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Saturday, September 22, 2012

First Hands-on Review iPhone5

Sturdy. Light. Simple. Beautiful. is the iPhone5. After holding the device for sometime, I began to understand Apple better.
Not everything they have done is right. But they win many points here, taking cue from the psychology of an average human; Good aesthetics would always be appealing.

Handling the world's fastest phone felt good. See pictures from my escapades at the 2 most popular Apple stores in London and a video of siri in action on the iPhone5.

Material and Appearance:
You have to accept the lightness of the device, there is no doubting the high quality materials which was used to build the chasis yet, it's light. The phone felt good to the hand.

Camera:
 Fastest I have ever seen. A tweet from me yesterday.
Really fast. you could go.  snap, snap, snap without the
slightest pause.

Internet surfing : 
webpages loaded pretty well. Nothing really exciting about the browser. It would be nice to have the chrome version installed.. which I think is available already.

Siri:
Siri has become smarter. Amidst all the ambient noise, it was able to tell the Chinese guy there were no theatres around and could find me 15 rails stations around my location at the first try, with a few fails too.

If you have been using the iPhone since the first iPhone then, you would love the iPhone5 better, not necessarily because you are an ardent fan of the iPhone, its could probably be because you have gotten used to most of the native features which has been consistent all through, with incremental improvements at some points, and that's a plus.

Aesthetics has brought the iPhone this far, without having the very best of thoughts going into improving other areas like its functionality. More went into the physical appearance of the phone than the software I would say.

This video kind of tells that. It also faintly highlights the standpoint of iPhone manufacturers.
A phone with more functionalities, but not built to last so long should be preferable to a phone that gives you all that, not as much, but with the all the aesthetics and that social element.

The iPhone5 is a great phone. The new Android devices, Samsung Galaxy s3, etc are great as well. This is obviously not the case with most people, but then, ..
House the android operating system with the iPhone5 Hardware, I tell you friends,
you would experience true smartness.

3 comments:

  1. "House the android operating system with the iPhone5 Hardware, I tell you friends,
    you would experience true smartness." Exactly what my problem with Apple is -- IOS.

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