Apple iPhone 5 Review: A Smart Phone

Apple iPhone 5 is a smart phone by Apple announced in September, 2012. Apple iPhone 5 is considered to be the best smart phone ever by Apple. iPhone 5 has been a deep competition with Samsung’s Galaxy SIII.

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Apple iPhone 5 Review

Apple iPhone 5 Review

Network Supported

iPhone 5 wireless icon Apple iPhone 5 supports all three 2G (GSM), 3G (HSDPA), and 4G (LTE) network. The sim that works with iPhone 5 is a Nano-sim.

Beauty of iPhone 5

iPhone 5 has a spectacular body shape. It is a beautiful cell phone with shiny and glossy cell phone. The body dimensions of iPhone 5 are 4.87 x 58.6 x 0.30 in and weigh around 112g making it a light weight cell phone as compared Samsung Galaxy S 3 which weighs 132g.

Large Display

iPhone 5 has the largest display as compared to all the earlier models. iPhone 5 has a display screen measuring 4.0 inches. Pixel quality is 640 x 1136 pixels and 16M colors. It has a multi-touch LED-backlit IPS TFT, capacitive touchscreen and Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection and oleo phobic coating.

Memory

iPhone comes with a built-in 1GB RAM and 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB. It does not offer a MicroSD card for when the user wants to expand the memory. However iPhone 5 competitor Samsung Galaxy S III does.

Connectivity

iPhone 5 supports all sorts of connectivity such as GPRS, EDGE, WLAN, Wi-Fi Hotspot, 4.0 Bluetooth, Near Field Communication (NFC) and 2.0 USB.

HQ and HD Camera

iPhone 5 has a spectacular 8MP camera with 3264×2448 pixels. The camera also features HD video and image recording, touch focus, face and smile detection, panorama, HDR and geo-tagging.

Auto focus and LED make the camera even better. The primary video camera is 1080 (HD) pixels which makes videos with the features of LED video light, video stabilization, geo-tagging.

The secondary camera is 1.2MP with 720 (HD) pixels which features face detection and face time as well.

Operating System

iPhone 5 Apple’s own iOS 6. It has Apple’s A6 chipset, a Dual-Core 1.2 and PowerVR SGX 543MP3 GPU.

Apple iPhone 5 Key Features

It has 4 kinds of sensors to offer its users correct usage of the phone: Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, and compass.
It supports SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, and iMessage for messaging.
It has an HTML browser known as Safari.
It has S-Voice which accepts language commands and dictation.
It also has a dedicated mic whose purpose is to cancel the noise while on a phone call.
It has TV-Out option as well to connect the cell phone with TV to view pictures and play music.
It has document viewer for MS. Office and Adobe PDF.
It has software for natural voice recognition known as Siri.
It has Twitter and Facebook integration as well.
It has iBook and Maps.
Audio and video player and editor are included as well.
It also has iCloud service to store data.