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Category: Apple
The Future is Here
The S is for Speed
Thanks to the early delivery of some German iPhone 4S devices, the first benchmarks of the A5-powered phone are now in. According to these early tests, it looks as if the new A5 processor in the iPhone 4S is running at 800MHz—slightly slower than the iPad 2’s 1GHz A5 processor, but 68 percent faster than the iPhone 4’s 800MHz A4 processor.
So the iPhone 4S is nearly as fast as the iPad 2, and a lot faster than the iPhone 4. What a turd.
OmniFocus Gains Location-Based Reminders
The Omni Group released two updates for its OmniFocus app for iPhone and iPad today, adding several bug fixes and improvements, iOS 5 compatibility, and a new Location Reminders feature that leverages iOS 5′s geo-fencing APIs to send you a reminder when you’re in the right area to complete an action. The same technology is used by Apple in Reminders, a new native app in iOS 5.
I’ve been playing with Reminders for this very purpose. Silly me — I knew the Omni Group would keep me from straying.
My New Wallpaper
Disappointing iPhone 4S Breaks Single Day Sales Record
Apple today announced pre-orders of its iPhone 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4.
“We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S have been the most for any new product that Apple has ever launched and we are thrilled that customers love iPhone 4S as much as we do.”
That Extra $100
So, the moral of the story is that it will cost you an additional 5% of the total cost of owning the iPhone 4 to get the better phone. That breaks down to around $4 extra per month of your contract.
In other words, when you consider it as part of the total cost of owning an iPhone, the extra $100 paid for the newer phone is a negligible expense.
Lemmings
Not Apple’s finest commercial — but definitely the most creepy:
‘A Porta-Buddha’
Roland Greenfellow’s coverage of Apple’s iPhone 4S keynote is professional and concise. Why did I ever try following along at gdgt?