Apple iPhone 5: Specifications, price and
availability...
Apple on Wednesday has finally revealed a new phone that's taller and
has a bigger display. iPhone 5 comes in either white and silver or black
and slate, and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price
of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model and
$399 (US) for the 64GB model.
iPhone 5 will be available in the
US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and
the UK on Friday, September 21, and customers can pre-order their iPhone
5 beginning Friday, September 14.
iPhone 5 will be available from the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple's retail stores, and through AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and select Apple Authorized Resellers.
iPhone
5 will roll out worldwide to 22 more countries on September 28,
including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
What makes it unique?
Even
though it's taller than the iPhone 4S, it's lighter. The bigger screen -
4 inches measured diagonally - creates room for another row of icons on
the screen and lets widescreen movies fit better. Previous iPhone
models carried 3.5-inch screens.
Even video and photos look more
lush on the iPhone 5's bigger and better screen. The device is also
speedier because of a more powerful processing chip and upgraded
wireless technology that accelerates Web surfing.
Apple also has
equipped the iPhone 5 with a superior sound system, courtesy of the new
headphones that the company says it spent three years developing. The
headphones, called "EarPods," are a vast improvement on the ear buds
that Apple has been giving away with its devices for more than a decade.
The new headphones actually stay in your ears and make it seem as if
the sound is playing inside your head. The EarPods come free with the
iPhone 5, and they sounded as good as $100 headphones sold by a variety
of other companies.
The new iOS also offers a feature called
"Passbook," where digital coupons, airline tickets and gift cards can be
conveniently stored in one location. This, too, is going to be popular.
iPhone 5 tech specs:
- Display: 4-inch (diagonal) with a resolution of 1136 by 640 pixels.
- Memory capacity: 16, 32 or 64 gigabytes, depending on price. There's no way to expand it with memory cards.
- Price: Starting at $199, for 16 gigabytes of memory.
- Size: height: 4.87 inches; width: 2.31 inches; depth: 0.30 inch (124 x 59 x 7.6 mm)
- Weight: 3.95 ounces (112 grams)
- Cameras: 8-megapixel camera on back, 1.2-megapixel on front.
-
Video recording: high-definition (1080p - comparable to the resolution
of a 40-inch flat panel TV) up to 30 frames per second with audio
-
Battery life: talk time is up to 8 hours on 3G. Internet works for up to
8 hours on LTE and up to 10 hours on Wi-Fi. Up to 10 hours of video
playback. Battery can be replaced by service personnel only.
- US wireless carriers: Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and others.
-
Network compatibility: 3G networks worldwide, plus 4G LTE networks in
the US, Canada, Japan, Germany, UK, Australia, South Korea, Hong Kong
and Singapore.
- Operating system: Apple's iOS 6 (will also be available for download to older iPhone models)
- Near-field communications: Not available.
Apple iPad 4 review: Marching on
Introduction
Three Apple tablets in a single year. This is more than anyone asked
for and yet, by some weird logic - or lack thereof, not too many for
Apple to successfully sell. All fine and dandy, unless you got the iPad 3
- better luck next time if you were unfortunate enough to buy it in
September.Well, so much for the new iPad. Number 4 is the new new iPad. You must've heard the one about the double positives. Did we hear some iPad 3 owners say "Yeah, right"? To be honest, they're not without a point.
Anyway, the tablet market is still Apple's to lose and the least it
could do is send a message to the competition. The double November
release may look like a knee-jerk reaction to Google and Microsoft's
raid on the slate market but the fact is that Apple has the depth to
compete on two fronts. The mini against compact droids and the iPad 4
against the Surface means Cupertino is leaving nothing to chance in
defending its number one spot.The fourth generation iPad is no major upgrade. It keeps the design, display and the main camera of its predecessor. What it gets is a new chipset and the new Lightning port. Oh, and there's an HD FaceTime front cam but that's barely worth mentioning.
Overall, it's the same tablet as the one released in March, with the class-leading Retina display and a welcome boost to the processing power. Plus, the Lightning port ensures seamless compatibility with the iPhone 5, which has sold by the millions.
Key features
- 9.7" LED-backlit IPS LCD touchscreen, 2048 x 1536 pixels; scratch-resistant, oleophobic coating
- Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n connectivity, carrier-dependent hotspot support
- Optional LTE connectivity (data only)
- Optional GPS with A-GPS and GLONASS support (for the 3G model only)
- Apple A6X SoC with 1 GHz dual-core processor
- PowerVR SGX554MP4 quad-core GPU
- 1GB of RAM
- iOS 6.0 with iCloud support and activation
- 16/32/64GB of inbuilt storage
- 652 grams of weight (662 grams for the LTE version)
- Bluetooth 4.0
- Lightning USB port
- 11,560 mAh battery
- Accelerometer, compass and three-axis gyro-sensor
- 5MP auto-focus camera
- 1080p video recording at 30fps
- 1.2MP secondary camera capable of FaceTime HD calls
- Four and five-finger gestures
- 1080p TV-output with the Apple Digital AV Adapter (purchased separately for $39), 720p video streaming
- Supports magnetic cases
It's an Apple device so things like a file manager and a memory card slot are not even up for discussion. They'll probably never be. Nothing on the list above should come as a surprise and, if you are still with us, you are OK with most of it.
The A6X chipset potentially doubles the processing power but let's be honest, the real life gain is not enough to make anyone throw away a still fresh iPad 3. Yet that's what Apple just did - you can think of that as investing in the future-proofing of the device more than anything else.
iPad 4 over iPad 3
- Apple A6X chipset with PowerVR554MP4 quad-core GPU for allegedly 2x faster performance
- 1.2MP front FaceTime camera with HD video
- GLONASS support (for the cellular version only)
- Lightning USB port
Someone had to take the hit and leaving iPad 3 users out in the cold
was probably a hard decision for Apple. The new product launch schedule
may've put the iPad 4's market prospects in question too - users are
less certain whether they should commit to a new device that may soon
become outdated. Apparently, the new Apple tablets are doing great, but
the iPad 4 seems to be the one that's always in stock, while the mini
takes about 2 weeks to deliver.But the iPad mini already had its moment in the spotlight here, it's now iPad 4's turn to have our full attention. Before we get busy, we should note that numbers are the short and easy way to set the different generations of Apple tablets apart. What was until recently known as the New iPad (iPad 3) is now discontinued. The current model (iPad 4) is officially called iPad with Retina. The only older generation Apple tablet officially in circulation is the iPad 2. Quite a mess, indeed.
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