After many months of conjectures it all ended with one question. What changed?

The iPhone 4S was released amongst the confusion of many Apple fans, yet the changes from the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 4S are still unrecognized by many Apple iPhone holders. The question that people are asking now is “Whats new?”.

The iPhone 4S runs on the Apple A5 processor, the same one used on the iPad 2, which gives the phone the speed of the tablet. That is something that Apple did not put in the iPhone 4 or 3GS, giving the iPhone 4S an advantage with 3G use. The iPhone 4S has a built-in application called “Siri” that takes voice commands or memos and organizes them into a calender or searches them in Google, making your phone your personal assistant. For example, when you ask “Siri” to find you a restaurant close to your location, it will come up with multiple restaurants for you and tell you how far away you are from them.

Three Companies, Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon offer the iPhone-

*Prices for the phones vary per memory capacity.

Keep in mind that service plans vary from company to company. Sprint is supposedly offering the $79.99 per month unlimited everything and 450 anytime calling minutes.  AT&T just released their $30.00 per month unlimited mobile to mobile text and call(your plan may be subjected to add a voice plan either way. Data plan needed as well).

Also, a new operating software for Apple’s touch-screen devices, iOS 5, was released the 13th of October.  This software is free for download, and will come with all newly purchased Apple touch-screen devices(not including iPod Nano). The devices equipped with iOS 5 will have a pull-down notifications bar, a messenger app which enables you to send an instant message to your contact’s apple devices, tab keeping on Safari, and Newsstand, a new way to keep up with the news of today by displaying the news in the form of newspapers. News stand also includes magazines. To read magazines you download the cover-app of the magazine and sign in to view the full magazine through subscription payment or single magazine payment.

As good as this deal may seem, people have very mixed feelings about the new phone:

“If you already have iPhone 4, it’s not a major upgrade,” said senior David Stephens. Stephens has the iPhone 4, and says that externally, the 4S is the same.

Stephens does have one word of advice.
“If you are going from a regular phone to a 4S I’d recommend it.”

Others agree, including CHS teacher and CET Director Quinn Strassel.

“If I knew that they were going to do this I would have waited for the iPhone 4,” said Strassel. Strassel currently has the 3GS with AT&T.

Despite his dissapointment about the unchanged exterior design, Stephens still would recommend Verizon for a future carrier for your next iPhone purchase. Stephens says that while he has had Verizon with his iPhone, he has never had a dropped call.

What will happen with the “iPhone 5”? Will there be an “iPhone 5”? The First question would be “What do you want on a Smartphone?”

Of all 12 people surveyed, all of them thought that a majority of what they selected will be on the “iPhone 5”. All we can do is wait until next June for the 2012 Apple Developers Conference.