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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
  • 6.6% 55,642,278 hits
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  • 4.0"
    640x1136 pixels
  • 8MP
    1080p
  • 1GB RAM
    Apple A6
  • 1440mAh
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  • Anonymous
  • PG5
  • 09 Oct 2012

As expected, a couple of weeks of frenzy by the haters, and now things have settled down. Slate magazine writer even apologised and wrote a whole new article saying he was wrong, and the iPhone 5 is the greatest smartphone ever built. Wow can you imagine someone actually doing that?

Scratch stories have gone since it was probably just an initial batch, and maps not only is it not a disaster, but now people are praising its advanced features. Apple maps auto-cache actually saves double the data of Google maps offline mode.

Lol, just like the iPhone 4S last year, it has weathered the initial hate storm, and come out renewed, a great smartphone.

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    • Anonymous
    • KIC
    • 09 Oct 2012

    i thnk there is nothing like iphone in this world of cell phones..

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      • lawlee
      • 7Cg
      • 09 Oct 2012

      Chuck, 09 Oct 2012 So many glitches here and there on this phone. ......minor it might appear to be, but serio... more"So many glitches here and there on this phone. ......minor it might appear to be, but seriously need major corrections."

      What are the here and theres you are referring too? Please don't come up with the b.s "purple haze" or "map" problem.. I take these minor issues over inconsistent phone problems, page reboots when flipping it to horizontal view, call drops, phone reboots, application reboots, chosing a video to watch and it loads up another video, inferior applications to its the ios, and encountering at least one random glitch per day.

      and yes, i'm referring to the s3. Android will never be fixed.

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        • lawlee
        • 7Cg
        • 09 Oct 2012

        AnonD-70590, 09 Oct 2012Hi guys anyone picked the iphone 5 lately as part subsequent batch after the initial release. ... more"Hi guys anyone picked the iphone 5 lately as part subsequent batch after the initial release. Is the scratching still an issue or fixed? Apple will not acccept the problem but is notorius to fix it without telling. So if anyone find scratch issue in recently bought device let me know....."

        I decided to do scratch test on a white ip5 at the apple store. NO scratch marks appeared. This is the same unit that is sampled by hundreds per day. No scratch marks on it. It was a white unit. That being said, I think it be stupid not to get a protective case for your ip5. The scratch is greatly exaggerated by iphone 5 haters. Trust me. You don't believe me? go to your local apple store and just scratch away. Of course i'm not saying grab a knight. Just use your normal finger nails and scratch it.

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          • Chuck
          • 7qx
          • 09 Oct 2012

          So many glitches here and there on this phone.
          ......minor it might appear to be, but seriously need major corrections.

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            • Chino
            • 7qx
            • 09 Oct 2012

            Anonymous, 09 Oct 2012Fair play applies to fair competition and fair sharing, not outright copying and rampageing th... moreSo what's wrong with the student ?
            Who learnt/copy more from his teacher and become the professor + HOD in the same department.

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              • lawlee
              • 7Cg
              • 09 Oct 2012

              I love it how these iphone5 haters, research the internet, to see what flaws are in the ip5. Then pose as an ip5 user, and complain about it. Example Purple haze. What purple haze. Million of complainers. I Only a know a few people who own the ip5, and they have they dont know anything about a purple, haze. Probably a minor glitch, that is so minor. But these posers will pretend they own the phone and complain about it. I used itès maps and its works fine. Maybe because I live in the city.

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                • AnonD-70590
                • tRf
                • 09 Oct 2012

                Hi guys anyone picked the iphone 5 lately as part subsequent batch after the initial release. Is the scratching still an issue or fixed? Apple will not acccept the problem but is notorius to fix it without telling. So if anyone find scratch issue in recently bought device let me know.....

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                  • AnonD-71484
                  • IVI
                  • 09 Oct 2012

                  i love my iphone5 more than i love my girlfriend.. ahahah...

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                    • Anonymous
                    • t7x
                    • 09 Oct 2012

                    POPULARITY
                    Daily interest
                    74%
                    Total hits:4274554
                    ip 5



                    POPULARITY
                    Daily interest
                    88%
                    Total hits:15377083
                    samsung galaxy s3

                    see the diffrence then shut up

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                      • Contain
                      • 7qx
                      • 09 Oct 2012

                      iphone 5 still lacking that status,
                      Any Ideal smartpone should have minimum or nil negative issues.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • PG5
                        • 09 Oct 2012

                        Anonymous, 09 Oct 2012Apple wins Samsung with millions bucks on patent. Does Apple think about the refund or compens... moreThey certainly do. You are allowed refund no questions asked two weeks, and any defect upon purchase you may change and replace or get a refund. Sounds fair no?

