You got your iPhone 4S. Now what?

I don't. Have one, that is. I'm still waiting. In the meantime, here's some Q&A from today's in-box.

Q: Just got my iPhone 4S, finally got hooked up to AT&T and I tried to fire up Siri. The old Voice Control app shows up. What gives? Have you heard of this with anyone else?

A: You need to enable Siri in Settings.

Q: What you can say to Siri?

A: A *lot*. For example, you can try out "How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood", "Siri, tell me a story", "Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL", etc. See our round-up of Siri examples.

Q: For those of us mere mortals who have waited till Friday the 14th to get our new iPhones delivered, one of the first things to be done is to get apps & data transferred from current iPod or iPhone to the new iPhone. I have just sync'ed my device so the backup in iTunes is up to date. Now, what is the procedure to 'restore' everything to the new iPhone?

A: iTunes will ask you about it automatically. You don't have to do anything special. Just get past activation, and iTunes will prompt you.

Q: The 4S is out of range for me. I bought the second generation iPod touch when it came out a few years ago but seeing as it is not compatible with iOS 5, I was thinking of getting the new one although isn't it just the same as last years model, so I'm wondering if I should by it?

A: Yup. Same as last year's model. Consider buying a refurb unit instead if money is an issue.

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MEK

I pre-oredered my iphone 4S on October 7th and it still haven't arrived, all i have is an email saying its going to take 14 to 21 days, even though there are plenty available in the stores...I am not allowed to cancel my order, even though it still havent shipped...thanks, AT&T/Apple!

October 17 2011 at 2:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wre3

The people that upgraded to an Iphone 4s that already had an iphone 4 are truly morons. "Siri" is not compelling enough to get what essentially is an incremental upgrade. A4 or A5 processor? Do you really think the App developers are going to take full advantage of a beefier processor before the next phone comes out? No, not really. Wait for a new design!

October 17 2011 at 1:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

nehall

Last night, I told Siri "i love you". Her response was "I bet you say that to all your Apple products"!!!

October 16 2011 at 7:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

fthecave

That last answer is incorrect, it's not last year's model, the new one is a LOT faster and can shoot 1080p HD video : )

October 16 2011 at 4:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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rotane

Can you tell Siri to enable/disable WiFi and or 3G?

October 16 2011 at 3:16 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

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afacerov

no, not yet

October 16 2011 at 10:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Simoly Iulika

I just found a test site, were you can test the iPhone 5: http://site-review.info

October 16 2011 at 2:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jmburt1

Q: I have an iPhone 3G (yes I said 3, not even GS) and a PowerBook G4. How do I get my content to the 4S when I cannot upgrade to ITunes 10.5 (Power PC not supported). Any simple solution? (Contacts was solved through Google)
Thank you in advance.

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fthecave

Power PC means your stuck on Tiger? I think you need to get to Leopard for the right iTunes!?

October 18 2011 at 12:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Erik Rogers

Wolfram Alpha support is pretty sweet.

"Siri, what's the derivative of 3X^3 - 2x^2 + x + 42"

Seriously, it will solve it.

October 16 2011 at 2:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John D

Thanks Erica. Been trying to get Siri to work for my in-laws remotely and couldn't figure out why Siri wasn't working for them. How stupid not to enable your flagship feature by default! Not to mention navigating the nightmare known as iCloud migration. Apple ID's? Mobile Me? Everyone is confused - nobody is getting it right.

October 15 2011 at 7:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply