so welcome to my unboxing of the iPhone 5 I apologize for the fact that I'm
wearing a headset here I'm actually streaming this concurrently on Twitch TV
and uh so if you guys aren't already subscribed to me on Twitch TV it's
twitch.tv/ linch this is the iPhone 5 of
one of cameraman's friends and I'm just going to move this chair and we are
going to unbox it I know everyone in their dog has already done an iPhone 5
unboxing but I don't care because I haven't done one yet and I haven't seen
one yet so we are going to have the unboxing experience the unbox the unbox
the box is quite similar to the iPhone
4 in that it contains an iPhone oh that
is really light actually oh that makes a big difference okay but we're not going
to oh no no we're not look at the phone just yet we're going to do my usual
thing where we actually make you guys sit through the accessories before we
before we actually before we actually open the phone so bonjour would be an
indication that uh you bought your phone in Canada
hello and there's my cat knocking things
over which he shouldn't do okay more accessories inside here so we've got ah
a lightning cable which is different from a Thunderbolt cable completely
different by the way so the cable no longer cares how it's plugged in you can
actually plug it into your iPhone 5 this
way or this way it totally doesn't matter I would have loved to see apple
release something that would be like a Thunderbolt compatible connector or
perhaps USB 3 compliant but you can tell
from the only four pins inside here that this is not indeed usb3 compliant in any
way shape or form this is just a USB 2 cable that has been redesigned for no
apparent reason we've got a very similar
wall plug to what we got with the uh the iPhone 4 what I got with my iPhone 4 and
we have Apple's allnew earbuds so let's
go ahead and go back to uh I don't remember what page we were on before but
apple is making a pretty big fuss about these new redesigned earbuds from the
sound up apparently the concept at Apple
if I could find the way to open the package here so the concept at Apple was
by by blocking more of the earbud you could direct the
sound more to the oh look at that is there two drivers in there I actually
haven't done any research on these whatsoever so there's an included
microphone as we've come to expect from anything included with a phone you've
also got your built-in volume control and uh yeah completely so there's two
ports on these the ports are actually so this will go into your left ear so
that'll fire right into your ear canal and then there's also a port kind of on
the outside that may give them sort of a richer Fuller sound but having not tried
them yet all I can do is sort of point at them and point at them and laugh you
know Nelson sty ha you know whatever else um now let's get to the iPhone 5
itself and this is going to be so funny if you guys do watch the show regularly
is we're going to do an iPhone 4 size
comparison so you can actually see the iPhone 5 is more like the thickness of
the internal part of an iPhone 4 without the glass pieces on the outside the
width is identical so you can't even see
the iPhone 5 behind the iPhone 4 all right and then the height as you can
again see is longer so the iPhone 5 has
a 4in display this is a retina retina class display it's 11 something by
something you know what I really haven't I really haven't done much prep for this
I'm not really much of an Apple guy so you guys will have to just forgive me
for this hold on hold on let's look it up we'll just look it up because that's
what that's what that's the professional thing to do comes with an 8 megapixel
camera oh this is cool too so the front camera is now 720p which means you can
FaceTime in HD if you actually use FaceTime I used FaceTime about a half a
dozen times when I first got an iPhone 4 and since then I haven't touched it um I
mean you know what you guys I would love for you to leave a comment under the
video if you actually use FaceTime or some kind of other equivalent voice chat
because I doubt it uh 1136 by 640 so
that is an enormous resolution for the phone itself let's get some closeups as
if you guys oh look at that there's a scratch on it you see
that uhoh cameraman's friend might think that was us but we have we have film
documentation that it wasn't us it was already there when we peeled off the
protective sticker so H that's sort of
disappointing I'm sorry cameram man's friend that you're going to have to
endure that let's go ahead and fire this fire this bad boy up so we'll get some
shots of the it's actually very beautiful I mean Apple's so good at this
they've gone instead of a silver a silver aluminum and I'm sorry you twitch
guys aren't going to be able to see this or whatever but instead of a silver side
they've gone with a a black a dark like a gunmetal looking side so our speakers
are still on the bottom our headphone jack is now on the bottom which is
actually kind of convenient for me so think about this from an ergonomic
standpoint guys I'm holding my phone I'm using it I'm setting up my playlist and
then I'm going to put it in my pocket I'm going to want to put it in my pocket
this way as opposed to this way so this is kind of smart I often ride my bike
and I listen to music while I'm riding my bike so I often set a price price
list uh playlist and then put my phone in my pocket so I think that's kind of
smart okay there's our lightning connector there on the bottom as well
and we've got our aha that's where our SIM card's going to go that's where our
power button is Apple really hasn't changed the power button layout in quite
some time there's our LED flash on the back of the unit as well as that 8
megapixel camera it does have new modes in addition to being 8 megapixel so you
can now take panoramic shots just by like moving it around like this which is
sort of neat you got your usual mute button on the side here uh as well as
your volume switches so yeah they just really haven't changed anything about
the uh about the input you know what you
know what we're we're going to be okay okay we're going to be the first ones on the internet to show a cat operating an
iPhone 5 so let's see if I can get my
cat to unlock the screen Rumble can you unlock the screen for me let's see if
it'll work there we go did you get that cameraman you didn't get that okay here
well he's going to click the button that says no SIM card installed you got this
yeah yeah there we go what a good boy
next let's pick a country he's purring so cute pick Canada
oh no no Canada there you go you know where you live good job
sweetheart let's put the cat down again okay so let's go through some of the
other stuff so Retina Display probably an outstanding display although I
obviously haven't looked at it yet based on my previous experience wow it's
light the same kind of responsiveness again you've come to expect from from
Apple the lightness really does make a big difference people kind of are joking
about the longer screen um and I personally don't really think it's that
funny I think it's outstanding because it's going to be better for watching
videos it's also going to allow you to
continue to type to touch type with one hand um which I cannot personally do on
a Galaxy S3 you're going to have to give us a minute to throw in a SIM card and
we'll be right back and I managed to not know that the
iPhone 5 for its uh you know LTE network
connectivity and whatever else it needs it for uses micro SIM which means I
can't just pop my SIM card in there and uh that's uh quite unfortunate however
we can do a quick overview of the rest of the features if you guys aren't already familiar with them
and can we is there anything else iOS 6
does anyone care about iOS 6 at this point I mean that Maps app is like the
butt of every joke that I have encountered on the internet in the last
little while that isn't gam style or however you say that
so yeah I don't know if anyone cares about that oh the new A6 chip so you're
still getting great battery life out of it I mean even now two plus years into
owning my iPhone 4 I still get reasonable battery life out of it so A6
gives you to two times the power of the CPU and two times the power of the GPU
that we found in the 4S but while still maintaining excellent battery life so
that's encouraging as well um okay not
only battery life etc etc etc okay I
think that's pretty much it it's thinner it's lighter it really is lighter wow
that makes such a big difference um I thought I didn't really like the new ID
based on pictures and whatnot but now that I'm seeing it in person I'm
actually kind of sold because I always really liked the feel and the heft of
the the two glass pieces on the iPhone 4 but uh yeah I could be convinced to use
an iPhone 5 especially with the wide screen for you know using air video or
whatever else to watch well videos and
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