iPhone 5 official: Massive screen, super speed, iOS 6 and more!
There she blows! The iPhone 5 has finally been outed on stage at Apple’s San Francisco press event. Apple exec Phil Schiller whipped it out and gave away all the gory details: read on to find out what’s in and what’s out with the company’s sixth-generation smartphone bad boy.
For weeks, we’d been hearing rumours that the iPhone 5 would sport a new design (Last year’s iPhone 4S looked exactly like the 2010 iPhone 4), and it seems those leaks were on the money. The iPhone 5 does indeed feature a similar styling to its predecessor, but it’s thinner, and longer, making way for a four-inch 1136×640 display: or in real world terms, space for an extra row of app icons, or proper widescreen movies without the black bars. Apple’s own apps such as KeyNote, calendar and mail have all already been updated to fit the new screen, and developers should easily be able to tweak theirs.
The iPhone 5 camera meanwhile remains at eight megapixels, but Apple’s tweaked it, with new processing software, improved low light performance and a faster capture speed for burst shots. There’s also a panorama mode, which works like you’d expect, stitching together 28 megapixel widescreen snaps after panning across for a few seconds. the front facing FaceTime camera meanwhile can now muster 720p HD for video chats. Storage meanwhile sticks to the standard 16GB, 32Gb and 64GB options.
Inside, the iPhone 5 is powered by a new A6 processor the company claims is twice as fast as the A5 inside the iPhone 4S. It’s housed in a super thin 7.6mm glass and aluminium chassis (18 percent thinner than the iPhone 4S – and yes, it comes in white too), but Apple has still found space for a 4G modem, so you can get super speeds on the go – and yes, Apple confirmed that the iPhone 5 4G will be available on the EE network launched just yesterday in the UK.
Apple’s made space for some of this tech by, as rumoured, shrinking the dock connector. The new “Lightning” connector packs in fewer than the traditional 30 pins, and is noticeably smaller. This does mean the iPhone 5 won’t work with existing docks without the adaptor also unveiled, but it should future proof Apple for the years to come.
The iPhone 5 is running iOS 6 out of the box, and Apple’s iOS boss Scott Forstall demoed several of the new features on stage, including free turn by turn directions in Maps (like a satnav) and the option to tweet or post Facebook updates straight from the Notification Centre tray.
When can you get your mitts on one? Apple says the new iPhone 5 is coming out in the UK on 21 September, as we heard earlier this week. Every UK network (Vodafone, O2, Three, EE, T-Mobile and Orange) will be selling it.
What do you make of the new iPhone 5? We’ll be fielding all your responses on Twitter and publishing the best, but in the meantime let’s hear your verdict in the comments below!
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peter.mepham325@btinternet.com12 September 2012
I can't wait to get my hands on this eek !!!!!
Report as inappropriateAnonymous12 September 2012
It hasn't got a massive screen just bigger thin the iphone's tiny one
Report as inappropriatepatrick12 September 2012
twice as fast huh? i dont think so, i mean the iphone 4s is already pretty fast, if not the fastest smartphone on the market atm. so i think the iphone 5 might be a little faster, but not twice as fast. i think the larger screen is a great idea, because of the movie and the game, and maybe some of the older people would enjoy it to! im kind of disapointed of the camera, i mean 8mp is a lot, but it could hav been greater. cant wait to get my hands on one of these!
Report as inappropriateDoug Haywood12 September 2012
Seems like progress..
Report as inappropriateYoungblood12 September 2012
Nice, but for the probable price I'll happily continue with my 4s which hasn't let me down yet, at least til my contracts up in a year anyway!
Report as inappropriatejoey12 September 2012
I don't think the updates are sufficient for me wanting an upgrade! The speed is a good thing and fitting more apps on the first page. If the size meant a bigger battery and therefore battery life was increased in this one, then possibly, but I'd rather buy a portable external charger to be honest. Bit disappointed! I'd like to hold one to see what it's like. however.
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Stu in poole12 September 2012
I've been tweeting and facebooking from the notification tray for over a year on my jailbroken iphone 4.
Report as inappropriateDave Willis12 September 2012
I have to say I am not overly impressed with Iphone5 I stick with the 4s as I have the latest iPad but the nano looks good and the touch too.
