iPhone 4S owners use almost twice as much data as iPhone 4 users

Update: Subsequent review of the report shows that Arieso is not claiming that Siri is to blame; that was introduced in the Reuters story. We have updated our coverage.
A new study by telecom network tech firm Arieso shows that owners of Apple's new iPhone 4S are using almost twice as much data with their devices than iPhone 4 users, and almost three times as much as iPhone 3G users.
The report, covered by Reuters, shows that the primary driver of the data usage is the Siri intelligent assistant. iPhone 4S users are even consuming more data than iPad 2 users, who are probably more tied to Wi-Fi networks for their consumption of a steady diet of web pages, email, and media.
Arieso's CTO, Michael Flanagan, noted that "I use the iPhone 4 myself and when I first heard of the iPhone 4S features I was not compelled to rush out and get one. However, the data usage numbers I am seeing make me wonder what I am missing."
Since Apple's introduction of the original iPhone in 2007, the usage of mobile data has roughly doubled each year. Cloud-based services like Siri are widely expected to boost growth of data usage, which will be an issue until more efficient and speedy LTE networks become more widespread worldwide.
At this time, Siri is still in beta and has limited functionality outside of the U.S. That's expected to change in 2012, as AppleInsider reports that Apple is hiring software engineers to help with porting Siri to other languages and to work on an API that will expand the natural-language interaction to other applications.
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So 4S has a worse battery, and consumes more data . Seems like a down grade NOT upgrade
January 08 2012 at 4:31 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyI just got my iPhone 4s with IOS 5.0 and i can not Jailbreak the phone, BTW i just won the phone from here if I remember correctly, getappleproductsforfree(.)com please help me with a tutorial.
January 08 2012 at 11:31 AM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyDouble the data usage due to Siri? Are they serious. Even if siri uses 64k MAX per message that is a hell of a lot of interactions. The report doesn't say the time frame or date of which data was gathered. Mass activations for the iphone4s, app downloads etc. But to say that 4s data is DOUBLED, i'd have liked to have seen a breakdown not some sensationalism on this.
January 08 2012 at 8:00 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyI've definitely noticed myself consuming more data moving to a 4S from a 3GS. It's not just Siri (it's pretty limited in Canada) the increase in speed is definitely an incentive to use more data intensive apps. My 3GS would slow to crawl when using Facebook, now loading dozens of Instagram photos or Path videos is a breeze. And it definitely translates into more data usage on my part.
January 06 2012 at 9:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBut what about this? http://blurbomat.com/2012/01/06/iphone-4s-data-usage/
I still have the 4 but this is a mystery I would like solved before I get a 4s.
From the article, "Apple's new iPhone 4S consumes on average twice as much data as the previous iPhone model and even more than iPad tablets due to increasing use of online services like the virtual personal assistant Siri, an industry study showed."
Okay, no. I guess they didn't factor in that many of the people who would consume a ton of data are "gotta-have-it" early adopters and have ditched their older 4 or 3GS, leaving the standard users to casually check Facebook or whatever on the older models. No big conspiracy that Siri is taking all your megabytes here.
In other words, the DEVICE doesn't consume twice the data, the USER does.
January 06 2012 at 5:20 PM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down Replythere's an error in the article:
"Cloud-based services like Siri are widely expected to boost growth of data usage, which will be an issue until more efficient and speedy LTE networks become more widespread worldwide."
Should read:
...which will always be an issue in the USA thanks to our greedy carriers that apply punitive data caps in order to prevent us from using the service that we pay for.
If you think Verizon and AT&T will suddenly let you use more data just because they have more capacity, you're dreaming. Although they'd be happy to sell you more data at double the price, of course.
It's because we have dual cores in our 4S. We can consume data twice as fast, so we do ;-p
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