The iPhone 4S....

The iPhone 4S is a stunning new phone (advancing from the iPhone 4) made by Apple inc. and what I believe is the best smartphone you can get right now. Heres a bit about it...

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Processor and battery life

The iPhone 4S features Apple's A5 dual-core 1GHz processor along with a dual-core GPU. Apple says the new chipset makes the iPhone 4S twice as fast and offer graphics performance that is seven times faster than the iPhone 4's. Despite the more powerful processor, the company claims the smartphone provides 8 hours of talk time over 3G, 14 hours over 2G, 6 hours of browsing over 3G, 9 hours via Wi-Fi, 10 hours of video playback, and 40 hours of music playback.

Siri



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The feature that Apple touted most during the event was the new voice assistant called Siri. It doesn't completely replace the current Voice Control feature, but it certainly does a whole lot more. Basically, Siri is designed to deliver information or follow commands that you give it. For example, you can check the weather, ask for a contact's address, set up a reminder, get directions, and ask for obscure trivia like the height of Mount Everest (and lots more). You access the feature by holding down the Home button.You will be able to activate Siri with a Bluetooth headset, I understand that car integration is "coming." Given the abundance of hands-free driving laws, Apple will need to make Siri fully accessible to drivers while they keep both hands on the wheel. Siri supports English, French, and German. More languages will come later.

Camera

The iPhone 4's 5-megapixel camera was already great, but now it's better. The iPhone 4S has an 8-megapixel camera with autofocus, flash, f/2.4 aperture lens, and a backside-illuminated CMOS sensor that allows 73 percent more light than the previous sensor and should deliver better low-light performance. A hybrid IR filter is also onboard for better color accuracy. Apple claims the new camera performs 33 percent faster than the iPhone 4's camera, and the A5 processor has a built-in image processor that adds face detection and 26 percent better auto white balance. So basically you can take flash photos!

Dual-core A5 chip

A5 chip
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Two cores in the A5 chip deliver up to two times more power and up to seven times faster graphics. And you’ll feel the effects. Fast. iPhone 4S is quick and responsive, which makes all the difference when you’re launching apps, browsing the web, gaming, and doing just about everything. And no matter what you're doing, you can keep on doing it. Because the A5 chip is so power-efficient, iPhone 4S has outstanding battery life.

Official iPhone 4s Video

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The New Kindle fire...

Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, presenting the Kindle fire

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At a New York press conference on Wednesday, the Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, revealed that the much anticipated device would be under half the price of its market-leading rival, Apple's iPad, at $199. A vital, shock announcement was that the new Kindle Fire will only be going on sale in the US for now.

The wireless media player/book reader/web browser/geegaw will be the cheapest of its kind when it is released in the US next month. Others have tried and failed to crack the tablet market now dominated by Apple's iPad.The iPad is designed to be an ultimate system for entertainment and multimedia, and is supported by Apple’s iTunes Store and App Store, which have over 18 million songs and 425,000+ apps, respectively. Some memory and graphic intensive applications, such as “Asphalt 6,” “Sim City,” “Dead Space,” and “Prince of Persia,” require the iPad to contain superior processor and memory to handle the graphic intensive nature of the applications. The iPad also features a long battery life, at least 16 GB of internal storage, and webcam for HD video conferencing to provide users with a comprehensive entertainment and multimedia experience. In addition, iPad’s 3G connectivity is essential to thousands of apps, such as the “Restaurant Story” and “Vegas Tower HD,” that rely on wireless connections to function.

Unlike the iPad that is designed to outperform the competing tablets in both technology and user experience, the Kindle Fire is designed to bring the fragment pieces of Amazon’s ecosystem, such as Cloud Drive, Music Cloud, Video Streaming, and App Store, all together under one roof so that the users can experience all the products and services while enjoying the core value proposition of reading and storing books and magazines.The tech specs on the Kindle Fire are designed for simple multimedia and entertainment, and its 8GB internal storage is not meant to store graphic and memory intensive applications that can easily take up internal storage space.

But Amazon is uncannily good at guessing what its customers "need" – its systems have squeezed every little clue about our future desires from all the information it has built up about us from our previous purchases. Estimates vary, but Amazon is set to sell between 2m and 5m Kindle Fires by the end of the year.

 Apple and Amazon come at the tablet market from opposite directions. Amazon cares more about selling media than devices, hence the cut-price tablet. Apple cares about selling devices – beautiful, exciting, all-singing, all-dancing devices that command all-singing, all-dancing prices. But despite the fundamental differences in their approaches, they clearly agree that the tablet is going to be the place where people consume media. Let's face it, we are all too lazy to open laptops these days!

Amazon needs people to buy a lot of content and it's going to be cutting deals to get exclusive stuff. It will be competing with Apple, Netflix and a host of others to get those exclusives. Deals are going to get done. Now there is more competition, maybe some will be good deals.

Of course, the Fire could fizzle out. And the media are all too prone to throw away online opportunities. But maybe, just maybe, it won't only be Bezos who has the last laugh.

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