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this episode technobuffalo is brought to you by audible and my unnecessarily deep DJ voice up next on the quads door welcome everyone to another episode of ask the buffalo i'm your host jon rettinger this is the show where you can ask anything you want from the wide world of technology up this week we've got samsung nexus prime or presumably it's going to be called the nexus prime we've got the iphone 4s we've got some upgrade questions and we're finally going to answer how we came up with the name technobuffalo stay tuned so if you want to submit a question to ask the Buffalo you can do it one of two ways every Tuesday we put up a post on the site technobuffalo calm where are we ask you to submit your questions you can leave them in the comment box and you're good in the hood otherwise if Tuesday doesn't work on your schedule because we want to be friendly and consider it to you and go ahead and send a question using hashtag ask the b2 at TechnoBuffalo and I will check it out you've got a chance to get your question featured in ask the Buffalo so that further ado let's go ahead and jump into question number uno first questions comes from Gerardo Esposito who asked John would you recommend the iphone 4s are the specs enough that's a really subjective question if you're coming from an iphone 4 it's a tough one to justify Suri is a nice feature but it's not killer for me the iphone 4 ran fast enough I don't necessarily think that the increased specs are important right now perhaps developers get a chance to put some of that extra core to use then maybe it's worth an upgrade if you take a lot of pictures with your phone however if you rely on your phone as your video camera and you're still camera then yeah it might be a worthwhile upgrade the change in lenses is more than just 3 megapixel difference from five to eight you add an extra lens there's all kinds of rear side exposure lighting new aperture settings of technical camera stuff which results in much much better pictures so it's up to you they're coming from a 3gs then yes you know it's going to be a personal decision for me from an iphone 4 i am going to make the upgrade all right and keeping up with the iphone 4s theme our next question comes from user Sam Presti who asked well iphone 4 owners get the Siri update in iOS 5 or is it only for the iphone 4s it's actually a question I've been getting quite a bit and that's when it's really easy to answer Sri the voice assistant is only going to be for the iphone 4s it's not an iOS 5 update its iphone 4s exclusive and if you had an iphone 4s you can push the on button see Suri well are you Lee for the iphone 4s and it would say shut the heck up stop asking me questions or you could ask it whatever you want I made a joke that's someone on twitter posted you hold down sri and say hey Suri when the nexus prime coming out then it really might yell at you so bad joke let's go ahead and jump up to the next question comes from user Greg Walden who asks John I'm ready for an upgrade soon while I love the specs of an Android superfone I feel like the android marketplace is lacking in apps and comparison to the App Store should I switch to the iphone for the App Store do you think android marketplace is going to improve android marketplace is improving by leaps and bounds on a daily basis you now have videos that you can download from there not just games and it's almost on parody from 1 to 14 you can get in the App Store force android marketplace so every app I've ever needed that I've had an iOS there's been an equivalent android marketplace so the idea that the android marketplace isn't up to par definitely isn't true anymore there's a lot more let's say crack we're floating around android marketplace to not say in the iphone app store but if you can sort through some of that there are some wonderful application so don't let the app stores deter you if you're looking for an android super phone though i definitely look at one of the samsung galaxy mega xes tues or the upcoming nexus prime also if you're on verizon droid bionic super hot phone all right so speaking of talking to your phone let's talk about books talking to you and I want to take a minute thank our friends and sponsors at audible if you're busy you don't have a lot of time to read as much you like to let the books read themselves to you I just finished reading this is herman cain my journey to the White House really interesting read go ahead and check out that book or a ton of other ones over at audible.com so if you've got an iphone and android device you can listen to your audible books right from there plug a CD right into your car stereo plug your iphone or ipod touch or android device right into your car and listen to your books while you're driving that's what i did it makes for an awesome way to get books read to you and you can kill two birds with one stone you gotta drive anyway you might as well listen to some books also i do listen to 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i want the TechnoBuffalo did be at the time so it was a strong graphic image and it was an available URL so that is the honest to goodness answer for how we came up with technobuffalo alright so our last and final question comes from user matthew edwards who asked a question that I get quite a bit John I'm currently on an iphone 4 and I'm due for an upgrade which is a following should I upgrade to the iphone 4s samsung galaxy s2 or blackberry bold 9900 well I'm going to assume that you are on 18 d since always phones listed our AT&T devices so that's a tough question if you're happy with the iphone 4 and you want a little bit faster speed you want a better camera go the 4s however the galaxy s2 is an awesome phone got that beautiful 4.3 inch Super AMOLED screen which really jumps out of you it's got that screaming fast dual-core processor in there it's a tough one to turn down if however you love a physical keyboard try the blackberry bold 9900 that keyboard is hands down the best option out there so if you're a heavy texts or emails what's important to you that's the way to go if you need a bigger screen go to the galaxy s2 if you're happy living in iOS world then upgrade to the 4s but switch colors you've got a black one go white if you've got white go black mix up so it feels a little bit like a different phone so I'm look at the 10x each other they're like this is the same thing alright guys thank you for dealing with my ramblings and watching another episode of ask the Buffalo i'm your host jon rettinger you can catch my videos and a ton of other tech content clean late-breaking news rumors exclusives and all the other tech geeky goodness over at TechnoBuffalo com I'll see you guys in the next video if you notice actually i have my I'm dressed and Steve Jobs homage tire today of jeans and black mock turtleneck this episode technobuffalo is brought to you by audible and my unnecessarily deep DJ voice up next on the quads door