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hey guys what's up it's Jays two cents and as I promised I'm bringing you my iPhone 5 review I'd kind of hoped to do an iPhone 5 versus the galaxy s3 but I got a share a little bit of news with you here at work on Friday I went to pick up my galaxy and the screen wouldn't turn on and I pulled the battery out and stuck it back in and did the normal Android thing and it wouldn't turn on so thinking that the battery was dead I plugged it in and I didn't get a little red light saying that it was that it was charging so turns out the phone died it's not even a month old and I honestly don't have anything against Android I used Android for two years before I ever had an iPhone but it you know these are the kind of things I just always turned me off about it so and I've already kind of commented on the iPhone 5 in Friday's tech addiction it was a little mini review and I said that going from the 4s to the 5 was a minimal upgrade and I didn't feel that it was a worthwhile upgrade for many people however I started getting a lot of messages from people saying that they have a 4 so is it worth it to go from the 4 to the 5 so that got me thinking instead of just doing a 4s versus a 5 why don't we just go ahead and do all three when it comes to dimensions here the 4 and the 4s they're identical they're exactly the same you know they use the exact same body and so when it comes to hardware there's the a4 chip inside of the 4 there's the a5 chip inside of the 4s which is a dual core and there's the a6 inside of the iPhone 5 now the iPhone 5 they redesigned the back here you know as you can see on these these are you have this solid glass on the back and a lot of people were having breakage issues by dropping their phones and such so what they did was they came out with this aluminum backing here and it's aluminum on the side it's all unibody so the back besides the top and the frame are all aluminum and they have this glass on the top and the bottom and the reason why they have that glass there is the Wi-Fi and the Bluetooth antenna are at the top and the bottom and Apple claims that they needed the glass there to get a better signal going out of the phone otherwise aluminum could have you know reducing signal strength on that the iPhone 4s here has a VGA front-facing camera same thing with the iPhone will get mixed up here same thing with the iPhone 4 it's got a VGA front-facing camera the iPhone 4 in the back has a 720p or five megapixel camera where the 4s they bumped it up to an 8 megapixel 1080p however on the iPhone 5 it is still a 1080p camera but they've made a couple of improvements to it where now it can go much lower on an f-stop which means it's got much better low-light capabilities and they went with the sapphire crystal cover compared to the glass on the iPhone 4s and the iPhone 4 so they claimed to get much better image quality with that and I have to agree with that I think the images have been very clear on the front though however they bumped it up to a 720p front-facing camera and yep but forgive me I don't know the actual megapixel I'd forgot I think it's a 5 megapixel if I'm wrong put it down in the comments please but aesthetically since it's aluminum versus the steel of the iPhone 4s here it is much much lighter and it took me a couple of days to get used to the new weight because I felt that it was very uh it felt brittle to me but after getting used to it it you know it feels nice and solid here I don't feel like I'm gonna drop it in it's gonna shatter into a million pieces and one other thing that they changed here on the bottom as you can see they have put the new lightning connector and they moved the headphone jack to the bottom and this speaker is much louder I think the volume of it is much louder much clearer so but you know one of the things that people were complaining about what the iPhone 5 from the factory is you know factories scratching and one of the reasons why I went with the white because I didn't want to have you know if you haven't anodized black here you scratch that you're going to have the bear color aluminum showing through the bottom or through the scratch and so it's going to stand out a lot more so I went with white and you know there was complaints that the iPhone was coming from the factory scratched so I figured if I went with the white and the bear that it wouldn't show up so bad and maybe I would have gotten factory scratching however I've got some scratches along the top here where the glass and the aluminum meet I've got some in the bottom right here on the right which are kind of difficult to see in the video but I will put up some high-quality pictures and on the bottom right here right there by my thumb you see that nick in the polished portion right there may not show up too good here on YouTube but high quality photos and links to the photos will be down in the description there that's the way this came from the factory so you know that's a couple of that's a gripe I have regarding the iPhone 5 is you know the thing comes pretty scratched which is very annoying but when it comes to performance now that's what we really care about you know as you know aesthetics are nice but how does it perform so what we're going to do here is we're gonna go ahead and do a boot test on the phones I'm going to put the 4 and the 4s together because it's kind of hard to hit three power buttons at the same time I'm going to do this as best as I can so when I count to three here one two three holding down the buttons Apple logos and let's see how these do on the boot times here I think it's pretty obvious that the iPhone fours are going to lose by the say iPhone 5 compared to the iPhone 4s Apple's claiming that there's two times performance of the iPhone 5 versus the iPhone 4s with the a6 processor so let's see if that holds up to be true or not and there you go the iPhone 5 is up the iPhone 4s is up and the iPhone 4 is still looking for directions I think I think got lost along the way but let's see just how much difference we've got there and if you've got an iPhone 4 as you can see an iPhone 4 end there we go okay guys so we're going to go ahead and do a speed test here I'm loaded speed test on all three of these these are connected to the same Wi-Fi right now so I want to what I want to compare is the modem and the 4 to the 4s to the 5 and I think you'll be surprised to see that there's going to probably be some very in speed between