iPhone 5 Unboxing Scuffgate Featuring my Cat Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,946 words · ~9 min read
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so welcome to my unboxing of the iPhone 5 I apologize for the fact that I'm
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wearing a headset here I'm actually streaming this concurrently on Twitch TV
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and uh so if you guys aren't already subscribed to me on Twitch TV it's
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twitch.tv/ linch this is the iPhone 5 of
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one of cameraman's friends and I'm just going to move this chair and we are
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going to unbox it I know everyone in their dog has already done an iPhone 5
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unboxing but I don't care because I haven't done one yet and I haven't seen
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one yet so we are going to have the unboxing experience the unbox the unbox
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the box is quite similar to the iPhone
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4 in that it contains an iPhone oh that
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is really light actually oh that makes a big difference okay but we're not going
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to oh no no we're not look at the phone just yet we're going to do my usual
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thing where we actually make you guys sit through the accessories before we
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before we actually before we actually open the phone so bonjour would be an
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indication that uh you bought your phone in Canada
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hello and there's my cat knocking things
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over which he shouldn't do okay more accessories inside here so we've got ah
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a lightning cable which is different from a Thunderbolt cable completely
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different by the way so the cable no longer cares how it's plugged in you can
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actually plug it into your iPhone 5 this
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way or this way it totally doesn't matter I would have loved to see apple
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release something that would be like a Thunderbolt compatible connector or
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perhaps USB 3 compliant but you can tell
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from the only four pins inside here that this is not indeed usb3 compliant in any
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way shape or form this is just a USB 2 cable that has been redesigned for no
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apparent reason we've got a very similar
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wall plug to what we got with the uh the iPhone 4 what I got with my iPhone 4 and
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we have Apple's allnew earbuds so let's
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go ahead and go back to uh I don't remember what page we were on before but
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apple is making a pretty big fuss about these new redesigned earbuds from the
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sound up apparently the concept at Apple
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if I could find the way to open the package here so the concept at Apple was
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by by blocking more of the earbud you could direct the
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sound more to the oh look at that is there two drivers in there I actually
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haven't done any research on these whatsoever so there's an included
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microphone as we've come to expect from anything included with a phone you've
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also got your built-in volume control and uh yeah completely so there's two
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ports on these the ports are actually so this will go into your left ear so
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that'll fire right into your ear canal and then there's also a port kind of on
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the outside that may give them sort of a richer Fuller sound but having not tried
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them yet all I can do is sort of point at them and point at them and laugh you
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know Nelson sty ha you know whatever else um now let's get to the iPhone 5
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itself and this is going to be so funny if you guys do watch the show regularly
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is we're going to do an iPhone 4 size
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comparison so you can actually see the iPhone 5 is more like the thickness of
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the internal part of an iPhone 4 without the glass pieces on the outside the
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width is identical so you can't even see
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the iPhone 5 behind the iPhone 4 all right and then the height as you can
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again see is longer so the iPhone 5 has
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a 4in display this is a retina retina class display it's 11 something by
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something you know what I really haven't I really haven't done much prep for this
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I'm not really much of an Apple guy so you guys will have to just forgive me
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for this hold on hold on let's look it up we'll just look it up because that's
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what that's what that's the professional thing to do comes with an 8 megapixel
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camera oh this is cool too so the front camera is now 720p which means you can
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FaceTime in HD if you actually use FaceTime I used FaceTime about a half a
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dozen times when I first got an iPhone 4 and since then I haven't touched it um I
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mean you know what you guys I would love for you to leave a comment under the
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video if you actually use FaceTime or some kind of other equivalent voice chat
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because I doubt it uh 1136 by 640 so
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that is an enormous resolution for the phone itself let's get some closeups as
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if you guys oh look at that there's a scratch on it you see
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that uhoh cameraman's friend might think that was us but we have we have film
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documentation that it wasn't us it was already there when we peeled off the
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protective sticker so H that's sort of
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disappointing I'm sorry cameram man's friend that you're going to have to
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endure that let's go ahead and fire this fire this bad boy up so we'll get some
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shots of the it's actually very beautiful I mean Apple's so good at this
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they've gone instead of a silver a silver aluminum and I'm sorry you twitch
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guys aren't going to be able to see this or whatever but instead of a silver side
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they've gone with a a black a dark like a gunmetal looking side so our speakers
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are still on the bottom our headphone jack is now on the bottom which is
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actually kind of convenient for me so think about this from an ergonomic
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standpoint guys I'm holding my phone I'm using it I'm setting up my playlist and
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then I'm going to put it in my pocket I'm going to want to put it in my pocket
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this way as opposed to this way so this is kind of smart I often ride my bike
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and I listen to music while I'm riding my bike so I often set a price price
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list uh playlist and then put my phone in my pocket so I think that's kind of
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smart okay there's our lightning connector there on the bottom as well
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and we've got our aha that's where our SIM card's going to go that's where our
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power button is Apple really hasn't changed the power button layout in quite
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some time there's our LED flash on the back of the unit as well as that 8
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megapixel camera it does have new modes in addition to being 8 megapixel so you
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can now take panoramic shots just by like moving it around like this which is
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sort of neat you got your usual mute button on the side here uh as well as
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your volume switches so yeah they just really haven't changed anything about
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the uh about the input you know what you
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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
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iPhone 5 so let's see if I can get my
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cat to unlock the screen Rumble can you unlock the screen for me let's see if
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it'll work there we go did you get that cameraman you didn't get that okay here
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well he's going to click the button that says no SIM card installed you got this
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yeah yeah there we go what a good boy
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next let's pick a country he's purring so cute pick Canada
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oh no no Canada there you go you know where you live good job
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sweetheart let's put the cat down again okay so let's go through some of the
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other stuff so Retina Display probably an outstanding display although I
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obviously haven't looked at it yet based on my previous experience wow it's
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light the same kind of responsiveness again you've come to expect from from
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Apple the lightness really does make a big difference people kind of are joking
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about the longer screen um and I personally don't really think it's that
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funny I think it's outstanding because it's going to be better for watching
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videos it's also going to allow you to
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continue to type to touch type with one hand um which I cannot personally do on
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a Galaxy S3 you're going to have to give us a minute to throw in a SIM card and
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we'll be right back and I managed to not know that the
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iPhone 5 for its uh you know LTE network
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connectivity and whatever else it needs it for uses micro SIM which means I
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can't just pop my SIM card in there and uh that's uh quite unfortunate however
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we can do a quick overview of the rest of the features if you guys aren't already familiar with them
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and can we is there anything else iOS 6
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does anyone care about iOS 6 at this point I mean that Maps app is like the
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butt of every joke that I have encountered on the internet in the last
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little while that isn't gam style or however you say that
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so yeah I don't know if anyone cares about that oh the new A6 chip so you're
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still getting great battery life out of it I mean even now two plus years into
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owning my iPhone 4 I still get reasonable battery life out of it so A6
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gives you to two times the power of the CPU and two times the power of the GPU
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that we found in the 4S but while still maintaining excellent battery life so
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that's encouraging as well um okay not
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only battery life etc etc etc okay I
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think that's pretty much it it's thinner it's lighter it really is lighter wow
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that makes such a big difference um I thought I didn't really like the new ID
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based on pictures and whatnot but now that I'm seeing it in person I'm
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actually kind of sold because I always really liked the feel and the heft of
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the the two glass pieces on the iPhone 4 but uh yeah I could be convinced to use
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an iPhone 5 especially with the wide screen for you know using air video or
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whatever else to watch well videos and
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uh and just yeah the fact that it's so late so thank you for checking out my
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