On the physical, design-wise front the iPhone 4S appears to be identical to the iPhone 4. It’s the same glass sandwich design, the same size, and just about the same weight. (We’ll have full specifications once Apple’s website stabilizes.)
So, like the 3GS, the iPhone 4S is all about more. The “s” ostensibly stands for “speed” but it brings more storage (the iPhone finally goes up to 64GB), more speed (2x the theoretical download speed), more image quality (with better low-light performance), more video resolution, more RAM, and more processing power. I’ll reserve judgement for now, but the typical iPhone 4 owner probably won’t be clamoring for an upgrade. In other words, like the 3GS, the iPhone 4S looks like a reasonable evolution of Apple handset, but something that will be outpaced by rapidly released Android phones in a matter of months.
The jump from a 3 megapixel camera to an 8 in the new iPhone 4S is quite impressive, as well as the speed of the 4S as compared to the barely year old iPhone 4.Something to note, the iPhone 3GS will not be available on Sprint, but both iPhone 4 models will indeed be available on Sprint. So the iphone 4 case can also fit iphone 4s case.
Disappointed iPhone users should keep hope alive though — maybe it’ll turn out that all those iPhone 5 rumors (NFC, 4G, etc.) were true, they just got the date wrong. A less-than-groundbreaking iPhone 4S could clear the way for a much more exciting phone sometime in 2012.
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