The iPhone 5 is finally here! Except it's called the iPhone 4S (pronounced 'fours' or 'force' if you really push it) and looks exactly the same as the iPhone 4. The S stands for speed by the way. Or Steve. 'IPhone 4Steve' has a real ring to it. Ring? Get it?

As we previously mentioned, the main new feature of the 4S is a digital voice assistant call Siri, and a bit like Kitt from Knight Rider it seemingly answers whatever inane query you might ask it, all in a wonderful synthesised voice.

Aside from SIRI 9000 the new iPhone is also faster than its predecessor (it now has the same A5 processor as the iPad 2), has a much longer battery life, and supposedly the antenna now works properly, enabling you to make calls longer than five minutes without the signal dropping off completely. Imagine that, a phone that can successfully complete calls. We really are in the future now, everyone.

The camera on the phone has also been improved, and download speeds are supposedly twice the speed of the iPhone 4, meaning sexting is now easier than ever. 

So to summarise, it's basically the same as before, but now actually works as the iPhone 4 was supposed to. A digital assistant? We'll have to see how useful that turns out to be, but our guess is somewhere between an umbrella in a hurricane and a house made of jellybeans.

The phone goes on sale on the 14th October this year, with the new iOS 5 available to download on iPhone 3GS, iPad and iPhone 4 from the 12th.