iPhone 5 Announced - Full Specs Detailed

[Guru3D News]

Apple unveiled both mobile devices at a media event in San Francisco today and geeks around the world are no doubt already counting their pennies in anticipation. This new aluminium model has a 1136...

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[CronoGraal]

looks good, too bad everything will be overpriced and still suffers from proprietary bull****.

ill stick with my iphone 4 until it eventually breaks

[ATR]

Another lackluster apple iphone release. Should have named it 4S2

[Speed Weed]

Someone certainly isn't pleased at this news being so late:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJvxAKcafVo

This appeared about a year ago.

[Ryu5uzaku]

Looks the same has most likely weaker cam then 920 lumia, has most likely weaker soc then sgs3 and htconex. :o just iphone with biggar screen and bit better soc nothing new there. and it still looks the same pfft.

[sdamaged99]

I think even apple fans are pretty pissed off about this lacklustre new product

[aless83]

new connector... lol

[Darren Hodgson]

The pricing for the new iPhone 5 here in the U.K. starts at £529 for the 16 GB model up to £699 for the 64 GB one. That really is obnoxious IMO but then Apple knows that their many fans will lap them up no matter how much they cost. I've never really liked Apple products personally; they seem to favour style over actual substance and the pricing is ridiculous. Why pay their prices when you get something as good or better for a lot less?

[The Laughing Ma]

So a new proprietary sim and a new dock charger, lol gotta love the money gouging opportunities.

[CPC_RedDawn]

HA! so glad I got my Samsung Galaxy S3 then this looks like absolute crap. The phone itself for instance is far too big. The screen looks tiny with those massive black bezel borders on the top and the bottom. Easily could of made the screen bigger or the form factor smaller. Plus its Apple, I am not an Apple hater just hate their OS, it will come preloaded with crapware and it will be heavily locked down. Unlike Android that is more or less completely open and easy to mod/hack for some amazing results.

Iphone 5 = PASS

Plus the recently announced SGN2 completely destroys this in literally every way.

[WindtalkerCS]

Originally Posted by Ryu5uzaku

Looks the same has most likely weaker cam then 920 lumia, has most likely weaker soc then sgs3 and htconex. :o just iphone with biggar screen and bit better soc nothing new there. and it still looks the same pfft.

lol is there a single fact in that statement, other than what you think it might have?

Originally Posted by CPC_RedDawn

HA! so glad I got my Samsung Galaxy S3 then this looks like absolute crap. The phone itself for instance is far too big. The screen looks tiny with those massive black bezel borders on the top and the bottom. Easily could of made the screen bigger or the form factor smaller. Plus its Apple, I am not an Apple hater just hate their OS, it will come preloaded with crapware and it will be heavily locked down. Unlike Android that is more or less completely open and easy to mod/hack for some amazing results.

As a recent iPhone to Android convert I really don't understand what the fuss is about. The OS is easily a push, one does some things better, the other does other things better. The customization isn't really anything to write home about either, I have yet to see a customization that I might want to do that I couldn't do on a jailbroken iPhone.

[Denial]

Originally Posted by WindtalkerCS

lol is there a single fact in that statement, other than what you think it might have?



As a recent iPhone to Android convert I really don't understand what the fuss is about. The OS is easily a push, one does some things better, the other does other things better. The customization isn't really anything to write home about either, I have yet to see a customization that I might want to do that I couldn't do on a jailbroken iPhone.

It's Apple everyone just loves to **** all over them here.

[Exodite]

Well, we don't know anything about the SoC at this point but I'm curious to read more about it once that information hits.

Personally I doubt it's an A15 design as some speculate. It might be, certainly, though that would be a surprisingly aggressive design cycle.

Given that the A5 was based on two 800MHz A9 cores this could well be an 1.5-1.7GHz A9 design and/or improved memory bandwidth. Those aren't too uncommon in already popular SoCs.

[Darren Hodgson]

Originally Posted by CPC_RedDawn

HA! so glad I got my Samsung Galaxy S3 then this looks like absolute crap. The phone itself for instance is far too big. The screen looks tiny with those massive black bezel borders on the top and the bottom. Easily could of made the screen bigger or the form factor smaller. Plus its Apple, I am not an Apple hater just hate their OS, it will come preloaded with crapware and it will be heavily locked down. Unlike Android that is more or less completely open and easy to mod/hack for some amazing results.

