Siri is a bandwidth hog ?

[mrsir2009]

But they do.

IMO a physical keyboard would be better for a phone where the main use is texting...

 

[boss.king]

IMO a physical keyboard would be better for a phone where the main use is texting...

I'm not saying touchscreens are the best for texting, but the fact is that sone people do buy iPhones and smartphones simply to call and text.

 

[interrobang]

Just becuase the phone uses more data doesn't mean people are usig it more. That could easily be chalked up to iCloud etc.

I make no distinction between a person using data by manually transferring things and a person using data by setting up their phone to transfer things automatically.

In any event, iCloud is available to iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 users as well. If iCloud is responsible for the increased data usage of the iPhone 4S, which is much more plausible than Siri, then it's still the case that 4S buyers are more likely to use iCloud than owners of previous iPhones. The difference is in the usage pattern, not the device or its software.

 

[boss.king]

I make no distinction between a person using data by manually transferring things and a person using data by setting up their phone to transfer things automatically.

In any event, iCloud is available to iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 users as well. If iCloud is responsible for the increased data usage of the iPhone 4S, which is much more plausible than Siri, then it's still the case that 4S buyers are more likely to use iCloud than owners of previous iPhones. The difference is in the usage pattern, not the device or its software.

Well maybe you should, because they are distinctly different things. What you claimed is that people use the 4s more, but that's not the same as the device being data-hungry. I consume far more data on my laptop than on my phone, but that doesn't mean I use it more.

 

[miles01110]

Not to mention, you're saying Siri, an application that sounds out audio data streams for remote interpretation, is not a data heavy application ?

It is highly unlikely that it sends out raw audio data streams for remote interpretation. The transmission is almost certainly some kind of data transform.

 

[SpaceKitty]

Then whats the point in getting a smartphone?

My biggest uses for my 4S is the iPod and then internet and last, texting. I could even do without the phone as long as I had the other two.

 

[steve knight]

iCloud doesn't backup over 3G.

yes it does by default. it backs up app data over 3g unless you turn it off.

 

[Intell]

yes it does by default. it backs up app data over 3g unless you turn it off.

See image:

 

[steve knight]

by default both of these are set on on

 

[aristobrat]

yes it does by default. it backs up app data over 3g unless you turn it off.

I think you guys are talking about different things.

It looks like Intell is talking about the daily full iCloud backup (which AFAIK can't be done over 3G, period), whereas you're talking about the syncing of Documents and Apps data.

 

[steve knight]

I think you guys are talking about different things.

It looks like Intell is talking about the daily full iCloud backup (which AFAIK can't be done over 3G, period), whereas you're talking about the syncing of Documents and Apps data.

right two different things. I was showing that by default there is 3g getting used where it should not.

 

[Intell]

by default both of these are set on on

That's documents in the cloud. To use that feature, the app developer has to write it into the app. Most apps currently don't support iCloud documents and data. And it's only used if you install one of those apps and allow it to use those features.