iPhone 5 First Look Review (Personal Opinion)

Apple does it again, iPhone 5 released - gets better but not the best...

Apple has done it once again, the new iPhone 5 is out now and have almost everything as was rumored by various leaks, the new upgrade falls short on expectations which could provide Apple iPhone 4S users a serious reason to upgrade.

The major new iPhone 5 features would be a bigger 4 inch retina display, an improved design, thinner and lighter full aluminum-glass body, a new slimmer connector, better camera, 4G LTE support, new A6 CPU, 1 GB RAM and a better battery life. While all these new features are definitely better then iPhone 4S, but seriously lack the "must upgrade" reason for existing iPhone users.

Personal Opinion - 12 KEY POINTS:

1. Apple claimed it is the thinnest smartphone (7.6mm) ever. But the fact is Android have even thinner phoneS. (Motorola, HTC, ZTE, Huawei and etc. has made it less than 6.8mm). To be exact, it should be thinnest iPhone ever made (18% thinner, 20% lighter).
2. 3.5" screen upgraded to 4" screen doesn't really give any huge impact. Nonetheless this is a major selling point for Apple iPhone fans.
3. Apple did not reveal A6 processor info but expected to be a higher clocked DUAL CORE processor.
4. Apple like to be special and usually do not like to follow the universal standards. Once again proven by introducing a 16:9 aspect ratio but a non-720p resolution screen (1136 x 640) and new 8-pin fully digital connector named "Lighting".
5. Apple decided to remove the dual glass design is a very good decision. Back cover now uses Aluminium instead of easy break glass that suffer numerous issue since iPhone 4/4s.
6. Camera remain the same but got thinner. Not a main factor for me.
7. Utilize LTE technology to boost connection speed. One of the main selling points.
8. Utilize Nano SIM which current SIM card is incompatible. For me is unnecessary, will cause annoyance to the Telco market.
9. Battery life remain the same or slightly better. For me this is consider no improvement as compare to Android phone holding monstrous battery capacity now a days.
10. iOS 6; might be the weakest release to date in iOS history. No major upgrade, only minor refinement (replaced Google maps with Apple map, some apps refinements). 
11. Siri got improved. But again this only works inside of USA, country outside of USA never gonna get full use of it. Nevertheless, this is an app that least used via survey recently.
12. Lastly, if i'm in the position to purchase one of these iPhone 5, i would go for the Black color as it has anodized coating. The white does not have this.