Iphone 4s or 5?

[Duncan]

still waiting on the news from the Let's Talk keynote

[joel]

neither, but that's just my humble opinion.

[Duncan]

4s it is... now to get one and give my iphone4 to lish haha

[nature boy]

what's the difference? i would rather it be a 5 because just re-releasing last year's model with a few tweaks is just lazy imho lol.

[jeSteR]

It's hardly a few tweaks actually... if you look at the live blog, you'll see that SIRI is freaking awesome.

This really is the first step towards a LCARS like device.

[nature boy]

i actually don't care enough to actively follow a live blog about a phone, but what is siri and why is it so awesome?

[jeSteR]

Me into mic or my bluetooth...."Remind me to call my wife when I leave the office"
Siri (iphone 4s) "Reminder has been set and a geofence has been placed around 5:00 pm for you"

Me "Can you check my messages please?"
Siri " You have one text message from Blackberry Boy. It is up it set tonight at 10:00 my place"
Me "Am I free at 10:00 pm tonight?"
Siri "Your calendar is clear"
Me "reply. I'll bring the beer"
Siri " Sending text message reply to Blackberry Boy. "I'll bring the beer""

Me "wake me up at 6:00 tomorrow"
Siri " I've set your alarm to ring at 6:00am tomorrow morning"

Me "will I need an umbrella tomorrow?"
Siri " It looks like it will probably be cloudy in the morning but rain in the afternoon"

Me "How much is the US dollar at right now"
Siri "Royal Bank's current exchange rate is 1.065"

Me "Find me a Russian restraunt near by"
Siri " I've found 5 and have listed them by rating, would you like directions to one of them?"

Me "Tell my wife I want pancakes for dinner"
Siri "Creating imessage to Dumbass " I want pancakes for dinner"

etc etc etc.

Not just a tweak

[jeSteR]

I love this one...

Define Mitosis

I found this for you on WolfRamAlpha...

Noun cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of Chromosomes

[nature boy]

that's pretty cool. much better than a tweak i admit.
i guess calling it a "4s" reminded me of the 3g and 3gs which from what i could tell was the same exact phone.

[joel]

this "siri" sounds more like software than hardware to me... not that i know anything about smartphones though.

[jeSteR]

It is, but the guts of the 4s is a HUGE hardware upgrade. ( which was needed in order to run siri seamlessly without negatively affecting the rest of the phone experience) Anyone can program software to do voice recognition in a cluncky fashion, but from what I've seen so far, and from the limited experience on my current 4, Apple is waaaaaaaaaaay ahead of the game

[Duncan]

[Duncan]

[nature boy]

[Duncan]

yea, but using your analogy, in this case, it's like dropping in a v6 engine when the old engine was a 4 banger... granted the form factor is the same yea, but you're getting a newer and more powerful engine as well as interior upgrades. But i do agree, it's not worth upgrading, but alicia's still using my old 3g, and that thing might as well be a paper weight because io4 pretty much killed it's usefulness. it's worth the upgrade for lish from 3g to 4s, but not from my 4 to 4s...