14 DAY TRIAL // Cupertino-based Apple has just announced plans to bring to the market a new flavor of their highly popular iPhone, one that will arrive on shelves at three major wireless carriers in the United States, namely AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, and which sports the name of iPhone 4S.
This iPhone model has been long rumored to be on its way to the market before the end of the year and to arrive on shelves at Sprint as well, and all that has been officially confirmed by Apple.
However, the technical specifications for the new device are a bit different from what we were expecting.
Initial reports suggested that Apple would release the new iPhone 4S as a small improvement over the already popular iPhone 4 model, yet it seems that there is a little more to it than that.
For starters, we should note that the new device arrives on shelves with support for both GSM and CDMA bands. It does not have 4G capabilities, but it is a world phone, and many users will certainly enjoy that.
There is also an A5 dual-core application processor that Apple packed inside the new device, which should translate into increasing performance capabilities, which should go along pretty well with the new iOS 5 (the platform will be released on October 12th).
On the back, the new device sports an 8-megapixel photo snapper with support for full HD video recording (1080p HD), and a series of other enhancements as well.
The new iPhone 4S also comes to the market with an improved battery life, which should offer increased usage time, with up to 8 hours of talk time on 3G.
iPhone 4S will arrive on shelves in black and white flavors, and will include internal memory options starting at 16GB and going all the way to 64GB.
The price for the new model was set at $199 (around 150 Euros) for the 16GB model, $299 (about 225 Euros) for the 32GB flavor, and at $399 (approximately 300 Euros) for the 64GB iteration.
The new device will be put on pre-order starting with October 7th. It will become available for purchase in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK on Friday, October 14th.