This year Macworld readers wanted to know about the secret details of
the iPhone 5, which we know now, was in fact iPhone 4S. From lost
prototypes, to leaked specifications, the internet was awash with
on-going speculations of what the iPhone 5 would look like and what it
would be able to do.
When it was reported
that an iPhone 5 prototype had been lost in San Francisco, reports
flooded in on its design. Apple were said to have contacted the San
Francisco police and offered money for its return to one man, no
questions asked, but he denied all knowledge of the phone. A frenzy
began amongst Apple enthusiasts as they heard the rumors of the design: said to be tear shaped, lighter, thinner, wider, and shorter.
Rumors of the change in shape were quickly dispelled when it was
suggested that Apple had supposedly put the iPhone 5 in an iPhone 4 case
to hide it, hard to do that if they're different shapes, right? And
just when the hype appeared to be settling down, stories of new cases made in China for the iPhone arrived, restarting all of the predictions and assumptions.
Apple has made it even simpler to organize your schedule and send messages with the iPhone 4S. The talk about Revolutionary Voice Interface
was true! Now you can coordinate your busy lives with even less effort
and complication thanks to Siri. Fueling the rumor of RVI was 9to5mac's
Mark Gurman, who wrote in detail about the prospects of a new 'Assistant' feature for iOS 5.
Siri can organize your calendar for you as well as completing tasks like
sending text messages to friends from your dictation, finding tickets
for events, creating alarms and appointments in calendars as well as
finding directions using GPS. The system will even ask questions and
request for further information from the user to determine the best
possible answer.
The other exciting new element of the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 was Find My
Friends. An iPhone social network that had been talked about for a
while. Find my Friends is essentially like Twitter but on a map, you can
see the location of those you are following and those who are following
you and you can view profiles. There were suspicions at one point that
Find My Friends might not be released with the iPhone 4S, as reports
said that Apple had been pausing and resuming the project for a while.
After over four months of assumptions, the iPhone 5 arrived in the form of the 4S. People everywhere wanted to know
when and where they could get an iPhone 4S. The pre-orders began for
the smartphone on October 7 and could be bought in stores from October
14. Nine days before the iPhone 4S could even be bought, the was one
solitary customer queueing outside London's Covent Garden Apple store.
By Lily Walker, Macworld-U.K.
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