I am done with this phone and am just waiting for Black Friday to get a new iPhone on sale. We just put new battery in it and headed to Verizon where we have been for 10 years. How do I use this phone? Maybe try a different store? Fast forward…. I also have an iphone 5c. I never updated the OS from the 7. Now the only reason I am taking the step to get a newer iphone is because my 5c recently began acting strangely. Like it was stuck on stupid. When I notice this I will restart it holding both the power and home button, then it is back to normal.
So now I am waiting on my new cover and lightning jack earbuds to come in the mail before I switch over. What I question is this…am I going to have to update the OS on this 5c before I can transfer the data onto my 7? I love using iPhone 5, I have used it for three years. The iPhone 5 is definitely a nice and reliable device. The graph below tells the story:. How the iPhones pick ISO and shutter speed in various levels of light. Note the steady drop in the lowest ISO with each subsequent model.
In bright light, it changes just the shutter speed, and in dim light, it changes just the ISO. And the tipping point to swap between the two is the typical indoor brightness.
Essentially, if you're outside during the day, the phone only changes the shutter speed. When you're indoors, it only changes the ISO. Outside by day, the iPhone 5 leaves the ISO untouched at its base of 50 to give the best picture detail.
If the light dims below EV7. The "flash" on all the current iPhone models isn't really a flash; it's a bright LED. And while it's very bright for an LED, it's nowhere near as powerful as the strobe flash found on a dedicated camera, so it only reaches a couple of metres from the phone. On the iPhone 4s and earlier, it's placed so close to the lens that photos are plagued by red-eye.
On the iPhone 5, the flash has been moved 3mm further away, but that doesn't seem to be far enough, as red-eye is still runs rampant. The LED flash is not as neutral in colour as a camera flash - the flash on my handset has a slight green tinge.
While many cameras set their white balance to match the colour of the flash when it fires, the iPhone doesn't, so photos faithfully record any colour bias from the flash. I see hundreds of iPhones on our courses, and I've found lots of difference in the colour of the flash between handsets from the iPhone 4, ranging from neutral with a green tinge, to noticeably orange.
The LED flashes that we've seen on iPhone 4s handsets have been more consistent. The panorama mode instantly creates single-row panoramas as you smoothly rotate the camera through up to degrees.
It's easy to use, and the the detail and resolution it gives is impressive. It builds-up the panorama in real-time, piecing it together out of thin strips. This gives a number of differences to traditional panoramic apps that stitch together adjacent photos:.
To a photographer, the lens on the iPhones seems horribly exposed, with no protection from the elements or the keys and change in your pocket. The iPhone 5 has a new covering made of sapphire crystal, which Apple claims will better resist scratches.
Pointing it directly at the sun, I couldn't see any extra lens flare compared to an iPhone 4s. In fact, the flare was well-controlled - just a small central spot, and some purple flaring of lights that are just immediately outside of the field of view.
Management of your photos unfortunately appears unchanged on the iPhone 5 with iOS6. Apple seems to want your computer not your phone to be the centre of your digital universe, and Apple limits your ways to organise photos directly on the phone. Apple seems to be gently reminding you that iTunes is meant to be the boss, and handle all the syncing and exchange of photos for you. This may not be practical for photographers, and it is possible to use Lightroom 4 to import iPhone photos onto computers, and simply treat the phone as an over-sized memory card with a camera attached.
There is no star-rating system nor keywording for images in the camera roll, so organisation becomes a challenge once you have lots of images.
Some apps offer it, but only by duplicating all of your photos and then rating and keywording the new copies. Battery life is the bane of iPhone photographers — constantly feeding electricity into a thirsty phone. Apple claims slightly longer battery life, and this was borne out by fully-charging both an iPhone 5 and 4s, and doing the same things with both through the day in airplane mode.
In natural light, the colours are similar between the iPhone 4s and the iPhone 5. Reds appear a little more vivid on my iPhone 5, but the difference is slight, and you couldn't tell that by looking at the display, because the display on the iPhone 5 shows all colours more vividly. Mine is also noticeably warmer more amber than that of my 4s. In part 2 of this review, we'll look at these issues further, and how they affect editing photos in apps.
Under artificial light indoors, the iPhone 5 occasionally does better at removing the orange colour to the lights, but I couldn't provoke it to do this consistently. Any differences in overall brightness, contrast or exposure in the images from these two phones are small enough not to worry about. The HDR feature of the camera - where it takes three photos at different brightnesses and combines the best parts of each to make a single optimised image - works in just the same way as it did on earlier models Traffic data, for instance, was scarce when compared side-by-side with Google Maps.
