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More on the Apple iPhone 4S Launch and Some Numbers of Interest

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It’s been several hours now since the Apple event and a little time to scour the web for info and news. Now that things have sunk in there really was pretty big news announced although in my mind Apple really blew it in the way they decided to roll out this “next generation” iPhone. In all honesty, there’s a ton of new functionality but it seems it was all over shadowed by the naming of the device with a 4S rather than a 5. Realistically had Apple simply called the darned device the iPhone 5 people would likely be raving about it rather than stating how disappointed they are. When you look at the grand scheme of things the 4S runs on iOS 5, is much faster, has way better battery life, has a much better (and faster) camera – these are all pretty important leaps forward. I also think that Apple blew it a bit by making the event a small, cozy, “special people” only invited event that wasn’t live streamed. The attempt to “WOW” us with new functionality like a friend finder app and postcard creation service also really detracted from the real story as well. Overall though, iPhone 4S is a big step forward – the new price point may help encourage more upgrades than may have been lost by the gaffs mentioned.

And so, here’s a few more numbers of interest that I’ve picked up on from today’s event:

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Apple Live Event Introduces the iPhone 4S – liveblog recap

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So, to many people’s amazement, Apple announced the Apple iPhone 4S – yep, no 5 or mention of 5 in this event! Essentially, at 4S (available on an Oct 14 launch data apparently) you’ll get a much faster iPhone with better power management and battery life. The device comes with a better camera at 8 megapixels, the OS supports photo editing, and you’ll be able to create and send a postcard (yes paper) using the Card app – oh, at a cost of $2.99 in the US, $4.99 all other places.  The iPhone 4S will come with an assistant known as Siri which essentially provides you with even more voice command functionality, and speech recognition enabled services. Also, you’ll be able to locate your family and friends using a new friend finder location-aware service – sounds a lot like Latitude to me! Judging by the response from the Twitter faithful, the event news was OK and many folks were disappointed that there’s no word of iPhone 5.  You have to wonder, if they simply called this device the 5 rather than the 4S would sales be off the charts?

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The Apple Oct 4 Event – stream, no stream or ?

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Like a few of you out there, I was interested in catching today’s big Apple event via livestream – they’ve done this in years past and it’s been excellent! Unfortunately, this year there’s seems to be a little confusion – thanks “mainstream” tech media for providing a plethora of mis-information, speculation, and basically, a bunch of crap! Over the past 24 hours I’ve seen articles boasting that there is a livestream at 10 AM PST, however, those links tend to link to a magazine’s unofficial “live” coverage from the event (aka. a shameless and self-promotional scum-bag effort to entice you to hang out on their website). I’ve also read that no official livestream will be provided by Apple, and I’ve also heard that the event stream will only be accessible by iOS devices. The most popular link out there seems to be to a uStream for  something called Live Coverage of Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” again another confusing un-official resource. Details of this particular resource were rampant yesterday on Twitter, many people thinking this was THE official livestream location – turns out that after watching this channel this morning it’s 3 guys who appear to be streaming from their bedrooms and have manged to lure over 60,000 people to their ustream where you can listen to their pure speculation and rehashing of other geeks speculating!

And so we wait.. ironically my iPhone has pretty much packed it in and as of today I’m seriously considering running out and picking up a Nokia N8 as my next main smartphone device (this regardless of what Apple announces today).

And so, here’s a few useful links I’ve picked up from the popular Tech Rag Huff Post –  You can view pictures and live blog coverage at the following sites:

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