Mobile Phones News Blog

Renting movies for your phone or tablet through the Android Market was announced during Google’s I/O conference earlier in the year, however like many new Google initiatives, it was only available in the USA.

There’s good news for Android-owning movie fans in the UK this morning though, as Android Movies has gone live on our shores too. The library has around 1000 films on offer at this early stage, including new titles such as Senna and Green Lantern, plus some older catalogue titles.

Pricing is reasonable, with films costing between £2.49 and £3.49 to rent depending on their age, and they’re viable for 30 days on your device; however once you start watching it’ll expire in 48 hours.

To gain mobile access to the movie store, you’ll need to download the free Video app for Android, or you can browse via the web store. Downloads will work over both Wi-Fi and 3G and if your phone or tablet has an HDMI-out, you can watch the film on a bigger screen too.

It’s always good to see Google expanding previously US-only services to the UK, and if you’ve already given it a try, let us know what you think about Android Movies in the comments.

While we were all safely tucked up in bed last night, Google and Samsung were holding an event in Hong Kong, where they unveiled the long-awaited Galaxy Nexus smartphone and the equally long-awaited Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.

Known over the past months as the Nexus Prime, Samsung and Google have chosen to merge their Nexus and Galaxy smartphone brands to create the new device, Samsung’s second all-Google phone after the Nexus S.

Nexus hardware is Google’s showcase for Android, which always appears without any manufacturer UIs or carrier interferance, thus providing a pure Android experience. Not only is this great for developers, but it’s also welcome for fans who want to use the software Google designed without compromise.

Android fans may recall Motorola gave us their ‘best smartphone on the planet’, the Droid RAZR, yesterday; so how does the Galaxy Nexus stack up against it?  While some aspects of the Galaxy Nexus beat the RAZR on paper, there are others which don’t quite stack up.  Here’s the feature list:

• A 4.65″ Super AMOLED HD touchscreen with a 1280 x 700 pixel resolution.
• 5 megapixel camera with 1080p video recording, plus a 1.3 megapixel video-call lens.
• A 1.2Ghz dual-core processor.
• 1GB RAM.
• Either 16GB or 32GB internal memory.
• Bluetooth 3.0 and Wi-Fi.
• NFC.

In the USA the Galaxy Nexus will run on an as yet unconfirmed network, while in the UK and elsewhere it’ll connect to fast HSPA+ networks, just like the iPhone 4S.  The chassis is another of Samsung’s exercises in squeezing as much cutting-edge tech into the slimmest design possible, and at just 8.9mm thick, they’ve done another amazing job.

The Galaxy Nexus retains the Nexus S’s curved screen design, but does away with screen mounted buttons entirely, using instead a system called ‘hyperskin’ where the usual Search, Back and Home keys are software-driven and part of the screen.  The design itself is very similar to the Nexus S, just a little bigger.

The massive screen should look good though, as Samsung are renowned for producing sharp, clear and bright displays, and that HD resolution should make the Galaxy Nexus perfect for video.  Inside is a 1.2GHz processor made by Texas Instruments, which is slightly more restrained than some expected, especially given the appearance of 1.5Ghz dual-core chips recently. The 5 megapixel camera may sound very 2009, but thanks to some new software it could perform very well.  Judgement will be reserved until it arrives.

But few will be basing their purchasing decision on the hardware alone, and it’s the presence of the newest Google Android OS which will make the phone desirable. Android 4.0, named Ice Cream Sandwich, has seen a redesign over Gingerbread and comes with a host of tweaks rather than a lot of brand new features.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus will go on sale in November, and it’s going to be very interesting to see whether the software and massive screen is enough to entice Android fans away from the wafer-thin RAZR.

Google’s third Android phone, the Galaxy Nexus has attracted a lot of attention in the months leading to its official unveiling. Speculation surrounding its name, software and appearance has been scattered across the web. Finally Google has seen fit to announce the first Ice Cream Sandwich handset and we’ve got our hands on one.

Design:

The Galaxy Nexus is a good looking bit of kit, the 4.65-inch, 1280 x 720 pixel contoured display, complete with Super AMOLED technology sits well on the frame and the curved design makes it nice to hold. It’s a solid build, and the construction materials feel tough and long-lasting, the hyper skin back casing, as seen on the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S II, makes it easier to grip and banishes smear problems.