The Flyover mode I mentioned is a nice effect, but compared to what Google now offers — extensive Street View, indoor maps for some stores or museums — it's hard to be too impressed by detailed renderings of buildings. It's beautiful, but not exactly useful. But perhaps the biggest issue with the new Maps is its complete lack of transit data. This may not be an issue in other parts of the world, but in New York, having up-to-the-minute subway info can be seem like a matter of life or death on some days.
Apple seems to be relying on developers to provide apps that will handle this data, and there are some apps that do the job decently right now, but it seems like a cheap and counterintuitive way out of this problem.
Since when does Apple choose to let developers pick up the slack of its first-party applications on the iPhone? Mail is largely unchanged, save for a few new features. Firstly, you're able to pull down to refresh, which is a nice addition. Secondly, Mail now boasts a "VIP" inbox, where you can assign specific contacts, sort of like Google's "Priority Inbox," but much more manual.
It's also easier to flag messages in Mail, though it never seemed like too big of a hassle for me in the first place. Most of the changes are for the better, if subtle. One thing that hasn't changed, however, is Mail's inability to search message content. It didn't do it before, and it doesn't do it now.
That can be a little trying when you're on the go and need information, but don't know the best way to get at it — it seems like a minor addition to index those messages, so I'm not sure why Apple isn't doing it. Is it to hurt us? A future update? Who can say. I'm happy to report that Siri — while still not out of beta — seems far more capable on the iPhone 5 and frankly, on the updated 4S than ever before.
Not only can the new Siri now do things like Tweet and post to Facebook for you, open applications, give you sports scores and detailed information on movies, but she generally just seems to be better and faster at finding all kinds of information. A number of times while testing the iPhone 5, I used Siri to handle tasks that I didn't have my hands free for. The service responded quickly and got the correct information I was looking for or carried out the requested task on the first try. A noticeable improvement from the previous generation, though I'm certain that the LTE connectivity when out and about is helping Siri get connected much faster.
Passbook is kind of like an answer to a question no one asked. At least, I'm not asking it. Maybe this is the kind of thing that will be really hot somewhere that I don't hang out very often — like the South?
Okay, I just checked; one member of The Verge team is really excited about this idea. Regardless, the new app — which collects the QR codes and vital info from plane tickets, Starbucks cards, movie tickets, etc. Right now, Passbook feels as if it could be very useful An experiment gone horribly wrong. Only time will tell, as many of the apps which utilize the functionality don't seem to be working yet for me Fandango, for instance. Apple reps assured me that many services are going live on launch day, so everyone will have a better opportunity to roadtest the new tool.
There's a lot more to iOS 6 than I could fit in this review at least, reasonably fit , and a lot of it most of it belongs not just to the iPhone 5, but to older devices as well. For the full breakdown of what the new software can do, I highly recommend that you read our full iOS 6 review. The iPhone 5 is unquestionably the best iPhone ever made, and for the mass market, it's the best smartphone, period.
Between the new design, blazing fast LTE, and excellent battery life, there's little to not like here. It's a competent, confident, slick package, certainly made better by most but not all of the updates and changes in iOS 6. Despite the Maps issues and some questions about whether Passbook will be a viable product, there's no doubt that Apple has crafted a beast of a phone — a fine machine that is a worthy new entry in the most innovative line of products the company has ever made.
But there's also another segment of the market, of which I consider myself a part. That segment thinks that there's still a lot of work to be done in mobile devices; still a lot of innovation to come. And that's not innovation for the sake of innovation. I mean real innovation in the way we use our phones, in the flexibility of those operating systems, in how those devices become an extension of ourselves.
For that segment, I think the iPhone 5 and iOS 6 fall short. There's a lot more work to be done, but right now Apple seems to be in a holding pattern, too comfortable or too scared to take real chances. I'll be eagerly awaiting the moment that Apple joins the messy fray again. I have no doubt it will happen. But until then, thank goodness for competition. Compare this: iPhone 5 vs.
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Filed under: Apple. Linkedin Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Video Review Video Review. Design Design and hardware Until you've held it, you haven't seen it. Grid View. Truly something to behold The phone is also thinner and of course taller. Specs Specs, display, sound. An all-new aluminum construction extends around the back, which is either anodized black or left raw depending on whether you opt for the darker or lighter of the two offerings. The white phone is bright and clean-looking; the black, dark and menacing.
We'll let you draw conclusions about personality based on color preference, but we will say that the black surface seems to suck up fingerprints that are difficult to clean. Even so, we're glad the all-glass back has been retired, though traces of it remain: two slivers of the stuff punctuate the top and bottom of the back sides.
