If you live in Australia, Canada, France, Germany or the UK, and didn’t manage to pre-order an iPhone 4S from Apple earlier today, it now seems unlikely that you will receive one on launch day.
I’ve seen some fantastic, creative tributes to Steve Jobs over the last couple of days, but this one from the clever folks over at Mint Digital is my favourite.
While many of us are very familiar with Steve Jobs as Apple’s CEO, not many people know the real Steve Jobs – the man appears when Steve isn’t surrounding by the walls of Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino.
I didn’t hear the sad news of Steve Jobs’ passing until this morning. Since then it’s been pretty hard to escape the news – I’ve read numerous obituaries and tributes, but I’m not going to post my own here – I don’t think I could do it justice. Instead, I’ve decided to post two videos which are more powerful than anything else I have seen today, plus Apple’s own tribute.
If the improved camera in the iPhone 4S is one of the features that might just tempt to you to upgrade, you will probably be interested to see some of the photographs taken with it – Apple have posted eight examples on their website, and while I’m not a professional photographer, I think they look pretty impressive!
I’ll be honest, I haven’t had chance to watch the one hour 36 minute video of last night’s iPhone media event in full yet. By all accounts it took a while for Tim Cook and team to get to the juiciest announcements – the new iPhone 4S and its Siri assistant. Thankfully though, Apple have since posted three short videos featuring last night’s biggest news to their YouTube account.
One of the most impressive features of the new iPhone 4S is undoubtedly the built-in assistant, Siri. Sprung from a company that Apple acquired last year shortly after it debuted an app, also named Siri, on the app store. What that version of Siri did was a sort of embryo of what we now see built into the very core of iOS. You could give natural speech commands, but what you could do with them was much more limited than this upgraded Siri.
The wait is over, folks. Apple’s Phil Schiller finally announced the company’s fifth-generation iPhone and put months and months of rumors and speculation to rest. As expected, the new device is called the iPhone 4S, and while it’s identical to the iPhone 4 on the outside, on the inside “it’s all new.”
The nano wasn’t the only iPod to get an update today, Apple also announced that their most popular portable music device – the iPod touch, is now available in white. The price of the entry level 8GB iPod touch has also been reduced from £189 ($229) to £169 ($199).