Hi! I've already purchased the 4S, but it's taking forever to get here because Apple's shipment schedules are far from up-to-date, as we only have about one retail store here not considering resellers, so I figure it's coming from England again.
I think it'll be worthwhile in my case. I text a lot, and at least when I do use VoiceOver, I find it's quite sluggish even when sticking to Compact voices and not just while texting. Even trying out the 4 made a massive difference as I was practically able to type without any particular sluggishness, so I imagine that with the 4S it'll be even faster. While the specs would make that an obvious conclusion, knowing the facts and actually trying it makes for a much more educated opinion when you've tried it. I've often found that if I switch VoiceOver off, tap the Messages app, locate or add another conversation from Contacts and begin typing, it reacts a lot faster to my input. Even so, the device sometimes freezes up if I tap quickly causing the letters to be entered at a ridiculous rate. When the phone unfreezes again, all the letters I tried to type are entered simultaneously. I've also noticed that when receiving a huge amount of text messages, the phone sometimes stutters and promptly crashes. App loading times are also suffering greatly here. Even on the 4 when using premium voices, I didn't find them lagging behind slightly, so that's another thing I can look forward to on the 4S. I'm hoping that some of those crashes or freezes will be taken care of with upgraded hardware specifications, which I'm pretty sure is going to be the case. I didn't find I had anywhere near as many lockups as I did with the 3GS. So, now I'm patiently waiting. I doubt Siri is going to be a lot of use here, though. Dictating isn't going to be a popular choice in Denmark, since it only speaks English, French and German right now and as the rumors go, I heard they might be adding a few more in 2012 Spanish being one of them. Danish wasn't on that list. I understand why that is given that it's a lot more advanced, however, but it still makes the 4S a bit less worth the money. If we consider looking up information, businesses and so-forth, I wasn't really impressed when it came to other countries than the United States. Even in the UK, it seemed to say that it was only able to look up businesses in the United States, and if using US English. Given the services Apple uses to look up information, such as Yelp which only has one language listed and a lot of countries missing except the bigger ones on the map, a lot of people are still being left out of the ability to tap into Siri completely. Wolfram Alpha isn't so limited, as it only revolves around obtaining knowledge. I recall someone telling me a while back that particular Siri features would only be in beta in the US for now, which is odd since Yelp actually supports countries like the United Kingdom and Ireland. I'm hoping this will be expanded in due course, as Siri is practically dependent. I also know that to some people who have the services readily available, this isn't going to be a huge deal for obvious reasons. Regards, Nicolai On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > Hello Donal > > As always I, and I am sure the group as a whole, will be most interested in > your findings. > > Any chance of a few of those spare Euros? ;-) > > Lynne > > On 17 Nov 2011, at 09:09, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I must confess Lynne I'm having similar dilemmas. however I'm in the > fortunate position that we have a few hundred spare euro in a research > acount, and a student wants to do a final-year project using the 4S so I'll > get to play with one before purchasing. Will report back, though it could be > a few weeks yet before I have the device. > > Dónal > On 17 Nov 2011, at 07:56, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > >> Hello Bubba; Lynne here this time as Tracy has gone to work. :) >> >> I'm now looking into this for her. We discussed it last night and we've >> decided to have a serious look to see what we and, particularly, Gordon who >> requires VoiceOver and accessibility would gain from the iPhone 4S upgrade. >> >> What keeps nagging at me is the fact that his 3GS still works perfectly and >> I'm a little reluctant, as always on these things, to upgrade for the sake >> of upgrading. I mean, although it's true that I could then permanently >> hijack the 3GS and use it when I'm out and about, it would really have to be >> a worthwhile upgrade to be honest. I mean, he'd really have to benefit from >> the upgrade in significant ways. >> >> I am quite excited about Siri; reading the documentation blurb it looks to >> be an interesting tool. I think I'm right in saying that it won't run on the >> iPhone 3GS? >> >> Lynne >> >> On 16 Nov 2011, at 22:50, Bubba wrote: >> >> Hi, the cutter is not hard to use at all you just drop the simm card in it >> and push the two halves together. Now if you get one of them very cheap ones >> where you have to use it like a pair of scissors than that might be a >> problem. 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