Hi
I have a 3GS and am tempted to get the 4S, but i’ve heard ‘spot rumours’ that the 5 will be out mid next year so don’t bother. Others have said it will be at least a year and a half…
So I don’t know what to do - would hate to get stuck in a contract for 2 years with a 5 out only 7 months later!
What do others think?
Get the 4S sell it in 6 months, then buy a 5?
Dont know if my contract would allow that?
Get the Galaxy S II or wait for the Galaxy Nexus and F**** apple, well IMHO 
well unless it’s for IOS dev… but still F apple
the contract won’t prevent you from selling it, but it will naturally not get you a reduced iphone5 any longer. you have to pay it full
you can always buy and ulocked phone tho
There will be no iPhone 5. Next generation will be the iPhone 6.
The 4S is awesome; my lady friend and I got one each on launch day. Think about this; the iPhone 4S is the fifth one. There isn’t going to be an iPhone 5. There’s going to be an iPhone 6. It will better than the 4S. But the next model after that, a year or so later, will be better. As is always the answer: buy when you need it; something better is just around the corner.
Edit: rab236 posted while I was. Exactly.
I second Jessy’s comment : iPhone 4S is awesome on every point.
(coming from a Galaxy S, itself coming from an iPhone 3GS)
iOS is so simple, so smooth, I find it better to have something this simplistic for a phone, rather than a more complex OS like Android.
I did exactly that - I upgraded my 3gs to the 4s. it’s a night-and-day difference, very speedy and crisp. If you need a phone now, why wait? But if your 3gs is still doing everything you need, then why bother? I guess that is up to you to decide.
But i like the speed, the 8mp camera, and the extra-sharp screen.
I find no logic in that statement. The 3GS would technically be the iPhone 4 by your definition. So… Yeah it would be the iPhone 7 going by your own made up logic of course. just playing.
It is technically an iphone4. it has the same gpu and the fact that the cpu is 25% slower (600mhz vs 800mhz) is nearly always less impacting that the fact that the gpu of the 3GS was not meant for 4x the pixel amount to render (retina)
the 512mb ram vs 256mb is the only real delta and its one that only badly optimized games will see as a difference as even epics citadel has shown well enough
Please try a little harder?
iPhone
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
iPhone 6
Is this for personal use or for development? If only for personal use, I say wait. ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore is coming next year. It will be a quadcore monster, that would be quite a monster difference to the current A5 dual core since ARM claimed even if all things equal (running same voltage/frequency, single core) Cortex A15 will be 40% faster and its 2x more core than dualcore A5. It should also consume less power since they are moving towards 20nm manufacturing process and A15 is designed to run up to 2.5 ghz (although I think that’s for Tablet).
Anything above quadcore will probably be excessive (as with desktop market - very few people have anything above quadcore), so don’t expect Octa-core in 2013 or 2014. So the next iPhone 5 will be the definitive upgrade for years to come.
But if you are using it for development use - I would suggest to buy the lowest spec device for testing/compatibility sake.
Good point. Guess I was counting the ipod touch 2g in there.
You can’t develop games if you’re dead. Siri makes it so I don’t have to try texting in the car anymore. Getting Siri ASAP is a good idea if you drive. I’m fine with upgrading every two years, after my contract is up. The only iPhones worth having have been the 3GS and 4S, in my opinion. With any luck, next year’s will be another disappointment, so I won’t be envious of it for a year.
Realty? That’s your solution?
I would have simply recommend a long course of therapy followed by remedial education and a life ban from operating heavy machinery. If all else fails a Darwinian award might have been applicable.
Actually I will try a little harder. there were two iphone 1’s. The first one did not support 3G connections and was edge only, later the second generation (or what techies refer to as an iPhone 2G, perhaps its more fitting to call it a 1GS?) came out BEFORE the 3G redesign release. The 3rd generation, the 3G was the slightly new design.
Source: http://www.techdigest.tv/2008/06/first_generatio.html
iPhone 3G didn’t refer to 3rd generation but to the fact that it offered 3G at all.
It was also the first iphone sold outside the USA or being of any use for anyone but nokia 2004 dumbphone users due to all the stuff apple ignored and didn’t consider standard although established for soon half a decade
You’re completely out of touch if you don’t think this is the number one reason for Siri to exist.
That source doesn’t say that, and I don’t remember that happening. Feel free to get a better source, though. I wasn’t following the iPhone too closely back then.