iPhone5 is officially here. If we talk technically it is the sixth generation of Apple iPhone but officially it is named as iPhone5. There were tons of anticipations associated with the iPhone5 from last many months. iPhone application programmers from all big and small iPhone software programming companies were enthusiastically waiting for the launch of this smartphone in the market. As per the iPhone critics and fans, the new iPhone5 either would be a killer or will lose to Android smartphone galaxy S3. First glance to iPhone5 from user and developer point of view: As a user- iPhone is much taller and light in weight. With time iPhone has gone slimmer upto 18% from 0.37ich thickness to 0.30inch thickness. To look sleeker it has reduced weight also by 20% and settling 3.95 ounces. It will also flaunt 4 inch taller screen with pixels 1136×640 in 16:9 aspect ratio. It means that now user can see five rows of icons on the home screen. It will be nice to see because it will let user to have less number home screens and even the calendar will show more events. The iWork apps can also perform better than before. Now the images, videos and movies will look beautiful and eye catching as the screen will flaunt 44% more color saturation than iPhone 4S. The big and bright new screen of iPhone5 will certainly mesmerize the users. It will also give better hold in hands of user. The faster chip of A6 will take user experience to next level. The graphics will run speedily and the web pages will load 2.1 times faster. Moreover, the music apps will run 1.9 times faster. As an iPhone apps developer: being a developer new bigger screen will surely fascinate. The developers must making out plans to utilize this extra screen wisely. The faster chip will make applications more run faster. That means now more functionality and graphics can be used in games by iPhone games developers as they can be loaded speedily. Apple also promises its users and developers that iPhone 5 now will have reliable backup of upto 8 hours of 3G talk time, 8 hours of 3G browsing, 8 hours of LTE browsing, 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing, 10 hours of video playback, 40 hours of music playback, and 225 hours of standby time. The iOS6 will also grab developer’s attention as it will be having many new features like Google maps replaced with Apple maps, improved Siri integration, shared photo streams, enhanced email integration etc. So, iPhone apps developers can now see how they can use these features in their apps to make it large. The pricing of iPhone5 will be same as previous phones: 16GB is $199, the 32GB $299 and the 64GB $399. Now, the fate of iPhone5 and iOS6 will be decided once it goes open for sale !!!
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