A longer, larger screen.
The iPhone 5 adds everything we wanted in the iPhone 4S: 4G LTE.
Free turn-by-turn navigation and a faster A6 processor.
Plus, its top-to-bottom redesign is sharp, slim, and feather-light.
The iPhone 5 completely rebuilds the iPhone on a framework of new features and design.
I took pictures outdoors and in, and the biggest differences.
- Awesome new panorama mode and the even faster picture-taking.
- The camera takes excellent pictures, a bit more so now than before.
- It's absolutely the best iPhone to date, and it easily secures its place in the top tier of the smartphone universe.
- The iPhone 5 takes far clearer low-light pictures, but the result, while more coherent, is grainier and lower resolution than the wonderfully detailed images taken in bright, direct light.
- iPhone 5 was able to make things out in places where the iPhone 4S couldn't.
- The iPhone 4S averaged a 2.4Mbps download speeds over "4G," whereas the iPhone 5 averaged 20.31Mbps.
- Addressing its major previous shortcomings.
- The new iPhone 5's display also has a layer removed from the screen.
- Creating a display that acts as its own capacitive surface.
- By a long way. At 112g, it’s 20% daintier than the iPhone 4S.
- 16% less butch than the Samsung Galaxy S3.
- 14% lighter than the HTC One X.
- It's still an 8-megapixel camera, but there's a new sapphire-crystal lens, and improved hardware enabling features like dynamic low-lighting adjustment, image stabilization on the 1080p video camera, and the capability to take still shots while shooting video.
- Reducing the SIM to weensy, or ‘nano’, size has helped, minutely, as has making the shell out of anodized aluminum.
- The brace of glass strips adorning the top and bottom of the rear give both the black/slate and white/silver models a premium feel.
- Actually employed to allow an uninterrupted phone signal. No-one wants another antennagate.