I love the use of the word "significantly" used in this article. Praise be that Apple saved me this thickness otherwise I might not be able to get my fat hand in my pocket to pull my brick out.
The 5 is also "significantly lighter" than the You're absolutely right to compare the iPhone5 to a Rolex though - because in the watch world there are watches which are thinner, more technically capable and more expensive than a Rolex, but they lack that "in your face", "look at what I've got"-something that both Rolex and the iPhone5 have in handfuls.
I'm baffled why anybody might want a "new" iPhone4 even for free. Depending on contract there are lots of other phones available for free with 2yr contracts that are at least as capable as the iPhone4 and more so depending on what you want to use them for like storing your music collection - you're going to struggle with an unexpandable 8GB on your iPhone4 compared to most other non-Apple phones that have micro-SD slots taking up to 32GB.
Surely the point of owning an Apple product is that initial rush of standing in a queue, the sense of belonging, being one of the chosen in those first few hours or even days of product release? Surely in the cold light of day a year old Apple iPhone is, well, just another phone? Great review, but I'm still an Androidian.
Don't forget that there is nothing that's completely "free" in the world; you pay for it in the end! Leonard Lloyd October 1, PM. Gizmag compares new iPhone 5 with 4S and 4, with both continuing to be available at greatly reduced prices. One aspect not mentioned is the current problem with Apple's own map system. By staying with the 4S until that is straightened out, current map applications remain available. I would recommend that a new prospective iPhone user who wants access to a good map program to go with the now lower priced 4S until Apple sorts out the problems with its own map program.
DavidB October 1, PM. Ken Dawson October 2, AM. I don't care if the iPhone 5 turns water into wine Hal Howell October 5, PM. While I freely concede that the 5 is faster on paper, a prospective customer should go to Best Buy or someplace where the 5 and 4s are next to each other.
I did this today and tried launching several apps side by side. Yes, the 5 has a faster CPU speed but honestly I could not see that much difference.
Calendar was only slightly slower by a half second. Everything else seemed very much the same. After all, I doubt anyone is going to be doing scientific calculations or programs on their phones.
So speed is probably not going to be THAT critical. The speed thing reminds me of the speed wars that the desktops went through. It's a phone, who cares if one is a half or full second faster? One thing I noticed on the 5 that the 4s didn't have we're scratches! By choosing Aluminum for the case material, Apple chose something that while not as breakable, it is also still susceptible to damage.
With care, as in not dropping, my phone it will look as good 2 years from now as the day I took it out of the box. Will you be able to say the same for the 5? Yes, LTE would be nice but it also means going through your data plan faster!!! Yikes, that can add up quickly. The longer size of the 5 also means that it will be longer than the standard shirt pocket. Martina Wodnik December 7, AM. My iPhone 4 isn't the fastest. Runs well on iOS 7. Another Plus is that, its now into the Sub segment which is fairly a good deal.
However, you may face an issue with the weight of the phone sometimes as compared to the latest set of phones by Apple. It's a compact phone that fulfill your basic and other few other social requirements. Camera is great until an upgrade to iOs 7.
Would rate it as great phone to have under 20k segment. The design outclasses pretty much every smartphone in the market. The new 5 MP camera is capable of taking beautiful shots. With iOS4 installed, the device is much more organized than previous versions and can easily multitask.
Also the battery is outstanding squeezing more than a day and a half of charge. There may be some amazing alternatives to this phone out there but when it comes to the total package i. To end, this is truly the device for Apple lovers. Its been really long since the phone has entered and also exit the market. But even today, we are still getting regular updates No wonder the updates have slowed down the performance, but so are happy that so far we are not left out.
An iPhone 4 can practically do everything what an iPhone 5S does. And with the latest iOS 7. Been using this phone for almost 4 years now i would definitely be considering upgrading to iPhone 6 in the near future where its predicted that iOS 8 won't be ported to my iPhone Rich Look with medium price.
