• iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Hit One Million Mark in 24 Hours


    iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Hit One Million Mark in 24 Hours

    iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Hit One Million Mark in 24 Hours

    Apple has just issued a press release which you can read in full below mentioning that they have sold one million pre-orders for the iPhone 4S in first 24 hours. This tops the previous record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. Not to mention that AT&T has processed 200,000 preorders in the first 12 hours alone.

    Phil Schiller had to say in the release:

    We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S. The first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S have been the most for any new product that Apple has ever launched and we are thrilled that customers love iPhone 4S as much as we do.

    iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours

    CUPERTINO, California—October 10, 2011—Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics; an all new camera with advanced optics; full 1080p HD resolution video recording; and Siri™, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking.

    “We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S have been the most for any new product that Apple has ever launched and we are thrilled that customers love iPhone 4S as much as we do.”

    iPhone 4S will be available at all 245 Apple retail stores in the US beginning at 8 a.m. local time on Friday, October 14. Every customer who buys an iPhone 4S at an Apple retail store will be offered free Personal Setup service, helping them customize their iPhone 4S by setting up email, showing them new apps from the App Store™ and more, so they’ll be up and running with their new iPhone before they leave the store.

    iPhone 4S includes iOS 5, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features, and iCloud®, a breakthrough set of free cloud services that work seamlessly with your iPhone, iPad®, iPod touch®, Mac® or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices. 

    Pricing & Availability 
    iPhone 4S comes in either black or white and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the new 64GB model.* iPhone 4S will be available from the Apple Online Store, Apple’s retail stores and through AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, and select Best Buy, Target and Walmart stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. iPhone 4 is available for just $99 (US) and iPhone 3GS is available for free with a two year contract. 

    iPhone 4S will roll out worldwide to 22 more countries by the end of October including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

    *Qualified customers only. Requires a new two year rate plan, sold separately.

    Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

  • Google and Samsung Delay Nexus Prime Launch Due to Steve Jobs Mourning


    Google and Samsung announce that the Galaxy Nexus, a.k.a the Nexus Prime, will not launch at the Mobile Unpacked conference October 12 next Wednesday, as expected and teased.

    Google and Samsung “just felt it was the wrong time to hold a launch event, as the world continues mourning Jobs”:

    The decision to postpone things was made late last night at the top levels of both companies, sources said, with Jobs’ death being the reason. There are no delays with the product itself, sources insisted.

    Samsung and Google later updated their original press statement, which now reads:

    We believe this is not the right time to announce a new product as the world expresses tribute to Steve Jobs’s passing.

    They are likely to make an announcement on the launch late next week.  The new Google phone is built by Samsung and is rumored to have a 4.65-inch, 720P display with dual core 1.5GHz Samsung processor, NFC, 1GB of RAM and runs over Android Ice Cream Sandwich. It will likely be one of the stronger competitors for iPhone 4S.

  • List of iOS 5 Voice Commands for Siri


    Curious about the iPhone 4S‘s new voice assistant feature, Siri?

    Here is a set of example phrases tracked down by TUAW that Siri voice assistant is capable of understanding, ordered by interaction category, along with Apple-supplied examples of using each category.

    Address Book

    Querying Contacts

    • What’s Michael’s address?
    • What is Susan Park’s phone number?
    • When is my wife’s birthday?
    • Show Jennifer’s home email address

    Finding Contacts

    • Show Jason Russell
    • Find people named Park
    • Who is Michael Manning?

    Relationships

    • My mom is Susan Park
    • Michael Manning is my brother
    • Call my brother at work

    Calendars

    Adding Events

    • Set up a meeting at 9
    • Set up a meeting with Michael at 9
    • Meet with Lisa at noon
    • Set up a meeting about hiring tomorrow at 9am
    • New appointment with Susan Park Friday at 3
    • Schedule a planning meeting at 8:30 today in the boardroom

    Changing events

    • Move my 3pm meeting to 4:30
    • Reschedule my appointment with Dr. Manning to next Monday at 9am
    • Add Lisa to my meeting with Jason
    • Cancel the budget review meeting

    Asking about events

    • What does the rest of my day look like?
    • What’s on my calendar for Friday?
    • When is my next appointment?
    • When am I meeting with Michael?
    • Where is my next meeting?

    Alarms

    Setting Alarms

    • Wake me up tomorrow at 7am
    • Set an alarm for 6:30am
    • Wake me up in 8 hours
    • Change my 6:30 alarm to 6:45
    • Turn off my 6:30 alarm
    • Delete my 7:30 alarm

    Checking the Clock

    • What time is it?
    • What time is it in Berlin?
    • What is today’s date?
    • What’s the date this Saturday?

