Apple® - iPhone® 4S with 16GB Memory Mobile Phone - Black (AT&T)

Wow totally blown away with how streamlined apple products are! The first day I had it I fell in love with (shoot does this make me an apple fanboy)! This was an upgrade from an Htc inspire, when I got the inspire i did tons of research and found several sites reviewing the inspire vs the iPhone 4 and all said the inspire was better soooo i believed them. This was my first touch screen phone and I loved it except the battery died pretty quick and the thing was pretty glitchy. Switching to the iPhone 4s is indescribable... but i'll try. Setting up the phone and iCloud was super easy, really every thing about the phone is super easy so easy it almost makes it boring ha ha. What I mean by this is it's so intuitive that there is no need to play around or customize the phone to get it how I wanted it. With my inspire there was a thousand different things I could customize and do with it and to get it to do stuff I'd have to do a bit of looking around on the internet for "how to" guides. In this regard I can see how nerdy guys love android phones and hate iPhones. Me though it's been a relief to not waste time trying to hack my phone to get it just right when apple's already done that for you! Don't get me wrong it is kind of fun to try to solve problems but I'm not really into doing that so much with phones - I kind of get my fix for this by playing around with the thousands of apps - very addicting and yes can be as much of a time waster as hacking an android phone. One thing I did have to do a little bit of research on the internet in setting up my iPhone 4s was getting gmail to work correctly through exchange, but like i said it's kind of fun solving these kind of problems but now I'm stuck with my "boring" iPhone that works perfectly. What's next...the display is awesome better than anything i've seen. love how smart the auto brightness is, something you might take for grantite unless you've had an android phone to compare it to. The touch keyboard is very good and intuitive, i hardly ever miss type things - for some reason i was always miss typing on the inspire. I do miss the big screen but i don't miss the size of the inspire. I go running and biking with my 4s and it's size is perfect I wouldn't want it any bigger or smaller. The size feels just right in your hand. It would be interesting to see how much research apple puts into something as simple as the actual size of their phones. WIth my inspire when i look at it now it seems kind of goofy and just like the developers where just thinking "how big can we actually get this thing?" like a white trash red neck figuring out how big of tires he can put on his truck. Ok next - the call quality, it works perfect, no complaints. The processor behind the phone is excellent. It's hard to judge the processor other than the phone and apps work perfectly and there are never any delays or lagging. The only thing i can really see where the better processor actually matters in comparing it to my friends iPhone 4 is in the camera. The camera does work much faster and you can tell there is some real power and speed behind how fast the phone stores the pictures you just took. The in-between time for taking pictures is as good as any point and shoot camera. With the camera - pictures are awesome! supper clear, I was worried that the picture size would be a problem with storage on the phone but....we have iCloud! I hardly ever attach my iPhone to my mac. I have it set to automatically upload all the pictures to iCloud so I can go through when ever I want and delete the pictures on my iPhone and they are on my mac in iPhoto under a folder titled "october photo stream". I'm assuming that in november it will make a new folder. Because iCloud is only free for i think 2 gb I will eventually have to physically save this folder to my computer. Might be important to note for some people that the only way to delete pictures from photo stream/icloud is when viewing them on the computer. You have access to all the pictures you previously took took from your camera in your photo stream album but you can't delete them from the iPhone. Next, the battery life is terrific and a not even something you have to think about(with my inspire i was constantly worrying about this and had to bring a charger everywhere!) I don't put my iphone back on the charger until i'm laying in bed and after I've watched an episode of the office on netflix. I guess the last thing to talk about is Siri. She's great! At first I thought it was a bit of a novelty and just a funny thing to show off to friends but it has become a very usable and important thing to me. First though I have to note that the iPhone headphones are garbage to me - they hurt my ears just sitting there for even a minute. To make Siri really usable though you need the inline controller that the iPhone headphones have so I bought the Klipsch is4 headphones (they are awesome you can see my review through best buy). I bike and run a lot and it's very useful to do things while biking or running without taking the phone out of pocket. By pressing the button on the inline controller I'm able to make a call to anyone, text, hear new text, respond to text, play fast forward skip, rewind music and even make a custom genius playlist, make notes, memos, make appointments, reminders - all while the phone is stowed safely away. It's still fun to use Siri for entertainment. My wife is always amused when I have conversations with Siri especially when I say to Siri, "Siri remind me to tell my wife that I love her in 30 minutes". In conclusion great phone/video camera/camera/assistant/music player/video player/personal video game system/gps navigator....the list could go on. The only things I can see apple improving on for the next iPhone would be for a slimmer phone (I think a phone as thin as the iPod touch would be perfect) and maybe a screen that goes goes closer to it's edges without your fingers holding the phone interfere, and of course we have to eventually get the technology to project holograms of princess leia...

