The new iPhone 4S -- on sale a week from Friday -- has a faster central processing unit than the iPhone 4. Its camera's decree and sharpness have been nearly doubled. Web pages and videos load more quickly. And it will be available to Sprint customers in the U.S. for the first occasion, a huge boon for the No. 3 wireless U.S. carrier. The phone is already available to Verizon Wireless and AT&T patrons.The iPhone, launched in 2007, has radically remade Apple into the worlds the majority popular consumer products maker, on behalf of nearly 50% of Apple's yearly profits. And the iPhone has helped sell the iPad tablet, augment Apple's computer marketplace share and move millions of songs and apps sell at Apple's online store.Video: Preview of Apple's new iPhone 4S.It's clearly the future for Apple. "We consider that over time, all handsets motivation become smartphones," said Tim Cook, the new-fangled Apple CEO who take over from ailing co-founder Steve Jobs in August. "This m arket is 1.5 billion units annually and an enormous opportunity for Apple."Among the most touted quality of the 4S is its 8-megapixel camera, which performs better in low daylight than the iPhone 4 and offers more pulsating colors. The video camera shoots 1080p high-definition record, up from the 720p video of the iPhone4."For many customers, the iPhone 4S strength of character is the best camera and videocassette camera they've ever had, and they'll have it with them all over the place they go," said Apple Senior Vice leader Philip Schiller.Apple will begin attractive pre-orders for the iPhone 4S on Friday, with liberation scheduled for Oct. 14. The phones willpower come in black or white and cost $199 for 16 gigabytes, $299 for 32GB and $399 for a new 64GB model. The siphoned 4 motivation sell for $99.A look at some of the harvest and services Apple rolled out on Tuesday:SiriOne of the coolest facial appearance of the iPhone 4S is one that's not visible -- a talking perso nal assistant named Siri, which combines voice activation and artificial intelligence.IPhone owners can hit their home button, and ask about the time and weather, or to make a phone call. A female-sounding voice will react to your request. Siri also workings with reviews website Yelp. Need help, say, in verdict Indian restaurants in San Francisco? Ask Siri, and it will sort through a collection of restaurants as well as pick one for you. Apple purchased Siri nearly a day and a half ago.Google has long had its Voice Search characteristic and has been research voice credit for years. Android-based phones using its Voice Search encompass been capable of quickly pulling up street directions on or after voice commands. But Forrester analyst Frank Gillett says that with Siri: "Apple has actually set the bar in voice recognition."iCloudApple executives also tout new features of its iOS 5 software in addition to iCloud, which eliminates the need to sync devices. The software becomes available Oct. 12.Apple's iCloud will serve up your tune with a premium $24.99 yearly service called iTunes Match. It will allow people to upload to Apple's iCloud music from their libraries that were not purchased at iTunes. Music purchased elsewhere can be automatically piped to all devices a user has linked to Apple's iCloud.The iCloud launch comes as Amazon, Google and Facebook duke it out for media delivery. Last week, Amazon unveiled its low-priced $199 Fire tablet to rival Apple's iPad and its media tie-ins to Amazon's cloud services and provisions. Facebook, at its f8 developer conference the week before that, launch an array of music services from Spotify and Rdio to video services including Netflix and Hulu.ICloud makes all your media existing to all your campaign and puts Apple in the driver's seat for the purchaser cloud. Apple is betting that consumer loyalty to its market-leading iTunes music service will pay sour big. For Apple, this is another way to make ce rtain customer lock-in."I think iCloud is a huge deal. You don't have to imagine about which devices some more it just sort of reach out and connects them," says Gillett. "I completely see Apple as leading the way in personal cloud."
Google and Microsoft have basics of helping you organize your satisfied but not in this seamless way across multiple devices, he sayApple, which traditionally has introduced new iPods each fall, this year left the current iPod Nano and Touch models virtually intact, except for price cuts. The iPod Touch, Apple's best-selling iPod, now starts at $199, down from $229, and the Nano starts at $129, down from $149. The Nano adds a new look -- digital watch faces, including one with Mickey Mouse. There's a white iPod Touch, as well.At the session, Apple updated sales statistics on many area of its businesses.OS X Lion, the operating system update for its Macintosh computers, has more than 6 million downloads so far, 80% more than the previous edition, Snow Leopard.Cook said Apple has sold more than 300 million iPods in the 10 years that the devices have been for sale. There are now 20 million songs available in the iTunes Music Store, up from 200,000 when it in progress.
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