Apple released Wednesday the iPhone 5, a smartphone that did not impress in terms of technical characteristics compared to models from Nokia, Motorola, Samsung or LG.
Apple iPhone 5 has a 4-inch screen (1,136 x 640 pixels) with Retina Display 326 ppi (pixels per inch), A6 processor, 1GB RAM, and an 8 megapixel camera. iPhone 5 is 7.6 mm thick, weighs 112 grams and is 20% lighter than the iPhone 4S. The operating system on iPhone 5 is iOS 6.
Its main competitor, the Samsung Galaxy SIII, which managed in August to exceed iPhone 4S sales in the U.S., has a screen with a diagonal of 4.8 inches, a faster, quad-core processor clocked at 1.4 GHz, 1GB RAM and a main camera capable to capture images at 8 MP. The OS is Android 4.0. This smartphone has exceeded the record 20 million units sold worldwide by its predecessor Galaxy S II.
Nokia Lumia 920 has a 4.5-inch screen, 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 CPU, 8MP PureView camera, 1 GB RAM, 32 GB of storage and runs Windows Phone 8. The phone also features LTE, NFC and can be recharged wirelessly. The phone only works with micro-SIM cards and will be available in white, black and yellow.
Motorola DROID RAZR HD has a 4.7-inch screen, edge-to-edge, Super AMOLED, dual-core Krait processor, 1 GB RAM, 8 MP camera that can shoot HD and a 2,530 mAh battery which provides a range 16 hours in talk time mode. The phone has a Kevlar casing.
LG has in its portfolio currently the most powerful mobile phone with Android operating system. LG Optimus G is the first commercial smartphone with the Snapdragon S4 Pro Quad-Core Krait processor. It runs at 1.5 GHz and has the Asynchronous Symmetric multiprocessing feature that allows each core to turn on and off independently, so the user gets maximum performance and better battery life. The phone has a 4.7-inch screen, WXGA True HD IPS + (1,280 x 768 pixels) / 15:9 ratio, 2GB RAM, 13 MP rear camera / 1.3 MP front camera, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and LTE.
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