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Apple iPhone 5 - user opinions and reviews

Apple iPhone 5
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  • Released 2012, September 21
    112g, 7.6mm thickness
    iOS 6, up to iOS 10.3.4
    16GB/32GB/64GB storage, no card slot
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  • 4.0"
    640x1136 pixels
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  • 1GB RAM
    Apple A6
  • 1440mAh
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  • 23 Oct 2012

AnonD-71285, 22 Oct 2012uhmm. . you are the most devoted android troll here. .fyi, this is iphone 5's forum. go to you... moreOMG! you dont know whats the meaning of trolling jejeje!

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    • RJi
    • 23 Oct 2012

    No one disputes that Android has a ton of features, but the denial that its based on iOS is pathetic. I'm an Apple fan, and I for example know that Mac OS originally was inspired by Xerox's GUI.

    Android fans are in denial. The new brainwashed generation.

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      • 23 Oct 2012

      Anonymous, 23 Oct 2012What I said isn't about what kind of job Samsung is doing, it's about widgets which are an ama... moreIOS = 2D painting.. Android = 3D sculpture. Couldn't have said it better myself.

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        • qKw
        • 23 Oct 2012

        iPhone has same old boring UI full of rows of icons and nothing else. As a GS3 fan, the only thing I like about the iPhone is its high price. I'm with AT&T so I upgraded my line and got brand new iPhone and sold it on ebay for $1000. I then turned around and got me a brand spanking new QUAD-CORE GS3 for only $575. I still have close to $200 left after taking out the cost of the iPhone which was $218 after taxes.

        Long live the iPhone!

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          • 23 Oct 2012

          Anonymous, 23 Oct 2012What I said isn't about what kind of job Samsung is doing, it's about widgets which are an ama... moreYou can add widgets yourself if you jailbreak, and those that are available through Cydia are… okay. But they’d be so much better if Apple supported them and allowed developers to create them for their apps

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            • 3Jn
            • 23 Oct 2012

            New York, 23 Oct 2012i own a samsung sii and it sucks big time. i've owned iphones and though it would be nice to s... moreWhat I said isn't about what kind of job Samsung is doing, it's about widgets which are an amazing feature and would bring IOS into a whole new level but Apple will never do it because the only reason IOS is so smooth is because it's so flat and basic.
            I mean comparing IOS to Android is like comparing a flat painting(IOS) to a 3D sculpture(Android)
            Because basically IOS is just a highly polished version of the OS they were doing 6 years ago and Android is constantly adding extra layers and those extra layers and capabilities are what makes Android buggier and it's truly amazing it's Apr smooth as it is with all the things it does, but IOS is so smooth because Apple never try much new and just keep polishing the same thing over and over which is easy to do.

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              • 23 Oct 2012

              AnonD-56991, 23 Oct 2012Widgets are the kind of Multitasking that matters most to the average person because you can h... morei own a samsung sii and it sucks big time. i've owned iphones and though it would be nice to see what android does. that was the biggest mistake i've ever made. this phone freezes all the time. i can tell you no matter what you say, samsung is still trying to live up to their dreams, that they think they produce superior phones..honestly maybe in the future. certainly not now. forget the marketing crap they put out there.

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                • 3Jn
                • 23 Oct 2012

                iSJ5, 23 Oct 2012I don't quite understand when people say iOS doesn't have "real" multitasking On bot... moreWidgets are the kind of Multitasking that matters most to the average person because you can have dozens of Apps all running simultaneously in the foreground and gives Android all those extra layers that really do make a difference.
                And I can guarantee if Apple ever bothers to gives IOS widgets and finally brings IOS into this decade people will be truly amazed by how much better IOS is.
                But like I've said before Apple is more interested in looking good than actually being good, and IOS will start off being seriously buggy to begin with if they add Widgets, and I can never see Apple doing that if the average Apple customer just blindly keeps buying whatever has the Apple logo on next.

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                  • 23 Oct 2012

                  [deleted post]I don't quite understand when people say iOS doesn't have "real" multitasking On both iOS & Android third party apps freeze in the background. They both allow certain "services" to continue to run. On iOS Apple dictates what these are. On Android, Google also dictates what these are. However the developer can create their own "services" and allow them to run in the background. So you gain some functionality on Android, at the expense of battery life and performance. Neither do "true" multitasking. Real world, theres more to it.

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                    • 23 Oct 2012

                    Anonymous, 22 Oct 2012the real truth between ios and android. apple haters will not mention to a friend to avoid the... moreYour statement is not impressive, keep in mind that ios is realy boring, yes when it comes to application quality it is superior than android but android has more capabilities than the ios thats why more and more people in the world are looking forward to android

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                      • 23 Oct 2012

                      Anonymous, 22 Oct 2012the real truth between ios and android. apple haters will not mention to a friend to avoid the... moreApple could very easily made it so only music, videos & images can be stored on external memory or even make a proprietary high-speed external card that only works in iPhone and would be fast enough for installing Apps on, and people use phones now for all their music and media and since it records video in 1080p you can get very little on the 16gb version.
                      So no matter what Apple propaganda you hear about why Apple doesn't include certain features it is almost always about simply making more money from customers by restricting features and giving you no choice but to buy a whole new phone when you end up short on memory because after getting a Smartphone people inevitably want to do more things with it.

