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Apple has confirmed that the company has sold a mind-numbing number of iPhone 4S devices in pre-orders, over one million of them. The previous record was from last year’s iPhone 4 launch which totaled over 600,000 in one day. Apple had a larger amount of global carrier partners for this year’s launch, including Verizon and Sprint in the U.S., but that doesn’t take away from how incredibly impressive this is. Apple’s press release is after the break.
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Certainly the availability of other carriers helped contribute to this pre-order "record".
I personally don't think a slightly updated version of the same phone is that big of a deal if you already have the 4..Deuces Valley.
... No really, deuces.
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Yeah I suspect the opening up to almost all carriers really helps since their previous sales have been limited to certain carriers.Originally posted by ShockerFever
I an more interested in the ios5 update (which is available to all iPhone 4 family). We had one iPhone 4 that was eligible for upgrade and we have preordered the 4s, so we will see side by side what the effect of the hardware changes).Comment
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Wife and I pre-ordered the 4S on Saturday through Verizon. First time i-phone owners but have a little bit of experience with our ipod touches.
Really looking forward to it.
Im pretty sure the 5 will be out in 6 months to a year and Ill kick myself wanting that one but wth
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Ja man, Apple should have opened up to the other networks moons ago. But that's easy to say without knowing the deals they had to cut with AT&T in order to launch with low Internet rates.Kung Wu say, man who read woman like book, prefer braille!Comment
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Benchmarks being released show 4S significantly faster than 4
Iphone review
TechCrunch
- "The iPhone 4S blows away the iPhone 4 when it comes to speed."
- "The true killer feature of the device is Siri."
- "The amount of times Siri hasn’t been able to understand and execute my request is astonishingly low. I’ll say something that I’m sure Siri won’t be able to understand, and it gets it."
- You need to be connected to internet for Siri to work.
ThisIsMyNextReview
- "[The iPhone 4S is] easily one of the most capable handsets on the market."
- "The 4S is more than capable of going through a full business day without needing a charge, and if you’re a lighter user, you’ll rarely have to worry about it."
- On Siri, "The software even has a good sense of humor. Asking it “what is the meaning of life?” will bring up a number of responses, both serious and not so serious. The first time I asked, Siri simply said “42.”
AllThingsD Review
- "My advice is that owners of the iPhone 4 needn’t rush to upgrade; they can get the new operating system. But owners of older iPhone models, or those with basic phones, will find this latest iPhone a pleasure and a good value."
- In Washington suburbs, was able to get nearly 7 megabits per second.
- AT&T Model still dropped calls
NYT Review
- "This phone comes dangerously close to displacing a $200 point-and-shoot digital camera."
- "Apple says Siri will improve with time — both because she adapts to you, and because Apple itself will periodically upgrade her brain."
Wired Review
- "Before, with the standard iPhone calendar, I would often forget to add an event because I was too busy to type it, and as a result I would forget I had something scheduled altogether. With Siri and Apple’s new Reminders to-do list app, it’s unlikely I’ll forget anything important again because the process is so effortless.
- "From my experience, talking on an iPhone 4S on AT&T sounds noticeably clearer than it did on past iPhones I’ve owned"
- Several amusing examples of Siri responses including 'I'm Drunk' (Here's a list of cab companies)
LoopInsight Review
- More praise for Siri: "Siri is not your typical voice recognition technology. You don’t dictate to Siri, you interact and have a conversation with Siri. It’s difficult to explain how good Siri is, but you’ll find out soon enough."
Stephen Fry review for Guardian
- "So good is the voice recognition that it is now built into all apps that use a keyboard. For the first time I've found that I can happily and accurately dictate texts and emails."
- "There is an option to enable Photostream, which keeps every picture you take for ever. Be warned. You cannot delete a picture once it is in Photostream. There may well be blushes within families who share devices and discover that a photo they would rather not be seen is permanently on view, but they'll have to learn the hard way."
- "Once again Apple is taking a lead and asking a lot of its competitors. I wish those competitors luck, for the better all smartphones are, the happier I am. If Steve Jobs's true legacy is that the devices every other company makes are so, so much better than they otherwise would have been, I don't think he would mind one bit."
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