The most notable change here though is the buttonless front facia. The Galaxy Nexus comes with integrated software nav buttons, which work extremely well once you get used to them, these comprise of back, home and a layered menu button, which pulls up your most recently used applications.

Turn it over and you’ll see both Google and Samsung monikers.

Power and Operating System:

The Galaxy Nexus runs the brand new Android operating system, Ice-Cream Sandwich, with this comes a whole host of updates and new features. The interface has been redesigned and provides a easy and intuitive user experience.

The usual homescreen set up remains and you’re still able to pin a number of different apps and widgets to each. This time around, however, you hold your chosen program within the menu screen before sticking it to a page.

The notification bar has been updated, allowing you to swipe an alert off the page to remove it from the list, the same can be done within the frequently used applications menu.

The dual-core 1.2GHz CPU, coupled with the new Ice-cream update makes for a very fast experience, multitasking is now easier than ever with the dedicated application button and transitions are extremely quick. The same can be said for web browsing and integrated Flash support ensures pages are rendered as they would on a desktop and at a similar pace.

Android 4.0 brings a new application called ‘Android Beam’ to the Nexus, unfortunately with only one handset we’re unable to show you this in action, but it essentially allows you to share content between Android handsets by simply bumping the two handsets together- in the same way as Bump does for Apple users.

Finally, your contacts, or People app as it’s now known is full integrated with your social networks allowing you to see individual status updates and photos as well as interaction between them and yourself.

Naturally, the usual Google mobile services are all included also such as the recently redesigned Android Market, Gmail, Google Maps and Google+ App.

Multimedia:

The Galaxy Nexus comes with a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED Flash the video capture of which runs at 1080p. There’s also a new panoramic mode, allowing users to take landscape images.

The front-facing camera has been upped since the last Google handset from a VGA one to a 1.3 megapixel imager, the image quality isn’t bad and there are an increasing number of different apps available within the Android market for video calling.

The dual-core CPU ensures gameplay and video playback is smooth and without lag, and there’s also 16GB of internal memory to fill with assorted media.

All the aforementioned media and application set ups can all be stored on Google’s cloud computing system too, allowing you to backup everything on your phone to keep it safe.

Conclusion:

The Galaxy Nexus is one of the few handsets to provide a Pure Google experience, the updates to the Android OS makes it incredibly user friendly and negates the need for a separate UI overlay. Visuals are impressive not only on the eye, but in performance also.

It’s a well sized-device with a torrent of media bits and pieces and Google has evidently worked hard to ensure it’s fully integrated with the majority of consumer entities. It’s another good all rounder and not one to be overlooked.

According to reports, Apple’s  iPad 3 went into production just days after the launch of the iPhone 4S and iOS 5.

Jeff Fidacaro, Industry Analyst at Susquehanna Financial has claimed the new iPad has already entered production in China.

Fidacaro told AllThingsD: “Since our last month supply chain checks we are now seeing 600,000 to one million iPad 3 builds showing up on the plan for the fourth quarter of calendar 2011… Our previous estimate did not include any iPad 3s.”

The analyst also claims that supply chain checks indicate that Apple is upping its iPad 2 production in the final quarter of the year to between 12 and 14 million, from between 11 million and 13 million, suggesting that the adjustment is due to an early iPad 3 production run.

As the design changes between the original iPad and iPad 2 were so drastic, its expected that Apple will embark upon a drastic overhaul for the third generation. Other predictions for the new iPad 3 include a 9.7-inch version of the iPhone 4S’s Retina display with a faster A6 dual-core CPU.

If these rumours turn out to be true it is likely that the launch for the iPad 3 would be set for early 2012, possibly in March, the same month Apple released the iPad 2.

The problem with smartphones is that their name is now a lie. People spend so long hunched over apps like Angry Birds they forget how to talk at all, let alone through the handset, so it’s not really a phone. And most of the apps available are the opposite of smart. A truly intelligent phone would refuse to run the following, because it realizes that if its owner chokes on their own tongue no-one will recharge it. That’s when you realize your old Windows desktop was much smarter than you: think about what you were trying to do when it crashed, and you’ll realize that the blue screen of death is it’s way of shouting “Stop it you idiot.” Smartphones don’t have that option.

