wraggster
September 12th, 2012, 23:03
Apple has unveiled the long-rumoured iPhone 5, proclaiming the latest version of its all-conquering smartphone, which this time is constructed entirely from aluminium and glass, as "the best product we've ever made."
Those new materials mean iPhone is the lightest, thinnest phone Apple has ever made, 18 per cent thinner and 20 per cent lighter than its predecessor, iPhone 4S. Sporting a four-inch screen with a resolution of 1136x640 and 326 pixels per inch, it's a 16:9 display. Phil Schiller, Apple's senior VP of worldwide marketing, said the company had opted for this new design "because of your hand. It should fit there."
It also means the screen holds a fifth row of icons, with its calendar able to display a full working week without scrolling. While many apps have been updated for the new aspect ratio, Apple has allowed for those that don't, automatically centering them and adding borders on either side.
http://www.edge-online.com/files/images/iPhone5_comparison_610.jpg
Under the hood, the new A6 processor sports a CPU and GPU twice as fast as the current A5. To show off iPhone 5's new graphical capabilities, Schiller introduced Rob Murray, vice president of EA Studios and founder of Firemint, the Australian developer of Real Racing snapped up by EA last year.
Showing off a new version of Real Racing, Murray hailed iPhone 5's "full console quality" graphics and unveiled a new Game Center feature which, it seems, sends ghost data for opponents to race against as if in real time. Schiller, returning to the stage, said the new device can "marry mobile with console graphics. It's never been done before." He insists, too, that despite all this iPhone 5's battery life is better than that of iPhone 4S.
Not much for gamers, then, but more will doubtless be revealed in the coming days, with those developers lucky enough to have been asked to update their apps in advance likely to show off their wares. iPhone 5 ships on September 21; preorders begin on September 14.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/iphone-5-revealed-full-console-quality-graphics-promised
Those new materials mean iPhone is the lightest, thinnest phone Apple has ever made, 18 per cent thinner and 20 per cent lighter than its predecessor, iPhone 4S. Sporting a four-inch screen with a resolution of 1136x640 and 326 pixels per inch, it's a 16:9 display. Phil Schiller, Apple's senior VP of worldwide marketing, said the company had opted for this new design "because of your hand. It should fit there."
It also means the screen holds a fifth row of icons, with its calendar able to display a full working week without scrolling. While many apps have been updated for the new aspect ratio, Apple has allowed for those that don't, automatically centering them and adding borders on either side.
http://www.edge-online.com/files/images/iPhone5_comparison_610.jpg
Under the hood, the new A6 processor sports a CPU and GPU twice as fast as the current A5. To show off iPhone 5's new graphical capabilities, Schiller introduced Rob Murray, vice president of EA Studios and founder of Firemint, the Australian developer of Real Racing snapped up by EA last year.
Showing off a new version of Real Racing, Murray hailed iPhone 5's "full console quality" graphics and unveiled a new Game Center feature which, it seems, sends ghost data for opponents to race against as if in real time. Schiller, returning to the stage, said the new device can "marry mobile with console graphics. It's never been done before." He insists, too, that despite all this iPhone 5's battery life is better than that of iPhone 4S.
Not much for gamers, then, but more will doubtless be revealed in the coming days, with those developers lucky enough to have been asked to update their apps in advance likely to show off their wares. iPhone 5 ships on September 21; preorders begin on September 14.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/iphone-5-revealed-full-console-quality-graphics-promised