Let's talk iPhone

Guess what I was doing last night? That's right, the same as pretty much every other tech head and gadget freak out there. I was sitting at my desk following the Apple keynote via the Engadget live blog. I was also voicing my opinions and conversing with some of you on Twitter via the iPad. I actually broke a personal record for my Tweet with the most Re-Tweets (I think it was like 40 times. Sad, I know).






'let's talk iphone' was a strange one, and I suppose Apples choice to not give us a live feed should have told us something. That something being that there was nothing actually really exciting going on. What we saw lat night was basically a recap on iOS5/iCloud with a few release dates and the new iPhone 4s. All of this bundled together and spread out across various stats and numbers that made the whole thing sound more impressive.

A lot of us were expecting the announcement of the redesigned iPhone 5, maybe Facebook integration on system level or something completely different. But what we got instead was an identical iPhone 4 that was a little bit faster and took better pictures. You can also talk to it thanks to the new Siri voice recognition feature although I'm not quite sure if I'd ever use it. It does look pretty clever though, it might be a fun pastime to just sit there and insult it for a while.

I'm not even sure why this new Siri feature is only limited to the 4s, surely it could have been built directly into iOS5. Or is it to do with a better built in microphone or something like that? Who knows. But I can't really see it really influencing anyone's decision on upgrading or not. I don't know anyone that uses voice recognition software in the way that they did in that demo video. I've always found the whole talking to technology thing a bit creepy to be honest.

Don't get me wrong, I haven't lost all faith in Apple (I'm actually writing this on an iPad) but I'm just saying that yesterday's keynote was a bit of a letdown. I'm quite positive that we will see some shiny new tech from them soon, be it the iPhone 5 or a third generation iPad. To be honest I'm quite capable of waiting a few months for a new redesigned iPhone, my fouth generation model hasn't let me down yet. Who knows, maybe I'll get lucky and they'll release it on the day that my 2 year contract runs out. That way I can upgrade straight away and once again be an early adopter, one of the cool kids. But saying that, I could just lie and say I have an iPhone 4s. Who would know? They look exactly the same.

Anyway, the best news for me was the release date for iOS5. Bring on October 12th!




I know this post hasn't had anything to do with music but the iOS platform has made quite a name for itself as the way to go for portable music software. I thought I'd stick it up here anyway.

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