It's a teensy bit longer, wider and thicker than the iPhone 4 (4.84 x 2.56 x 0.39 inches compared with the iPhone 4's 4.5 x 2.31 x 0.37 inches).
With the larger screen, there are now five rows of apps instead of the traditional four, and users can see the 326 pixels per inch, giving the iPhone 5 a 1136 x 640 resolution.
Basically, a lot of apps for the iPhone are optimized for the precise screen dimensions of the phone, which is 1136 x 640 pixels on the iPhone 5.
We may not know until a year or two or three from now when the company puts out a new version of OS X or the iPhone OS and the attackers and researchers and pen testers take their runs at it and find the game has changed.
The iPhone 4 was the top selling smartphone in the United States during the first quarter, NPD said, followed by the iPhone 3GS, Motorola Droid X, HOTC EVO 4G, and HTC Droid incredible.
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More broadly, Apple's move to put a shrunk-down version of its operating system, OS X, on the iPhone and the iPod Touch tells us that Apple sees portable, Web-friendly gizmos as a big part of its future.
This theory is based mainly on the fact that security researchers have been breaking OS X, Safari and the iPhone OS on a regular basis.
As with the iPhone, new iterations of Mac OS X, or the first Android phones, a certain amount of glory awaits anyone who can be the first to demonstrate a method of remotely taking control of the device.
That said, three phones did stand out just a little: the iPhone 4, 4S and global HTC One X.
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With iOS 5.x Apple offers synchronization between your iPhone or iPad, your Mac or Windows PC, and a cloud archive of personal data, photos, and media (music, TV shows).
Industry insiders generally agree that the Droid X launch was timed to blunt the iPhone juggernaut (or at least attempt to).
The newest iPod touch takes a note from the newfangled display on its cellular sibling, bringing a vaster panel (the same 4-inch, 1, 136 x 640 one found on the new iPhone).
Apple built the iPhone's touch-sensitive screen atop an OS X foundation, presaging fresh innovations to come.
With a stunning 1920 x 1080p Full HD resolution matched with an iPhone Retina display trumping 441 pixels-per-inch, the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen is a Super AMOLED HD marvel.
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On April 5, the software update will begin being pushed via OTA to all iPhone devices on the T-Mobile network with iOS 6.1.x or higher.
Woodside hinted that the Moto X would go on sale this fall and be priced below competing phones such as the IPhone 5.
It's now available on OS X as well as iOS X, and even makes it possible for programmers to write games that let Mac owners compete against iPhone and iPad users.
Now developers will be able to use tools familiar to any OS X developer, such as Instruments, Xcode and Interface builder, alongside a new tool, the iPhone simulator, to craft applications.
Software maker Retina-X has announced the first known spyware for iPads, a revamped version of its MobileSpy application for the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and other smartphone platforms.
Grabbing headlines were the Apple iPhone 4, RIM's BlackBerry Torch 9800, the HTC EVO 4G, and Motorola's new DROID X and DROID 2, all of which were launched last quarter.
Finally, with the advent of Siri, an iPhone-connected nano could bring retrieve bits of helpful info that could be formatted for the nano's 240 X 240 display or, of course, spoken back through the headphones.
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