Sorry folks, no iPhone 5 on the horizon

Apple Announces iPhone 4S: Old Design, New Specs, Siri Assistant
Apple's next smart phone is the iPhone 4S. On the outside, it looks just like the iPhone 4, but as Apple said at its press event on Tuesday, it's the inside that counts.

• The iPhone 4S uses Apple's dual-core A5 chip, the same one found in the iPad 2.
• The iPhone 4S is seven times faster than the iPhone 4.
• Battery life has been boosted to eight hours of talk time, compared with seven hours on the previous iPhone.
• However the "Retina" display introduced with the iPhone 4, with its 960-by-640 resolution, remains untouched on the iPhone 4S.
• The iPhone 4S also has an 8-megapixel camera with 1080p video capture.
• For still images, it needs only 1.1 seconds to take its first photo and 0.5 seconds for subsequent stills.

The biggest news is Siri, the voice-controlled virtual-assistant software Apple acquired last year. Users can hold down the iPhone 4S home button and say things like "How do I get home?" "What's the weather for today?" or "Search Wikipedia for Neil Armstrong."

Siri will call up the appropriate app or OS function. The user can also dictate text messages and e-mails to Siri (which can read messages back to the user).

No iPhone 5, but meet Apple's faster, more powerful iPhone 4S
The iPhone 4S will be available in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Britain on Friday, Oct 14, before being rolled out to 22 more countries worldwide - including Singapore - before the end of this month. Pricing for the iPhone 4S in Singapore has not been announced, although the price for the previous versions of the phone will be slashed.

New Apple iPhone fails to wow investors, fans
Apple Inc's newest iPhone left Wall Street and fans wishing for more than a souped-up version of last year's device, igniting a rare storm of criticism and disappointment.

"It's been 16 months and all you've got is an A5 processor in the existing iPhone 4," said BGC Partners' analyst Colin Gillis.

"It's kind of funny -- if they have gone and called it the 5, the stock would have been fine, but they're calling it the 4S, which is a disappointment to some," said WP Stewart portfolio manager Michael Walker.

Twitter users were not impressed with the phone either.

"Please note I will be selling some 'S' stickers for $0.99 so iPhone 4 owners have a cheaper upgrade option," wrote HAL9000 on Twitter.

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