Smartphone Reviews

iPhone was the first mobile to set the standards for Smartphones and since the realise of the first iPhone it continued to grow with popularity and contain even more advanced features. The iPhone S is the most current iPhone to be released, so what does it offer and is it any good?

Well it sure does look good, with its bold design and metallic edges. At 115.2mm high, 58.6mm wide and a tiny 9.3mm it stands tall and slim to back up its bold, sharp looks. A comfortable hold for longer periods of use and a durable looking design this phone fits into any situation. A simple looking mobile, this iPhone 4S has limited fuss on the outside. Like most Smartphones the 4S went on to look simple and clean therefore drawing more attention into the most important features on the inside.

With only the one home button on the front for quicker navigation along with the full touch screen and then the camera on the back, along with the Apple logo and iPhone sign this phone has very little else on the outside. One increase and one decrease button on the side for volume levels and a silent switch just above, then the Power button on the top and that it is for buttons on this simple mobile.

Available in both black and white, iPhone have shown variety for different users and have not presumed that everyone likes the same thing. Black offering a harder look and white coming across as more soft the choice is yours as to what you choose. Also with finger print resistant oleophobic coating on the back of this mobile you can be sure no grubby finger marks will get left on this mobile.

The screen stands right out on the front of this phone offering the best viewing experience you can expect. A 3.5 Inches it is by far not the biggest on the market but does offer enough space to show off everything this mobile has to offer. With Retina display everything you view on this screen comes to life right in front of your eyes. Pin sharp text, vivd colours, stunning images and vivd clarity graphics, everything is eye catching and crisp. Multi Touch display lets you get more done quicker and navigating around this mobile is easier than ever, with a slight tap for the selection of features, a light pinch to zoom into the very best details and a slide of the finger to glide from screen to screen.

With a customisable home screen you can have your most used and favourite features, downloads, Apps and widgets right on the front screen waiting for you, so you do not have to search through your phone to get to what you want and need the most.

Power is very important in a decent mobile phone now, adding speed to everything you do, making features more powerful and the whole mobile performance more exciting and advanced. So this iPhone 4S has the most powerful iPhone processor yet, with an incredible Dual Core A5 chip. Power efficient so battery life is incredible, lightening fast download speeds, internet webpages loading up almost immediately, general features up and ready to use in no time and graphics on games and apps are almost realistic. Delivering up to 2 times more processing power and the ability to get more done with a longer battery life.

Taking photos on a phone is very important to some people, ensuring they can always capture their favourite moments whenever and wherever they are without having to carry around a bulky digital camera. So with a 8MP iSight camera you can do just that, capturing moments with amazing quality and professional standards. Auto focus makes sure every photos is crisp and clear and LED Flash makes sure that even in the dimmest of lights or conditions your photos are full of colour and life and still show off every detail.

A front facing VGA camera lets you take photos from every angle, so get in on those group photos or just take those photos for your profile pictures on your favourite social networking sites. Then for the moving images or for those moments where photos will just not do justice there is the 1080p Full HD Video Recorder. For capturing the smallest of detail and every emotion and moment as it happens, making sharing moments and re-living them easier than ever the HD Videos are full of life.

One of the biggest, most impressive features of the iPhone 4S is Siri. The first of its kind, Siri listen to what you say and responds immediately, bringing up features you need, bringing up weather forecasts if you want to know what tomorrow will be like, setting alarms for when you need them and even sending messages to people if your hands are full. Nothing is ever to hard for you to do and you will never miss a thing again.

Every Smartphone has an Operating System, it is what defines the Smartphone form the regular mobile phone, so what did Apple go with? Android, Windows? Maybe not, they created their very own OS and it took the iPhone by storm. Featured on them all right up to the latest the 4S iOS features it all, with speed power and precision.

App Store is the place to find all of the entertainment you could ever need with Apps and games by their thousands. Find Apps for almost everything you can think of, health and fitness, travel and news, business and educations, entertainment and music and everything else you could ever need for your lifestyle. Keep up to date with important things with Apps for your day to day life and stay entertained with the plain silly ones. For the music lovers there is iTunes, the only place you need to get the newest songs and albums or your favourite golden oldies and put them in your very own playlists to listen to over and over again.

Make your photos the very best you can with photo editor right on your phone. Crop photos, rotate them different ways, enhance them to the very best quality and even remove red eye if that has caught you in a photo.

The Notification centre keeps you up to date with what is happening and what you have missed. Missed calls, missed messages, Social Network notifications, friend requests, calendar invitations and whatever else you have coming to you, this phone keeps you up to date with everything so you do not have to keep up on your own.

Web browsing has hit a whole new level, with the most advanced internet experience on a mobile you can imagine. With Safari browser webpages load quicker than ever, web articles are ad free and you can even save articles that interest you for reading later on. Multiple web page browsing means you can see more at once and get more done in shorter amounts of time.

There is also iCloud featured on this mobile, the only place to store your music, photos, documents and whatever else you keep on your mobile and syncs them wirelessly to all of your devices. So if you have the iPhone, then an iPad and an iPod, you can have everything on them all if you wish.

Finally, seen as there is a huge amount of data, documents, multimedia, downloads and everything else to be stored on this phone, space is a huge issue, so with a choice of either 16GB, 32GB or a mammoth 64GB you can be sure you will always have space on your mobile for everything you want to save. No more worrying that you are running out of space, just download, upload and enjoy.

Written by:

Laura Pyle

laura@smartphonenewsandreviews.co.uk