iPhone 5, Not A Suprise

Early Wednesday morning Apple shut down its online store. “We’ll be back,” the site proclaimed in multiple languages. With consumers and tech journalists already holding their breath for the hoped for release of the iPhone 5, it was a portent and a promise. Now it’s here, the iPhone 5, with its own motto: “The biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone.” But is it everything that everyone hoped for? Well, no. Not really. Basically, the rumors were true. It’s taller but not wider. It does LTE. The screen is a 4-inch Retina display. It’s 18 percent thinner and 20 percent lighter. It has a new operating system, iOS 6, and a new chip, the A6, which will make everything work faster and the battery last longer—according to Apple. It also has a new charging connector, Lightening, which the New York Times calls “vexing .” Budget for an adaptor. There’s no “wow,” says CNET , as...

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