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iPhone 5: Thinner, Lighter And Longer Battery Life!
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Finally announced September 12, the cellular coverage of the iPhone 5 is amazing, starting with LTE, but also including CDMA-1xEV-DO, HSPA+, HSPA, DC-HSDPA, EDGE and GPRS.
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Saturday, September 15, 2012:
Nobody, but Qualcomm could have provided the single-chip baseband modem and single-chip multi-band RF transceiver. The air interfaces covered allow most US carriers and many international carriers to field the iPhone 5, even over many different LTE bands.
But, it's not universal!
China Mobile's TD-SCDMA is not supported, so maybe there will soon be another iPhone 5 version for that huge market.
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The A6 application processor is said to have a 2x faster CPU and 2x faster graphics on a 'more energy efficient' die that is 27 per cent smaller than the A5. My guess is that the A6 is a quad-core 28nm implementation of ARM's Cortex-A9 processor (likely by Samsung's Austin fab).
Eight hours of 3G or LTE talk or browsing time and 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing time is claimed.
Physically, the iPhone 5 has a longer body and 4-inch Retina display (vs. the 3.5-inch of the 4S), still allowing one-hand operation. The shell structure is all glass and aluminum, precluding implementation of NFC.
That's too bad, since Apple recently bought biometric security company AuthenTec which has participated in an Android NFC project, with technology that could have enabled Apple to go up against Google Wallet. And, there's no Bluetooth 4.0!
The new, all-digital 'Lightning' dock connector is 80 per cent smaller. Of course, Apple could have gone with micro USB like everybody else, but then it wouldn't have control over whose devices could connect to the new iPhone (and iPod) standard. And, the resulting licensing fees (OMG, how the money rolls in!).
Have your $29 dollars ready for an adapter for all of your old amplified speakers, your car aux port, etc.
The 8MP camera features a BSI sensor, 5-element lens with sapphire lens crystal. The A6 provides the image processing horsepower for dynamic low-light image capture and features a panoramic mode for a 28 MP resulting image. The 1080P video with better stabilization and facial recognition is featured. A FaceTime HD camera, also with BSI, provides 720P capability.
Three microphones are provided, top, bottom and back. These provide for voice recognition and noise cancellation. Wideband audio is supported (about 50Hz-4kHz), currently enabled by DT and Orange, with 20 more carriers slated to handle it. The two speakers have 5-magnet transducers, enabling better sound.
With the new iOS 6 operating system, many new features and applications are provided, and at the same subsidized pricing (in the US, at least) as the old iPhone 4S, starting at $199 for 16GB. And, you can get the iPhone 4S now for $99 and the iPhone 4 for free (remember, 'there's no such thing as a free lunch.').
There are other smartphones with most of the same features, but the iPhone 5 has enough new capabilities and 'pizzazz' going for it that millions will begin flying off the shelves when it begins shipping September 21st.
Will Strauss is the president and principal analyst, Forward Concepts, USA.
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