But it seems still ships some of their own product line with LCD displays. For example the forthcoming Galaxy Note 10.1 (their next flagship tablet?) is supposedly going to be LCD, not AMOLED.

I couldn't hear you over your choppy unresponsive "Browser".

Most of the mobile web browsing is done in Safari , not Android's browser, despite the fact higher numbers of phones running Android are sold in a quarter.

As if current battery issues PLUS Flash wouldn't have been that much worse. Good thing they never let that crap around...

4S has a new sensor, presumably it's "better" at doing its job. Interestingly, if you watch the sensor through a camera, the 4S one flickers constantly and dimly when in "Siri" mode. However with an iPhone 4 on a phone call its sensor seems to be consistently bright.

I thought people were raving *against* the specs of the Galaxy Nexus. Misleading resolution on the screen, nothing special in the SoC area including outdated GPU, no huge improvement in the camera... Its hardware isn't "bad" by any stretch but it's not exactly raising the bar by any huge amount either.

The article doesn't really make a distinction, but though the iPhone 4 might be more likely to crack if you spike it to the pavement, it might be one of the more reliable phones if you *don't* drop it (ie the screen might come on more reliably, buttons stay working more reliably, be recognized when you plug something…

Actually, there were all sorts of "is that it?" articles for the 4S. How could you possibly have missed those?

And you showed your blatant assholism by using a term like "iSheep".

And 95% of Android phone users think they have a "Droid". You were saying?

Of course, most iDevices perform such that overclocking isn't the first thing on your mind for a mod. Some of the Android devices out (actually most of them, so far I've only found the high end Samsungs to be the exception) feel choppy and laggy no matter how many more mhz you throw at them.

The iPhone no longer requires iTunes (and I personally think the fact that it's an OPTION now is actually a benefit over Android- what if I want an easily browsable local computer copy of my apps and settings, etc). The openness of apps on Android is nice, but the first-to-market apps on iOS is as well. in other…

That's not such a frivolous complaint, IMO. It's the functional equivalent of having your computer mouse cursor lag and skip across the screen every few strokes. Definitely detracts from the overall experience.

Replacing an iPhone 4 back is pretty cheap too and anyone can do it. Dealextreme and places like it have them for $5-$15. The front glass of course is another story...

But Microsoft released Windows 7 when they could've have released a free update to Vista with the same fixes. But instead they released an OS with their regular pricing! Oh yeah, and marketed the hell out of it :)

Have you seen the speed tests comparing the 4S with the Android phones of the month? Pretty embarrassing for them all to be slower than such a "mediocre" device like the 4S.

Multitasking is terrible on 128mb RAM iOS devices. They were smart to hold that back, or people would have whined even more than they did.

You do not need to be connected to power. However it will automatically sync if you are (which makes sense, as you're likely to plug the phone into power when you're not going to be using it for a while).

No, Wifi sync is for syncing to iTunes without a cable. You don't need iTunes to use the device, but if you *do* use iTunes, here's an additional way to sync it. You might be confusing it with iCloud backups (which are mutually exclusive to iTunes backups).

Of course it's software biased, as the iPhone 4S (like any smartphone) is a *system* of hardware and software and not just a pile of hardware. It's extremely noteworthy that, for all the criticism the device has gotten, the iPhone 4S *system* is able to outperform many (all?) of the top Android phones on the market,…