IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition

Re:IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition by adbge on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @05:03PM (#3072905)

    > The iOS and Mango device respond very similarly to
    > basic things like swipes, pinches, etc... Android 
    > is a lot more jittery, even on the SGII HW.

Before I ditched my iPhone 3G for an Atrix, the device was barely usable. It didn't just stutter, it would hang for upwards of a minute when opening certain apps (maps, I'm looking at you), and it's not like the device was defective as I've used others and had an identical experience.

Now, maybe the 4G offers a smoother experience than Android (no GC + hardware acceleration?), I don't know, but the 3G experience was sure as hell nothing to write home about. I can say, however, that my Atrix is noticeably more responsive after switching from Motorola's firmware to Cynanogen Mod, but -- again -- I don't know how it compares to a 4G.

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Re:IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition by ghshephard on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @05:39PM (#3073036)

iPhone 3G came out in 2008 - nice, because it was new - but yes, had lots of lag - better than the competition (at the time). 3GS gave it a bit of a boost. iPhone 4 was the first (in my experience) iPhone to significantly reduce lag/latency in most areas - the shutter speed was it's achilles heel (it sucks). I'm upgrading to the 4S for one reason only - Supposed zero shutter lag.

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Re:IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition by vacri on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @04:38AM (#3074809)

perhaps try the camera out in a story before forking over the cash first :)

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