iPhone 4S

Siri sucks. End of story. I can look up stuff faster and more accurately on Opera than Siri. The only thing I do like about Siri is texting with it. I went to VZW at 3pm the day of release and they had a 4s in stock. The Bionic was just too big, and I was waiting for the new Samsung, but when the pulled the dead Jobs excuse, I gave up. My Blackberry Bold was at the end of its life and the outage didn't help. So I went to the dark side and bought the 4s mainly because it is still the size of a phone and not trying to be a mini tablet like the Bionic. I have a 4g (now) Xoom which kicks my wife's iPad2's ###, so the lack of 4g is no biggie.

I'm hoping for an awesome phone-sized Droid to come out, and the 4s will be gone.

 

When they get Siri in tv's I will really enjoy it "watch breaking bad" etc. if not on shows/tells next time and info.

 

You have it worng, android only gives number made not sold! Apple gives numbers sold, big different.

 

It will be popular. Over time, it’ll eat the lunch of the increasingly fragmented, increasingly insecure, and increasingly costly (losing patent infringement lawsuits and dropping features/paying royalties to multiple IP owners will do that to you) Android.

The not-iPhone world will begin to dump Android and move to Microsoft’s mobile OS offering because it will eventually cost less, work better, and come with far fewer legal issues. In the iPhone wannabe market, it’s already happening (Nokia, for example). We expect the same to happen in the iPad wannabe market, too. Google and Microsoft will long battle each other for the non-Apple markets and that’s a much better scenario for everyone than having a single ripoff artist flood the market with fragmented, insecure, beta-esque, mediocre-at-best products. Google’s attempt to be the next Microsoft is doomed.

This, of course, will also impact Google’s search business. Apple’s Siri will increasingly deliver info to users sans Google and Microsoft will, naturally, use Bing for their search. As we’ve said many times in the past: Google will rue the day they got greedy by deciding to try to work against Apple instead of with them.

The bottom line: We’d rather see a company trying unique ideas, even if – shockingly – it’s Microsoft, than the wholesale theft of Apple innovations that we’ve been seeing for over four years now. Don’t steal IP. Even worse, don’t steal IP and “claim to be innovators.” We have no problem with any companies that attempt to compete with Apple using their own unique ideas and strategies.

 

Apple sure is innovative...



You've been-----\/\/\/\-----Thunderstruck!!!

 

I was just wondering how often do you upgrade your husband? My wife has never upgraded me but she probably should have.

 

I get a new phone every year because I have a family plan that includes three iPhones. I buy the latest and pass down the old phone. My wife now has my iPhone 4, and I have the 4s. These are great phones that are durable. I've tested all the Droid phones and don't find them competitive i quality with solidly built and tested Apple products. My phones have to endure without damage the occasional drop bounce down the steps of my truck to the asphalt.

But, because the phone is so valuable, the enclosure has become an increasing concern beyond shock protection. I don't want to pass down a dust scratched up phone. I've had problems with sand and dust getting into whatever case I put around the phone.

Recently, I found http://www.lifeproof.com/
and purchased two cases, one for my phone and one for my wife's. We have a trip planned snorkel diving in Honduras and I want waterproof enclosures so we don't have to leave the phones on the beach where they might get stolen. Also,

My wife isn't as impressed, but I really like this enclosure so far (I've had it for a week). If I drop this thing into a bucket of oil, I can take it to the sink and clean it with soap and water to like new again.

Lifeproof passes the trucker test, at least so far.

 

Other than the general shape and the word "tablet" there is nothing in common with these two.

I worked for HP during the time the TC-1100 was on the market, and was in a position to have one as my "company-issued laptop." In fact, I used it for nearly 5 years (turned it in when I left HP in 2007), well beyond the usual 3 year recycle on equipment because I liked it so much. It's a full function Windows laptop, albeit a slow one since it had a fairly weak processor compared to other models. The funny part was that, among others that had them, I was about the only one that would detach the keyboard and use it in tablet mode. MS OneNote was brand new at the time and nobody knew they could use that for handwritten notes. Or bothered to find out. The touch screen wasn't really a touch screen. It would only respond to the tethered stylus. Although, with that stylus the precision was very good. I think it had a magnetic tip or something. I found it incredibly useful while others did nothing but bch about it's slowness or wobbly stance when using it with the keyboard attached. HP dropped the ball with not doing much to show users how truly flexible the thing was. And Windows XP wasn't exactly a robust platform for media use. It eventually got discontinued in favor of the next generation of "tablets" that were really just regular laptops with a swiveling touch screen that wasn't even close to the precision of the old one. From that point forward, HP tablets were just a gimmick and never the truly versatile tool the TC-series was.

The iPad on the other hand is just a jumbo-sized iPod. It's a media player, not a full featured computer. Innovative in a different way than the HP tablet computers. That never appealed to me, as I like the quick apps on my phone but prefer a full feature o/s with a larger device. Clearly the sales figures on the iPad (and the TC-1100 for that matter) show that I don't fit the usual user profile.

For what it's worth, my primary laptop is the burliest 13" Macbook Air you can get and I have the iPhone 4S. I have Windows 7 in Parallels for my e-logs and the occasional website that some idiot designed to only work with IE. I'm a fan of Apple as long as they keep making stuff that "just works" and devices that effortlessly sync across each other.

On the 4S, Siri is very useful if you take the time to figure out how to form your queries to make it work well. On AT&T it doesn't do 4G but it will do HSPDA 3G which is twice as fast as their standard 3G and gets-r-done. And it will keep a data connection going while a voice call is in progress. The only thing about it is AT&T coverage sucks in remote areas. I won't go back to Verizon with the 4S because I know of their history with crippled versions of formerly robust GSM devices.