Apple iPhone 4S (Latest Model) - 16GB - White (AT&T) Smartphone

Apple iPhone 4S

PROS
Apple's iPhone 4S has a faster processor (A5 chip) and an upgraded camera, all the benefits of iOS 5, and SIRI, a useful and immensely fun voice assistant. Call quality on some providers is admirable, and the data speeds, while certainly not 4G, get the job done.

CONS
Poor battery life. It's about time we get a larger screen. Not completely fixed antenna reception problems in spite of dual antenna.

With a dual-core processor, upgraded 8 megapixel camera with Full HD video recording, the latest iOS 5, iCloud and the voice-activated Siri intelligent assistant, there's plenty of reasons to regard the new phone. Expensive and technically it hasn't got very much that rival handsets haven't, but it's the best that Apple have ever made. In fact that makes it very good.
The iPhone 4S has the same glass and metal construction as the iPhone 4. You won't find any creaks or loose parts, and the only plastic used on the phone is for the home button below the display.
Apple's use of glass for both the front and back of the phone may be questioned by those who tend to drop their phones often, as it has a tendency to shatter, despite it being reinforced.
The iPhone 4S' display is noticeably different than the Super AMOLED Plus screens from Samsung, as it's not nearly as saturated and punchy. However, the colors seem more accurate, and the screen is just a joy to look at.

The new A5 dual-core processor (as seen in the iPad 2) makes things noticeably faster. Apps launch quicker, web pages load faster, multi-tasking is more fluid and resource-hungry apps like Pages now allow you to edit documents without any lag. Competitors will argue that their phones have been able to produce similar results for months, and they'd be right, but it remains a little upgrade.




Conclusion: The iPhone 4S isn't the king of cell phones, but it's part of the royal family nonetheless. Even without 4G and a fair screen, this phone's smart voice assistant, SIRI, the benefits of iOS 5, and its spectacular camera make it a top choice for anyone ready to upgrade.
SIRI: use your voice to set reminders, send a text or check weather.


Tech Specs:

A5 chip processor
iOS 5 Operating System
Siri intelligent assistant
Assisted GPS with digital compass
8 megapixel camera with touch autofocus, LED flash and geo-tagging
Video camera: Full HD (1080p) up to 30 frames per second with audio, VGA secondary camera for video calling
Display: 960 x 640 pixels (3.5 inch) touchscreen
Music player (AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV formats)
Video player supports 1080p Full HD playback at 30 frames/second
Voice control, voice memos
Messaging: SMS, MMS, email
Memory: 16GB, 32GB or 64GB flash drive
Connectivity: Bluetooth 4.0, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n), 3.5mm headphone jack
WAP, EDGE, HSDPA
Size: 115 x 59 x 9.3 mm
Weight: 140g
Quad-band GSM (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) plus UMTS/HSDPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz)
Talktime: 8 - 14 hours
Battery standby: 200 hours

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In regards to the star ratings:
- battery life isnt ideal; it's better than most, but can always be better.
- it's one of the most expensive smartphones on the market before subsidy. enough said.
- it's the easiest to use smartphone available: the printed instructions attest to that by being a fraction the size of competing phones in its class. the feature set is excellent as it can be used in full by the widest range of users while the market leading app store further increases it's capability.
- once design, build quality, and customer service and support are taken into account, it's a 5/5 star phone, able to overcome it's benign issues.

no, it's not the iPhone 5 that the most repugnant of tech "journalists" claimed was inevitably coming based on lies about "sources" and later bashed by the same for not being as such. those who are familiar with Apple and their iPhone line, however, expected what we received based on their previous release history. despite the negative reviews by an ignorant press, this is Apple's best iPhone ever, and the market clearly agrees.

despite the familiar exterior, both in dimensions and materials, the return of this design was warmly welcomed by the masses as a year later, it's still by far the most exclusive feeling smartphone on the market and will be remembered alongside the original iPhone, the Bondi Blue iMac, and the unibody MacBook Pro as one of their most memorable designs. it's truly a magnificent design in it's clean look, top quality materials, and luxurious feel, all assembled in a very tight, dense package that just oozes quality. while the look of it may be comforting in its familiarity, it's actually brand new on the inside.

starting with the processing unit, Apple upgraded to the ARM A9 core and then doubled them with it's A5 SoC processor. they also doubled up the cache to 1MB (512KB per core) to feed it and increased graphics performance by 5 times with the PowerVR 543 GPU. finally, they clocked this SoC processor to 1GHz and 512MB of RAM on a 200MHz bus to give you a phone with more graphics and computing power than a first generation Xbox. despite all of this computing power, it hardly uses any actual power: battery capacity went up only 2.5% while claimed runtimes were extended by hours, all thanks to an extremely efficient design of the SoC.

to ensure you never leave home without your point and shoot digital camera, the sensor has been upgraded to 8mp. people who know better know that megapixels arent everything, so they continued use of a backside illuminated sensor to ensure the most light possible for excellent low light imagery, well beyond that of the competition. the aperture has been stepped up to f2.4 over the iPhone 4's f2.8 stop, and feeding that much larger hole is an all-new lens package with IR and UV filters to produce more natural colors. with the faster CPU, the result is faster loading, shorter times between shots, and images that dont look like they came from a phone. to top it off, they upgraded the video recording to full 1080p.

and if you have no one to talk to, now you have Siri. it's API hooks reach deep into the system, allowing the user to manage their phone simply by one of the best voice recognition systems available. of course that makes the keyboard redundant with it's dictation accuracy.

despite more evolution than revolution, this evolutionary step is akin to going from neanderthal to homo sapien, with the Galaxy Nexus looking like a missing link.

Highly recommended, fortunately in the current day and age we have a wide selection of smartphones that we can choose from. Anywhere from cellphones that replace all of your digital devices to just simple phones used for the basic function of making phone calls, yet not all of them work properly and all the time. After trying a variety comparable cellular devices i have settled on the Iphone 4S 16g version from Verizon Wireless. Key point is: It actually works(I know, surprising). I have owned this device for approximately a month now and had no issues whatsoever.

Some of the things i like about the device would include: This phone is very fast, almost instant application loading and seamless functionality.
Amazing display, all the colors are very vibrant and its just a pleasure to look at even.
Seamless functionality, the phone functions great and without any problems.
Amazing selection for applications and games.

Some of the things i dislike about the phone:
It's battery life could be a little bit better, it does last me a full day unlike some of its counterparts but whenever i heavily use it i need to put it on a charger during the day.
Siri (it's personal assistant feature) is occasionally unavailable due to the lack of signal or apple servers been clogged up.
Majority of the applications are costly, yes they may be a dollar or two but it all adds up.

This product tramples other current products in its category. Highly recommended.

I own the iphone 4S and I looooove it! I do not have service through AT&T or Apple. Instead I have my service set up on mobile WIFI so I can use my home or office internet connection, or use Skype wherever I can get a satellite connection and still have it work great as a regular telephone, when WIFI is not available. I use Virgin Mobile for regular cell phone service. Now that they've updated their technology, I can finally use my iphone with Virgin, Yes!!! You can use a 3G network, or facilitate any WIFI connection to which you have access. The internet is fast for a cell phone.
I use this to erase all my junk mail and unwanted messages instead of the laptop computer. I can move through my inbox faster with the touch screen technology. The screen is clearer than that of my laptop computer, great graphic quality sooo easy to use. When I want to get online and not have to boot up a computer, I use this instead. Good rugged design is able to handle a lot of abuse and keep on ticking. If I had to ask for improvements. I would ask for a screen that's easier to keep clean and improved battery life. Maybe even a standard USB port on the side to import media from your computer without the use of itunes. While ipad, ipod or iphone will never fully replace a regular computer and can't even compare. When a laptop computer is to heavy to carry along, iphone is defiantly the next best thing.

I really love this phone. I had previously used a 3GS with ATT, but our work decided that Sprint was a better deal. I love this phone. I love using Siri, and the funny things it generates, I don't know how it knows what to say, but there are a lot of funny things you can ask your phone, and the responses that come back from it are funny.

I have the 32GB black model. I had the 16GB white model on ATT. I really love the new design, my battery from the start on the 3GS was never the greatest, dead almost always from gaming, etc. So I got this and was HONESTLY expecting the same outcome, but it worked tons better and believe it or not the charge lasted me 2 days with heavy use, Gaming, gps, notes, emails (pushed) everything, and it was down to only 70% the first night. My 3GS would have probably been dead.

As for cons: I have two, but I usually just listen to music on my headphones or stereo, so I'm not going to take it off rating, but I did want to mention it. First was the wireless syncing, I had ICLOUD installed on my last iPhone and when i went to wireless sync my songs and such back, only about 40 percent of my stuff will actually play. It will either skip to the next song, or just pause itself. I fixed that by restoring it on the phone itself, and then hooking it into the computer. It has worked fine with my prev. Iphone so that may be something that needs to be worked out so that you can do that without errors. I'm not the only one to experience this issue. I've seen it before on other websites.

The second con, deals with the sound quality. This may just be me, but it sounds a little bit more muffled than the 3GS during playing music on iPod. But overall I'm happy that I got this phone. I don't think that it will disappoint at all, I know people that own this and have no regrets or issues. I definitely consider this a big jump from the 3GS speed-wise, but I've heard and my friend that had a 4, didn't really notice any changes, but siri.

Another con that I JUST noticed is that after updating to the 5.0.1 update, sometimes my camera doesn't open. I have to restart the phone to sometimes get the camera lens to open, I don't know if this means my camera is going out or what? But it does that once and awhile. Also sometimes the song volume bar freezes, but I can hit the side keys for that anyway. I really don't have any other complaints, and I feel strongly, the ones I just added are software related, and the next update SHOULD fix that.