Apple Inc. on Wednesday unveiled the iPhone 5, saying it’s thinner and lighter than the previous model, even though it has a bigger screen.
Marketing head Phil Schiller unveiled the year’s most eagerly awaited phone at an event here. The phone costs between $199 for the cheapest 16 gigabyte version and $399 at the top end.
The release is expected to help the company recapture attention and revenue after it lost the lead in smartphones to Samsung this year.
As expected, the screen is taller than on the iPhone 4S, making room for another row of icons.
Mr. Schiller said the screen is 18 per cent thinner and 20 per cent lighter because of new technology that eliminates a separate touch-sensing layer in the screen.
The phone is made entirely of glass and aluminium. It can connect to the fastest new wireless data networks, both in the U.S. and overseas. — AP, Reuters.
After month of long speculation, Apple announced its newest smartphone to the world , the iPhone 5, as it seeks to the wart of growing challenges from rivals like Samsung, Google and Microsoft great compititer of the world with Apple.
In a well packed conference hall at Yerba Buena Centre in San Francisco, The Apple marketing chief - Phill Schiller said the Apple as glass and aluminium smartphones the “most beautiful product ever made” and also described that it is the best engineering product that Apple has ever made.
Mr. Schiller marketting chief shared some few key statistics about the phones, which at 7.6 mm thick is the world’s thinnest smartphone ( ever ) , 18 per cent thinner than its predecessor. The iPhone 5 weighs 112 grams, 20 per cent lighter than 4S.
The new iPhone features a great 4-inch screen with it, the largest-ever on an iPhone well released from Apple, which has sported with 3.5-inch screens since it launch in 2007. While Samsung, Motorola and HTC offers with bigger screens, the “phones has to be designed for the handheld. It should fit in your hand, and be easy to send messages and receive it, type emails, and surf the web easier,”
The best camera is built around 8-megapixel and features a precision with five-element lens for better low light performance and 40 per cent faster photo capture speed than before. Apple also improved video capture and the phone’s audio system well improved, including a noise-cancelling earpiece is good.
The new iPhone is looking good with getting a new connector to attach the computers and with chargers. It had been using the same one from of iPod. He said that old connector has “served us well for nearly a decade, but so much has changed.”
Apple said the phone’s virtual assistant, Siri, will be giving very good directions.
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