What is good about the iphone 5

iPhone 5 Review – Here’s Everything You Should Know About iPhone 5

After months of waiting, Apple has revealed the device we all have been waiting for, the iPhone 5. Yes, the 6th iPhone generation — iPhone 5 is finally here!

As expected the new installment in the popular iPhone series has a new design and a lot of amazing features. Let’s take a look at what make the iPhone 5, stand ahead of its competitors.

iPhone 5 with New Aluminum Design

The design is what has got the people talking about the iPhone 5. Though the basic general shape is kind of similar to the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, the eye-catching thing is the aluminum + glass back and a longer 4-inch retina display.

iPhone 5 with new aluminium design

The device features a 4-inch Retina display which has a resolution of 1136 x 640, with a pixel density that comes in at 326PPI. The longer display allows apps to display more content. Videos are played in widescreen without the lettering, etc. The headphone jacks are now at the bottom of the device.

iPhone 5 with 4-inch Retina Display

The display of the iPhone 5 features 44% more color saturation along with integrated touch technology making the display the most accurate and advanced currently present in the market.

iPhone 5 with 4-inch Retina display

iPhone 5 Hardware specs

The device only weighs 112 grams and that makes it 20% lighter than the iPhone 4S. It’s also the thinnest smartphone present in the market because it’s only 7.6mm thick.

iPhone 5 hardware review

The back is two-toned which means that there is glass at the bottom and top, while everywhere else you will get to see metal. This takes care of the weak non-Gorilla Glass problem faced by the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.

iPhone 5 two-toned design

The Home button (the same one) is present at the center, underneath the screen. The volume buttons are on the left hand-side and so is the mute and un-mute switch. There are three microphones. One of them is at the back, the other at the front and the third at the bottom. This leads to improved noise cancellation and a better sound quality.

iPhone 5 home button and dock connector

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The device has an A6 processor which is 2x A5. The speakers of the device have been reduced by 20% and noise cancellation is supported by the earpiece. Users are introduced to the Wideband audio which means that lower and higher frequency bits of sound will be more audible during a voice call.

iPhone 5 – thinner, lighter, less volume

iPhone 5 Camera review

There’s a dynamic low-light mode, a precision lens alignment, sapphire crystal which leads to better quality images at 8 megapixels. The resolution of the front camera has been increased to 720p HD.

iPhone 5 with iSight 8mpx camera

There’s also a Panorama mode for capturing landscapes and the image is saved at a 28 megapixel resolution.

iPhone 5 Battery life

The battery can give you 8 hours on LTE which is an improvement over the iPhone 4S.

The Dock Connector

The small dock connector is USB 3 compatible and that makes it 10x faster than the USB 2 30-pin connector. The dock connector has been named Lightning. It is 80% smaller than the previous connector and has an adaptive interface, is more durable and can be plugged into any orientation.

The 4G LTE

Having 4G LTE on the iPhone 5 means that the users will be able to see improvements when streaming HD videos or high quality audio streams. The 4G LTE supports speeds up to a 100Mbps. The Wi-Fi supports two bands which are the 2.4GHz and the 5GHz.

The Accessories

A dock connector convertor is being presented for the iPhone by the name ‘Lightning to 30-pin Adapter’. This allows users to use old accessories with the new hardware. All of the older accessories are compatible with the new device, except for the cases and sleeves.

iPhone 5 with iOS 6

iPhone 5 come up with iOS 6, read more about iOS 6 features.

iPhone 5 with Nano-SIM

There’s a new type of SIM card featured in the iPhone 5 which has been called by many as Nano-SIM. This new SIM card needs to be obtained from the network carrier in order for the iPhone 5 to work properly.

iPhone 5 Price

The 16GB model is priced at $199, the 32GB is $299 and the 64GB is $399. There’s also a two year contract from Verizon, AT&T or Sprint. The device is available in two colors which are black and white.

The Availability

The pre-orders start from the 14th of September and the shipment is from the 21st. Pre-orders will be available in the countries: U.S, Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It will be available in more countries after the 28th of this month and in more than a 100 countries in December. You can buy unlocked iPhone 5 or use this solution to factory Unlock iPhone 5.

Let us know what you think of the iPhone 5!

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‘What’s so good about the iPhone 5? It’s a new phone, that’s what’s so good’

The queue for the new iPhone 5 handsets, at the Apple store on Regent Street, London, on Friday. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

The queue for the new iPhone 5 handsets, at the Apple store on Regent Street, London, on Friday. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

I s it possible to fall in love with a brand? «Not when you’re 60-odd,» Gerard told me. «Maybe when you’re young.» He needed an iPhone 5 because he’d just bought an Audi A6 and they’re only compatible with a phone that has a milled aluminium finish. It seemed so laden with cultural significance, that sentence, that I thought it might be a joke, but apparently it’s true. He is not your typical iPhone 5 early-adopter.

Outside Apple’s flagship store on Regent Street in London, a snake of young men (plus two or three young women) stretched right back to the poky patch of grass on Hanover Square. I met nobody who’d been there longer than 14 hours, but nobody who’d had any sleep, either. Knackered, pink-eyed, and mildly hysterical, they were brandishing their little cards – strictly two per customer – each of which, plus a fistful of cash, entitled the bearer to one iPhone 5 once they got inside the building.

Kaiser, 34, was going to get a 64GB model in black. It would cost him £699. «I’m a real Apple fanboy,» he said. «Last time they brought out a new phone, I had a man from my office queue for me. But queuing overnight for a new phone is on my bucket list. I don’t want to offend anyone here, but Apple would be my church. This is my Sunday worship.»

