Real Life iPhone 4S' Siri Demonstration Is Pretty Damn Impressive [Video]

By Jesus Diaz Oct 11, 2011 9:39 AM 96,107 211

Apple's demos of the new iPhone 4S' Siri smart assistant are very impressive, but they're just controlled demos. Stuff.tv got their hands on an iPhone 4S and played quite a bit with in a public place. It's still very impressive.

It looks like they were playing with it at the Apple Store in Covent Garden, with quite a bit of noise in the background. Not New York subway level noise, but noisy enough. It worked great all the time. The people tone is pretty natural.

But the question is still the same: would you be like Captain Kirk or Picard and bark orders to your phone in public? [Stuff.tv]

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If These Early iPhone 4S Benchmarks Are Legit, It's Pretty Fast [Guts]

By Adrian Covert Oct 11, 2011 10:19 AM 34,423 127

AnandTech has dug up some apparent benchmarks for the iPhone 4S, which they found around different benchmarking sites and believe to be true. Judging from the numbers, it seems like it'll be one of the most powerful mobile devices around.

Overall, these early benchmarks show the iPhone 4S is less powerful than the iPad 2. But it's superior to every other smartphone—the Samsung Galaxy S II and the Motorola Droid Bionic being the best of the bunch— and equal to Samsung's Galaxy Tab 8.9.

In terms of hardware, AnandTech has determined that Apple is underclocking the A5 chipset to ~800MHz and running a slower GPU than the iPad 2. And in case you're wondering why Apple likes to underclock their chips here's why:

A lower clock not only means higher yields from the factory, but likely a lower operating voltage as well. Dropping a CPU's core voltage, yields a greater-than-linear decrease in power consumption, making the marginal loss in clock speed a good choice. At a lower operating frequency than its Android competitors, Apple does have to exploit its strengths in software to avoid any tangible performance penalties. Apple has traditionally done this very well in the past, so I don't expect the loss of frequency to be a huge deal to the few who do cross-shop iOS and Android.

Even with the rumored 512MB of RAM, the iPhone 4S is shaping up to be a beast. [AnandTech]

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A Stylus/Pen/Laser Pointer Is Pretty Much the Greatest Grade School Gadget Ever [Gadgets]

You thought you were pretty awesome in grade school when you'd pull your laser pointer out of your TMNT pencil case and pretended to use it like a pen. Admit it, you did. I did. Well yeah, Griffin's Stylus + Pen + Laser Pointer makes that thing look like an outmoded unitasker.

It's supposedly for artists, students, and professionals—and it will probably be totally useful kind of for them. But let's be serious: The chief virtue of this thing is going to be screwing around at your office or in your dorm room, where you now have an excuse for carrying around a laser pointer, since you don't have that Ninja Turtles pencil case anymore. It's available now for $50. [Griffin]

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