*** iPhone 5 - Revealed! ***

I ordered my nano SIM from Three on Friday and it arrived today. No adaptor to make it fit my iPhone 4 but I picked up one for free from the local Three store in Ipswich - last one apparently - sorry anyone else.

I've found Three's customer service to be sh**, but if you only have to deal with them once every 12 months it is a small price to pay. Here's to a prompt delivery Friday...
 
Actually, it seems the review embargo has just been lifted as Engadget's review is up now:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/18/apple-iphone-5-review/

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The iPhone 5 is a significant improvement over the iPhone 4S in nearly every regard, and in those areas that didn't see an upgrade over its predecessor -- camera, storage capacity -- one could make a strong case that the iPhone 4S was already ahead of the curve. Every area, that is, except for the OS. If anything, it's the operating system here that's beginning to feel a bit dated and beginning to show its age.

Still, the iPhone 5 absolutely shines. Pick your benchmark and you'll find Apple's thin new weapon sitting at or near the top. Will it convince you to give up your Android or Windows Phone ways and join the iOS side? Maybe, maybe not. Will it wow you? Hold it in your hand -- you might be surprised. For the iOS faithful this is a no-brainer upgrade. This is without a doubt the best iPhone yet. This is a hallmark of design. This is the one you've been waiting for.
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Edit, a couple of highlights:

Battery life:

On our standard battery rundown test, in which we loop a video with LTE and WiFi enabled and social accounts pinging at regular intervals, the iPhone 5 managed a hugely impressive 11 hours and 15 minutes. That's just 10 minutes shy of the Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx.
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For those of you who don't know what the RAZR Maxx is, it has a massive battery and generally has the best battery life of any smartphone.

Speed:

Two times faster? Twice the graphics performance? Better battery life? Actually, yes. The iPhone 5 over-delivers on all those promises. Running the Geekbench test suite on the iPhone 4S gave us an average score of 634. The iPhone 5 netted an average of 1,628. That's more than twice as fast and, while you won't necessarily see such huge increases in day-to-day usage, apps do load noticeably quicker, HDR images are processed in half the time and tasks like video rendering in iMovie are equally expedient.

SunSpider scores average at 924ms, which is more than twice as fast as the 2,200ms the iPhone 4S manages and still quite a bit quicker than the 1,400ms scored by the Galaxy S III and the 1,700ms managed by the HTC One X. More important than numbers, web pages load very quickly, snapping into view as fast as your data plan can shovel the bits into Safari and, once there, smoothly reacting to your gestures.
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I was most interested in the battery life and so far, I like what I hear.
 
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I'm now a bit torn on the colour again, especially as the white model sounds less of a fingerprint magnet (I'm OCD about fingerprints on phones :p).

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I guess they need to be seen in the flesh first. I imagine I'll still go for the black though.
 
I'm seriously tempted to sell my Galaxy Nexus and pay off the remaining months left on my contract and try out the iPhone for once.

Do I do it, thats the question I'm asking myself!
 
So pleased I bought white after seeing the pictures of the black version from online reviews. Looks totally different without Apple's special lighting...
 
DIABLO said:
Surely you can get a 4 or 4S pretty cheaply? especially the 4 as they are trying to get rid of old stock. The 3GS is pretty crud now by anyones standard and the battery must be on it's last legs.
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Maybe yeah. I still get a day out the battery so it's not bad. I may check out the new Nokia/windows phone as well - it may be good.

If I didnt have an iPhone and have had no previous experience of one I'd probably get a 5, no hesitation, but is an upgrade really worth it? It appears to be just a faster processor and a bigger screen, unless they have advanced iOS massively?
 
Review said:
- "It is now chamfered and while that looks pretty, we've already noticed that on the black model the edge has started to wear, revealing the shiny silver aluminium metal underneath the "slate" coloured coating and, indeed, we've witnessed it on two separate models, ruling out a fluke manufacturing error."
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Oh noes! Hope that's not the case
 
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