Comments on: iPhone 5 is a disappointment, 7 reasons not to buy it

By: SteveO

SteveO — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:04:00 +0000

Well I’m an Apple fan, have an iPhone 4, iPad 2 and Macbook Air, Time Capsule, Apple TV blah etc – but I have to say, neither the newer iPads, or iPhone 4s,5 have tempted me to upgrade. The stuff I have still works just fine but I have to say – in a year from now I will be thinking of getting something newer, and if Apple don’t come up with some serious innovation, it won’t be new Apple stuff.

Personal opinion – the author was as unbiased as he tried to be.

By: Jack Green

Jack Green — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:05:00 +0000

im personally not keen to buy anything from Apple, since i think they’re all WAAAAAAAY overpriced…. they may be good, not gonna lie.. but.. when it comes to pcs for example.. Mac is not what it used to be anymore… any computer outdistances them…. the iOS is good, but why getting an Iphone when i can get a Nokia, HALF THE PRICE, and still have the same performance if not better?

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By: William Voelkel

William Voelkel — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:28:00 +0000

Apple is just straight falling behind in the mobile market. The screen is still behind current phones that have been out for a year now, facebook integration should have happened with the last iphone, screen size is better, but again still under the new standard in smartphones. But hey…the headphone jack is on the top now. That ought to get customers excited! And ditching google maps for their own, and then claiming it’s the best out there? Here’s to the hare loosing to the tortoise!

By: phreezerburn

phreezerburn — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:48:00 +0000

Actually no. The bench testing Apple itself OKed Geekbench relies heavily on memory throughput at various levels. Were there a Vulturemark or other such brutal battering of the hardware at work in all these tests I think a lot of the reliance on iOS6 and its revamped caching scheme would come to light very fast. Also let none forget THIS is the processor they have been working on for years and the one that let them claim to be working on designs WITH ARM and not merely using their designs outright.

For a company with near 700 BILLION to bank from, the iPhone 5 is a joke on Apple’s own fan base and sadly one barely a few of them actually caught. My own wife’s 4s and my Macbook Air are the last Apple devices I can see us buying. I’ve been with them from the IIc through the first Powermac and iMacs (still have the strawberry one on display in my study along side my Pismo) all the way to my own Macbook Air and they’ve bottomed out for me.

Make way for the new Dell. They too owned the media outright through their advertising dollars. They too had been puffed up beyond anything remotely real regarding their own innovation. They too eventually ran out of runway and Michael Dell’s captain leaving the ship was the start of the end. Sounds familiar doesn’t it.

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By: Ritesh Kumar

Ritesh Kumar — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 02:51:00 +0000

How would you rate a WIndows 8 phone over Android or Iphone5..??? Does windoes 8 phone have the potential to outperform both of them??

By: Newah

Newah — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:44:00 +0000

Yeah so this is the most biased crap I’ve ever seen. I love android very much myself, but this seems slightly inaccurate.

First, the design is fine. Infact, it’s quite possibly the best phone design on the market. Apple didn’t need to change it drastically. As an Android fan, I’ve always been jealous of the iPhone’s style. Why fix something that’s not broken?
I agree with this on features. Apple could’ve added more, instead of paring with competition.

As far is innovation, I agree again. Apple hasn’t thrown anything out there crazy awesome and brand new in a while. But Apple is smart, and has it’s reasons for saving the features these last couple times around. Although NFC isn’t widely supported by stores and banks yet, and would kill the battery. Plus, more money to throw at a feature that isn’t widely supported yet, is a waste. Aside from NFC though, Apple still could’ve gone to new heights with their phone this year.

Complaining about the display? It’s thinner, more vibrant, and bigger? What’s not to like? While I agree with you about the fact that bigger screens are becoming more and more attractive, but 4″ is acceptable. I do think that 4.3″ would’ve been still acceptable and better.

This makes me laugh. Hardware problems? The iPhone 5 racks right up there, hardware wise, with the Galaxy SIII. That’s impressive for Apple, considering they’re never at par with droid phone specs at release. It’s really much faster than the 4S, just as Apple claimed.

Apple’s mapping system has potential, and some features that Google’s lacks, but I would still rather use Google Maps.

The only reason not to buy it, is if you absolutely need huge screens, and NFC/Wireless Charging or other “innovations”.

By: level-headed

level-headed — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:43:00 +0000

I’m not an Apple fanatic, so don’t get the wrong idea, but in Apple’s defense we’ve all heard these arguments before. Since the devices inception, the iPhone has never been about revolutionary hardware and despite of this the iPhone has managed to perform really well. What I’m trying to say is that people should keep an open mind and make sure not to pass quick judgement, especially since the device hasn’t even been released yet. I’ve seen this so many times before, an unreleased phone that looks good or bad on paper, ends up performing bad or good in real life, respectively (does anybody still remember the Nokia N97?).

By: Alex Dumitru

Alex Dumitru — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:34:00 +0000

The comparisons based have been very biased and they did the test so iPhone could win. Though it still wasn’t able to outperform the Galaxy S3, One X and so on.

The iPhone 5 is now a mid-end device with an outrageous price.