Uhhhh, yeah, sure.
Five reasons you should skip the new iPhone
1. The screen is the same size. With various Android competitors (such as Samsung’s Galaxy S2) boasting large screen sizes of 4 inches and higher, the iPhone 4S still has a 3.5-inch screen that’s virtually unchanged from the iPhone 4.
2. You already have one. Chances are if you’ve already got an iPhone 4, you’re also bound to a three-year contract. Is it worth breaking out of that contract, and paying the termination fee, just to upgrade? Probably not. In fact, you might be better off to wait out your contract term for Apple’s inevitable iPhone 5, which will probably be a true generational upgrade over the iPhone 4S.
3. You can get the features anyway. Apple’s highly touted iCloud and iMessage features are already available with the latest iOS 5 update, which is free for all Apple users. So if you’ve already got an iPhone 4, just get your phone updated and you’ve got two of the iPhone 4S’s big selling features. The only downside? You won’t get Siri, which at this point appears to be exclusive to the new iPhone.
4. Battery life is unchanged. Fans had been hoping for a major upgrade in this department, but it appears battery life is more or less the same on the iPhone 4S. But perhaps this is a bit of a feat on Apple’s part considering the new phone has a faster processor, a more powerful camera, and more features. The new phone provides eight hours of 3G talk time, six hours of juice for 3G web browsing, and nine hours of Wi-Fi browsing. But curiously, the standby battery life has dropped to 200 hours from 300 hours for the iPhone 4.
5. There are other smartphone options. Apple hopes its latest phone offering will fend off the growing challenge from competitors, most notably Samsung. But rival smartphones are making a case that’s becoming harder to ignore. South Korea’s Samsung, which offers devices powered by Google’s Android software, continues to gobble up market share with phones that are more open-ended for developers, and come with larger screens and more powerful processors to boot. If you’re an iPhone user underwhelmed by Apple’s latest offering, there’s probably no better time than now to jump ship.