Peaceful Nursery App

“Peaceful Nursery” suggests kindness and caring, but this app makes money by turning parents into paranoid obsessives who bury their kids in woad and dung. There are cults which affect your life in a less damaging way because at least toga robes are comfortable.

It’s actually impossible for a baby-shopping advice app to be anything less than screamingly insane. Think about it: if anything recommended by a child-advice product is even in the same room as an accident, they can be sued for infinity million pounds. They therefore must warn you that everything up to and including teddy bears are loaded with child-murdering evil. The app creator’s definition of safety is things thatgrow naturally from the ground, like foxglove and poisonous toadstools do. If you’re a fan of combining vague spiritual guff with technology like a cyborg centaur, you’ll enjoy the maker’s other apps: Easy Feng Shui with Augmented Reality, and Feng Shui for Love with Augmented Reality.

Games For Cats

iPad games for cats is the first sign of an Industrial Loneliness Complex, a shadowy collaboration between the catfood industry and gadget-makers to sell you more toys. Friskies’ “Games For Cats” fill your iPad screen with moving targets for your cat to catch. You couldn’t scratch up your screen faster if you tried to shove it in a blender, because it wouldn’t fit. And if you’re dumb enough to give your cats an iPad, that’s the only thing stopping you.

Even if you’ve declawed your cats, it’ll be covered in at thin film of cat spit, hair, and everything that’s ever been on the floor of your house.

Drunk Deletion

“Last Night Never Happened” claims to erase all online evidence of your drunken debauchery, and is that notion contains more ridiculous electronic optimism than replying to a Nigerian prince. For seventy pence you can enjoy the illusion that anything that was ever online can be really deleted. All it takes is giving a third-party app all your access passwords. Oh, and it doesn’t work with Facebook. Or Twitter, according to its users. Which is irrelevant anyway as iPhones can’t yet send out rays which utterly erase the human memory (only rays which temporarily paralyze it, usually represented by colorful matching gems or Angry Birds.)

Even if the app works, all you’re doing is erasing your own evidence of what happened. That’s what drink does anyway! It’s a hangover booster – everyone else has already seen the embarrassing messages and photos and now you’re the only one who doesn’t know what you said. And if that sounds like a good idea, well done on still being drunk.

It can’t have been the response Apple were hoping for but the iPhone 4S’s marquee feature , Siri, has raised one or two giggles over in Japan as the word “Siri” is very close to the Japanese word for “buttocks”.

Inspired by this latest translation fail, we take a look at a few more examples of international marketing mistakes.

Vauxhall Nova is a non-mover in Spain

It’s bad enough when a brand name can raise a few awkward laughs in the boardroom, but Vauxhall had to rethink their strategy entirely upon the marketing of their Nova model in Spain. The literal translation of ‘Nova’ in Spanish is “it won’t go” – not exactly the message they were looking for. The Nova was eventually sold as the Corsa in Spain.

Pepsi’s Secret Weapon in the Cola Wars…Zombies

When consumers were told to “Come Alive with the Pepsi Generation”, it’s doubtful that Pepsi Co was also referring to those who had come and gone before. When translating, it’s important to remember that some of the nuances and oddities of the English language can mean very different things in other countries. That was very much the case for prospective Chinese buyers, who were forewarned that “Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back From the Grave”. A chilling incentive, indeed.

Got Milk? No, Not There

Through ad campaigns featuring younger role models such as Usher and Sarah Michelle Gellar, the Milk Assocation in the United States managed to get kids drinking more of the white stuff with its slogan “Got Milk?” However, when the campaign tried to expand south of the border, the translation came up with the much more unnerving enquiry; “are you lactating?”

Ford Promotes Self-Conscious Driving

You might be aware of the stereotype that men who drive sports cars do so to compensate for their, ahem, “shortcomings” in other areas. However, the Ford Motor Company had to wonder why South American sales of their more modest Pinto model were drooping in the 1970s. It turns out that ‘pinto’ is Brazilian slang for “tiny male genitals”.

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Following the announcement of the iPhone 4S the web was awash with disparaging comments from the tech community, mainly aimed at Apple’s design team. Bloggers were quick to air their disappointment that this year’s model looks identical to the last, often overlooking the major overhaul of the software and hardware that lay beneath that glossy exterior.

Whilst they may look the same there are a number of significant differences between the 4 and the 4S, and it’s these differences between the processor, camera and operating system that makes the iPhone 4S the fastest and most powerful Apple smartphone to date.