These glossy bands break up the matte uniformity, but help boost antenna performance. That said, the antennas still comprise the rim of the device, thinner now and the gap between them filled with a material whose color matches the body -- yet more evidence of the design team's attention to detail.
These are the same sort of dynamically reconfiguring antennas used on the 4S and, as with that phone, we weren't able to death grip our way into any sort of signal issues. The face of the device is still fashioned out of glass no surprise there and while Apple wouldn't confirm whether that front is indeed the sort of primate-proof silica produced by Corning, we'd hazard a guess that it is.
With the metal back now sitting flush to the chamfered edge of the device, the slightly elevated glass surface gives the profile view of the phone a bit of unfortunate asymmetry -- it's now thicker on top than on the bottom. But that elevated glass does mean your finger doesn't hit any rough edges or unfortunate surfaces when tracing the edges of the panel. The front-facing FaceTime HD camera now sits centered, directly above the earpiece.
The Home button, meanwhile, has moved a fraction of a millimeter down and its resistance feels slightly different than that on the 4S, a touch more progressive with a more definitive detent. Hopefully the internal mechanism will prove more durable over time. The position and design of the other buttons is likewise largely unchanged from the 4S, with the discrete, circular volume up and down buttons on the left just below the slightly thinner toggle switch.
The headphone jack now moves to the bottom, a change that will cause some to modify their well-established pocket-retrieval mannerisms. But, as users of the iPod touch will tell you, having that jack on the bottom feels quite natural, and we agree.
This is a good move. The phone's speakers are also positioned on the bottom, playing out through a series of 26 holes that flank another major change in the iPhone 5: the Lightning connector. Goodbye, venerable Dock connector. Hello, Lightning. For nearly 10 years the pin Dock connector has been ubiquitous, sprouting out of accessories small and large , but ever since iPods started getting thinner we all knew its days were numbered.
The giant, clunky connector is a painful legacy of an earlier time that needs to be removed from the ecosystem and, with the iPhone 5, Apple decided it was time to rip off the Band-Aid. Indeed the Dock connector must go and we won't miss it, but Lightning doesn't always feel like a confident step forward. First, the good: the Lightning connector is infinitely easier to connect. It slots in nicely and does so regardless of orientation, plugging in right-side-up or upside-down.
We were able to drive it home without looking the first time, and every time thereafter. If only the same could be said for the USB connector on the other side. It's also small, seems infinitely more durable than its flimsy-feeling elder and even stronger than micro-USB alternatives.
Superficially, it's hitting all the right marks, but Lightning comes up short in a number of important areas. But, that's not a perfect solution, as even that won't support iPod Out , the specification used in some cars most notably BMW and Mini to enable in-dash control of an iPod or iPhone.
That's an admittedly low number of users left with no way forward, as the adapter will provide the power and analog audio that the vast majority of docks and accessories and cars in the world need, but it's still disappointing to see those automotive users, owners of some of the most expensive iPod docks on the planet, left out in the cold.
More problematic is the speed of this new connector. Lightning's name comes as a cheeky play on the Thunderbolt connector, yet Lightning is, at least for now, wholly independent from that standard. In fact, the implementation that comes with the iPhone 5 is based on USB 2. In practice, though, we were surprised to actually find a tangible difference between the two phones. To test this we lined up an iPhone 4S next to an iPhone 5 and ran both through a number of syncs with large files.
Pulling 5. Syncing those same files to the iPhone 5 took three minutes and 57 seconds on average. So, nearly 20 percent faster, but we're not sure how much of this is due to the new connector and how much can be attributed to faster internals in the phone itself. For now, at least, the new connector remains confusingly at odds with Apple's own next-generation and similarly named data interconnect.
That's no problem if you're using one of the many and myriad wireless ways to pull content directly onto the device hello, iCloud , but if you're still pushing your media over a cable from your main iTunes library, it's still going to take awhile. The heart of the iPhone 5 is the new A6 processor , a chip that Apple wasn't too keen to describe other than it being "twice as fast" as the last-gen A5 and "22 percent smaller.
Why not tell this up front? It's clear the folks in Cupertino are sick of people trying to draw conclusions based on core count and gigahertz goals, so they're just sitting this one out. Still, none have gone so far as to stop publishing key specifications altogether. Maybe they should. We've long since departed from a time when clock speed or core count could be directly correlated with performance across CPU architectures and, with Apple constructing its own, custom SoC for the A6 , that's doubly true.
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