“You pick it up and it almost feels fake. That’s not to say it feels cheap; because it doesn’t — quite the opposite, actually. It just doesn’t seem real. Certainly not to someone who has been holding the iPhone 4/4S for the past two years. It feels like someone took one of those devices and hollowed it out,” MG Siegler writes for TechCrunch.
“The iPhone 5 is here,” Siegler writes. “I’ve had the opportunity to play around with the latest iPhone for the past several days. I won’t beat around the bush: it’s fantastic.”
Siegler writes, “You’re going to want this phone… If you’ve been debating getting the iPhone 5 — and it seems like many of you haven’t debated it too much, with 2 million pre-orders — I suggest you make the jump. Even from the iPhone 4S, the iPhone 5 is a big, noticeable improvement. (Though of course I understand that carrier contract commitments may come into play there as well.) If you have an iPhone 4 or, heaven forbid, an iPhone 3GS, get the iPhone 5 as soon as you can.”
Much more in the full review here.
Related articles:
Bloomberg’s Jaroslovsky reviews Apple’s iPhone 5: The only great smartphone on the market – September 19, 2012
CNET reviews Apple’s iPhone 5: Editors’ Choice; a great, beautifully-engineered smartphone – September 19, 2012
NYT’s Pogue reviews Apple’s iPhone 5: If you’re getting one, wow, are you in for a treat – September 18, 2012
USA Today’s Baig reviews Apple’s iPhone 5: Keeps Apple at the front of the smartphone pack – September 18, 2012
Mossberg reviews Apple’s iPhone 5: ‘The best smartphone on the market’ – September 18, 2012
Pocket-lint reviews Apple’s iPhone 5: ‘This really is product design at its finest’ – September 18, 2012
I guess it’s time for my wife to put her November 2007 iPhone to rest and get the iPhone 5.
Yeah, I am upgrading my wife’s iP4 to iP5, now I have to figure out how to talk her into swapping it for my iP4S.
Good luck with that!
Thankful to be on the other side of that upgrade cycle: my wife was thrilled to get the 4S while I still had the 4. Now SHE wants my 5 … not happening!
She should divorce you and take everything ya cheap bastard.
Happy to upgrade every 2nd or 3rd generation, so now is the time.
I wonder what all those who wrote about “the pressure is on Apple with iPhone 5” are writing now.
Judging by the comments over at TC they’re still mostly in denial.
Just killed my AT&T contract mid-term for only $215 to jump ship to http://ConsumerCellular.com which runs on the AT&T network but only charges $11.83 a month for minimum service. Now waiting for Apple to start selling unlocked iPhone 5 in America so I can get my 64GB GSM for only about $1,000 including tax & AppleCare+. Saving $800 a year in service fees plus the cost of a subsidized iPhone 5 for at least $300 saved each year if I don’t sell my old ones.
+1
I’ll check it out. Thanx!
Their data is expensive (max is 500MB for $30) and no tethering.
Whenever I add it all up with these prepaid resellers, to include a similar amount of data and the ability to tether, it always comes out close to what I pay ATT. Unfortunately.
I’d like to find something for less, so I keep my eyes open, but no luck.
Thanks for the link to this article, can’t wait to get my new iPhone 5 next week.