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Exactly, like about any technology boom. Today, you can buy a PC/Laptop and probably get years out of it before being too outdated. Smartphones and tablets on the other hand are where hardware is being constantly innovated for faster processing, better battery life, etc.

Technically a phone you buy today will be out-of-date within 6 months tops*. It will run fine for your 2 year term most likely, but for at least 18 months on your contract others will be getting newer better devices than you.

* - unless you buy iPhones which behind the times at release for the past 3 releases

 
So you guys are basically telling me it's time to upgrade my Pentium 90mhz running Windows 3.1?
 
New update out 7.1:

CarPlay

- iOS experience designed for the car

- Simply connect your iPhone to a CarPlay enabled vehicle

- Supports Phone, Music, Maps, Messages, and 3rd-party audio apps

- Control with Siri and the car's touchscreen, knobs, and buttons

Siri

- Manually control when Siri listens by holding down the home button while you speak and releasing it when you're done as an alternative to letting Siri automatically notice when you stop talking

- New, more natural sounding male and female voices for Mandarin Chinese, UK English, Australian English, and Japanese

iTunes Radio

- Search field above Featured Stations to easily create stations based on your favorite artist or song

- Buy albums with the tap of a button from Now Playing

- Subscribe to iTunes Match on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to enjoy iTunes Radio ad-free

Calendar

- Option to display events in month view

- Country specific holidays automatically added for many countries

Accessibility

- Bold font option now includes the keyboard, calculator, and many icon glyphs

- Reduce Motion option now includes Weather, Messages, and multitasking UI animations

- New options to display button shapes, darken app colors, and reduce white point

Other

- New Camera setting to automatically enable HDR for iPhone 5s

- iCloud Keychain support in additional countries

- FaceTime call notifications are automatically cleared when you answer a call on another device

- Fixes a bug that could occasionally cause a home screen crash

- Improves Touch ID fingerprint recognition

- Improved performance for iPhone 4

- Fixes display of Mail unread badge for numbers greater than 10,000

- Continued user interface refinements

 
Like @jmanz said this really did fix alot of the slowness problems. Plus I really like the sharper darker keyboard.
 
This update really does breathe new life into the old phones. Probably will be able to hold off on an upgrade for awhile now.
 
A new 7.1.1 updates is out for Iphones, Ipads etc.

This update contains improvements, bug fixes and security updates, including:- Further improvements to Touch ID fingerprint recognition
- Fixes a bug that could impact keyboard responsiveness

- Fixes an issue when using Bluetooth keyboards with VoiceOver enabled
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Well the new Ios8 hits today. Check the link below to see the new features.

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*Thread title changedWell the new Ios8 hits today. Check the link below to see the new features.
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It is said to be released at 1pm Eastern time. I like the fact of being able to use a different keyboard, I loved Swype.

 
Update took along time, but it's done. The auto complete words is pretty sweet! I think @ryanator is going to like the health app.
 
Update took along time, but it's done. The auto complete words is pretty sweet! I think @ryanator is going to like the health app.
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My install is about done. I don't usually like exercise and electronics, can become too technical. Eat right, exercise moderate = win! Our bodies take care of the rest. But I'll be sure to check it out and see if my 4S can make use of it well.
 
Auto complete words... what exactly is this? Just you start typing and it offers you some options for what it thinks you are typing? How about predictive text, as in if you type "How are" into it, does it predict and offer a list of possible next words?
 
Guess that matches other devices then. Now you'll just have to start training it and teaching it words. Didn't take me long to get curse words to show up in my completion/predictive list, or for my phone to allow me to shape write them
 
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