iPhone 5 - It's out today!

[superchunk]

Scoobes said:

Shinobi-san said:

superchunk said:
Well pretty much what I figured:

what i guessed right:
same look but 4"
better camera
same iOS6
LTE
new iPods (touch same as iPhone4)
no iPad stuff
pricing unchanged

what i guessed wrong:
new itouch has 4"screen
A6 processor in iphone5 (now its virtually identical to Vita specs)
no release of their recently patented game controller for iTV
lack of NFC on new iphone5... seriously wow on that and no mention that bluetooth 4 would be used for similar functionality. Guess Apple just doesn't see the awesomeness in NFC like features.

what i didn't see coming:
iTunes being altered to look like Google Play store (on web)
Siri copying the Google Now cards for sports stuff (that wasn't in original iOS6 presentation)


Overall this is a nice upgrade to the phone. Nothing really new to the mobile space as it was all there on Android and even WP7 (FB and other social integration) already. However, it keeps the truck moving and keeps pressure on Google/OEMS/MS to continue to innovate and bring new shit.

What was your prediction for the specs SuperC?

Remember our discussion about Vita and upcomming smartphone specs....i think i nailed it

Do we actually know much about the CPU and GPU? At the moment I've just seen relative performance numbers (and I'm not even sure if they were talking about A6 vs A5 or A5X), and I think we can safely assume a die shrinkage. However, is it a dual or quad core CPU? Clockspeed? Until we get benchmarks it'll be difficult to say anything solid about it.

Thread is up. :)