This enables the Home screen to produce an additional four app icons for any total of 24 icons, and also display photos, videos, games, and apps inside a taller (or wider) format. Apple is claiming that this new display boasts 44% more colour saturation, so that it has a sharper image with less glare in sunlight.
So it’s bigger, and brighter, nevertheless the iPhone 5 weighs about just 112 grams, so that it is 20 per cent lighter too, and our hands-on test confirms that it feels much lighter to hold. Oh, and did we mention that this battery life is about 1-2 hours better? The new screen is inside a 16:9 ratio format, instead of the 3:2 of preceding models: this is a great fit for widescreen movies.
It does, however, require apps to become resized for that new display. Apple’s apps are all redesigned to fit in to the new design, however other apps will depend on developer support. One pleasant surprise will be the iPhone 5’s keyboard, that is now wider in horizontal mode (with slightly wider keys) that make it slightly easier to use.
A facelift and feel The iPhone 5 sports a design largely just like the iPhone 4, and 4S. One area that is certainly different inside the new iPhone 5 will be the new anodized aluminium backplate around the white phone. The black model includes a slate black backing. Both feel happy to the touch. The front in the device remains a
solid part of glass. In terms of buttons placement it remains largely the identical, even though headphone socket is now located at the bottom of the device, like the iPod touch.
A new connection new iPhone 5
The new Dock connector – dubbed ‘Lightning’ to its Thunderbolt counterpart on the Mac – can be a 9-pin connection that replaces the 30-pin dock connector. This is quite a big change, given that the Dock connector may be present on all Apple’s iPod, iPad and iPhone devices from the original iPod. It’s somewhat of a culture-shock though on the vast array of devices while using the 30-pin connection (docks, speakers, etc) that can no longer work natively with the new iPhone 5. Apple is selling an adaptor, that you just should probably get alongide the phone
Video performance new iPhone 5
As you might expect the Video app works great using the new 16:9 format from the display. Since 2009 the 16:9 format is among the most most common ratio for television and film and may be the international standard format for HDTV, the only standard natively based on DVD. We’re actually surprised it isn’t additionally found on portable devices.
The 16:9 format replaces these:2 format that may be present about the iPhone since inception, so eventhough it seems odd in certain respects, video certainly isn’t one of these. The solution until now continues to be for widescreen movies to play letterboxed with black borders above and below the image (or you can double-tap to zoom in and lose some of the outer image). This new screen makes viewing video and television a much better experience.
One pleasant surprise could be the iPhone 5’s keyboard, that is now wider in horizontal mode (with slightly wider keys) making it slightly simpler to use. Of course, as the iPhone could be the same width when held vertically there's no difference when holding the iPhone upright.