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                          • s3
                          • 7Xc
                          • 09 Oct 2012

                          IP5 vs s3, ip5 vs bla,bla,bla

                          Cmon, people this is competition.
                          We cant blame phone manufacturer if they wanted to copy other feature from the other brand which they believe it could satisfy the consumer. I am a user of Galaxy s3, though I love Iphone but prefer to use s3. I can say the plastic is quite thin that it could easily break.But I love the specs, it was even funny to see their S-voice a copycat of siri LOL. But yes it is competition and it always happens. Why do just look on the positive side of it, coz without competition phones today could not be as hi-tech than they were today. It is a part of phones evolution, the more competition happens the more upgrades will be presented soon.. Just enjoy your phone men. You bought it and you must love it like I do. More power to all of you guys I phone and S3 users...!

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                            • iSJ5
                            • t7X
                            • 09 Oct 2012

                            AnonD-23327, 09 Oct 2012is Samsung the best? http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iii_is_tmobiles_bestselling_dev... moreread the news and i said "liar"!

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                              • Anonymous
                              • uSg
                              • 09 Oct 2012

                              Apple wins Samsung with millions bucks on patent. Does Apple think about the refund or compensation to Apple customers who bought their defects products?

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                                • AnonD-23327
                                • 3Y9
                                • 09 Oct 2012

                                is Samsung the best? http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iii_is_tmobiles_bestselling_device_of_all_time_-news-4917.php

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • PG5
                                  • 09 Oct 2012

                                  therock, 09 Oct 2012wth? there isn't that much upgrade from iphone 4s to iphone 5! lol. You are sadly mistaken because you judge from outside and from afar.

                                  It is the biggest speed increase between iPhones. It has increased screen size which was never done before. The camera takes 28 megapixel panoramics. It actually bests the SGS3 in drop tests, where the SGS3 is an excellent phone. It uses an A6 custom chip designed by Apple which not only makes it faster in real time usage than SGS3, it even beat SGS3 running Jelly Bean in GSMArena tests. It's in cell technology and color accuracy caused Display Mate to rate it the best mobile screen ever.

                                  You may not like it, but there is a reason that Slate, Consumer Reports and Engadget all call it the best smartphone ever made.

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                                    • therock
                                    • 4Hr
                                    • 09 Oct 2012

                                    wth? there isn't that much upgrade from iphone 4s to iphone 5! lol.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • XuH
                                      • 09 Oct 2012

                                      Anonymous, 09 Oct 2012These charts clearly shows how crappy is the IOS apps compared to Android. Apple users always ... moreAnd of course i assume that you must have also read this in your little info !!!

                                      "Crittercism, which is backed by Google Ventures,
                                      Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, AngelPad,
                                      AOL Ventures, Opus Capital and Shasta
                                      Ventures, provides crash reporting to app
                                      developers. The company provides developers
                                      with a wide range of data besides the mobile device and operating system, including, for
                                      example, the length of time between when an
                                      app is loaded and when it crashes, or how a user
                                      is holding a phone–portrait or landscape–when
                                      it crashes. It can also help evaluate whether an
                                      app’s own code has caused it to crash or whether a third party service SDK being used is causing
                                      the problem. This kind of data is important for
                                      helping developers plug all the holes in the
                                      landscape of operating systems. Clients using
                                      Crittercism include: Aston Martin Explore,
                                      Bullet Time and Hipster."

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • XuH
                                        • 09 Oct 2012

                                        Anonymous, 09 Oct 2012These charts clearly shows how crappy is the IOS apps compared to Android. Apple users always ... moreYou must have surely read this in the info you provided !!!??

                                        "So what does all this data mean? On a basic level,
                                        you can see that iOS apps crashed more than
                                        Android apps during this time period. But
                                        Crittercism’s Levy cautions that this doesn’t
                                        necessarily mean that overall iOS apps crash
                                        more than Android apps. That’s because Apple had recently released a new version iOS 5 in
                                        October. Android’s new Ice Cream Sandwich
                                        operating system (Android 4.0), meanwhile, had
                                        not been widely released on phones yet at the
                                        time of this study. “I expect as Ice Cream
                                        Sandwich just launched and the new Nexus S phone launched (during the study), we’ll expect
                                        the same situation to occur (with Android) as
                                        what happened (with iOS),” Levy says."

                                        Statistic is a handy tool to prove what you want to, disillusionally i wonder!!!

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