Apple Launched iPhone 4S With Siri 15 Years Ago Today

Today marks the 15th day of the iPhone 4S launch, introducing Siri arsenic a built-in diagnostic of the iPhone for the archetypal time.


The iPhone 4S went connected sale connected October 14, 2011, 10 days aft its announcement. It initially launched successful the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom, retaining the iPhone 4's solid and stainless alloy plan portion introducing important interior improvements.

The device's defining summation was Siri, which allowed users to marque calls, nonstop messages, make reminders, docket appointments, and inquire questions utilizing earthy language. Apple highlighted the assistant's quality to construe requests successful context, specified arsenic knowing that a question astir needing an umbrella was a petition for the upwind forecast.

‌Siri‌ initially launched successful beta, supporting English localized for the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, alongside French and German. The adjunct was exclusive to the iPhone 4S, truthful owners of older iPhones could not entree it simply by installing iOS 5.

‌Siri‌ had already existed arsenic a standalone iPhone app, which launched successful February 2010. Apple acquired the company successful April that twelvemonth earlier integrating its exertion into iOS directly. Following the iPhone 4S announcement, Apple removed the archetypal app from the App Store and notified existing users that its work would halt moving connected October 15.

Beyond ‌Siri‌, the iPhone 4S introduced Apple's dual-core A5 chip, which it said delivered up to doubly the CPU show and 7 times the graphics show of the iPhone 4. Its rear camera accrued from 5 to 8 megapixels, with an f/2.4 aperture and enactment for 1080p video recording. A revised antenna strategy could power betwixt antennas for transmitting and receiving, portion maximum supported HSDPA download speeds doubled to 14.4 Mbps.

The iPhone 4S shipped with iOS 5, which had go disposable 2 days earlier alongside iCloud. The bundle update introduced iMessage, Notification Center, and Reminders, arsenic good arsenic wireless bundle updates and on-device setup.

Available successful achromatic and white, the iPhone 4S came successful 16GB, 32GB, and a caller 64GB configuration. U.S. prices started astatine $199, $299, and $399, respectively, with a qualifying two-year bearer contract. Apple subsequently announced that it had sold more than 4 cardinal units during its archetypal 3 days of availability, much than treble the iPhone 4's opening income implicit the aforesaid period.
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