{"id":4324,"date":"2011-10-19T22:32:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T03:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2011-10-20T19:10:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T00:10:27","slug":"iphone-4s-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=4324","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 4S Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/6245506182\/\" title=\"iPhone 4S Home Screen\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6116\/6245506182_87c9023edf.jpg\" class=\"entry\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" alt=\"iPhone 4S Home Screen\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve had my new iPhone for five days I feel confident saying I totally love it! It&#8217;s so much faster than my old phone; it responds instantly to my commands instead of taking a moment to think about it. I noticed the auto-correct works much better now too which is a relief since I suck at typing on the virtual keyboard. The retina display is amazing too. I even love the feel of the phone in my hand and I was a bit worried about that. Oh and the battery life seems pretty decent too. Not amazing, but then again, what smartphone battery is?<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I&#8217;m not happy with is that it&#8217;s still hard to hear calls through the phone&#8217;s earpiece. The sound level is fine on speaker or through the headphones but the earpiece never seems loud enough and I can&#8217;t hear well if there&#8217;s any background noise. I&#8217;m surprised no one else has complained about this. I have excellent hearing (verified at the doctor office this year when I had water trapped behind my eardrum) so I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s me nor do I think I have a faulty phone since I had the same complaint with my 3GS. Luckily I don&#8217;t use the phone part of my device as much as all the other features. <\/p>\n<p>The only complaint I have seen online is regarding yellow screens. I compared my new phone to the 3GS and while it does have a warmer look to it I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s excessive. I&#8217;m guessing it must have been done intentionally to make viewing the screen easier on the eyes. <\/p>\n<p>In any case, if anyone reading this is contemplating getting the iPhone 4S I highly recommend it. Coupled with the awesome features of iOS5 (hello notification center), it&#8217;s even better than I was expecting. I&#8217;m totally becoming an Apple whore. It&#8217;s just a matter of time before I cave and buy an iPad.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus: I highly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/whatsapp-messenger\/id310633997?mt=8&#038;ls=1\">WhatsApp<\/a> for SMS-free texting if you don&#8217;t have an unlimited texting plan. It works much better than any of the other texting-replacement apps I&#8217;ve tried over the past two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve had my new iPhone for five days I feel confident saying I totally love it! It&#8217;s so much faster than my old phone; it responds instantly to my commands instead of taking a moment to think about it. I noticed the auto-correct works much better now too which is a relief since I suck at typing on the virtual keyboard. The retina display is amazing too. I even love the feel of the phone in my hand and I was a bit worried about that. Oh and the battery life seems pretty decent too. Not amazing, but then again, what smartphone battery is? The only thing I&#8217;m not happy with is that it&#8217;s still hard to hear calls through the phone&#8217;s earpiece. The sound level is fine on speaker or through the headphones but the earpiece never seems loud enough and I can&#8217;t hear well if there&#8217;s <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=4324\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-product-reviews","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4328,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions\/4328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}