from the new iOS5. A standout feature of iOS 5 is Siri, which on the surface, appears to be a voice-command app. Hold down the home button and ask it a question, tell it to look up a number, make a note or search for a business. But here’s the real story with Siri: it’s not an apps, it’s a services. The intelligence is on the server side, and it will improve. No actual processing is done on your phone. That means Siri doesn’t work when you’re offline, but it also means it can be continually upgraded, minute by minute, without touching your individual device.
Apple address the two biggest problems with camera phones” speed and dynamic range. The 4S has a longer sensor, a larger five-element lens, and a larger f/2.4 aperture than the iPhone 4, along with a backside illuminated sensor and an IR filter to improve colors. The camera app loads in under two seconds, and it takes most photos instantly. Outdoor shots are better than bright: they’re uniquely well-balanced.
The iPhone 4S makes simple tasks easy and does them very well, very elegantly. For tat, it earns our Editor’s Choice for Sprint phones. The iPhone 4S is a no-brainer upgrade from the 3GS. For iPhone 4 owners, it really come down to how much you need the improved camera.
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