Specs of iPhone 5
As the new generation iPhone, iPhone 5 has a 4'' retina display with 1136�640 pixels resolution, and which 4.87''�2.31''�0.35'' body with 112 grams weight make it totally different from iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, and that make iPhone 5 is the thinnest and lightest iPhone now. And on iPhone 5, the processor is the ARM Cortex-A15 dual core A6, Apple says which will be up to twice as fast compared with iPhone 4S's A5 chip. And the FaceTime camera on iPhone 5 is a 1.2MP with 720p HD video recording capability camera. The most important is iPhone 5 is powered by iOS 6, and the headphones for iPhone 5 is Apple EarPods , connector is Lightning (8Pin),much different from iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, iPhone 5 accept Nano SIM card but not Micro SIM card. And as what we have expected, iPhone 5 start to support 4G LTE. |
| Difference Between iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S |
Specs of iPhone 4S
But for iPhone 4S, which has a 3.5'' retina display with 960�640 pixels resolution, and processor on iPhone 4S is an dual core ARM Cortex-A9, Apple A5 chip. Which FaceTime camera just has a VGA(640�480 piexels) video recording capability, we can call it VGA camera. And iPhone 4S is powered by iOS 5, the headphones for iPhone 4S is Apple Earphones, connector is 30 pin, LTE is not supported on iPhone 4S.And except for these, other things on iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S are almost the same. Like the iSight camera are both 8MP, f/2.4 aperture, with the ability to record full HD 1080p videos with 30fps. and the same pixel density (326ppi) on the same retina display. and also the same multimedia playback ability, for videos, iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S are both support .m4v, mp4, .mov format videos, and for the H.264 codec, which can up to 1080p full HD with 30fps, for the MPG4 codec, which accept 640�480 pixels with 30fps videos, for the M-JPEG codec, which accept 720p (1280�720 pixels) with 30fps videos.
So you may have found that the differences between iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S are mainly focus on the processor, body size, headphones, connector and the iOS, actually, it's true, there's no amazing changing on iPhone 5, but the new iOS 6 will bring you some new features on iPhone 5 that iPhone 4S can't, like passbook, Apple Map, etc.. (See more new features for iPhone 5 on Things iPhone 5 Will Do)
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| Lightning to 30-pin Adapter |