Everybody in the queue was buying a phone for themselves, and nobody was buying one for anybody else. When you asked them who the other ticket was for (they all had two), they unfailingly said «my dad». But there was something under the surface, some anxiety that if your bid was found to be inauthentic, you’d be shoved out of the queue with nothing. Mohsin, 22, half-shouted, «Yes it’s for me! Why wouldn’t it be for me?» Who’s the other one for? «One’s for me, one for my dad. It is my dream to buy it, I must buy it.» It’s true that everybody was very tired.

Nasir, Imran and Feraz had arrived together; their friend Shahid, through some accident that I never comprehended, had managed to get ousted from the queue and was left standing beside it, his tickets confiscated, his face childlike with sorrow. He kept shuffling along, next to his in-queue friends: it was better to exist in a limbo, where you were at least parallel to an iPhone purchasing opportunity, than to go home. Feraz was quite lively, and saying philosophical things such as «what’s the point of having a new thing, if you don’t have it on the first day?»

Nasir had a more analytical bent, and explained: «The big thing is that they didn’t launch them in [south] Asia; they just launched in the UK and Hong Kong. So in Asia they’ll be around £600.»

«But they’re £529 here.»

«That’s still £70, if you have seven or eight phones…» He tailed off, with an expression that said, «Of course, this is entirely hypothetical.»

If they’re not all buying for themselves, it’s possible that they are young entrepreneurs with good global contacts, trying to make £500 between them. What I find a bit depressing is the other rumour – everybody is just being paid to queue for somebody else. Nobody owned up to this, though plenty of people denied it, affronted. It sounds like fun, this queueing experience (more fun in New York, apparently, where they were giving out Starbucks coffee, in some kind of corporate megalith mash-up).

But it’s a bit Victorian, when some people have so much more money than others that they get grown men to stand all night in line for some piece of tat that is basically the same as the thing they’ve already got and could buy for themselves, online, if only they were prepared to defer this modest gratification for a short amount of time.

Blethering on about equality, of course, ends up with having to move to France (where, to coincide with the launch, the Apple store workers went on strike. You have to hand it to the French).

Waseem, 36, had arrived at 9pm the night before, and like many people, was annoyed at the poor queue management (there appears to have been some situation in the middle of the night where, unsupervised, the queue etiquette broke down and a load of people pushed in). With the Jimmy Kimmel video fresh in my head (he shows people a «new iPhone 5», which is actually an old iPhone 4, and they all go, «ooh, it’s so much lighter! And faster! And I think the screen is larger»), I ask Waseem what he thinks will be so good about this phone. «It’ a new phone, that’s what’s so good about it.» (Thinks for a second.) «Hopefully it will have some new features.»

If they’re all on the level, and they’re all buying for themselves, then they’re all mad, is what I concluded, crossing the road. And I ended up in Banana Republic, buying a pair of jeans that were almost identical to the ones I was wearing, as if in a trance.

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3 reasons the new iPhone 5 is good for pilots

The new iPhone 5 features a larger, 4″ Retina screen.

Unless you are living under a rock, you probably heard that Apple announced the latest version of their best-selling iPhone today–the iPhone 5. Why should pilots care?

Actually, there are some new features here that are helpful for pilots.

1. Bigger screen makes charts more readable. The iPhone 4 and 4S were fantastic phones, but many people found their screens to be simply too small–especially for aviation use. While the iPhone 5’s screen isn’t anywhere near as large as the iPad, it is a nice step up at 4″ diagonal and should make it more useful in the cockpit. It retains the high resolution “Retina display” of the new iPad, and should make approach charts much more readable because it’s taller. All this comes without a weight or size penalty, as the iPhone 5 is 18% thinner and 20% lighter than the iPhone 4S.
2. LTE makes database updates possible on the go. Current chart databases are a critical part of navigation apps like ForeFlight, Garmin Pilot and WingX. But updating these databases takes a good WiFi connection and some time, since these are large files. The new iPhone features 4G LTE, a major upgrade over the previous 3G cell service. This much faster speed data connection will allow you to update chart databases anywhere you have service, even when you don’t have WiFi. Just watch your data usage, since most data plans have a monthly limit on the amount of data you can stream via 3G/4G.
3. Better battery life. This isn’t as exciting as some other features, but it’s absolutely essential for pilots, and it’s the one area where the iPhone really excels. There are other 4G LTE phones on the market, but many of these are plagued by poor battery life–the high speed data comes at a cost. But Apple claims their new phone (using it’s A6 processor) will allow for 8 hours of 4G LTE browsing time, so you can fly with your iPhone all day and still have juice left to call home. That’s impressive.

Is there anything not to like about the iPhone 5 (other than you have to spend $200 on yet another new phone)? For one, the phone uses a new dock connector–the port on the bottom that is used for charging and syncing–now called Lightning. It’s smaller and faster than the old 30-pin connector, but it effectively renders obsolete any accessory that depends on this port (think Bad Elf GPS or a charging cord). To use any of these products, you’ll need to buy a Lightning to 30-pin adapter, which Apple will sell separately.

Also, apps made for the iPhone 4 or 4S won’t automatically stretch to fit the larger screen–you’ll see some black bars at the top and bottom. So app developers will have to update their apps to take full advantage of the larger screen.

One last piece of good news–in addition to the iPhone 5, Apple also introduced new versions of the iPod Touch. While this is designed as a portable music player, it’s effectively an iPhone 5 without cell service. A 32GB iPod Touch is only $299, and does not require a phone contract like the iPhone, so it could be an inexpensive alternative to the iPad. So could the iPhone 4S, which is still available and will be priced at just $99. That’s quite a deal.

The new iPhone goes on sale September 21 in the US, Canada, Japan, the UK, Germany and other countries. Full details are available from Apple’s website.

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