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Sep 12 2012
Mobility

What People Love About the New iPhone 5

Apple launched the latest version of its groundbreaking smartphone and there was plenty for people to cheer about.
Ricky Ribeiro
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Ricky publishes and manages the content on BizTech magazine's website. He's a writer, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all-around digital guy.

This is the iPhone launch that most people were waiting for last year, until Apple pulled a switcheroo on us and unveiled the iPhone 4S instead of the anticipated iPhone 5. Today, Apple's leadership took to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, a place where Apple has staged many a successful product launch, and fired off a litany of new features and tweaks to its smartphone.

Some of the new features were, in fairness, a little overdue. Like 4G LTE connectivity. Many speculators thought Apple would include this in the 4S, but they didn't. So it's about time we get 4G LTE in the iPhone 5. Another long overdue feature? Panoramic photos. There are plenty of third-party apps that stitch photos into a panorama, but now Apple is baking the feature natively into its smartphone.

But what got people really talking when it came to the new iPhone 5?

Here are a few things we noticed on the tweets.

The iPhone's Newfound Height

iphone 5 taller

The iPhone 5 has a screen with a 4-inch diameter, which is slightly taller than the iPhone 4 and 4S's 3.5-inch screen. Some people hated the additional height, but plenty of people loved it.

EarPods Make Music Sound Sweeter

Apple EarPods

The iconic white earbuds that Apple created for the iPod back in 2003 have been around for a really, really long time without many changes. During today's event, Apple leadership announced that they'd been working on improving the default earphones for the past three years before they unveiled the futuristic-looking new earphones, which they call EarPods, that will ship with the new iPhone 5. The crowd went wild.

The New Sapphire Crystal Lens Cover

Sapphire Crystal Lens cover

Proving just how detail-focused they can be, Apple product designers have replaced the phone's camera lens cover with sapphire crystal. People marveled at the luxurious upgrade.

Jony Ive's Elegant British Accent Makes People Swoon

Jony Ive

It's no secret that Jony Ive, Steve Jobs' right-hand man in product design for many years, is a brilliant designer with a visionary eye. But it's his British accent that people really adore. Ive narrated part of a video showing the manufacturing and design of the new iPhone 5 and people showered him with compliments over his accent.

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