Iphone 4s what is new

I had been missing the feeling of holding a compact iPhone until I held the iPhone 4s. So how small is this phone? This is a phone with a 3. But holding a one-handed phone does give goosebumps, especially when I have been using big-screen phones for the past few years. This is a phone that fits in my back pocket and can be used one-handed and it also feels secure when you grip it.

The iPhone 4s was and is still, the best looking iPhone ever made. In fact, the design of the iPhone 4s is very much modern.

The iPhone 4s has a classic iPhone vibe to it. The front has a home button and symmetrical black bezel, while the back is made of glass. But the iPhone 4s is more attractive also because of the squared-off edges and the steel frame. The reason I rate the iPhone 4s high on the ranks of best-designed iPhones is due to its solid build and the size. All I am interested in telling you is my experience with the iPhone 4s, which sports a screen that has a pixel density of per inch.

Maybe the display is not as bright as the iPhone 12, but the 3. The only issue with a 3. When I thought of buying the iPhone 4s, in my head I knew its shortcomings. But I was surprised to find out how capable the iPhone 4s is even today. The sensor is not only larger on the new iPhone, but Apple has further tweaked the optics to deliver better results, even in low-light settings.

The 4S produced crisp, balanced, colorful photos that were surprisingly low-noise and never over-saturated. The iPhone 4 sometimes seemed to be compensating for its limitations by exaggerating colors, but the iPhone 4S looks and feels like a real camera capturing true images. The macro focus on the lens was particularly impressive, allowing me to grab subjects including really gross insects at extremely close ranges. I did have some minor issues with the focus not wanting to take in some situations, but that may have had more to do with the focal limitations of the small lens than anything else.

As far as video is concerned, it should come as no surprise that Apple has done a similarly excellent job here too. The iPhone 4S captures full p content, and does so with the same crispness and polish that it lends to its still photos. During the announcement in Cupertino, Apple made a point to call out the new or rather, improved antenna design on the iPhone 4S. The company claims the phone can "intelligently" switch between its two antennas providing better call quality and presumably fewer dropped calls.

In terms of "death grip" worries, I was able to get the phone to start dropping bars if I tightly held it on both the bottom and top of the device along the notches in the antenna. This is, of course, a totally absurd way to grip a phone.

Of course, I was never able to really get the iPhone 4 to show a big drop in signal, so perhaps it requires a special touch. On Verizon or Sprint, your mileage will obviously differ. At home with four out of five bars on 3G, I never saw my downstream peak above 2. As with the iPhone 4, the 4S is definitely no slouch in the battery life department. In fact, Apple claims that the new phone is capable of an extra hour of talk time while on 3G.

What the company is less vocal about is the fact that the phone has lost an hour of Wi-Fi browsing time. In my real world testing of the device, those numbers seemed to balance each other out, and overall I found the battery performance of the phone to be impressive. Even after a heavy day of use about 16 hours of making calls, browsing, downloading apps, syncing, listening to music, game playing, and more , I still had juice on the phone when I plugged it in before bed.

On the other hand, apps seemed to open a little bit faster, and the camera response time is noticeably improved. The biggest and probably most desired at least by more tech-savvy users is improved notifications.

You can swipe towards the left of the screen on these messages to make them disappear. Needless to say, this is a welcome change from older versions of the software.

You can manage your notifications app-by-app, and touching one of the messages takes you to that application. Apple has also introduced notifications on the lock screen. When an item appears on your list and the phone is locked, you can drag that specific notification across the screen to jump straight into the app. Samsung Android devices with TouchWiz do pretty much the same thing. This service is unique in that it works across devices so the iPad and iPod touch get the app too , and it syncs your communications on all of the devices you use with the same account.

Many people including yours truly have described this as a BBM killer — and in use it definitely feels that way. Not only is the service free and works across 3G or Wi-Fi connections, but it does more than just send texts.

Messages were delivered almost instantaneously. Apple has also added some new applications to the mix. Reminders is a to-do list with some extra functionality, like the ability to set locations as triggers for alerts. So you can tell the phone to remind you about something when you arrive or leave a specific location. The Reminders app also ties in nicely with Siri a lot more on that in just a bit. The company has also made tons of little nips and tucks all over other pieces of the OS.

Twitter integration is now built-in, so you can Tweet links, photos, or videos without having to jump into the app. The photos application has been updated to allow basic photo enhancement, red-eye reduction, and cropping.

In a side-by-side comparison with the last generation iPhone, the 4S seems blazing. The new phone scored a Apple has also added its own take on Instapaper for the browser called "Reading List," which lets you save articles to read later in a cleaner text layout.

Finally and mercifully Apple has cut the cord on syncing by adding Wi-Fi syncing options that let you manage your phone almost entirely without a cable attached. As long as you have the latest version of iTunes, you can sync apps, music, video and settings over your local network without plugging in. You can also now set up a new device out of the box with nothing more than an internet connection.

The new software pieces are very welcome, but there are things about iOS that have begun to feel dated to me. That lack of glanceable information coupled with the delay of having to open an app to get information creates a feeling of disconnect for me that I find bothersome.

For the broad user base Apple wants to hit with these products, this will probably never be an issue. But I do think there are places in iOS 5 that still need work. The other, major new piece of software on the iPhone 4S and in this case, only on the 4S is Siri.

Siri, as I said in the intro of this review, is something that Apple refers to as an "intelligent assistant," and is probably one of the most novel applications the company has ever produced. Utilizing a combination of voice recognition, logic processing, and text-to-speech, the software can interpret requests and follow conversations.

Through Siri, you can use natural language to get directions, send text messages, schedule reminders or appointments, get suggestions on where to eat, and lots more. Tap Software Update. Download the software to the iPhone, and then continue on with Apple Watch. Maintain a steady Internet connection on both Apple Watch and iPhone during this process to ensure a successful software update. Tap About. If a Carrier update is available, you'll be prompted to install it.

If the iOS version and the current software update details match, the device has the latest software. Previous updates. Date Details July 27, iOS May 16, iOS 9. March 21, iOS 9.