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Today is preorder day for the new iPhone 4S. The phone features an improved camera, faster processor and other improvements. You can read more about it here.

The iPhone 4S streets on October 14. A limited number of them (huge, but limited) will be available on that day. To ensure you don’t have to wait several weeks to get yours, you should preorder it now. Right now. Go!

Here’s what you’ll need, what you can expect, and some of my own experiences in getting an upgrade. Read through to get some handy upgrade tips.

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In getting an iPhone 4S, I was first informed that didn’t qualify for an early upgrade. I could have gotten the $549 32GB iPhone 4 delivered to me around November 30. That’s way too long for me to wait for the device. I’ve spent the past few days fighting with AT&T’s customer service over the phone. While everyone was nice, it was fruitless although I did learn a lot. See my post on upgrading to the iPhone 4S here.

This is a plug for Terence Peden and the great team at the AT&T Mobility Store in Arlington, Texas. When AT&T’s Phone Customer Service wasn’t able to help me upgrade without buying the new 4S outright, Terence and the crew at the North Arlington Store helped me out and got me the iPhone 4S for the discounted rate (and, of course, a new 2-year contract).

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After ten months, the iPhone is finally available in white starting today. Both the GSM and CDMA models are available. In the U.S., the device is now available in Apple Stores, AT&T stores, Verizon stores and online. Pricing is $299 for a 32GB model and $199 for a 16GB iPhone, plus a 2-year service contract. Pricing is the same for either black or white models.

“The white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and it’s beautiful,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “We appreciate everyone who has waited patiently while we’ve worked to get every detail right.”

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Some random thoughts and a short review. Not enough for full blog posts, but each warrants some level of discussion. A Thursday edition of Musings….

• I love my new iPhone 4. Its greatness transcends the cellphone suck that is AT&T in my neighborhood (making calls downstairs is an exercise in dropped calls — more bars in more places, except my house). I’ve had it almost one week and I’ve made phone calls, run apps, edited images, tested a lot of apps, checked in on Foursquare, downloaded data. All throughout, the new phone has shined. The only thing I really haven’t done yet is to go on a shoot with my new camera. I’ve taken snapshots… and they’re gorgeous. I want to see what this phone has behind the lens. I really want to take Four out for a shoot.
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  ColorShadow screenshot

  ColorShadow [App Store link] by Hokuson is a pretty cool app. Colorshadow is an app that does variations of one effect, but does it very well. Basically, it converts your image to a stark monochrome and then layers a color gradient over the parts of the image that aren’t white. Because of the stark contrast, it works best when your source image has a simple background that contrasts from the subject. The effects are retro in an early ’70′s Ironside or a ’90′s original iPod commercial kind of way. It’s not a camera — doesn’t even give you the option. It loads images from your camera roll and saves them out at up to your iPhone’s full resolution (including 5MP on the iPhone 4) or a smaller webready size — nice! It’s really easy to use. The effect is very retro and kinda funky. ColorShadow is a good app. I like it. It’s $1.99 in the App Store.
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• If you upgraded your iPhone this time, what do you plan to do with your old iPhone? I’m keeping mine as a spare camera…. I’m keeping my old 2G for those times when I want to shoot digital lofi, not app lofi into my images. The new iPhone 4 camera is really nice. It has excellent clarity, fantastic color and saturation, and a lot less noise than the older cameras. It improves on all the image qualities that made the older iPhones unique — the noise, the color, the overall tint and saturation. The new iPhone 4 is almost a real camera. Its pictures are bright and crisp without needing to run them through a DRC app first. The old iPhone 2G and 3G are true digital “toy” cameras. As mobile phone cameras improve, I suspect that the old iPhones’ value as digital toy cameras — both monetarily and from a iPhoneography standpoint — will only increase and become sought after.
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iPhone 4 Pre-Order fail screen on Apple.com

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It’s June 15th — Christmas for Apple geeks and iPhone lovers! It’s pre-order day for the new iPhone 4 and from many reports (and firsthand experience), it’s going pretty badly.

Read on for the Pre-Order madness >>>

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