

iPhone 4S  (Source: DailyTech)











Sources: Tech Crunch, Reuters, Reuters

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RE: Bollocks its hardware....
By Roffles on 10/5/2011 5:49:28 PM , Rating: 4
Meanwhile, last weekend I was trying to show off voice commands and LTE on my Bionic to a group of my iPhone having friends. I felt compelled because most of them use and only see the iPhone in their day-to-day lives. As a result, they talk about their phones as if no other phone on earth can do the same things. "Did you hear the new iPhone is going to do thisssss", and "Did you hear the new iPhone is going to do thaaaaat".

When they mentioned Siri, and assuming Apple's speech recognition implementation would be very similar to Android, I wanted to demonstrate on my Bionic the strengths and weaknesses of this tech. Like how it's almost useless in noisy environments and how you need to enunciate your words to get the best results. Basically, that it's only useful in car, office and home...not really something you bust out in the middle of a crowded and noisy city square and get cracking on finding a pizzeria.

I did a few of the basic voice commands; "play band", "nagivate to", "show map of", "send e-mail to", "send text to" and then I did a few voice command web searches. Finally, I loaded an HD youtube video to show off the instant buffer on LTE and how cool videos look on a 4.3" display.

They didn't care at all. They didn't even feign interest. As I recall, their expressions were blank. These people are not tech savvy and did not care how functional my phone is....for them, it's about conformity and accessorizing. I showed off my phone to some iPhone having coworkers and got similar reactions. That's when I truly realized what it means to be an "iSheep".

Anand's article on 28nm integrated LTE has me thinking it won't be until mid-2012 that we even see an LTE enabled iPhone5. I just want to know how far Apple needs to fall behind the Android juggernaut before these sorts of people snap out of their daze. It's a strange feeling to have a really nice phone and get treated like a retarded non-conformist because it doesn't have an apple logo.

