Apples new revolutionary iPhone 5 was released about 2 weeks ago. It has got some new features to software and hardware. The question is, does it live up to the expectations of Apple lovers? Is the iPhone 5 still revolutionary?
First of all, one of the major improvements on the iPhone, is the biggest display. This was a huge leap for apple to compete with the android phones with larger screens. And it is quite innovative how they made the screen taller and not wider. And I gotta admit that it's my favorite thing about the new iPhone. The back of the phone is also changed and replaced with an aluminum back with two glass panels on either sides. It makes the phone 20% lighter and 18% thinner. The camera, on the other hand, is the same one which we saw on the iPhone 4S. BUT they have changed the glass cover to a sapphire (I'm not sure what its called! Lol) back which is harder and does not get scratched easily! In addition to the larger display and form factor is the smaller lightning connected in place of the old 30pin dock connector. Well, apple is also selling lightning to 30pin converter adapters incase you have old docks or chargers. Apple has also quoted that they're gonna be usin the new lightning connector on all their future devices. Plus, we obviously have the retina display with a weird resolution, which is hard to memorize. So that's a whole bunch of improvements on the hardware!
But what about the software? Honestly, I think this is the downside to the new iPhone. Software isn't what we really expected it to. It's got the new maps application, Siri improvements, and 200+ features! But where are all these features? That's the question! We've been seeing the same old homescreen with the icons just sittin there doing nothing, as well as the same old lock screen with no improvements but the camera icon. So I think that if apple dosent add any kind of personalization options in their next OS update, they're gonna lose their market to android devices and companies like Samsung. In my opinion they should have added something like widgets, or dashboard or something like that! To people with older A4 devices, iOS 6 is a big disappointment. So we can conclude that, software wise, the iPhone 5 is nothing new!
Price is something else that is very annoying, and it makes it unaffordable for people. For example it was release for a 100,000 rupees here in my country India. And the 16GB version is now being sold for 60,000 rupees.
On the other hand, they new Apple earpods seem to be very intuitive and handy! The new design makes it way better than the ones that apple were giving away with the iPhones ad iPods.
But, in the end It all comes down to what you want and what serves your needs! Hope this post helped all you guys! Thank you for reading!
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