Report as inappropriateEugene12 September 2012
What about battery life, the iP4 is hopeless?
Report as inappropriateMarc Horsbrough12 September 2012
Apple simply does it better and slicker than anyone else. I don't agree with Daz about Android, IOS5 fits my lifestyle so well and the new features in IOS6 seem excellent. I think we all sometimes forget that this device is a PHONE! It sits there with more power than a mainframe of just 30 years ago and can do so much in such an innovative way that it's simply breathtaking!
Report as inappropriateJay12 September 2012
minor evolution, no revolution, to paraphrase a Apple fanboy term....meh. Suprisingly I'm more interested in the Lumia 920.
Report as inappropriatesimon12 September 2012
People who want a phone that is set up for them and worry about being seen with the right brand will flock to the ip5. People who like to customise and worry more about performance than what to be seen with will get the galaxy 3.
Report as inappropriateSy12 September 2012
So this is supposed to rival the galaxy s3 and the HTC one x? Oh dear Apple! It looks the same as the last one, and only has a 4" screen? Must try harder! Won't be tempting me back any time soon. Android is now way ahead of ios and is only going to get bigger and better.
Report as inappropriateDaRiCh12 September 2012
1 step forward, 2 steps back!..... Sad lack of innovation! Samsung S3 will wipe the floor with this 'old' tech
Report as inappropriateKen 12 September 2012
How disappointing, great opportunity to blow the market away and they come up with a stretched version of the iPhone 4/4S. The screen size might just about match the rivals, but what about the processor is that as quick as the quad core the others are using?? Then there's the camera, still at 8m pixels with a few extra gadgets thrown in, who would prefer the ' burst shots' gadget to 16m pixels? , not me!!!! Then there's the other bits like FaceTime which now videos in 720hd, who uses it ???? And we're still stuck with the same storage space, not happy. Does this look like a company who want to be the front runners of the mobile phone market, or a company who are more interested in what the tablet market is doing. I'm annoyed because Apple are challenging my loyalty and for that I question what matters to them most and I certainly don't think it's the mobile phone market. :-(
Report as inappropriateSJ12 September 2012
This BBC report says it nicely... "Somewhere up there," wrote Lyons, "I can hear Steve screaming." Quite possibly, but he's not screaming at his successors to throw away a decade of rigorous development and make an iPhone that tries to be whatever everyone else's phone isn't. He's screaming at tech pundits to judge products not on some misplaced urge for "wow factor", but on how they feel to use." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19578015
Report as inappropriatehr13 September 2012
Yuk the same old loser
Report as inappropriateBaz13 September 2012
Everyone knows that Apple design beautiful looking products, but the problem with Apple lies not with the hardware they produce but IOS. It has barely changed from when it was originally released 5 years ago. With every major android release there are substantial differences and coupled with fantastic hardware Android phones are becoming more & more appealing to non-Android users. Android phones already have the largest market share, and that will only rise. What Apple will need to do and WILL do for the next MAJOR iPhone release in a couple of years time is to completly redo the operating system.
Report as inappropriaterk13 September 2012
that excited by the new iphone, I went online last night and ordered myself a new HTC One X
Report as inappropriateMIchael13 September 2012
I'm an iPhone and iPad fan so it pains me to say this... Sorry.. they could have done better. I will stick with my iPhone 4. The 5 is just a stretched thinner slightly faster version of the 4, with a better camera. Nothing revolutionary!
Report as inappropriatePaul blagrove13 September 2012
Shouldnt they get the iphone4s sorted out in the uk first before they bring out another handset feel absolutly robbed 9 months in to 2012 and still in beta mode what a joke
Report as inappropriatePeter Whitworth-Hilton13 September 2012
'Massive Screen'..... really? Frazz250 (above) got it right. Still adore using my Galaxy S2, even though I'm due to upgrade soon, the iPhone 5 hasn't convinced me to move back to Apple (after owning the 3GS). But it IS the combination of how everything comes together in the user experience and not the individual specs that make them what they are. After saying that, they're sooooo expensive! S3, here I am.
