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iPhone 5 Specs & Release Date

The iphone 4S release is expected today (October 4 2011) at 11:00 PDT (2:00PM EST)!

So far from today’s conference the features highlighted on the new iPhone are:

Now Confirmed Features on the new Iphone

  • The new iPhone will be a 4S model and not an iPhone 5 (good call CNet), though it still has plenty of cool new features.
  • It will have a new dual core A5 processor in it, apparently twice as fast as the iPhone 4’s.
  • Graphics will be 7 times more efficient in the iPhone 4S than the 4.
  • There will be a new antenna system to correct the reception issues.
  • The camera has an 8 megapixel sensor, can capture higher than 3264 x 2448 resolution and shoots 1080p video at 30 frames per second.
  • Today’s presenter not get specific if the iPhone was 4G as the standard seems to have wide boundaries but did say the new iPhone will have 5.8 Mbps upload and 14.4 Mbps download speeds.
  • The new iPhone will be both GSM and CDMA making it easy to bring it across borders.
  • Siri made it into the phone in a pretty large way. Rumoured to be called assistant, the app lets you speak pretty much anything into the phone and get an answers back. For example, if you want to know if there is a type of restaurant in the area you can simply ask your phone exactly that and it will give you the top 5 listings from Yelp based on your spoken parameters.
  • In the United States the phone will be 16GB for $199, 32GB for $299 and 64GB for $399 under contract. It will probably be about the same price in Canada.

Compared to the compiled rumours below it looks like the analysts were pretty close!

  • NFC Technology – The new iPhone 5 supports NFC technology the one which is used in Google’s Flagship Android phone, the Nexus S. With NFC technology, iPhone 5 will have extremely high data transfer rate between two devices.
  • Slimmer and lighter – The enclosure for the iphone 5 (or 4s) will be much more economically spaced, allowing for a slimmer and lighter iphone than it’s predecessor.
  • New Smart and brainy iPhone – Now with the new iphone5, you can even get answers to your questions like: What is the phone number of nearby hotel, Dispensary, taxi company? What Italian restaurant is nearby?
  • Facial Recognition – The iPhone will be able to identify  its owner through facial recognition. The phone can be unlocked and begin to function after recognizing its owner. We’ve seen similar technology in laptops when logging on to windows via face recognition. It no doubt come in handy for other apps.

  • iPhone 5 Camera – The new iPhone 5 will have an  8 megapixel camera and can record full HD video (720p we expect) with a capped recording time of 25 to 30 seconds. The camera is equipped with a Omnivision OV8820 sensor.
  • Case – The iphone enclosure will be slimmer and lighter than the iphone 4.
  • Battery Power – iPhone 5 comes with an awesome battery that exceeds the life of the 3G by 14 hours – 7 hours over 4G which makes it perfect for heavy use.
  • iPhone 5 Screen Size – 4.0 inches (scratch and shatter proof) Apple will be removing more of the nonsensitive borders on either side of the screen, reducing the size of the home button and possibly increase the size of the phone itself.
  • iPhone 5 Processor – The Iphone 5 will be powered  1.2GHz Dual Core Qualcomm wireless baseband chip.
  • iPhone 5 provides you with a variety of email alerts and notification. You can now assign alerts for different emails as well.


How iPhone 5 is different from iPhone 4?

  • The processor used in iPhone 5 is a 1.2GHz dual core processor which makes it faster than its former version in the iPhone 4
  • iPhone 4 had a complication regarding the antenna issue, attenuation in receiving signals, dropping off calls etc.  will be completely sorted out with iPhone 5.
  • The battery backup of iPhone 4 is high enough to last up to 48 hours despite of its heavy use. With iPhone 5 we expect no issues regarding the battery life. It will have an extended battery life of 14 hours on 3G and 7 hours on 4G with a stand by time of 600 hours.
  • The hardrive will be larger on the iPhone 5, a range of sizes will be offered up to  around 64Gb.
  • iPhone 5 is expected to have a 8 MP camera, an upgraded from iPhone 4’s  5MP,  to capture high quality pictures and videos.

iPhone 5 Release Date

The iPhone 5 is expected to launch sometime in the middle of August 2012 in the US and shortly after that in Canada. Most analysts are calling for a Canadian release date of October 1 2011 to Telus and Rogers.

