What's the Differences between iPhone 5 and iPhone 4s

Several hours ago, the new generation iPhone was finally announced, in fact, that is iPhone 5, which has the features as just what the rumors said, for another word, there's no amazing things when it announced. But iPhone 5 still has much improved relatively to iPhone 4S, and that just the differences between iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S.

 Specs of iPhone 5

As the new generation iPhone, iPhone 5 has a 4'' retina display with 1136×640 pixels resolution, and which 4.87''×2.31''×0.35''  body with 112 grams weight make it totally different from iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, and that make iPhone 5 is  the thinnest and lightest iPhone now. And on iPhone 5, the processor is the ARM Cortex-A15 dual core A6, Apple says which will be up to twice as fast compared with iPhone 4S's A5 chip. And the FaceTime camera on iPhone 5 is a 1.2MP with 720p HD video recording capability camera. The most important is iPhone 5 is powered by iOS 6, and the headphones for iPhone 5 is Apple EarPods , connector is Lightning (8Pin),much different from iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, iPhone 5 accept Nano SIM card but not Micro SIM card. And as what we have expected, iPhone 5 start to support 4G LTE.

Difference Between iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S

 Specs of iPhone 4S

But for iPhone 4S, which has a 3.5'' retina display with 960×640 pixels resolution, and processor on iPhone 4S is an dual core ARM Cortex-A9, Apple A5 chip. Which FaceTime camera just has a VGA(640×480 piexels) video recording capability, we can call it VGA camera. And iPhone 4S is powered by iOS 5, the headphones for iPhone 4S is Apple Earphones, connector is 30 pin, LTE is not supported on iPhone 4S.

And except for these, other things on iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S are almost the same. Like the iSight camera are both 8MP, f/2.4 aperture, with the ability to record full HD 1080p videos with 30fps. and the same pixel density (326ppi) on the same retina display. and also the same multimedia playback ability, for videos, iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S are both support .m4v, mp4, .mov format videos, and for the H.264 codec, which can up to 1080p full HD with 30fps, for the MPG4 codec, which accept 640×480 pixels with 30fps videos, for the M-JPEG codec,  which accept 720p (1280×720 pixels) with 30fps videos.

So you may have found that the differences between iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S are mainly focus on the processor, body size, headphones, connector and the iOS, actually, it's true, there's no amazing changing on iPhone 5, but the new iOS 6 will bring you some new features on iPhone 5 that iPhone 4S can't, like passbook, Apple Map, etc..  (See more new features for iPhone 5 on Things iPhone 5 Will Do)

Lightning to 30-pin Adapter

And that are just all differences between iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S, most of you may have a little letdown on iPhone 5, but at least the enlarged screen and added LTE ability on iPhone 5 are still make you to believe iPhone is great. At last, if you want to connect your current iPhone accessories to iPhone 5, please use a Lightning to 30-pin adapter, due to the different dock on iPhone 5 and previous iDevices.

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How Do You Think About the New iPhone 5

How do you think about iPhone 5, the new iPhone, next generation of iPhone 4S. The answer of this question will probably become the key factor for you to determine to buy or not to buy an iPhone 5. As the next generation iPhone, the new iPhone has been in rumors for a long time since the iPhone 4S got released last year, probably due to the reason that we are eagerly to know exactly what amazing new things we can do with iPhone 5. As Siri, the new function on iPhone 4S made our life full of pleasure, so almost all of us are full of  expectation to know how about iPhone 5, the new generation of iPhone. Such as the release date of iPhone 5, the price of iPhone 5, what carrier will be the first to sell iPhone 5, what's the specs of iPhone 5, what's the iPhone 5 differences, and what's the new feature of iPhone 5.

Some days ago, almost all things about iPhone 5 are uncertainly, although there were always tons of rumors on the new iPhone. But now, the situation has been changed that some things around the new iPhone start to be clear.

The first certainty on iPhone 5 is come from the announcement of iOS 6 in this WWDC, which not only mean iPhone 5 will run iOS 6, but also some new features like integrated Facebook, Apple Maps and the added Chinese on Siri will be brought to iPhone 5 together with iOS 6.

The second certainty on iPhone 5 is the screen on the new iPhone will be larger than iPhone 4S, and 1GB RAM, much more battery capacity, and the changed ports for nano-SIM card and 19-pin Dock, more amazing is a quad core A6 processor will run on iPhone 5, and no doubt that the new iPhone 5 will become the first device from Apple featured with quad core processor.

So these just a part of things aroud iPhone 5 we are sure, and there are also some other amazing things that almost can be sure, that are iPhone 5 release date is in 12 September, and the new iPod Nano and new iPod Touch will also be released at the same time.

