Iphone 5 Is A Wonderful Piece Of Machinery
Apple stores in the days and hours ahead of the iPhone 5s release Friday morning
, a visitor to Earth might have assumed that the device was required for human survival. Rest assured, it isnt.
Oh, its a great gadget. A graceful, intuitive, thoroughly impressive gizmo that may change your life, especially if you dont already have an
iPhone 4S or the latest Android smartphone. Just know in advance that it wont necessarily be a change for the better.
Unlike most people who write about technology for a living, I dont own all the latest mobile devices. In fact, until today, all I had was a timeworn iPhone 3G, which was rendered old news more than three years ago with the release of the markedly faster iPhone 3GS (remember that?). So when I laid hands on the iPhone 5 this morning after braving a modest one-hour line at an AT&T store, I wasnt just comparing it to the iPhone 4S, which came out this time last year, or against state-of-the-art rivals such as the
Samsung Galaxy S III, HTC One X, or Motorola Droid Razr, which use Googles Android operating system. I was also judging it against the state of the art circa 2008.
As it turns out, the iPhone 5 is a wonderful piece of machinery by any standard. Compared to the 4S, its tall, thin, and light, yet its also significantly faster. I downloaded, opened, and started using the Twitter app on the
iPhone 5 using AT&Ts 4G LTE network in the time it took to download it on the 4S.
Yes, there are Android phones on the market that equal or surpass the iPhone 5 on paper. Many have larger screens. Some have better battery life and comparable features. But the iPhone 5 wins on fit and finish, and on details that you cant intuit from a spec sheet. Its interface is sharp, fluid, and responsive, and it somehow feels both sturdy and nearly weightless in your hand. And with the possible exception of its new maps app, which suffers from accuracy problems, its free of the bizarre and boneheaded design flaws that mar many of its competitors. There are no buttons out of place, and no important feature is hard to find.
When Apple launched the iPhone 5, some griped that it was more of the same, as opposed to something revolutionary. (I was among them, Ill admit.) But theres an upside to continually refining a great product, year after year: It keeps getting better. It would be silly to say that the
iPhone 5 is the perfect smartphonetheres always room for improvement. But its closer to perfection than any smartphone has ever been.
And thats the rub, if there is one. For people who, like me, are still accustomed to phones that specialize in communication, its both exhilarating and a little alarming to upgrade to a phone thats also optimized for so many other things. Its exhilarating because it feels like youre carrying the whole world in your pocket at all times. And its disconcerting because sometimes that feels like rather a lot to be carrying around.
It was distracting enough when my phone could make and take calls and send emails and text messages. Now that I can stream high-definition movies, shoot video, read books, and videoconference, Im a little concerned that Ill never pry my nose from the screen. That my old smartphone could barely manage to upload a photo to Facebook was frustrating, but it was also liberating. It gave me an excuse to simply enjoy the view.
This problem is not unique to the iPhone 5, as owners of the iPhone 4S or any number of other state-of-the-art phones can vouch. The iPhone 5 is merely the finest exemplar yet of the phone that can do it allexcept for all the things in life that you really need to do.
by: Iftekher Islam
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