I had been debating on getting an iPhone for years and finally took the plunge and bought one for me and my wife. I can honestly say i don't know how i went this long without an iPhone. The Best Buy Mobile store was great to work with and answer all of my smartphone questions and got both phones setup in less than an hour and transferred all information from our old phones. My wife's phone had some problems the 1st week and wasn't able to make or receive phone calls - bad SIM card - but they were able to fix it quickly. I went back and forth between the $.99 3GS, the $100 4, and the $200 4s - i'm glad i bought the 4s. I needed a 4 or 4s b/c i wanted Facetime since i travel for work and have kids at home; Facetime is great.....wish i didn't have to have a wifi connection for it, but that makes sense. The 4s was worth the extra $100 for Siri and the phones ability to type text messages and other things just by talking and the other upgrades from the 4 - it's faster. The camera on the phone is great! i wish i would have known i was going to buy this phone a few months ago and i wouldn't have bought a new point and shoot camera b/c this thing is just as good. Great for taking pictures and videos of my kids. The iCloud service is also a big plus - backs up all my pictures, apps, and other phone information and the first 5GB is free. Overall, great phone and love how easy it is to use the app store and the overall use and functionality of the phone. My wife's not that tech savy - i still have to sync her ipod for her - and she is able to use this phone with no problem.

My four year old daughter is always asking if she can talk to my phone, siri is something else. I cant wait until they release the full version, from my understanding siri is still in beta testing. Besides the artificial intelligence the new iphone 4s is the most fun i have ever had with a phone. I went from an android samsung galaxy vibrant to iphone and am thrilled with the new found apple experience. (Although i am a lot slower at typing now as i did grow very accustmed to the swpe cabality of android.) It even convinced me to get an ipad for christmas. As far as the icloud stuff i misplaced my phone on laundry day and was able to locate it with my brothers iphone. What a wonderful feature and great piece of mind. I love the clarity and amazing screen we love watching youtube and hulu in the car! As far as the problems people have had with battery life and dropped calls from the previous model i have not experienced any of those, i do however always update it so i have heard that will help those who have had problems. The best feature is the mobile hotspot capability, with at&t my phone turns into a wifi device that my laptop can connect to, although the integration for the ipad makes the perfect combination of 2 devices working great together. With the hotspot on your phone it makes any wifi ipad like a 3g one without the extra cost or need of an extra data plan! All in all a great phone that also has lots of learning aps and capabilities for my daughter. I would highly recommend the new iphone 4s!

Best Buy beat everyone's price by $50. This is my 2nd iPhone so I am a fan and I bought my wife an iPhone 4S for Christmas. My current plan cost $160 per month and had1600 nationwide minutes, one iPhone with unlimited data and 1500 text per month, and 300 text for my wife, and only shared talk on the 3rd phone. We chose a plan with unlimited talk and text to other mobile phones for all 3 phones and sharing 1 Gig of data for $40 for the 2 iPhones. We were told the total would be only $100 plus tax. I picked up the new iPhone around 9:00 a.m. at the store and had it activated along with the plan change. I logged into my account that night on ATT website and sure enough there was my new plan as promised. A few days later I logged into my ATT account again to pay my bill and my plan price had jumped from $100 to $230. Added to my plan was a $45 per iPhone charge and a $36 per month charge for the talk only phone that used to be $9.99 per month. When I called customer service the girl was polite, but she just wouldn't admit that someone had changed my plan. The deals offered in December were gone and she treated me like a new customer who just walked in to choose from what they have today. She blamed Best Buy for not telling me about the $45 each fee for iPhones and had no explanation as to why $36 per month of services had been piled onto my 87 year old mother-in-law's phone. We had to settle for 450 minute plan with 300 gig for each of the 2 iPhones, less that half of what I had, and just to keep the bill around where it was. I''m not sure who is at fault, Best Buy, or ATT, but we really got screwed trying to save $50 on an iPhone from Best Buy. So I would recommend the phone to anyone, but I would say that making a plan change at Best Buy is dangerous.

