For Reminders and phone calls it really is much quicker and easier than using the touch screen. The big surprise for me, with Siri, is how much I actually do use it. This, perhaps even more than the optics, makes a huge improvement to the video the iPhone 4S produces.
These little video phones tend to exacerbate camera shake, but the iPhone 4S does a pretty darned good job of smoothing out the worst of it by using the phone's physical sensors, in part, to do the job. It's very good, and on such a small device, it's really essential. But what impressed me was the stabilization. Video is still clearly phone video, though as such it's quite serviceable. For this reason I wish it had a dedicated button instead of being buried within a submenu. I recommend keeping it off unless you need it. Moreover, it slows the camera down considerably. For anything else it usually does a worse job. The HDR functionality is good only for certain types of lighting situations. Side by side you can certainly tell a difference, but these still look like iPhone photos. It's also better, but I wouldn't say the improvement is huge. The camera is much faster than the one on my old phone. Also, I can finally notice tiny details, like the paper texture in Notes, that I'd never seen before. Reading text on this screen is noticeably better, an improvement that extends to every area of the iPhone experience. Using the Retina Display is amazing, especially as my vision gets crappier with age. But seeing the screen and using one on a regular basis are two very different things. Sure, I'd seen friends' iPhone 4s, so it wasn't completely new to me. This is one of my favorite things about my new phone. I'm pretty blown away by the Retina Display.
I'm quite pleased with the body style of this phone. There are tradeoffs to the new body style, but they're very minor and pretty much even out. They also don't appear to scuff as easily or as much as the 3GS's plastic back.Īnd the iPhone 4S's body is just beautiful, maybe the prettiest phone I've ever seen. The glass surfaces, too, are very elegant - far more so than the 3GS's plastic back - yet have enough friction to them that the phone never feels in danger of slipping out of my hand. They also afford the possibility of placing the phone on its edge for video shoots. It's not as soft to the touch, but it feels a bit thinner, and the hard edges add a certain grippiness that makes it feel very firm in hand and easy to pick up. It was a most ergonomic body shape.īut I've been pleasantly surprised at how much I actually do like the 4S's feel. Whatever the reason, I'm extremely pleased by this.Ĭoming from the iPhone 3GS's rounded edges and arched back, I was a bit skeptical that I'd like the body of the iPhone4S, with it's all-flat surfaces and hard edges. I assume that this has something to do with my new provider, Verizon (more on that in a minute), but I also think that speed gain is a function of the phone hardware itself. I was more surprised at how much faster the network is. The interface is just faster, and that's really nice. It's a huge speed boost from the iPhone 3GS, and that helps make everything work better, more smoothly and quicker. In general, I really like the phone itself. Overall, though, there are some differences, of course. Moving to the new phone was almost completely painless and straightforward.
#Fun things for iphone 4s software#
The software is the same, the data is the same, most things are the same. In many regards, this is the same phone I had a few weeks ago. So I've had my Verizon iPhone 4S for a few weeks now, and I thought I'd let you know how it's been going.
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