Design

As we’ve already mentioned the iPhone 4S shares the same form factor and construction material as its predecessor. The two are identical bar one subtle change, the antenna system. The new design incorporates two separate antennas, each transmit and receive data, which supposedly makes for better call quality as well as providing a faster 3G connection. Although we can’t account for sound enhancements we definitely saw improvements in data services, faster page rendering and download speeds whilst browsing the web. Evidence of this change comes in the form of two additional bands around the top of the handset.

Aside from that the aesthetics are near identical, the 3.5-inch (960 x 640pixel) Retina Display remains as do the volume rockers, audio input, power on/off button and data ports.

Power and Operating System

The iPhone 4S incorporates Apple’s A5 dual-core 1GHz processor, as found in the iPad 2, and a dual-core GPU. According to Apple this pairing makes the iPhone 4S twice as fast as the 4, with a seven times faster graphics performance. This increase isn’t apparent straight away as Apple’s iOS isn’t a system that you could ever call slow, however, make the software work a little – switch quickly between apps, load resource heavy programs whilst playing back media and you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the speed at which they open and the smooth transitions.

Battery life is worth a mention, despite the inclusion of the A5 chipset the iPhone 4S is said to be able to provide up to 8hours of talktime over 3G and 40 hours of music playback. This’ll no doubt please many current iPhone users who’re looking to upgrade as it’s one of the few areas that the company seem to have overlooked in the past.

iOS 5 is next on the list to tackle and again brings a wealth of improvements. Finally users will be able to perform over the air updates and iTunes syncing. Notification options are now fully customisable too and there’s a new pull down bar to house all new notifications, similar to that found on Android devices. The software will be pushed out to the iPhone 4, iPod Touch, iPad and iPad 2 in the coming weeks, to find out more about iOS 5 and the improvements it brings you can read all about it in our full iOS 5 overview.

iCloud is another major improvement and marks a shift in the way that users access and store information. It’s a free service, allowing users to upload multimedia files, contact details, calendar entries and system preferences from their handsets to ‘the cloud’ which they can then get access to. Additional security functions have been added to incorporate remote tracking, locking and wiping services that were previously offered by MobileMe. It’s a free service and Apple’s even giving away 5GB of storage to all users, more storage space is available if required, but you’ll have to pay for it.

The feature that really sets iOS 5 and the iPhone 4S apart from the rest of the pack, however, is the new voice assistant, Siri. While voice recognition software has been around for quite some time now, Apple has really raised the bar with Siri. The software is designed to follow natural speech be it a command or question. For example Siri can provide you with answers to simple questions such as ‘What’s the weather like in Stoke on Trent?’ and will also book meeting requests and help organise your calendar. Where it gets interesting though is how it recognises not just the words but the context and meaning behind them, for example you could say ‘tell Mr. Smith that I’ll be ten minutes late for my meeting’ and Siri will open up the SMS screen and send a text to Mr. Smith telling him that you’re running behind. Not only that but Siri will read the message back to you to confirm, and wait for your voice request to ‘send’ before firing it out.

Camera

The camera has been granted a significant upgrade, it now has 8 megapixels rather than 5 and they’ve also increased the size of the aperture to let in more light. There’s a new 5 element lens for and backside illumination has been bettered to capture more light in each pixel. The result of all these improvements is pictures that are sharper and with better colours than before. Video capture has benefited from an upgrade too, it now stands at 1080p HD and features face recognition and video stabilisation technology.

Other Tech Specs:

• 16GB, 32GB or 64 GB memory
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth 4.0
• Assisted GPS
• Three-axis gyro
• Accelerometer

Any Downsides?

Naturally the fact that it shares the same bodywork as the iPhone 4 is going to ruffle a few feathers. But if Apple decides to stick to the trend users will get a design overhaul in the next iteration. To be honest it wouldn’t put us off buying one as there are a great number of improvements within that shell that overshadow the aesthetics, and it’s not like it’s a bad looking phone either.

Conclusion

The iPhone 4S is a significant step forward over the iPhone 4, bringing the device inline with the latest raft of competitors. iOS improvements will without doubt lure new fans across to the platform and the Siri voice assistant is a great addition. It would have been nice to have seen the Apple designers get creative with the bodywork, and maybe even increase the size of the screen, but for now we’re more than happy with what we’ve been given.

