The new features are pushing pre-orders higher than the iPhone 4 will you get one?

While most people who saw the launch of the iPhone 4S were underwhelmed, consumers have voted with their credit cards.

400,000 more iPhone 4S were ordered than the iPhone4.

The new phone is supposedly twice as fast, has a better still and video camera and boasts a voice activated intelligence called SIRI.

Are those new features worth the upgrade fee, which is around $300 if you got your iPhone 4 last year?

Apparently, Apple is betting on selling 20 million of the new phones by Christmas.

Pundits, journalists and yours truly are redundant in a market that is “Jobs” sensitive.

iPhone uses are the most satisfied of all smartphone consumers. They tell their friends and the iPhone continues to be the #1 in sales.

Yet, Android has more than double the market share world wide. Unlike the iPhone, there are many models and brands to chose in Android phones such as HTC, Motorola and Samsung.

Personally, I would like to upgrade but can’t decide if it’s worth the money.

I use the phone as a phone and map, contact manager, map on the road, camera, music player in the car, Twitter client, Facebook client, and website update tool.

The zoom could be sharper on the iPhone 4 and video cam has poor low light capability. Will they be any better on the new iPhone 4S?

The Guardian has discovered that standby time on  the new phone is substantially less than the iPhone 4. No doubt there will be other surprises like the iPhone 4.

Apple heavily marketed the iPhone 4 Face Time feature which most people including myself never use. They also forgot to tell us about the antenna problem.

My son, a dyed-in-the-wool Mac head, says the best time to upgrade is every three years. The new features each year are only incremental, much like automobiles.

The same amount of money could feed a child in a third world country but who is thinking about that in the age of consumption?

I should wait for something really different like the Windows Phone 8 which will have the same interface as the computer and use live tiles instead of icons.