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Usain Bolt

iPhone 4S at the Olympics. From Dan Chung’s Olympic smartphone photoblog.

New Siri Ad, Martin Scorsese

By televisionpromos

Siri vs. S Voice

The Verge’s Vlad Savov, put an iPhone 4S with Siri and a Galaxy S III with S Voice side by side, and asked them to perform a series of tasks. They are pretty much tied I would say. Siri won some rounds, S Voice won some rounds, and they both made some blunders. We are just at the begining of this technology, in five years it could be really amazing.

The Verge says that both phones were connected to the same WiFi network and the same carrier.

Actor John Malkovich stars in two Siri commercials.

Siri betrays Apple, and the iPhone.

TNW:

When you break out your iPhone 4S and ask Siri what the ‘best smartphone ever’ is, your humble virtual assistant will recommend you to buy Nokia’s Lumia 900.

As the article explains, this is because the result is pulled from Wolfram Alpha, which is a knowledge data base, based on results on the internet. Still, this is awkward.

Samsung fires up the Xerox again, copies Siri

Not only in functionality, adding a more human element to the robotic Android voice controls (that’s fine, Apple is not the owner of that idea), but the look and feel too.

Cult of Mac

This is just stupid. And then Apple is evil for suing them.

HTC sees recovery but no return to U.S. peaks, blames iPhone

Reuters:

Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp won’t have the United States as its largest market from this year, a sign of how far it has fallen and how much more work it has to do in Asia to regain share lost to rivals Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics.

Chief Executive Officer Peter Chou forecast better times ahead for the company after a slump in the first quarter, but said HTC won’t return to the days when more than 50 percent of its revenue came from the United States.

“A major challenge we faced last year was the big drop in sales in the U.S. because of competition from the iPhone 4S,” Chou told an analysts’ briefing on Tuesday on the company’s first-quarter results released earlier in the month. He did not elaborate.

What? So you mean the iPhone 4S, the big disappointment, the crappy same-form factor as the phone before it, is kicking their but? How could that be? Isn’t Android the hot ticket?

iPhone Ad with Zooey Deschanel and Samuel L. Jackson

Demand for iPhone 4S is still high and growing.

Despite growing competition and rumors that the company may be releasing a new model next fall, 56% of the respondents who plan to buy a smartphone in the next three months plan to buy an iPhone — up 2 percentage points from the last survey, taken at the height of the holiday shopping season.

Not bad for a phone at mid cycle. I still say, when the new one comes and you have the 4S and the 4 at discounted price or free, the sales numbers are going to be just insane.

Via Fortune

iPhone Outselling All Other Smartphones Combined at Sprint and AT&T

All Things D:

Our March checks indicated the iPhone continues to extend its market share gains,” Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley writes in a note to clients today. “In fact, we believe iPhones are outselling all other smartphones combined at Sprint and AT&T and selling at roughly equal volume to all Android smartphones at Verizon.

Thank goodness it was only a mediocre refresh of the iPhone 4. One phone, on three models, against a bunch of Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola, etc. That is a big feat to accomplish.