Apple - iPhone 5 - The thinnest, lightest, fastest iPhone ever

The iphone 5 is now available in Apple Retail stores worldwide and accredited merchants. iPhone 5 was release on September 19, 2012 and two millions units in the initial 24 hours of pre-order and five million units in the first three days of release. This is the biggest thing to happen iPhone ever since.

The iPhone 5 uses iOS 6 and interaction with the OS includes gestures such as swipe, tap, pinch and reverse pinch. The phone can act as a hotspot, sharing its internet connection over Wifi, Bluetooth or USB.

The iPhone 5 can play music, movies, television shows, ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts and can sort its media library by albums, songs, artists, playlists, genres, composers, podcasts, videos and so on.

iPhone 5 has 1.3GHz dual core processor with 1GB LPDDR2 with a RAM of 1GB. Storage capacities available are fixed at 16, 32 or 64 GB, the same as the 4S. Multi-touch display, finger print resistant, 8 MP back-side illuminated sensor, HD video (1080p) and 1.2 MP with HD video (720p). Talk time is up to 8 hours, standby time is up to 225 hours. For internet use, if you are using 3G (up to 8 hours), up to 8 hours for the LTE and up to 10 hours for the Wi-Fi. Video playback is up to 10 hours and the Audio playback is up to 40 hours.

The iPhone 5 received mainly positive reviews from commentators and reviewers but Some users have complained that pictures taken from iPhone 5 camera have a tendency to show purple flares, with speculation that this was caused by the sapphire glass that overlays the camera. Apple's response to the issue and advise users to aim the camera away from bright light sources when taking photos.