“After I got a few minutes with the iPhone 5 after Apple’s press event, I wrote that it was ‘a very impressive device,’” Farhad Manjoo reports for Slate. “But those words appeared under the headline, ‘No, This Is Not the Best iPhone Ever,’ a conclusion that was prompted by my annoyance about Apple’s new, proprietary dock connector. The company should have gone with a universal connector, I argued. By making that unfriendly move, the firm had ‘screwed over’ its most loyal customers, and missed a chance to build a truly perfect device.”

“Now, almost a month later, it’s time for me to get something off my chest: I’ve made a huge mistake,” Manjoo reports. “I’ve had the iPhone 5 for about a week and a half, and I’m still annoyed about the dock connector thing. But it’s a small problem, and in retrospect I was wrong to allow myself to become overwhelmed by dock-based frustration.”

MacDailyNews Take: Duh.

Manjoo reports, “That’s because, in all other ways, the iPhone 5 is the best phone ever to grace the earth. It beats every single rival on just about every metric you can think of, including speed, battery life, and especially beauty and workmanship… I’ll go even further: When I pick up the iPhone 5 and examine it closely, I find it difficult to believe that this device actually exists… The only way to appreciate how much more solid the iPhone 5 feels is to use it for a few days—and, crucially, to use it without stuffing it into a case… Compared to the iPhone 5, all other products will feel cheap.”

Read more in the full review here.

MacDailyNews Take: Overreacting about a new Dock Connector to the point that it blinded you of everything else wasn’t a “mistake,” it was hit-whoring. Nobody is that stupid. It takes a big man to admit a “mistake,” but it takes a much bigger man to admit his “mistake” was hit-whoring over a mere trifle in the first place.

Otherwise nice review that echoes the findings of many others (see below)

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