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Apple iPhone 4S vs Apple iPhone 4: spot the differences

Posted: 04 Oct 2011, 17:06, by Daniel P.

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Apple iPhone 4S vs Apple iPhone 4: spot the differences

Well, Apple just pulled an... Apple move, and upgraded its flagship iOS handset exactly where it counts to make it relevant with the high-rollers again, without going overboard on costs. It might happen that, when the first teardown comes out, the bill of materials will be even less for the iPhone 4S then when the iPhone 4 came out, thus increasing the profit margin further, while the handset stays up with the best for quite some time still.

For those of us who are having trouble spotting a difference between their trusted iPhone 4 and the new kid on the block the iPhone 4S with the naked eye, here's a comparison table with just the changes:

If you want to know more what the main difference - a dual-core A5 chip - brings currently and potentially, have a look at our overview of the multicore advantages. If you are curious about the animal that is Bluetooth 4.0, compared to 2.1, here's a scoop.

So with the iPhone 4S in your hand you can go tit-for-tat with any Android road warrior now. When they mumble LTE, large display or Adobe Flash, well... you'll figure something out, but when they brag about multicore chips, you run Infinity Blade 2. When they say Full HD video, you show them 1080p clips of your cat. When they say HD displays, you quote your pixel density. When they tout NFC, you brag Bluetooth 4.0. When they quote activation numbers, you respond with revenue from Greater China. Who's Smartypants now?

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1. Shangri-La posted on 04 Oct 2011, 17:11 17 6

PA - please be sure to make another 'iPhail 4S all-in-one-place' post to include this one. Thanks.

22. CX3NT3_713 posted on 04 Oct 2011, 18:05 5 3

I agree.. PA should get off 'apple's nuts already

33. Juice (unregistered) posted on 04 Oct 2011, 18:51 3 0

I don't think PA pushes iPhone too much personally. But I've only been carousing PA for the last couple months.

Regardless there really isn't much to wow about with this "new" iPhone. Honestly IMHO the only people who are jumping for joy right now are the accessory case makers. No new molds!

I'll get this or even a regular 4 for my wife since she's needs the iPhone because she can't handle Android. I've tried... But real smartphone connoisseurs are not impressed with this. Now with Android support opening up for more and more applications (Netflix) who wants to waste their time watching a 3.5" screen when you can enjoy movies and multimedia in glorious 4+ inch devices.

45. aar0983 posted on 04 Oct 2011, 20:08 0 0

The Big difference is that the 4S with Siri are gonna be able to answer all the fanboys when the iphone is gonna come out

49. aar0983 posted on 04 Oct 2011, 20:23 0 0

Iphone 5**

2. notsteve (unregistered) posted on 04 Oct 2011, 17:13 2 0

I wonder if I can transfer photo, music or anything with iphone 4S bluetooth to a computer or another phone

15. Yeeee posted on 04 Oct 2011, 17:43 3 1

haha I wish but crapple makes iphones block it and not able to send anything

16. corporateJP posted on 04 Oct 2011, 17:43 1 0

LOL.

Comedy.

64. vette21man posted on 05 Oct 2011, 08:07 0 0

Trying to think why you need bluetooth for x-ferring to a PC...iCloud will do this automatically. Oh, to your buddy's PC? Just email it? Why use bluetooth for this?

To another phone, use the "Bump" app. Not sure Windows Phone has this app, but it x-fers that and more to iOS/Android.

3. DROIDX0430 posted on 04 Oct 2011, 17:13 2 4

Here is the difference. (S).... thats it....you cant get the 4 for 99 bucks now...but if you want an s...64 gb....300.00 more bucks...wouldnt never need 64gb myself...but they made it.....

40. 530gemini posted on 04 Oct 2011, 19:54 0 0

Even with what was enumerated, you still don't see the big difference between the two? Now that's just dumb :-)

4. quakan posted on 04 Oct 2011, 17:14 8 0

I have one question...WHERE IN THE HELL DID ALL THOSE CASE MAKERS GET THE BLUEPRINTS FOR THOSE CASES FOR A "RADICAL REDESIGN"????

9. Allday28 posted on 04 Oct 2011, 17:25 3 0

I was wondering the same thing??

69. some jerk (unregistered) posted on 12 Oct 2011, 11:57 0 0

from the lost prototype apple device this spring.

13. Vzw_employee posted on 04 Oct 2011, 17:37 3 0

And I wondering how much money those companies lost, in terms of productions

25. ayephoner posted on 04 Oct 2011, 18:22 1 0

plastic cases cost a few cents in material. they also cost very little to design.

by leaking those cases, they got their company's name all over ever phone blog on earth. i'd say it was worth the tiny production cost.

34. E.N. posted on 04 Oct 2011, 19:00 0 0

I know! So misleading!

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30. Muahua (unregistered) posted on 04 Oct 2011, 18:43 0 0

iPod Touch?

60. Abdul92 posted on 04 Oct 2011, 22:22 0 0

I think the bigger disappointment was the iPod Touch...white.iPod Touch needs a better camera and change the memory config. 16,32,and 64 GB... what the heck can you do with 8Gb of memory these day... with a long battery like the iPod's you need plenty of room to watch podcast or videos.