Apple may be notoriously secretive and tight lipped, but the company
appears to be getting worse and worse at actually keeping things under
wraps. The iPhone 5
appears to be the most leaked handset in existence. Thankfully, the
suspense is over, the next-gen iPhone is finally here and it does, in
fact, go by the numerical title of 5. Just like the parts that have been
circulating this is a glass and aluminum affair and, at 7.6mm it's a
full 18 percent thinner than the 4S. It's even a full 20 percent lighter
at 112 grams. It's all those amazing things and it packs a larger
4-inch display. The new version of Apple's Retina panel is 1136 x 640,
which clocks in at a more than respectable 326ppi. It also sports better
color saturation with full sRGB rendering
That new longer screen
allows for an extra set of icons to be displayed on the home screen,
and first party apps have already been tweaked to take advantage of the
additional real estate. The iWork suite, Garage Band and iMovie have all
been updated. Older apps will still work too, though they'll be
displayed in a letterbox format until an update is issued. The tweaked
ratio puts the iPhone 5 display closer to 16:9, but it's not quite
there.
The most exciting news is likely the addition of LTE.
There's still HSPA+, EV-DO, EDGE and all that jazz on board, but it's
the true 4G that is really generating excitement. In the US Sprint,
Verizon and AT&T will all be able to take advantage of the single
chip data and voice LTE solution inside. And, if you're stuck on one of
those tiered data plans, the 802.11 a/b/g/n antenna should help you keep
your wireless usage in check.
If the brand new radios weren't
enough of a raw spec update to get your geek blood pumping, the new A6
CPU inside should push you over the edge. Apple claims its a full two
times faster than the chip inside the 4S, but we'll have to wait and see
how accurate that assertion is. The A6 is reportedly 22 percent smaller
than its predecessor, which probably helped Cupertino achieve such slim
dimension on the iPhone 5 and it's also more energy efficient --
allowing the handset to chug along for 8 hours of talk time, despite the
addition of LTE. Keeping your data usage to Wi-Fi will allow you to
milk up to 10 hours out of the device.
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