That are all things we know about the new iPhone 5 so far, as the same as New iPad 3, iPhone 4S, there are also many of us full of high expectation on iPhone 5, these people believe iPhone 5 will be the best smartphone in 2012 and even in 2013. But compared with Samsung Galaxy S3, the current information about iPhone 5 may bring you a little disappoint on this new iPhone 5, as we have not get the information that iPhone 5 can do things like transferring file from one iPhone to another iPhone with just putting two iPhones near, staying the display brightness when you are keeping reading ebooks etc., and actually, that are what Samsung Galaxy S3 can do.

So with the iPhone 5 release date near by and more and more so called real things of iPhone 5 appear on the internet, are you get excited? However, I get it. And I feel a little disappointed with the new iPhone 5 based on the current information, but I still believe the new iPhone 5 will be also great.

And at last, how do you think about iPhone 5? Satisfied or disappointed?

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3 Methods to Transfer Files from iPhone to Another iPhone

How to transfer files from iPhone to another iPhone? This may have became a serious problem for more and more people,as more and more people have both iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4S, or iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, ( Also iPhone 4 and iPhone 5, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 in the near future),  they need to transfer files from one iPhone to another iPhone when they get both iPhone at the first time or with a sudden, such as transfer files from iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4, transfer files from iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4S , transfer files from iPhone 4 to iPhone 4S ( The same transfer files from iPhone 4 to iPhone 5, transfer file from iPhone 4S to iPhone 5 in the near future). And this often happen between two persons who own iPhone, although they have only single iPhone. So get to know how to transfer files from iPhone to another iPhone seems more and more important, at least I believe so.

In order to make as many as possible persons are able to transfer their files from one iPhone to another iPhone, there will be 3 ways listed below, which all are my personal experiences.

Method One, Use iCloud to Transfer Files from iPhone to iPhone (The Easiest Way)

 

iCloud is just the cloud service from Apple, which allow people to upload their files from iOS devices to iCloud, then people can get the files from iCloud on their any iOS devices and computer with the same Apple ID. So with iCloud, which will make the way of transferring your files from iPhone to another iPhone become easy.

In this way, which need you to set up iCloud on both your iPhones (like iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4S), then you'll find you can download the iPhone files from iCloud to another iPhone easily after you push the files from one iPhone to iCloud.

And this way is suitable for people to transfer purchased music, videos, TV shows, ebooks and movies, and also the calender, contacts from iPhone to another iPhone under the same iTunes account.

And with this way , you need to know How to Set Up iCloud on iPhone. 

Method Two, Use iTransfer to Transfer Files from iPhone to iPhone (The Best Way)

 

iTransfer is the known assistant of  iTunes, with iTranser, which can allow you to transfer music, photos, videos and ebooks from one iPhone to another iPhone, no matter purchased items or unpurchased items, but calender and contacts.

In this way, which need you to install iTransfer on your computer (Only works on Windows computer so far), iTransfer will remind you to install the latest iTunes on your computer in the installing process. And then you can plug both iPhones to iTransfer, find them from iTransfer bar from the left (similar to iTunes bar), click on one iPhone which contains the files you want to transfer and find the files to right click on the files to choose "Transfer to (another) iPhone", then the files can be transferred from one iPhone to another iPhone soon.

And this way is suitable for those who want to transfer unpurchased songs, videos ,photos and ebooks between two iPhones under different iTunes account, and also the purchased songs, videos,photos and ebooks under the same iTunes account.

And with this way, you need to install iTransfer on your computer (Note:iTransfer can only works on Windows computer)

Method Three, Use iTunes to Transfer Files from iPhone to iPhone (The Common Way)

iTunes is the official tool from Apple for people to sync files from computer to iPhone, which also is a great tool for people to transfer files from iPhone to another iPhone.

In this way, we need to transfer files from one iPhone to iTunes first, the method is like below.

Step1, Go to devices preferences on iTunes;

Step2, Check the option "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically";

Step3, Connect the iPhone which contains the files you want to transfer, go to 'File' menu on iTunes to choose "Transfer Purchases from iPhone".

Then the purchased things can be transferred to iTunes soon, then connect your another iPhone to iTunes , then to sync it with iTunes, then the files from the previous iPhone will be transferred to this iPhone soon.

And in this way, as the same as iCloud, you can only transfer purchased music, videos ,photos and ebooks, and also the calender and contacts between two iPhones under the same iTunes account.

So, these are just the 3 methods to transfer files from iPhone to another iPhone with my experiences, hopes it can help those who are not know how to transfer files between multiple iPhones.

How Do You Think about Nokia Lumia 710

So how do you think about Nokia Lumia 710? actually,  Nokia Lumia 710 is  just one entry-level Windows smartphone, but it is the first Windows smartphone with 4G capability in United States, for the first sight on it you may think Nokia Lumia 710 is not a good smartphone relatively to famous iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy S2 or Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X. Because many features on Nokia Lumia 710 are not as goog as those phones.

