With two-year contract-driven upgrades the norm here in the US, it’s always a challenge to decide whether it’s the right time to pull the trigger on buying a new phone — or to wait for the next big thing. With Apple’s anticlimactic introduction of the iPhone 4S this week, the big question for many phone owners is whether to grab one when it ships next week or wait for the expected Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) phones from Google’s partners.
In favor of the iPhone 4S is the uber-cool new Siri voice assistant built into iOS 5. For people who spend a lot of their time in places where it is inconvenient to fiddle with their phone — driving and standing in line come to mind — this feature alone will probably seal the deal in favor of the iPhone 4S. But those for whom social situations are the norm — classrooms, boardrooms, and restaurants for example — and who don’t want to come off like a character from Star Trek, voice commands won’t be very useful. For most phone users the answer is going to be a cautious wait and see — making the other features of the phones all the more important.
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