{"id":12161,"date":"2011-10-05T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T22:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=12161"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:32:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:32:04","slug":"the-morning-after-the-iphone-4s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/12161-the-morning-after-the-iphone-4s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day After The iPhone 4S Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7431\" title=\"iPhone 4\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/high-resolution-vector-iphone-screen-applefriend.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/high-resolution-vector-iphone-screen-applefriend.jpg 240w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/high-resolution-vector-iphone-screen-applefriend-63x120.jpg 63w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/high-resolution-vector-iphone-screen-applefriend-169x323.jpg 169w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/high-resolution-vector-iphone-screen-applefriend-99x190.jpg 99w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/high-resolution-vector-iphone-screen-applefriend-63x120@2x.jpg 126w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/high-resolution-vector-iphone-screen-applefriend-99x190@2x.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>After getting a good night&#8217;s sleep to truly absorb the 4S, my take is that it&#8217;s a brand new model that doesn&#8217;t just offer incremental updates.<\/p>\n<p>It does everything the iPhone 4 did plus a variety of things better:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A dual core A5 processor versus the iPhone 4 A4 single core processor. The end result being twice the speed and up to 7x the graphics performance.<\/li>\n<li>Supports speeds up to 14.4Mb\/s  while the iPhone 4 supports speeds up to 7.2Mb\/s. That&#8217;s good news for AT&amp;T Mobility HSPA+ network users.<\/li>\n<li>Intelligently switches between antennas for improved call quality&#8230;and no more <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/6152-antennagate-fails-to-feed-the-mob\">&#8220;antennagate&#8221;<\/a> issues<\/li>\n<li>Offers far superior camera performance with 8 megapixel resolution versus the previous model&#8217;s 5MP spec. The optics in general were improved as well to offer up to 30% sharper images.<\/li>\n<li>1080p verus 720p video resolution and lastly&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>it runs on both GSM &amp; CDMA networks&#8230;.thus making it a true take anywhere \u201cWorld Phone\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a side by side &#8220;tale of the tape&#8221;, our friends at Engadget offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/10\/04\/iphone-4s-vs-iphone-4-the-tale-of-the-tape\/\">a nice chart.<\/a> As I hope you&#8217;ll agree with me then, even if you too have to &#8220;sleep with it&#8217;, with the improved performance, the iPhone 4S deserves to be recognized for its own merits as a very good <em>new model<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For one last feel good, for those of you planning on buying the 4S, the physical dimensions and control features are exactly the same. So your existing iPhone 4 case will work. But if you need one or want to upgrade, we offer a <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/Apple\/iPhone_Accessories\">wide variety of cases and other cool accessories<\/a> from which to choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After getting a good night&#8217;s sleep to truly absorb the 4S, my take is that it&#8217;s a brand new model that doesn&#8217;t just offer incremental updates. It does everything the iPhone 4 did plus a variety of things better: A dual core A5 processor versus the iPhone 4 A4 single core processor. 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