For Nokia Lumia 710 CPU, which is a single core Qualcmm MSM8255 (WCDMA) with 1.4 GHz clock rate processor, but iPhone 4S , Samsung Galaxy S2 are dual core processor, the HTC One X and Samsung Galaxy S3 are quad core Processor, for this difference, what's your opinion if you are intending to buy a pone? I guess Nokia Lumia 710 will be not in your planning list, as other things like RAM, display on Nokia Lumia 710 are the same situation with the CPU, they are all out of date in your eyes.

But it is a good phone in my opinion, the most reason is Nokia is the best phone manufacturer in the world, which phones can usually get better call quality in metro and other lower phone signal districts, and that is the most important feature for a phone, I think.  And durable is another great characteristic on Nokia phone, and I think that will be the same with Nokia Lumia 710. My Nokia phone has 7 years old now and which is still keep with me , even though I have also another phone to use.

So the views upon are just my experience on Nokia Phone, let's continues to talk about Nokai Lumia 710. Actually, Nokia Lumia 710 has a 800 by 480 pixels  3.7 inch touch screen with Nokia's ClearBlack display technology, the storage on Nokia Lumia 710 is 8GB without extra SD expanding capability, the RAM is 512 MB. And also a 5MP camera with 720p video recording and 2592 by 1944 pixels photo shooting capability. And more interesting is you'll find that all of your Windows Media movie can be played on Nokia Lumia 710 easily, as which support the WMV 9, AVI, ASF videos properly.

Another aspect that Nokia Lumia 710 can also make us easy to be active on social network easily, as the built in social network app including Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin. With the IE 9, HTML5 and Wi-Fi ability, you'll find it is the same experience for browsing on high-end smatphones like Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X and even the soon coming iPhone 5 with Nokia Lumia 710.

Thus, Nokia Lumia 710 is not so bad as you think at your first sight, and most important is that is a phone , so if you want to get a phone, it must be one of the best choices like Lumia 900, Lumia 800 and other phone with the high call quality, indeed, iPhone 4S is not has the good call quality ability. Therefore, Nokia Lumia 710 is a good phone, but it is not worth you have if you are just for entertainment with a phone, the good phone for entertainment you can choose are iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Galaxy Note.

More interesting is you can get Nokia Lumia 710 with free from T-Mobile now.

The Camera Differences Among Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X and iPhone 4S

Smartphone is become part of our life, we are accustomed to take photo, record video with our smartphone except for calling, sending message, browsing and playing games with it, so a smartphone with a good camera is becoming more and more important for us. And as the most famous smartphones in 2012, we are told that the HTC One X , Samsung Galaxy S3 and iPhone 4S are all have a nice camera, but in any case, they are different smartphones, so there must be some differences on their camera, therefore, what’s the camera differences among Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X and iPhone 4S after all?

Actually, the camera on Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X and iPhone 4S are all the 8MP camera, but an obvious difference on them is their different aperture size, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is F2.6, iPhone 4S is F2.4, HTC One X is F2.0 , so this difference will make it easy to get a better photo in less light conditions when you use HTC One X to take photo, on the contrary, the Samsung Galaxy S3 will get a better photo in bright condition.

So you can get good photo with HTC One X , Samsung Galaxy S3 and iPhone 4S no matter the less light or bright condition after you got the skill of how to take a good photo in different light conditions. However, the camera on these three phones can do different unique thing.

Unique Thing on HTC One X Camera

With the THC ImageSense, you can take a photo when you are shoot a video with HTC One X, the photo and video capture button on one screen at the same time, then you can easily to take a photo when you are shooting video by clicking the photo capture button to switch the capture mode, or snap a photo when you are recording video at the same time.

And with the continuous shooting of camera with HTC ImageSense, you can get almost every action from a rapid moving people, car or other things, it is said that the continuous shooting function on HTC One S can capture photos up to 99 per minute, it’s amazing and expectative.

Unique Thing on iPhone 4S Camera

The interesting thing on iPhone 4S camera is which allow us to edit photo after took the photo on iPhone 4s without any photo editing software, the editing function include crop, rotate, enhance and remove red-eye.

Unique Thing on Samsung Galaxy S3 Camera

Actually, I didn’t find some unique functions on Samsung Galaxy S3 Camera, maybe the most unique thing on its camera is the front camera can detect your eyes then to keep the screen bright when you are reading a book or browsing on Samsung Galaxy S3.

At last , you may want to know which phone’s camera is the best , Samsung Galaxy S3, THC One X or iPhone 4S. Indeed, the camera on those smartphones are all the best except for the Nokia preview 808 with 41MP camera so far, you can take good photo with any of them only after you got the skill how to capture a good photo in different light conditions. But if you want to capture photo at the same time of recording video, the HTC One X is the best choice for you. And if you want to edit photo without any other software when you are taking photo on smartphone, the iPhone 4S is the best choice for you.

