Apple iPhone 4S pre-orders sold out, currently at 1-2 week shipping - ZDNet (blog)

@Michael Alan Goff: ... is on par.

For now, iPhone 4S is times faster in graphics and many times faster in vector/multimedia floating point calculations than any other smartphone currently on sale.

The camera is by far the best too (with additional lens, with IR filter, with image signal processor, times quicker operation, hardware based/gyroscope video stabilization) among any smartphone (though dedicated cameraphones may compete).

The display is times more sharp than the likes of Samsung Galaxy S 2, and the battery life is better.

Siri, Airplay, iCloud, the largest media and applications library.

And the phone is not a huge brick, still can be used conveniently for actual phone part of "smartphone" concept, and it is not plasticky.