I've been thinking about ditching my old Motorola RAZR mobile for a smartphone just for the convenience of having a browser and camera even though my phone is really used more for emergencies than anything else. My current mobile doesn't even support apps so I cannot use things like Blizzard's free authenticator. I see the Samsung Galaxy S3 mentioned a lot and it looks like a nice phone but I no idea about them at all.

Sorry to sound like a complete n00b but can you use a mobile's online features with a PS Vita which I currently cannot access the internet with outside the home?

[aayman_farzand]

Originally Posted by Darren Hodgson

Sorry to sound like a complete n00b but can you use a mobile's online features with a PS Vita which I currently cannot access the internet with outside the home?

Yes you can, you need to enable Wifi tethering but you won't be able to game on the Vita because of the high latency.

And you carrier might charge you for tethering btw. You should read up on their policies. I personally used the tethering on my iPhone using a jailbraek hack and so far have no had any issue and all I did was browse the web. But if you download a lot using cellular then expect notices from your carrier.

[Alasander]

bought a 4s cos i really liked it, will NOT be buying the 5, sorry Apple, same old same old, also congrats on shooting yourselves in the foot by making consumers have to have your new sim card, wonder how many phone companies will be offering a 5 with a contract deal if they have to pay you twice. errrm probably none.

I've got my coat on Apple and im not gonna let the door hit my ass on the way out, CYA.


Idiots.

[Copey]

Pretty poor to be fair, after apple's recent sueing spree they have lost my respect, I hope andriod takes all the market share off them as its a far better OS and the phones that support it are better.

[Ryu5uzaku]

All their SoC have been weak compared to similar from Samsung so far. Not expecting it to be any different now underclocked and whatnot.

Well same specs for camera as before just faster taking pics attainable by software update.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by aayman_farzand

Yes you can, you need to enable Wifi tethering but you won't be able to game on the Vita because of the high latency.

While waiting for my ISP to activate my line I tethered my phone to my PC using HSDPA (H) and my latency was <100ms on most games/ speed tests (and thats with very weak H that I only get when leaning my phone against my window)

Online games (ones I play anyway) seem to use hardly any actual data up or down, I had a data monitor on constantly to make sure my provider stayed off my back, so you should be able to play a fair bit without them clocking on to the fact you are tethering

[Loophole35]

Originally Posted by Alasander

bought a 4s cos i really liked it, will NOT be buying the 5, sorry Apple, same old same old, also congrats on shooting yourselves in the foot by making consumers have to have your new sim card, wonder how many phone companies will be offering a 5 with a contract deal if they have to pay you twice. errrm probably none.

I've got my coat on Apple and im not gonna let the door hit my ass on the way out, CYA.


Idiots.

All iPhones here in the states come with a new sim anyways and they activate the phone in apple store or if you buy it directly from at&t, verison, or sprint. Not sure how it's done anywhere else though.

[ricardonuno1980]

iPhone 5: no OLED screen yet = FAIL! hahaha! lol

[jmpnop]

Originally Posted by Ryu5uzaku

Looks the same has most likely weaker cam then 920 lumia, has most likely weaker soc then sgs3 and htconex. :o just iphone with biggar screen and bit better soc nothing new there. and it still looks the same pfft.

Hardware without proper software is just a waste. Even with so many cores and GHz, galaxy S3 isn't as fluid as an Windows Phone 7 / iPhone (even with all widgets turned off). I don't get why all Android guys pay so much importance to hardware and don't care about software...

[dk_lightning]

The CPU is only a 1Ghz Dual?? WTF?!

My 7 Month old Sony Xperia S is a 1.5Ghz Dual. I would of thought Apple would at least have put in a 1.7Ghz Dual but seems not

[iFRAC7UR3]

to be honest , android is way overrated ! the OSLO is so unstable. look at the power of the last generation android devices, compared to speed and performance. they stutter lag . and my galaxy S3 even freeze.

so they both have a lot to work on but currently for me as a gamer apple will win my vote. I have had it with the lackluster android market and it's ****ty unstable apps.

[EspHack]

they say the new iphone is using A15 cores, sure they are underclocked like they did with the 4s so expect it to match current A9 1.5ghz+ beast at least