The information in this article is based on the most reliable rumors we found. Final specs will likely differ, but this list gives us some good hints as to what we can expect.

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    • Your moms tits are too good to be true also. But i'm used to seeing those flappers in my face.

      • Cartoon-Man...nice name jock...how old are you???...5???...
        now stop talking nonsense and crawl back into that shithole you came from...or rather popped out from...

    • thats crazy? buddy are you a complete looser or yes? have you seen motorola atrix, galaxy 2, evo 3d and etc.?

      • You're a fan of phones that lose value within a few months and thier companies start promoting them as: BUY 1 AND GET THE SECOND 1 FREE!

        You're the loser, supporting phones that go out of business in like 2 months. Look at the Android. Verizon spent over 200 million on promotion allone and only seen a third of that money in return from sales. Get your self a real phone, an iPhone, and stop being a cock sucking faggot.

        • Nothing in your post has compelled me to consider and iPhone, or ever bother doing any research on it just to come back here and demonstrate just how much of a fanboi you sound like. If you are going to make looser posts like that, how about giving the people a reason to like iPhone. I don't think "Get your self a real phone" works because technically any phone that works is a real phone. I like the specs you claim your iPhone has, a "cock sucking faggot". I had no idea iPhone could do that, I know Steve Jobs does though.

          • lol this is funny but must agree i have no clue y people are fighting ova a phone that dnt even kno  they exist.....ugh team droid HTC EVO

        • Galaxy s2 is an amazing phone and actual i had a iphone which i sold to get a galaxy s...
          Now when i sold my galaxy s i actually sold it for.more then i bought it for.
          its pretty much a fact that the galaxys2 rapes the iphone..p.s samsung should stop making parts for the iphone so the crappy uncostomizable phonebthat annoyed the hell out of me can go to the shitter

        • sorry man but your wrong. android has been out less than half the time than other phone OS's yet it now has controlling market share. Phones arent going out of business. the open source technology allows alot of companies to release new technology quickly leading to faster advancements in phones.

  • hmm, took them this long to release a phone equal to a few of the htc phones that are already out. Great Job.

    • Well yeah because they only come out with an iphone once a year and htc and all that stuff come out with a new phone like all the time

    • Are you retarded?? It's pretty easy for HTC to out do the iphone4 when the iphone4 specs were made publicly known BEFORE the HTCs hit the market. HTC phones suck ass. Verizon can't even make 1/3 of the money they spent to make it off the phone sales. So congrats, you're part of the few percentile of idiots and losers who decided to go with the shitty phone! lmao wake up.

      • You are mistaken. Both phones were released in the same year. Google and Wiki is your friend. All of you Apple fanbois' need to remove your heads from your rectum and do some research.

  • Real stylus capability would be nice. Just like that Eee stylus, Apple can come up with touch & stylus (like Wacom) capable screen for iPhone 5 and iPad 3. It would be awesome.

  • about time. i still think the HTC is the better phone but the i phone 5 is going to be a great one.

    • for the record, it will have a flash drive, not a hard drive. samsung already put this new processor on the market in their new Galaxy S 2 tablet. and these specs aren't as impressive as the htc evo 3D, which will be released before iphone 5. yes, iphones are nice, but they are not the best.

    • Agreed... Why the fuck would you CAP video recording time on a phone that will potentially have a 64GB hard drive? Recording HD video @ 720p will probably give you more than 12 hours of recording time on a 64GB HDD, NOT 30 sec. TAKE CAP OFF NOW SAMSUNG!!!

      They're probably doing it so that they can have a promo scheme for the NEXT iPhone (SIX).
      They'll tell you... "Introducing the new iPhone 6 with NO CAP on video recording time."
      BOOM!!! millions of units are sold BECAUSE of that lol. Love this country.

      • because all of the information in the article is based off mindless speculation. The current iPhone 4 already takes 720p HD video, with no recording limit. The author of the article clearly just threw this in here because they have no idea what they are talking about. I mean seriously "Advanced antenna" "hard drive?" the author clearly has no concept of modern technology.

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