Apple iPhone 4S announced; sports an A5-Chip and an 8MP camera

Along with the new Cards app, and the slightly updated iPod line-up, fruit named company Apple Inc also announced its next-generation iPhone – the iPhone 4S.

The new iPhone sports the powerful A5 chip, which powers the iPad 2. There is a dual-core Cortex A9 processor inside, which is up to 2X powerful than its predecessor. The PowerVR SGX543MP GPU is up to 7x times faster than the GPU find inside the A4 chip.

Apple also emphasised on the battery life of the iPhone 4S. Apple quotes up to 8 hours of talk time on 3G, which increases to a whopping 14 hours on 2G. The battery will last for 6 hours while browsing on 3G, which increases to 9 hours on Wi-Fi. The new iPhone 4S is also capable of playing back videos for up to 10 hours, or continuously pump out music for a staggering 40 hours. Unlike the iPhone 4, the iPhone 4S is a world-phone. This means there will be a single iPhone this year, for Verizon, AT&T and Sprint.

The iPhone 4S also sports an updated 8MP camera, which has a backside illuminated CMOS sensor. This means better low-light pictures, which allow for up to 73% more light to pass through. There is also a Hybrid IR filter, better colour accuracy and more color uniformity. The aperture size of the camera lens f/2.4 and it has a five-element lens with 30% more sharpness.

There is also a new custom designed ISP from Apple, which will enable iPhone 4S owners to take pictures in an instant, and have other features like face-detection and auto-white balance. Thanks to the dual-core processor, the new iPhone 4S is also capable of recording videos in Full HD (1080p) resolution. There is also real-time video image stabilisation, which is a first for a phone along with real-time temporal noise reduction.

The new iPhone also has AirPlay Mirrioring, along with Wired Mirrioring. The iPhone 4S will also have a new voice recognition feature, Siri. Readers can read more about Siri here.

Pre-orders for the iPhone 4S begins from October 7, and it will be available in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, France, Germany and Japan. The 16GB iPhone 4S will be cost $199, while the 32GB and 64GB variant will cost $299 and $399 respectively.

In the United States, the iPhone 4S will be available on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint! The handset will hit the retail stores on October 14th.

Courtesy: http://techie-buzz.com/mobile-news/