Revealed during Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference earlier this year, iOS 5 has been hotly anticipated ever since, and it was finally made available for download at 6pm on 12 October. Promising hundreds of new features, has iOS 5 radically changed the way the iPhone and iPad operates, or is it a subtle evolution of Apple’s mobile software?

Depending on your luck, you may have already established an opinion, however there’s also a good chance you’ve not sampled iOS 5 at all, due to Apple’s servers crumbling under the pressure as millions attempted to download it. In fact, this has been the most problematic update yet; proof, as if it was needed, that iOS devices have found their way into many more hands over the past year.

Worse still, Twitter has been awash with reports of crashed and even bricked iPhones, as the soon-to-be-infamous ‘internal error code 3200′ started to cause problems. For most, the solution was to restore from a previous backup and keep trying to update, but for a minority, devices ceased to work completely. The error code comes from Apple’s activation servers going down, so it shouldn’t be a problem after the initial influx has passed.

Back to the software itself. For the first time in a while, iOS asks users to enter a variety of information before granting access to the phone, including switching on location services, Find My iPhone and entering iTunes account details to activate iCloud. Oddly though, it doesn’t take you through the other major features such as notification setup or signing into Twitter.

At first glance, iOS 5 looks identical to iOS 4.3.5, so you’ll have to dig a little deeper before finding all the changes. There are two new applications pre-installed with the update, Reminders and Newsstand.Reminders is an extension of Calendar, where you can add notes and set reminders to activate at a certain time or location, while Newsstand is an iBookstore style app for periodicals.

Dive into the Settings app and changes can be found under the Notifications, Messages, iCloud, General, the Twitter section and more. It’s here where you can sign-in to Twitter, select which data to sync with iCloud and activate Wi-Fi Sync with iTunes – all new core features inside iOS 5. Although iCloud was at least partially setup before, it’s important to check what you’re backing up, especially if you want your photos to be saved, as it’s unchecked as standard.

If you use Twitter, then the service’s deep integration within iOS should have you very excited, as although on the surface its sounds like quite a small change, it’s actually an extensive one. You can match your Contacts list to their Twitter handles (automatically too, provided they use the same names), and share photos, maps, links and videos instantly. The often single button press to open the Twitter box makes this an effortless process too. Twitter integration in iOS 5 won’t kill off the Twitter client though, as there’s no way to read tweets or get replies without the standalone app.

Tweaking the new Notification centre lets you customise what updates appear in the very Android-like drop down box. As standard you get the weather and stocks, while everything from SMS and tweets to email alerts can be added. Thankfully the stocks ticker can be turned off for those who don’t care, while a tap of the weather bar takes you directly to the standard app, which now benefits from hourly forecasts – just tap the day to see more detail.

When something new happens – a new SMS, a Twitter reply or a Reminder note for example – you’re no longer disturbed by a big box stopping whatever you’re doing, as a small rectangular-shaped banner appears at the top of the screen, then disappears if you do nothing. This is a big step forward for iOS, but if you’re not a fan of the subtle banner, you can still select notifications to appear as big boxes in the centre of the screen. In fact, each notification alert can be individually customised, so SMS could be more prominent than a social network status update.

When your phone is locked, events now appear in a long and quite detailed list, and each can be swiped aside to enter the relevant app. For a lot of users, iOS 5′s notification overhaul will not only be the most welcome change, but one of the most prominent too.

Outside of the Settings app, the volume up button now doubles as the camera shutter release, plus you can quickly launch the camera from the lock screen too. If you’re unsure where the button is, you need to press the Home button twice while the phone is locked for it to appear. A grid has been added to the viewfinder, making it easier to employ the golden ‘thirds’ rule, and some basic editing tools – crop, rotate, straighten, enhance and red-eye removal – can be found in the Photo Gallery.

Two of the other well-publicised additions, iCloud and iMessage, are very interesting, yet almost completely imperceptible! Bar iCloud’s setup earlier on, it works entirely in the background, with photos and documents whizzing between the iPhone and iPad with little delay and absolutely zero interaction from the user.   If you’re a keen shutterbug, or have plenty of email, apps and documents to backup in iCloud, the free 5GB-worth of storage won’t last long; so if you don’t want to pay for more, think carefully before deciding what to add.

