So you’ve been using your iPhone 5 for a couple of weeks now, and apart from its Maps app, you love it. You’re still waiting for your Lightning to 30-pin adapter to arrive, so at the moment, you can’t use any of your old accessories with it. But how about picking up some new ones? You’ll be lucky. According to one report, it could be some time before you see third-party Lightning accessories on the market.
When the iPhone 5 was announced earlier this month I decided to have a go at creating a series of simple wallpapers for it. So, a little bit later than originally planned, I’ve finally put together a collection of twenty abstract designs which I personally think look great on the new device – hopefully some of you will like them too!
Shortly after Apple announced the iPhone 5 on September 12, Geekbench benchmarks for the device started making their way around the web. They revealed that the handset’s new A6 processor was a 1GHz dual-core chip, an improvement over the 800MHz A5 chip packed into the iPhone 4S. As it turns out, it’s actually even faster than that.
iOS 6 is a relatively major upgrade to the iOS platform, bringing Siri to the iPad and the iPod touch; making improvements to a number of built-in apps; and introducing Apple’s brand new Maps service. But not everyone is too keen on that last one. In fact, the issues users are experiencing with the new Maps app are causing satisfaction rates to decrease.
While reviews of the iPhone 5 have been mostly glowing, some early adopters of the black and slate model have reported that the edges and rear casing is prone to scratches and chips. In an email reply to one concerned customer, Apple’s Vice President of Marketing Phil Schiller, says such scratching is ‘normal’ with use.
Apple has today issued a press release announcing that over five million iPhone 5 units were sold during the first weekend of its availability. By way of comparison, over four million iPhone 4S units were sold over the same period of time last year.
Following its grand unveiling on September 12, Apple’s new iPhone 5 went on sale in 9 markets around the world today. Like previous iPhone launches, this one spawned massive queues outside of Apple retail stores all over, with some fanatics having set up camp as early as four days ago. It’s thought that the iPhone 5 will become the fast-selling iPhone of all time.
If you’re the proud owner of an iPhone 5 you’ll want to show off that gorgeous 4-inch Retina display with some high-res wallpapers, so we’ve picked out ten of the best from interfacelift.com. Each one is available in the iPhone 5’s 1136 x 640 resolution, so all you have to do is save them to your device.
Just as Apple’s Phil Schiller promised at last Wednesday’s iPhone media event, the latest version of the company’s mobile operating system (iOS 6), has today been released for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.