I purchased an iphone for my daughter with a protection plan and 3 of your employees at the phone station told me the plan covered ANY damage to the phone. They told me if the phone was damaged in anyway it would be replaced if I had the protection plan. Today Sat April 13th my daughter accidently dropped her phone in the toilet and she couldn't make phone calls after. I told the Geek Squad Customer Service Manager in the Pottstown, PA. store honestly what happened and he said THAT it wasn't covered for that. He was short....curt and rude. He definitely needs to go to a Customer Relations class. I asked him to talk to the manager and he laughed and said, "you are looking at him." I said surely you have a superior and he.said he wasn't there. He took down my name and phone number and I never heard from his superior. I asked him to print me a copy of the protection plan and he made my daughter and I wait for 10 minutes and then came out and handed me about a 12-14 page policy and he highlighted the emersion in water paragraph. I then called the corporate office and talked to two very nice Customer Relations women that tried to help me. Then I talked to a public defender who refused to understand and would not replace my phone like I wanted. In the past 2 months I have purchased a Toshiba laptop, a router, a modem, a cd , Microsoft Office software and an IPHONE with cover and protective film for keyboard. I have bought many many products over the years from BEST BUY. Because of the way people treated me, did not give me a copy or explain the Protection Plan thoroughly and the total mishandling of the entire situation and really upset me to the point THAT I WILL NEVER purchase another thing at Best Buy again. You lost a good customer today !

Well, this review is for the people that have never owned one and were considering it. I have had a new Andriod based phone since they came out. I loved the OS and I liked the set-up. However, it really just can't compare to the Apple experience. I had my ipod... bought a Macbook... then it all came together with the iphone. Yes, I 100% agree that the specs don't match up with the best of the Android phones. However, what sold me was that they don't change like the Andriod phones do. That was a huge selling point. If you buy an iphone - you are able to do all of the things every other iphone user can do. With Andriod phones, mine was the best of the best... for about a month. My wife's phone was 1 year old and could not even get the upgrade to the OS to get any new apps. She essentially had a dead phone after a year. From there is was easy. I was able to just set it up through my Apple account and it all flowed together. With the cloud feature, app store and all of the things Apple seems to do right - I just cannot see myself switching back to any other type of phone.

I had the iPhone 3g for three years. I was waiting for the next iPhone to come out so I could get the iPhone 4 for $99. When I heard about the great camera and video camera I sprung for the 4s and I'm so glad I did. It's super fast and takes great pictures. No need for an extra camera to carry around. I really didn't think I'd use Siri, but I use it ALL the time. It's very convenient and provides for a good laugh at parties! "Siri you crack me up!" The response, "I'll take that as a compliment." I use this phone constantly. I have apps for banking, social networking, games for my kids (and me!), cooking, ordering pizza, etc. It is soooo much more than a phone. My only issue with the 4s was poor reception in a case. I was constantly losing service. I held the phone next to my husband's 3Gs - his had four bars and mine said no service. After one week, I was hours from taking the phone back when someone thought the fake metallic case would be interferring with reception. We took it out of the case and thank goodness they were right!!! My great reception returned. It has just as good of reception as my old phone, maybe even better. I LOVE THIS PHONE!!

I haven't traveled much since getting my iPhone but within my home area the reception and signal strength has been every bit as good as Verizon or T-Mobile. It's even a little better than T-Mobile within my home. I like that when I purchase an app or music, take a photo, make a note, send/receive email, etc it effortlessly gets synced to my iPad and Mac. I find myself needing to recharge every 1-2 days so I'd love to see better battery life, but that does improve when I remember to turn on WiFi when not in use. Apple needs to restore the ability to access those functions so that app developers can create the one-touch access to turn them on or off. I was unsure just how much data I would need so I opted for the 5GB plan. In casual use over three weeks I've only used 150MB so I think it might be overkill. One cautionary note: If you have a corporate savings plan like I do, know the details prior to signing up. When I got my phone the rep was unfamiliar with my savings plan. He was not able to add it to the account at the time of purchase. He said all I would need to do is call AT&T myself and it would be added to the account. This was not true, I had to register for it online and couldn't do so until 3 days later. That three day delay cost me an extra $12.00 in missed discounts.