At CNET’s office building, the iPhone 4S from AT&T has a hard time getting a 3G connection.
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Cool as she is, the iPhone 4S’ new personal assistant Siri hasn’t been able to tell me in a meaningful way which iPhone 4S offers the fastest data speeds. In the end, I resorted to the usual do-it-yourself approach: a real-world test. And the results were interesting.
Prior to the testing, (more…)
At CNET’s office building, the iPhone 4S from AT&T has a hard time getting a 3G connection.
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Dong Ngo/CNET)
Cool as she is, the iPhone 4S’ new personal assistant Siri hasn’t been able to tell me in a meaningful way which iPhone 4S offers the fastest data speeds. In the end, I resorted to the usual do-it-yourself approach: a real-world test. And the results were interesting.
Prior to the testing, (more…)
An actual screenshot. I live in New York.
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Siri has been the subject of Apple ‘s ad campaigns for the iPhone 4S. It’s been discussed in terms of its one-liners and its Easter eggs, its cloud-based accomplishments and its similarity to services Android already offers.
That’s all fine, but it’s ignoring the obvious question: what are you really, truly going to use Siri for?
then in addition to Steve Jobs and Apple , we also have to thank one loud mouthed Microsoft employee who bugged Steve Jobs so much ”
that he decided that Apple should create a device to show them what a tablet really can be and rest of it as we know is history.
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he had developed for Microsoft. “He’s our employee and he’s revealing out intellectual property,” Gates recounted. Jobs was also annoyed, and it had the consequence that Gates (more…)
on the three carriers in the U.S., we were disappointed that the speeds were nowhere close to the theoretical maximum that iPhone 4S supports.
had reported much faster 3G data speeds on AT&T’s network.
in comparison to their older iPhones.
Two previous iPhone 4 users have emailed us with speed results that show significant improvements with their new iPhone 4S. The first reader located in New Jersey (image right) was able to obtain 7.71 (more…)
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After months of curiosity, Apple ‘s iCloud service will finally be active on October 12, mere days away. While there’s a lot we already know about Apple ‘s device-wide set of cloud services, it’s becoming clear that the concept is still a mystery for most people–and even, to some extent, for us. Yes, iCloud’s still a little cloudy.
We know about document-editing, iTunes Match, photo streams, and cloud (more…)
One of the lesser-known facts to emerge about the iPhone 4S yesterday is that it is the first phone to launch with Bluetooth 4.0, the latest version of Bluetooth. Not many products are available with Bluetooth 4.0 just yet–in fact, two of the most recent products to ship with Bluetooth 4.0 are also from Apple : the MacBook Air and the Mac Mini. Bluetooth 4.0 is backward-compatible with all other versions of Bluetooth, so you (more…)
event has reached fever pitch.
With just a few hours to go for Apple ‘s most anticipated event of the year, let’s take a look at what to expect based on the rumors and speculations we’ve heard so far.
This has to be the single biggest announcement of this year’s event, which has usually been held by Apple to unveil next generation iPods.
, the only difference between the two is supposed to be from the outside, iPhone 4S as the name suggests, (more…)
Apple 's iPhone 4S.
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Apple ‘s much-anticipated “Let’s Talk iPhone ” event came and went this week without the appearance of an iPhone 5. Some consumers expressed no uncertain disappointment about this development (“The S in iPhone 4S stands for Same,” one commenter said, echoing other observers’ expressions of letdown at not seeing a complete revamp of the smartphone).
Others, such as CNET’s (more…)
and Facebook,
reports. Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg had reportedly promised Steve Jobs that the company would be releasing their first ever tablet
. Jobs, however, learnt that Facebook was on its way to release a native webOS app for the
, which obviously didn’t go too well with him.
Apple and Facebook’s relationship has seen a number of ups and downs in the past few years. It started with Apple setting up an “Apple Students” group on Facebook (more…)