Report as inappropriateduncan13 September 2012
What's simon's written perfectly sums it all up. I've had all the iPhones (apart from the 4S - I gave up on the iPhone 4 in the end) and I still have an Ipad 2, but my next phone is going to be the GS3. For me my pet hate about apple (and ill deal with it when using my ipad2) is being tied to iTunes. I would prefer connecting my phone to my PC via USB and just dragging/dropping stuff as I wish - so much easier. Also being able to customise stuff on my phone the way 'I want'. Iphone 5 does look nice though and Ill be keeping my ipad but in terms of phones, the SG3 will be my next phone.
Report as inappropriateSynapseCircuit13 September 2012
Unfortunately, the iPhone 5 is playing catch up! Everything about the presentation was inaccurate i.e. it's not the thinnest phone. The operating system is not as advanced as Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The hardware is quite good in terms of the materials used on the phone. But the Samsung Galaxy SIII is better in terms of screen size - you're not going to notice the difference at a glance or when you're using the SIII. The HTC One X has a better screen than that of the SIII - again, you're not going to notice such a huge difference. Not forgetting the Motorola Droid RAZR family which is thinner than the iPhone 5 and the screen promises to be a lot better than all the phones mentioned above! I don't understand why Apple's Tim Cook has to talk nonsense in his presentation. It's stupid! Everything that the iPhone 5 has Android has had for a good couple of years! Apple is a joke! Well, was I right? I think I was 98% right with the shambles yesterday! What a joke! http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-sept-12-5-conspiracy.html http://synapse-circuit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/iclip.html
Report as inappropriateMark13 September 2012
Is the A6 dual or quad core???
Report as inappropriateDanny Roberts14 September 2012
I'm a massive apple fan and i'm due an upgrade from my 4S and I'm a not excited by the iPhone 5 at all like most people have said its just a slightly taller, faster and thinner version of the 4S! Apple is fast losing ground with the android phones and the only advantage that the iPhone has over andriod and the only reason I will get the 5 over the samsung galaxy S3 is the way all my apple products link together so effortlessly!
Report as inappropriateSteven Spray14 September 2012
I'm also a big Apple fan but I won't be getting the i5. Same form factor, same screen width, same old technology. It also weighs lighter?! The only reason I choose iPhone over any other phone is the build. The solid ruggedness of the device. Compare that with the cheap, plastic feel of all competing mobiles (HTC is nice though) I'm wondering if they sacrificed on this feature with their latest headset?
Report as inappropriateAnonymous14 September 2012
I cannot see any reason why anyone who has not invested heavily in the iTunes store would choose this over an Android phone - unless perhaps, their peers have an iPhone and they feel the need to conform. I am also concerned about recent stories suggesting that Apple is siphoning personal data from it's phones and passing this information to the US government for reasons they are not prepared to divulge.
Report as inappropriateFred14 September 2012
I have spent the last couple of years flipping between Android and iPhones. Currently I am using an iPhone. While Apple hardware is great and they have a very attractive ecosystem I think the operating system is starting to look dated, I find it really clunky compared to Android, more so when compared to the Playbook. It is the integration with Apple devices and the number of apps that is keeping it ahead of their rivals. If Apple is not careful they will find themselves under serious pressure from others.
Report as inappropriatemiles15 September 2012
all you people saying android is better than apple, think again you only buy android because you carnt afford to buy apple and apple is way ahead of android with most things fine yes they might be better in a few things but not much and HTC are rubbish !!!!!!!!!
Report as inappropriateDKBandMDB15 September 2012
No matter what, I have to get it.. I had iphone4.. than came to Blackberry Bold 9900.. still I used to miss my iphone which was broken and sold off previously. I think Iphone is a must have accessory and 5 have altered advance than 4s obviously...beware still it is a time killer as well.. u waste so much of time un-necessarily on it.
Report as inappropriateBen15 September 2012
I've never had an iPhone before and I like the looks of the 5. My friend has had every iPhone since the original and he says the only reason he's not upgrading is cos his contact has another year on it. I think I will get the iPhone 5 because I like the new tech. Also to all those who say Android and others are better than apple, my cousin's S3 broke in a WEEK!!! And my sisters blackberry stopped working after a month, yet all of my friends iPhones have never let him down.
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