Can run apps available on app store but not with so ease. Amazing Phone. Its a user friendly phone which can be upgraded to IOS 7 and the user interface is amazing and smooth.
It's USB 2. The use of the smaller plug seems to be almost entirely about downsizing components, which is fine, though in the short term it's sure to annoy a handful of customers. Faster performance on the iPhone 5 was not exactly unexpected. Every year, Apple bests itself in the speed of operation for its phones, and I had no doubt the company would accomplish a bump in the new device. After touting what the A6 processor and its GPU could do on stage at its event two weeks ago, I knew that the iPhone 5 would feel faster than its predecessor.
My only surprise was that the increase in speed wasn't quite as noticeable between the 4S and the 5. That may have more to do with the still-excellent performance of the iPhone 4S particularly with iOS 6 than it does with the A6.
When running graphically-intensive games, there are clearly some improvements in frame rates, as well as a noticeable lack of stutter on the iPhone 5. General multitasking and app performance was superb. In particular, the new Maps 3D Flyover view pushed the phone hard, and the differences between the older and newer models was clear.
Basically — there's not much to complain about when it comes to speed on the new phone. It's really, really fast. One of the most amazing feats Apple pulled off in the thinner, lighter iPhone 5 is that the battery life is not only as good as the previous phone Even when using LTE data!
During my time testing the phone, I did find that the battery life was improved over the 4S, though lately my 4S levels have been dipping at an alarming rate. The iPhone 5 managed to stay with me through a typical day of heavy use web browsing, loads of email and Twitter, some gaming, music playback, and occasionally watching videos , though the meter was often near zero when I placed the phone back on the charger in the evening.
Part of the battery drain can definitely be attributed to iOS's confusing and poor handling of lock screen notifications, which bizarrely wake the display up every single time a new notification comes in.
That's fine if you're a casual user, but I get enough email and mentions on Twitter that the alerts seemed to be affecting battery life. When I turned off email and Twitter notifications on the lock screen, I did a little bit better. Still, the long and short is that the iPhone 5's battery lives up to Apple's claims.
You should have no fear about getting through a reasonable day, even with LTE data flowing in and out — but for heavier users, you're going to want to keep a wall charger handy. The LTE data on the iPhone 5 is absolutely fantastic. In midtown Manhattan, I managed to score between 5 and 10Mbps downstream, and weirdly, much higher numbers up all the way up to 14Mbps.
Excuse me, I mean "4G. In most situations, the speed was enough to go without Wi-Fi if I wanted, though of course that kind of throughput can result in nasty bills if you're not careful. I'm certain the meager 4GB of monthly data I pay for will be whisked away if I don't keep watch on what I'm doing — LTE is just too easy to spend bits on. I will say this: the LTE performance coupled with that improved battery life is possibly reason enough to buy this phone.
It's just very, very good. There's much to be said about the latest version of iOS present in the new iPhone and present in the old iPhone, and the iPad — and we've actually got a full review of the software itself. Still, I have some personal thoughts on the older pieces of the stack, as well as new additions Apple has added to the mix. The new iOS is everything you would expect.
Clean, simple, fast, and easy to understand. It is the very best that iOS has ever been. But it's crucial to point out that the gulf between iOS 5 and iOS 6 is extremely narrow for most users.
True to form, Apple is making nips and tucks, tweaks, stylistic edits — not reinventing what the OS does or how it does it. There are some wonderful new flourishes in the operation system — the kinds of things Apple is known for, such as reflections on your music controls that change when you tilt the phone, or the mutating pull-to-refresh animation now present in the Mail app.
The company has added some really great little touches, like reply with text when you refuse a call present in other phone OSes, but nice to see here , and Do Not Disturb, which lets you set a time window when only the most important people can get through to you.
Ah, silence. Overall, though, this is still the same iOS you know, and all the steps you took to get things done in the last OS, or in iOS 4, or iOS 3 even — well those are pretty much the same too.
