Before I begin, I wanted to pay tribute to the genius behind the iPhone and all Apple products. Steve Jobs was and will always be an icon in the Silicon Valley, the tech space, music sphere and smart phone world. He is the man.
Rather than giving a full review on the iPhone4S I'll give a general overview of the iPhone and a few local tidbits. Enjoy!
The first Apple product I ever owned was the first generation iPod. It was really hot and heavy stuff circa 2004 and people would Ooh and aah at the sight of my iPod. Back then iTunes was far to complicated for me to comprehend and the battery life ended up being 10 minutes, but nevertheless it was a cool gadget. The two gadgets have similar crisp features, so even through all of the changes the iPhone stays true to its roots.
Last night I happened to pass by the Palo Alto Apple store and saw that it was covered in colorful post-it notes filled with thoughtful and funny words from admirers.
Love for Steve Jobs from around the world.
Not all of the notes were tasteful.
People lined up outside of the Palo Alto Apple store. There were about 30 people there at 10 PM.
One of the two local news stations covering the iPhone 4s opening.
I ordered my iPhone at midnight on October 7th through my carrier, Verizon. Without any problems I was able to complete my order in a matter of minutes. After patiently waiting for a week, my iPhone4s arrived exactly at noon.
Maybe I'm spoiled because I'm from the bay area and there are plenty of Apple stores around, but I didn't feel like it was necessary to stand in crazy lines in front of the Apple store to pick up a phone. If anything it'd be best to stand in line at your local carrier (AT&T, Verizon or Sprint) and wait there at midnight.
I pranced into a random Verizon store in Cupertino and got my phone activated in a few minutes. There were more employees in the particular store than customers and the store still had a few iPhones in stock even at 2 pm. I have read about other Apple stores that were bombarded by eager customers, but that wasn't the case for me. (Btw, if you scroll down to pictures of the Palo Alto store, I don't know where all of the post it notes went!! how sad!)
Ahh, finally.
Suri's response when I asked "Which phone is the best on the market"
And other suggestions.
Suri is a very forward-thinking invention. It is only a matter of time before we are all hooked on using voice activated commands. Suri is pretty much as it is advertised on the Apple website, and it's useful when it comes to functional settings like checking the weather, directions, text messaging, email... and so on.
The crop and edit functions are useful but would have been better if there were more editing functionalities available other than rotate, auto enhance, red eye and crop.
I played around with iCloud for a bit and it makes synching much easier and you can use your phone while syncing!
Overall, there are subtle changes between the iPhone4 and the 4s but I am loving it overall. I'll update more later once I become more acquainted with the 4S.