    Using a Timer

    • Set the timer for ten minutes
    • Show the timer
    • Pause the timer
    • Resume
    • Reset the timer
    • Stop it

    Email

    Sending Messages

    • Email Lisa about the trip
    • Email Jennifer about the change in plans
    • New email to Susan Park
    • Mail Dad about the rent check
    • Email Dr. Manning and say I got the forms, thanks
    • Mail Lisa and Jason about the party and say I had a great time

    Checking Messages

    • Check email
    • Any new email from Michael today?
    • Show new mail about the lease
    • Show the email from Lisa yesterday

    Responding to Messages

    • Reply Dear Susan sorry about the late payment
    • Call him at work

    Friends

    Checking Up on Friends

    • Where’s Jason?
    • Where is my sister?
    • Is my wife at home?
    • Where are all my friends?
    • Who is here?
    • Who is near me?

    Maps

    Directions

    • How do I get home?
    • Show 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino California
    • Directions to my dad’s work

    Local Businesses

    • Find coffee near me
    • Where is Starbucks?
    • Find some burger joints in Baltimore
    • Find a gas station within walking distance
    • Good Mexican restaurants around here

    Messages

    Sending Texts

    • Tell Susan I’ll be right there
    • Send a message to Jason Russell
    • Send a message to Lisa saying how about tomorrow
    • Tell Jennifer the show was great
    • Send a message to Susan on her mobile saying I’ll be late
    • Send a message to 408 555 1212
    • Text Jason and Lisa where are you?

    Reading Texts

    • Read my new messages
    • Read it again

    Replying to Texts

    • Reply that’s great news
    • Tell him I’ll be there in 10 minutes
    • Call her

    Music

    Playback

    • Play The Light of the Sun
    • Play Trouble
    • Play Taking Back Sunday shuffled
    • Play Alicia Keys
    • Play some blues
    • Play my party mix
    • Shuffle my roadtrip playlist
    • Play
    • Pause
    • Skip

    Notes

    Creating and finding notes

    • Note that I spent $12 on lunch
    • Note: check out that new Alicia Keys album
    • Find my restaurant note
    • Create a reading list note
    • Add Tom Sawyer to my reading list note

    Phone

    Phone calls

    • Call Jason
    • Call Jennifer Wright mobile
    • Call Susan on her work phone
    • Call 408 555 1212
    • Call home
    • FaceTime Lisa

    Reminders

    Requesting reminders

    • Remind me to call mom
    • Remind me to call my mom when I get home
    • Remember to take an umbrella
    • Remind me take my medicine at 6am tomorrow
    • Remind me to pick up flowers when I leave here
    • Remind me when I leave to call Jason
    • Remind me to finish the report by 6

    Stocks

    Checking Stocks

    • What’s Apple’s stock price?
    • What is Apple’s PE ratio?
    • What did Yahoo close at today?
    • How is the Nikkei doing?
    • How are the markets doing?
    • What is the Dow at?

     

    Weather

    Checking the Forecast

    • What’s the weather for today?
    • What’s the weather for tomorrow?
    • Will it rain in Cupertino this week?
    • Check next week’s forecast for Burlington
    • What’s the forecast for this evening?
    • How’s the weather in Tampa right now?
    • How hot will it be in Palm Springs this weekend?
    • What’s the high for Anchorage on Thursday?
    • What’s the temperature outside?
    • How windy is it out there?
    • When is sunrise in Paris?

    Websearch

    Looking up information

    • Search the web for Bora Bora
    • Search for vegetarian pasta recipes
    • Search the web for best cable plans
    • Google the war of 1812
    • Search Wikipedia for Abraham Lincoln
    • Search for news about the World Cup
    • Bing Alicia Keys

     

    Using Wolfram Alpha

    • How many calories in a bagel?
    • What is an 18% tip on $86.74 for four people?
    • Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?
    • How long do dogs live?
    • What is the Gossamer Condor?
    • What’s the square root of 128?
    • How many dollars is €45?
    • What was the Best Picture of 1983?
    • How many days until Christmas?
    • How far away is the Sun?
    • When is the next solar eclipse?
    • Show me the Orion constellation
    • What’s the population of Jamaica?
    • How high is Mt. Everest?
    • How deep is the Atlantic ocean?
    • What’s the price of gasoline in Chicago?
  • Samsung Teases Nexus Prime, Promises to be BIG


    Samsung, with a great timing, you know how to time this Samsung, don’t you? Just a day after the disappointing iPhone 4S announcement yesterday, comes a teaser of what looks like the Samsung Nexus Prime. with a tagline “Something BIG is coming,” and both the Samsung and Google logos at the end of the clip.

    The device is said to have 4.6” display 720 x 1280 pixels. the new Samsung Nexus Prime will probably make a debut at CTIA in San Diego October 11th, and it promises to be big.