Apple’s iPhone 5 (2012): A Full Review – Part 3

The weight is the most prominent factor in the new phone, right off the bat. It might be the thinnest smartphone out there, as the company claimed for some time but for iPhone users it makes all the difference. However, the light weight is what everyone will remember for a really long time. This is first time iPhone has been bee this light. Until iPhone 5, the standard weight of the handset used to be nearly touching 5 ounces. This one is tad lower than 4 ounces. From an tech guru’s view angle, Apple has reengineered the phone on unprecedented levels.

Secondly, the screen size lengthening is subtle, but, like the Retina Display, you’re going to have a hard time going back once you’ve used it. The extra space adds a lot to document viewing areas above the keyboard, landscape-oriented video playback (larger size and less letterboxing), and home-page organizing (an extra row of icons/folders). Who knows what game developers will dream up, but odds are that extra space on the sides in landscape mode will be handily used by virtual buttons and controls.

A move from the iPhone 4 and 4S’ 3.5-inch, 960×640-pixel display to a 4-inch, 1,136×640-pixel display effectively means the same Retina Display (326 pixels per inch), but with extra pixel real estate versus a magnified screen. All the icons and app buttons are the same size, but there’s more room for other features, or more space for videos and photos to be displayed.

The iPhone’s interface is the same as always: you have app icons greeting you in a grid, and a dock of up to four apps at the bottom. Instead of a grid of four rows of four apps, the longer screen accommodates five rows of four apps. More apps can fit on the home screen, but that’s about it as far as user interface innovation. Extra screen height means pop-up notification banners are less intrusive at the top or bottom.

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