And some of those steps are maddening, or poorly thought out. In particular, Apple's implementation of "unobtrusive" notifications while you're using the phone stands out as one the weaker components of the system. Originally I saw Notification Center as a welcome relief from Apple's pop-up messages and alerts, but the way the company handles these beacons can now be nearly as annoying as the previous version.
As I mentioned, instead of utilizing that new, taller screen to give you notifications removed from areas of the phone you regularly need to access you know, like menus in apps , the notifications continue to pop down over the upper portion of the screen.
The result is that you feel trapped, waiting for the message to disappear before you can access buttons you need to get to, or forced to swipe to the left on the message — a hidden function which scurries the dropdown away. Elsewhere, Apple is still making users jump through hoops to perform simple tasks, like switching to a private browsing window or clearing the cache in Safari.
It takes no less than six button presses and home key taps to make that happen while browsing. Settings in general are a mess — wonderful when you first set up the phone "hey! Multitasking remains a black box, not representing app states and forcing what should be "always on" applications like IM clients into a constant state of shutdown warnings. Twitter won't update in the background nor will clients like Tweetbot , meaning that you're always playing catchup with "realtime" services.
Mind you, on Android the Twitter app will load updates in the background, meaning that even if you're disconnected you'll likely have new content to view. It sounds minor, but when taken as a whole and spread across multiple applications, it makes the OS feel claustrophobic, mysterious, and downright unhelpful at times.
There are also missed opportunities. Apple has opened social sharing options up to Twitter and Facebook, which is wonderful, but everyone else is out in the cold.
Want to save a file to a Dropbox folder? Read an article later using Pocket? Post a picture to Tumblr right from the browser? Sorry, that's not possible. There may be some hacky bookmarklet to accomplish the task, but I can't imagine anyone believes that a kludgy line of JavaScript is the most elegant way to accomplish those tasks.
And by the way, these are things I do every day on my phone, and things that I know lots of other people do. They may be fringe to Apple's target user, but they are a real part of the market at large.
They are the part of the market pushing what smartphones are capable of and what they mean to users. Apple also leaves developers empty-handed on widgets. It provides the minimally useful weather and stock widgets for the notification drawer, but isn't opening up that space to anyone else.
And I must mention this — the fact that the weather icon continues to read 73 degrees and sunny when it is clearly possible to have icons update with at least some information see the calendar icon is now laughable at best, and sad at worst.
And what about actionable notifications? Notifications in Jelly Bean can be acted on without having to jump into an app, which is a fantastic addition to Android. I use them all the time. I would have loved to see Apple innovate in this area — especially considering the fact that iOS multitasking still doesn't represent an "always on" experience.
Don't get me wrong, iOS is a beautiful and well-structured mobile operating system — but it's begun to show its age. It feels less useful to me today than it did a couple of years ago, especially in the face of increasingly sophisticated competition. I always have this sense now in iOS of not knowing where I am, what my status is — constantly having to load things and reload them. It feels tiring. Maybe you'll call me an Android fanboy for saying this, or maybe it's because much of my business utilizes Google apps and its communication tools, but it didn't take me very long with the iPhone 5 to start thinking about getting back to the Galaxy Nexus and Jelly Bean Android 4.
For what I do, I think it's a more effective, more elegant, and more powerful OS right now. What it may lack in polish and consistency, it makes up for in power and flexibility. The new Maps application in iOS 6 is really handsome. It's smooth, fast, and now provides free turn-by-turn navigation.
The new Maps also shows off some of Apple's new technology, partnerships, and acquisitions with its 3D Flyover mode, Yelp integration, and hooks into and out of Siri.
But for me, and for many people I know, the new Maps application is a big step backward for iOS — a " downgrade ," as John Gruber called it in his review of the iPhone 5 — and one that will take time, perhaps years, to become great again.
It's not impossible to see Apple building its Maps into something stellar, but the company needs data that it simply doesn't have right now.
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