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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.
The Syndicate
I’m happy to announce that starting the first week of November, I will be offering RSS sponsorships here on 512 Pixels. I’m also happy to announce that I’ve joined a brand-new RSS sponsorship network named The Syndicate to make this better than it could ever be if I was working on my own.
The Syndicate is a network of technology, design, development, and business writers offering RSS sponsorships on some of the best-known sites in our corners of the Internet.
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.
Kern Type — A Kerning Game
This might be the nerdiest game I’ve ever seen. But I love it.
My New Wallpaper
Netflix Kills Qwikster
It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.
This means no change: one website, one account, one password… in other words, no Qwikster.
Decisions like this really should have been made behind close doors. Disagreement and mid-changing is fine, just not in public postings to the company blog.
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?