Apple’s BBM-rival iMessage is even more transparent. iOS 5 knows when you’re sending a message to another iOS 5 user and will send it as an iMessage instead of an SMS, meaning you don’t use any of your allowance. iMessage is activated as standard and it can be found under the Settings/Messages section, along with Read Receipts and Character Count too.

Over on the iPad, iOS 5 introduces a couple of tablet-only enhancements, along with all the above changes (apart from iMessage, obviously) too. Safari now has tabbed browsing, with a maximum of 9 tabs, which speeds up the process when you want to use the iPad for more complicated tasks. The iPad also gets a new keyboard which splits the virtual QWERTY in two, so using your thumbs to type feels more natural. Does it work? Well, it’ll take some getting used to if you’ve not used a split keyboard before! A five-finger pinch gesture has also been introduced for quitting an app, plus a swipe to bring up the multi-tasking tray or to move between open apps.

As for iOS 5 cutting the wires between your device and computer, we’ll have to wait for the next update to see how this works in that respect, but there’s also a wireless sync between device and computer when they’re both connected to the same Wi-Fi network and plugged into a power source, plus apps purchased on your computer are pushed to your phone or tablet automatically.This works beautifully, and is another big time-saver in iOS 5.

The feature list for iOS 5 goes on and on, including a redesigned iTunes music app on the iPad, Game Center changes, customisable mail alerts, AirPlay Mirroring and a few small tweaks inside the Calendar app. iOS 5 may look the same as always, but underneath it has been heavily redesigned, and the improvements all make perfect sense. Perhaps best of all, is that many of them don’t force you to learn anything new; so your iPhone and iPad will work the same as always, just better!

It may take a while before you appreciate it because of all this automation, but once you’ve used it for a day or so, you’ll see that iOS 5 hasn’t changed the way your device works – which is a good thing – but changed the way you work with it, and that’s an important distinction.  Yes, it’s an evolution, and yes it’s a major one.

Today Nokia has announced the new 603 smartphone, which will use Symbian Belle operating system. Belle is the next step up from Symbian Anna, and adds six new homescreens, live widgets, new notifications, an updated browser and probably most importantly of all, NFC support. The update will be coming to several other Nokia smartphones, including the N8 and the X7, plus Nokia’s new range of affordable smartphones such as the 700 and 701.

The 603 fits neatly in the middle of this new line-up, and Nokia say it’s their most colourful smartphone yet. The fascia comes in either black or white, and the rear panel in six different colours including yellow, green and blue. The phone has a traditional candy bar design, measures 12mm thick and weighs 106 grams, so it’s easily pocketable.

Inside the handset is a 1GHz processor and up to 2GB of memory, while the screen measures 3.5-inch and is one of Nokia’s excellent ClearBlack TFT-LCDs with IPS and a 640 x 360 nHD displays. On the rear of the chassis is a 5 megapixel camera, which unfortunately doesn’t have a flash of any kind, but it can shoot 720p video at 30fps, and has face tracking and recognition.

Additionally, the 603 has GPS with Nokia Maps and turn-by-turn navigation, Wi-Fi, 3G with HSDPA, Bluetooth 3.0 and a stereo FM RDS radio. The NFC chip and software support lets you share content with other NFC phones, interact with NFC equipped accessories and play NFC-enhanced games such as Angry Birds with Magic.

To accompany the 603 and other NFC-enabled Nokia smartphones, Nokia has released the Luna Bluetooth headset, which instead of using Bluetooth to pair, uses NFC. The main benefit here is that the pairing needs only a tap.

Both the Luna and the 603 phone are expected to launch during Q4, when the Belle handset will wear a very attractive sub-£200 price tag; not bad at all considering the feature list!

Check out the official Nokia  603 video below:

The new iPhone 4S has arrived at the Dialaphone office today and we’re extremely excited. Throughout the course of the day we’ll be putting the much-talked-about device a through its paces and exploring the many and varied features of iOS in readiness for a full Dialaphone review (complete with video) we’ll be bringing you tomorrow.

If you can’t wait that long though, why not check out these images of the new Apple smartphone we’ve gathered:

The top of the box.

Box side view.

The iPhone 4S in the box.

Out of the box with the accessories.

The complete package.

Be sure to check back tomorrow when you’ll be able to see a full Dialaphone (and video) of the iPhone 4S.