these three so just to show there's no other apps running I'll bring up the task manager on both all are empty here away iPhone 4 thing all right serious fetus loading on the fourth guess fail Wow ah and through the magic of editing we now have speed test installed on the 4s so let's go ahead and run individual test now and see how those do we'll do the four first all right so we just ran all three individually the iPhone 4 got 31 paying twenty point five six down five point one seven up four s23 paying twenty five even down five point one four up so it's five megabits so it's five megabits faster than the four but the upload was identical interestingly enough the iPhone 5 loses ten point five five down four point nine six up so I'm going to restart this test one more time so there you go the five on Wi-Fi is significantly slower I mean it's less than half the speed of a 4s on Wi-Fi so go figure on that one it's awfully disappointing okay so the download test on Wi-Fi had me perplexed and that was really bothering me so I went and found out what was going on with my phone here it turns out that I had an iCloud sync running at the exact same time so it was had limited bandwidth available to the phone to run this test so as you can see right here I ran it again I got a twenty point five seven so we'll go ahead and run this one more time now just to see if the results are yeah as you can see right there and now we're hidden yeah twenty seven point seven two and just under five up so okay that's much better cuz how it's really worried there for a second so there you go if you're having some slow download speeds on your iPhone maybe check iCloud make sure it's not constantly backing up a lot of people have complained that iCloud has been eating up a lot of their data so definitely check that out okay so now we're going to go ahead and run a cellular network test all right so now all three I found a server we'll go ahead and start all three of these and let these go off to the racers obviously 3G connection in this area is pretty poor then again Verizon's never been known for having very quick internet here so the five is done so we'll take a look at that we've got 36 pinging eight point six two thousand three point four five up it's a little bit below average I typically see more than ten the 3gm Verizon here ninety-one ping 0.08 down 0.18 up and the iPhone 412 ping zero point zero seven down 0.2 to up that's disappointing no matter how you cut it so see if we can improve this iPhone 5 score at all okay so we just reran the iPhone 5 we got a little bit more on the down but the up went down so but anyway 14 but anyway 4G is really awesome I really liked before G which was one of the main reasons why I wanted to upgrade this device because I I'm always on the internet I wanted the speed all right so I've got all three these devices back on Wi-Fi here as you can see in the task manager we have no applications currently running and what I want to do now is I want to do an application launch test to see who could open up the applications faster and I'm expecting the iPhone 5 to win this one here because it does have the fastest processor see if I can do this here all synchronize because it's not easy one two three the iPhone 4 as a brighter screen as want to point out because it does have the brightness turned up iPhone 5 is loaded iPhone 4s right behind within use a quarter second hit that and the iPhone 4 still thinking and we're loaded so as you can see here these two are very close although they are both dual-core and they're only within a couple hundred megahertz of each other so this isn't two different alright guys so there you have I did a couple of tests there so you can see how the four compares to the 4s versus the five and there's not much of a difference between the 4s and the five there's a huge difference between the 4 and the 4s and a little bit more between the 4 and the 5 then these two but the question is if you own one of these is this bad boy worth it that's a hard one to answer it really is because 4G is the major improvement between the 4s and the 5 and I am always on the Internet I love the 4G but it's not available everywhere fortunately I live in an area where 4G is pretty much all around I mean I am in the LA area for geez you know was rolled out here first and in the suburbs where I am it became you know pretty popular I'm very rarely without 4G as you could see though on Verizon anyway the 3G speeds are very lackluster you know applications open faster on the 5 barely faster than you know than the 4s if you have a 4 though I would probably recommend that if you're not interested in 4G or you're on a limited data plan I would maybe save the money and go with the 4s because the bigger screen is nice some people don't like the aesthetics though of the aluminium back with the you know white at the top or the slate with the black but with the 4s you're getting you know 95% of the features that were you know rolled out nioh s6 are available in the 4s you know you've got the new maps app which is kind of a joke in itself but it will get better you know you've got Siri here you don't have Siri here you don't have the new maps here a lot of the functions of iOS 6 are locked on the iPhone 4 if you have a 3GS it's no brainer obviously you might as well just go straight for the 5 because it's a huge jump but you know you really got to ask yourself if the features that come in the 5 are worth it if you don't care about 4G you don't care about bigger screen I would recommend saving some money and getting a 4s or maybe getting a bigger capacity than you would have with the 5 you know you can get a 32 gig 4s now for $199 my wife is really torn on whether or not she wants to get a 5 because she doesn't like the look of the she doesn't like the feel woman the aluminum bugs her she likes a solid color back so I mean she could get a case that would cover all that and she probably will but you know that's a demon in her she's got to deal with on whether or not she wants to upgrade and you know if you've got an iPhone 4 I say go with the 4s honestly the 5 is a solid phone I am fairly happy with it but it's just interesting for them to claim that it's the biggest thing to happen iPhone since iPhone you know that's their ad it really the contrast between these two is not very great all right guys that's been my two cents regarding the iPhone 5 versus the 4s versus the four I 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