iPhone 5 vs iPhone 4S

           The two biggest differences with the iPhone 5 and the 4S are gaming and cellular communications with the iPhone 4S (GSM) only has HSPA+ 14.4 and the iPhone 5 (GSM) has DC-HSDPA+ which has a max of 42.2 megabits and with the support for LTE which in the US makes the AT&T iPhone 5 the perfect phone to purchase unlocked and use on T-Mobile with LTE support. The iPhone 5's CPU which has a much faster instruction set and a PowerVR SGX 543 MP3 GPU which is twice as fast as the iPhone 4S.

          Both phones will have at least a two year life span of updates from Apple but as long as devices like the HTC ONE V continue to sell the iPhone 4S and even the iPhone 4 will continue to receive updates from Apple.