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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here i've had the iphone 4s for about six weeks I thought it'd be a good time to go back and revisit minus review and see if any impressions or thoughts have changed since then let's go ahead and talk to my phone I love making videos where I get a face to camera down and do some hands-on action with the phones and devices but there are very few things i love more than getting a bit old school and sit in front of a camera and just talking to you sort of one-on-one about my thoughts and opinions that's what this video is going to be and of course a topic is the iphone 4s which I've had in my hot little hand for just about six weeks now so in my initial review I said that the iphone 4s is a great phone probably one of the best phones out there and available but not worth the upgrade from an iphone 4 largely i still feel that same way some of the biggest selling points the iphone 4s namely being Siri I was one feature that I thought I was going to use much more that ended up using it I found it in the six weeks I've you Siri it take away the first two weeks not really excited that I had it I haven't really used it since then mates because I forget that it exists and I'm just not used to having a phone that has those capabilities but generally I don't use it I initially thought that I was gonna be scheduling appointments with my phone my phone was gonna be telling me what the weather was then be telling me that I had to go bug groceries it was gonna be doing Google searches for me I'm just finding myself not really using it at all not to say it doesn't have utility just it's not really having that much utility for me the best feature and I guess this is sort of sort of Siri that I do use though is a text to speech should have typing an email or message hit the microphone and I can just talk to it that feature I really do use a lot but aside from that I am not using street at all I think I just forget that it's there I don't know if that's unique to me of curious to hear if you guys are using Syria as well but I know that was one of the big selling points the iphone 4s and hasn't really translated too much use for me the other big time point the iphone 4s lives on the back this guy right there the camera and i'm guessing though some difference with the camera over the iphone four still picture is just straight up look better on my no means a camera guy leave that to Mike Pearlman but when I look at pictures I can tell what looks better or not better and pictures just look better they look better and low like it look better in direct sunlight to look better in Twilight and not that Twilight with shadows and all kinds of stuff they just straight up look good video quality is much improved of the iphone 4 but the audio fidelity is not nearly as good meaning the built-in microphones here I have quality just doesn't sound as good when you're recording video so if you're planning on doing some video and I'll cover my face like this your video is gonna look great audio just hasn't been that exciting from it's been a little bit tinny you can go back check out the original review and there'll be some samples there but just hasn't been all that impressive for me so impressions generally of the iphone 4s it's still the phone that i come back to as his previous iterations at the iphone whether it's the iphone 4 3gs 3g or the original iphone I'll occasionally make forays into Android I'll use an android phone for a few weeks a few months i'll use Windows Phone for a few weeks or a few months blackberry a few weeks few months but i seem to always come back to the iphone last night as was really most nights as I'm trouble sleeping and I was laying in bed thinking about technology I was thinking about what it is about the iphone why I keep coming back to it despite complaints I still really lament that I can't edit tweak and customize the operating system more than I'd like I think some of the changes in iOS 5 or huge talk about those in just a minute but I'll try to think why I come back to the iphone 4s especially when i have activists to you know really pretty much any phone that's available and some phones aren't even available to try it works and it always works well it's a consistent experience i always know what I'm going to get from an Android phone to an android phone you can get very very different experiences going from a samsung galaxy s2 to a motorola built device they can be completely divergent one can be absolutely awesome outstanding and one can be a little bit slow and laggy you just don't know makes every device a bit unique with the iphone I know what it's going to be and it's sort of that devil you know kind of analogy he knows better than the one you don't I know what I'm gonna get I know the phones limitations are I'm aware of them and I can sort of prepare for it I'd ever know what it's going to be with Android with blackberry I'm always for waiting for that next OS freeze even on the 9900 or for the little clock to start spinning I'm always just sort of waiting for that on windows phone 7 I haven't found that many grapes actually with Windows Phone 7 i'm kind of now wishing for a little bit of higher resolution screen but that's a minor gripe I in general I've actually really liked windows phone seven and again for Android I just never know what it's going to be from phone to phone when I find a great phone that I really enjoy enjoy android like the droid razr the resound yeah then it's a phone that i'll stick with for a while and i know that that phone is going to work for me but then i end up getting into you know downloading applications and some that maybe haven't been that thoroughly tested that end up having stability issues on the phone and then the app starcraft number system start looking and working a little wonky and i have to find out which application is not working and some people really enjoy that process they enjoy the ability to go in and find exactly what works on their phone tweaked it to exactly the way they like install custom roms and I get that oftentimes I enjoy that too but I don't always enjoy having to work with my phone sometimes I just want a phone that's going to work with me that's probably why I keep coming back to the iphone that being said I'm waiting for something else i'm bored with the iphone i think it's been pretty much the same phone for the past better part of two and a half three years specs of change but really nothing else has the OS looks relatively similar to how it did at least a core functionality to how it did a few years ago I'm hoping that Windows Phone 7 can be that next thing I'm hoping that ice cream sandwich perhaps on other devices and you know more than just a Galaxy Nexus and tablets can be the next exciting operating system I'm hoping that Blackberry can do anything to be somewhat exciting but I just keep coming back to the iphone 4s so I've been rambling and digressing a little bit should you upgrade to the iphone 4s sort of the thoughts and impressions if you have an iPhone 4 and my initial thing that I said was do that upgrade to the 4s if you have an iphone 4 that still holds true there's very little very compelling little compelling reasons to upgrade to a 4s from before sure the camera is a little bit better yeah you've got Siri I could very easily live with not having either of those the camera on the iPhone 4 was fine and not having Siri I could deal with having a type instead of talking to it and I can look up my own questions as opposed to having seat answer them for me I don't think this is going to be a phone you're going to want to be tied into for two years presumably the design is going to change this features are going to change in the specs are going to change for an iphone 5 and if all the rumors hold true that's going to be the phone that's going to be a little bit more revolutionary we're on the dawn of some would say we're already in the era of 4G speeds and I'm talking 4G LTE and this phone just doesn't have it I wouldn't want to be tied into a two-year contract with a phone that didn't have LT capabilities especially on obviously the only two that have LTE right now AT&T and Verizon Sprint will have LTE sometime next year t-mobile's hspa+ network is blazing fast so at least if it was on t-mobile you know would want support for that but the three carriers that have the iphone 4 have pledged or already have LTE networks and iphone 4s just doesn't have it sure it's got HSP plus for AT&T but I haven't seen blazing fast speeds and a lot of states capable of 14 for down in various places throughout the country I've never seen or experienced personally adding faster than you know maybe four or five on on a good day so the big changes with the iphone 4s are really iOS 5 and you can get that on the iphone far keeps shrugging you can get the new pull-down notification which is clearly ripped off from Android you can get the better push notifications which are huge improvement and a slew of other sort of great features but you can get that with an iphone 4 is very little reason to go out and get an iphone 4s and i still feel that way my sister for example was on verizon she'd sort of been waiting for a new phone she hadn't upgraded her phone in three years uh and this is a quote just that i want the iphone with siri just asked her why she wants serious that I want to talk to it I asked her what she was gonna do with it she didn't know he just kind of thought it'd be neat and wanted to have newest phone as most people would if you're going out to get a new phone you're only getting one every two years you want to get the newest one out there I think it's a case of Miss information between the difference is at least between the 4s I before so stick with what you got if you haven't upgraded already and I think you'll be well rewarded maybe something new and exciting will come from Android from windows phone 7 from blackberry or maybe you'll get an LTE iphone for next year sort of my thoughts and ramblings and as I many nights I lay in bed not sleeping this is stuff that runs through my head and I wanted to share with you guys so hope you enjoy do you agree disagree leave your comments down below i'm jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo i'll see you next video bye bye