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*’14 OCTOBER 2011’*
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(retroactively stylized with a lowercase ‘s’ as iPhone 4s as of ‘september 2013’)
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*the iPhone 4S is a ‘smartphone’ that was designed/marketed by ‘apple incorporated’*
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(it is the ‘5th generation’ of the ‘iPhone’, succeeding the ‘iPhone 4’ and preceding the ‘iPhone 5’)
(announced on ‘4 october 2011’ at Apple’s ‘Cupertino’ campus, its media coverage was accompanied by news of the death of former Apple CEO and co-founder ‘Steve Jobs’ on the following day)
(orders could be placed on ‘7 October 2011’ and mainstream availability in ‘retail stores’ began on “14 october 2011′ in the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Japan, sales peaked over its predecessor with more than 1 million sales in the first 24 hours of order availability and more than 4 million sales in the first 4 days of ‘retail availability’)
(further worldwide rollout, including 22 additional countries on ‘October 28’, came over the next several months)
(this iPhone was named “4S” where “S” stood for ‘Siri’ (Apple CEO ‘Tim Cook’ confirmed that during the Q&A session at the D10 conference in ‘May 2012’, an iPhone 4S-exclusive intelligent ‘personal assistant’ that was later included in future generations of mobile Apple products)
(retaining the most of the external design of the ‘iPhone 4’, the ‘4S’ hosted major internal upgrades, including an upgrade to the ‘Apple A5 chipset’, and an ‘8-megapixel camera’ with ‘1080p’ video recording)
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(it debuted with ‘iOS 5’, the 5th major version of ‘iOS’ (Apple’s mobile operating system), that introduced features including…)
‘iCloud’
‘iMessage’
‘Notification Center’
‘Reminders’
‘twitter’ integration
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(reception to the ‘iPhone 4S’ was generally favorable)
(reviewers noted ‘Siri’, the new camera, and processing speeds as significant advantages over the prior model)
(it was succeeded by the ‘iPhone 5′ as Apple’s flagship phone on ’12 september 2012’)
(the ‘iPhone 4S’ remained in production, albeit being sold with reduced storage (from ’16/32/64 GB’ down to ‘8 GB’))
(it was discontinued officially on ‘9 September 2014’, following the announcement of the ‘iPhone 6’, but is currently supported as of ‘iOS 9’)
(during the course of its lifetime, the ‘iPhone 4S’ is the best-selling ‘iPhone’ ever produced and it is the first ‘iPhone’ to support 5 major versions of ‘iOS’: ‘iOS 5’, ‘iOS 6’, ‘iOS 7’, ‘iOS 8’, and ‘iOS 9’)
(the ‘iPad 2’ was supported from ‘iOS 4’ to ‘iOS 9’)
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(it is also the last ‘iphone’ to have the original ’30 pin connector’ as it was replaced by the ‘lightning connector’ when the ‘iPhone 5’ was released)
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