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Untethered Jailbreak on iOS 5.1.1

Jailbreak iPhone, iPod, iPad is legal so far, and if we want to download free music, movies to our iPhone, iPod, iPad, this way of jailbreaking iPhone, iPod, iPad is becoming more and more popular now. Some old version of iPhone , iPod, iPad may have been jailbreaked easily by people, and some people must be finding ways to jailbreak their iPhone, iPod, iPad with iOS 5.1.1, actually, from today, this become a big news for us that there is now available for untethered jailbreaking iOS 5.1.1 with the GreenPois0n Absinthe 2.0.

Which is a upgrade from GreenPois0n can compatible with A4 devices like iPhone 4 or iPad, and also the A5 powered devices like iPhone 4S or new iPad (iPad 3). And the describes from Jailbreak untethered says that which can untethered iOS5.1.1 jailbreak for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad, iPad 2 and new iPad or iPad 3, iPod Touch 3G , iPod Touch 4G.

So that means it is really a good news for us who want to jailbreak iOS5.1.1 untethered on iPhone 4S, New iPad.

However, it is not always safe and good for us to jailbreak our iPhone, iPod and iPad, for one thing, we should be careful when we jailbreak iPhone, iPod and iPad, or we'll lose our all things which already on our iPhone, iPod and iPad; for another thing is if we are jailbreaked our iPhone, iPod and iPad, Apple will reduce the chances of warranty.

Buy Galaxy Note or iPhone 4S?

The ever best smartphone iPhone 4S is now facing many strong rivals in the smartphone markets, the Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is just one of them, as the earlier product in 2012 from Samsung , the Samsung Galaxy Note LTE has brought many amazing features for people so far, so if you are facing the problem of which one should  buy, the Samsung Galaxy Note or iPhone 4S, you may need some detail informations on which is better between iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy Note LTE, therefore, the next things around comparison between iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy Note LTE will help you to make the choice to buy your most suitable phone between iPhone 4S and Galaxy Note LTE.

 Things on Samsung Galaxy Note LTE

 

With the name of Galaxy Note LTE, we can get to know that Samsung Galaxy Note support the 4G network, but now  in United States, this new smartphone is only available in AT&T. Which most obvious characteristic is Galaxy Note own a large body, as its display dimension is 5.3 inch, most probably the biggest smartphone in the world so far, therfore, if you want to play games, or watch movie on your phone, the Samsung Galxy Note LTE is surely the great choice for you. And some specifics on Samsung Galaxy Note you should know that which runs a 1.4GHz dual core professional, and features a 1GB RAM, and the requistie things  the camera are 8MP main camera and 2MP front facing camera, these configurations are most smartphones have now, but a little better than iPhone 4S.

Actually, we can't find some amazing specifics on Samsung Galaxy Note LTE except for its huge screen, so why Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is also so famous among people? The main reason I think is which added some useful applications that they can bring people a better user experience then other smartphone with higher configuration like quad core phone from HuaWei.

And the most interesting application on Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is the strong S Pen, which can do many things similar to reality with its specifically app, such as we can use S Pen write  personalized notes, easily draw pictures, doodle on any photo you want and so on, and that progress is the same as what you do when you use a pen to draw and write on papers, it's very interesting and convenient, so this is the main characteristic on Samsung Galaxy Note LTE.

Things on iPhone 4S

 

As what we know, the iPhone 4S is the best smartphone since it was released on Oct. last year, which is the first device equiped the retina display in the world, and the first device installed Siri, these features made iPhone 4S became so famous all over the world during a little time. Which uses the 1GB dual core A5 processor, and with the long term use with people, we may find that it is good to use the 3.5 inch retina display iPhone to do things we want, such as an entertainment with Siri, an enjoyment of HD 1080p movies, a fluent video call with friends,  and of course good time of playing games on it. So iPhone 4S is still the best smartphone, isn't it?

Which is Better Between iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy Note LTE

 

 Exactly, it's hard to say which one is better on iPhone 4S and Galaxy Note LTE, but some changes you may find on the design idea that Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is designed with 5.3 inch display, and the multiple functions S Pen, the former is very good for people to play games and watch movies on it, and the latter is easy and interesting for people to do applications on entertainment and business, but it is still a general phone from its hardware configurations.

So if you want to get a super visual experience on playing games and watching movies with a phone, the Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is better for you, if you want easily write a personalized notes, doodle funny things on photos, the Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is better for you, if you want to easily and clearly share your business ideas to other people, the Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is better for you, so with these reason, you should buy Samsung Galaxy Note LTE. But on the contrary, the iPhone 4S is better for you.

So in a word, the Samsung Galaxy Note LTE is better than iPhone 4S from many aspects now, the main factor is user experience improved on Samsung Galaxy Note LTE.