The former lets the iPhone 4S work and act quicker. The speed is a combination of the A5 processor and the new antennae design. The iPhone 4S has three headline features which make it superior to its predecessors: speed, camera, and Siri. Having her iPhone backed up each night means if her iPhone ever does go missing, the info that’s on it won’t disappear with the device. Moreover, she is certainly less motivated to plug her iPhone in and sync it to her computer. Of the two of us, she is probably more prone to losing or breaking her iPhone than I am. These backups are especially great for my wife. Every evening I plug my iPhone into the wall charger by my bed and every evening all that’s on my iPhone gets backed up to the cloud. Those automatic iCloud backups are great. The only missing data were all my passwords.Īside from having to wait for several hours to get my 4S activated, this was, by far, the most seamless and easy iPhone setup I’ve ever had. The restore took less than 10 minutes altogether and all the apps from my iPhone 4 were downloaded and in place. Once I was finally able to activate my iPhone 4S, I simply restored it from the iCloud backup of my iPhone 4. And, from what I understand, those on Verizon and Sprint had little or no trouble activating on day one. I read about all sorts of people having trouble activating their AT&T iPhones. I, of course, was not the only one with activation woes. It was dinner time when iPhone was finally able to activate. Then I just let it be and came back a few hours later. I tried again, and again, and again, for over two hours. The second attempt was unsuccessful as well. I then was asked to enter in my billing zip code and last 4 digits of my social security number to confirm my identity, and then let the iPhone activate.Īt first the activation was unsuccessful. The iPhone knew my phone number and prompted me to confirm that this was indeed the phone number I was upgrading. My unofficial goal is to never plug my iPhone into my computer again.Īfter unboxing the phone, I turned it on, unlocked the screen, and followed the on-screen instructions for setup. I activated and set up both iPhones without a single cable. The delivery driver mentioned how we were the first to get them and he had hundreds on his truck.Ībout 7 hours later I was finally able to activate the phones.įrustrations of AT&T’s overloaded activation servers aside, the activation process was incredibly simple. But I really do like the look of Anna’s white iPhone - it is much more classy and well built than the white iPad. I have always gone with black iPhones because, well, it’s black. A week later they were delivered by FedEx.Īnna’s white iPhone is the first white iPhone I have seen up close and used outside of an Apple store. On Friday morning, October 7, I pre-ordered two new iPhones: a black, 16GB iPhone 4S for me, and a white one for Anna.
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