Pogue, Mossberg dig iPhone 4S

INSIDE STORY: The unveiling of the iPhone 4S may not have wowed investors or Apple-ophiles like previous upgrades, but it’s just received great reviews from the top two mainstream tech columnists. The N.Y. Times’ David Pogue raves that the new iPhone “is loaded with dazzlers: faster speed, a camera that takes crisper shots, global reach and crazy good, transformative, category-redefining speech recognition.” And the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg notes that, “While Apple's latest iPhone doesn't look different, and may not be the kind of blockbuster people expect from the late Steve Jobs' company, it thinks different, to quote one of Apple's old ad slogans. Inside its familiar-looking body there lurks a nascent artificial-intelligence system that has to be tried to be believed.” (10/12a)