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| The iPhone 5 Picture courtesy of The Verge |
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| The New iPod Touch 5th Generation Picture courtesy of Tech Crunch |
After presenting the iPhone 5 to the world, Apple introduced the refreshed iPod lineup. Well IMO the iPod Nano looks rubbish. The coloring of the said nanos were a bit not too Apple-ish for my taste. Meaning it's not like apple built the said product. But i do like the 2.5 inch touch screen. You can't really install apps on it like the iPod touch but you can view pictures and watch videos. But watching movies on a 2.5 inch screen will be a pain in the ass though, 2.5 is too small. So there's that. And for me the launch of the iPod touch 5th Gen was the highlight of the event. I mean, seriously it stole the spotlight of the iPhone 5. What's not to love about the new iPod touch? It's freaking 299$ (32GB)! And you have a 4 inch screen, just like the new iPhone. An A5 chip processor which isn't bad. It's truly an upgrade from the A4 chip processor that the last gen iPod had. A freaking 5 MEGA PIXEL CAMERA. Which is a huge huge huge huge... (19999999399432949x) improvement from the camera of the last generation iPod touch. It supports 1080p video capturing (rear facing cam) and 720p for the front facing camera. So there's that.
And let's not miss what the new iPhone has to offer.. It has a 4 inch retina (same as the iPod Touch) display. It's supposed to be the thinnest smartphone in the world (which I don't really care cause the iPhone 4 fits perfectly in my pocket I don't need it to be more thinner). Supports LTE speeds (which isn't really a deal breaker for me cause I barely use cellular data). An 8 Mega pixel camera (which is the same thing as the iPhone 4S). Supports panorama capturing (if you don't know what that is google it for heaven's sake). It has an improve Siri (well i guess speaking to a phone is so much better than searching stuff on google using the keyboard). Of course IOS 6... (which looks like the last generation IOS 5, 4, 3... the list goes on unfortunately). And a bunch of more stuff including the replacement of the 16-pin dock connector, the Lightning (No joke that's really what apple named it..).
Apple's launch of the new iPhone 5 would have been more exciting if these "tech" sites haven't leaked the said info about the iPhone. Just like what famous YouTuber said: "Seeing this leaks of the iPhone 5, is like seeing what your parents are giving you in Christmas..". It's like watching The Avengers knowing the Hulk is going to try to kill a god. It's already all over the place AKA the movie or the series was already spoiled for you. You already knew what the ending was that's why when apple presented the new iPhone it felt nothing. It was dull and my reaction was basically.. "I already knew that.." "Well that's just like the S..." "I already knew that.." "Wait a min, didn't the Samsun.... III....". It was just like watching a scripted reality TV show. It was so predictable.
So there you have it.. The iPhone 5 launch which was overshadowed by the new iPod Touch. New iTunes layout and features and of course the IOS 6.. which was the dullest moment of the keynote. To end all debates and stuff. Apple will sell maybe 10 Million of this phone in the first month of it's release. It has the apple logo on it, people are gonna buy it. And to be quite fair it's still an amazing phone unless you already have the droid thingy.. Well I mean the latest versions of course.
Apple set the bar too high when they announced the iPhone 4 almost 2 years ago. We expected a lot from them. To be honest this isn't the biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone.. It was still the innovation of the iPhone 4. That changed everything.. And for the iPhone 5.. Apple didn't really try to challenge the new smartphones out there.. They only tried to level with it.