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                        • 23 Oct 2012

                        BitchPlease, 22 Oct 2012only people without an iPhone would say bad things about it,difference is that Samsung,Blackbe... moreask former iphone user

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                          • KFP
                          • 23 Oct 2012

                          AnonD-56991, 22 Oct 2012I know for a fact that any iPhone owner capable of being honest does like the idea of Widgets ... morenot at all... don't think everybody's thinking alike... i remember a friend almost always accidently rejected his call sending a msg from his Samsung phone while taking it out of pocket, because of its stupidly sensitive and misplaced UI...
                          Widgets too are ok only with few of them if you just too lazy to tap just one more time to actually reach the app in menu...plus with more of them it just ends up as another menu... i am a Samsung user and if you can track down my internet provider with my imei then would know which model i use, but still i rarely use widgets apart from certain like msg, camera, and weather, that's all...
                          and btw what are u - pampering the company (android) that its too difficult to code multitasking and all...!!
                          dude we care for end results don't we?? unless we get paid for the technical jargon... multitasking should be there but as of now given the ironic battery with almost every smart phone, its too stupid to use it casually that way...the only thing is that we can just show off - my phone has this that and your phone doesn't... where's the point in actual usage, unless we scumb to use almost anything any company gives, even if that was useless to us or just say could be achieved by another method...

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                            • KFP
                            • 23 Oct 2012

                            AnonD-56991, 22 Oct 2012It actually is possible to turn a lot of Androids into a Pc running Linux with wired Keyboard ... moreMan android sucks in working properly even on mobile screen single handedly... why would you want to join all the accessories with it... what would it make u knw?? your s3 will be slower than intel p4...
                            Oops i shoulda said celeron...my bad...

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                              • YTL
                              • 23 Oct 2012

                              Bob, 22 Oct 2012I use a Mac too. But I run windows on it.Ha ha ha ha ha ... where did all your android fanboy's sense went away?? buying an expensive machine just to run windows on it, you could have just bought a cheap laptop and preserve some android senses ??!!

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                                • YTL
                                • 23 Oct 2012

                                AnonD-56991, 22 Oct 2012Just remember that Android phones can access absolutely any site on the Web including those us... moreFlash heavy sites rarely bring anything useful to mobile internet...apart from cheap deals i mean ads :-P...

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                                  • 23 Oct 2012

                                  Anonymous, 22 Oct 2012my sister bought a black 16gb model. It's simply awesome :) Did it has network signal issue with Aluminium metal case on iphone 5 ?
                                  Polycarbonate plastic seem to be more scratches resistance , lighter and better signal transmission.

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                                    • YTL
                                    • 23 Oct 2012

                                    AnonD-56991, 22 Oct 2012It actually is possible to turn a lot of Androids into a Pc running Linux with wired Keyboard ... moreMan android sucks in working properly even on mobile screen single handedly... why would you want to join all the accessories with it... what would it make u knw?? your s3 will be slower than intel p4...

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                                      • Rn6
                                      • 22 Oct 2012

                                      the real truth between ios and android. apple haters will not mention to a friend to avoid them from buying apple iphone.

                                      What makes apple superior to any android phone no matter what.

                                      Applications.

                                      Programmers are more focused on developing high quality applications for the apple because it's easier. Thus giving them much better apps. Android users say "no no they are the same" the truth, is, this is not. Apple's os have much much better applications then the android. Source : this is not made up, this is straight from a friend who works at a programming company that makes apps.



                                      SD Card. We won't know whats apple reason for not having a micro sd card slot. However, apple is fully aware, (as they work very close to those programmers) that these programmers DO NOT ALLOW these apps to be able to run out of the sd card. This is "most programmers" do not allow this. so its utterly useless, since apps cannot run out of the sd card anyways. it's only good for storing music and photos I guess. Which is kinda useless too, since there should be more then enough space on a 16gb iphone. How many photos do you really have? 20000? Cmon, how bout songs? are you really going to have 800 songs?

                                      IOS update. The iphone will suport up to the next 3 updates. So for example, the iphone 5, can be upgraded up until the IOs8, as for android, it can only be updated once! So pretty much, that S3, you update the android once, and thats it. It will not allow another update, and you will need to buy another android phone.

                                      Thus why apple is superior to any other phone out there.

                                      Android users can feel free to brag about how great it is. Go ahead. But this is the real truth, apple applications >>>>>>> android applications. No joke. If your not writing programs for the iphone, your not a reputable programming company. Once they prove their worth writing android apps, they will go to apple, and hope they make it to the big boys, to the "real phone company"

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                                        • Rn6
                                        • 22 Oct 2012

                                        Anonymous, 22 Oct 2012iphone 5 is a real bitch go wild in US of A but it's sucking crock in other areas eg here in N... morewhois iphone5 you exploring? Or are you just exploring the glitches online, and making things up, and posting it onto here? Note1 is a piece of crap, lol!! your hilarious!

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