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well hey this is Josh from the verge and we are looking at the new iPhone 5 as you can see it looks somewhat familiar to the iPhone 4s the iPhone 4 but I have to say when you pick it up in your hands there is an immediate noticeable difference it's thinner it's lighter it feels incredibly light actually it's almost bizarrely light when I picked it up I almost dropped it because I expected more weight than is actually here but that doesn't mean that it's you know cheaply constructed the back is a beautiful matte metal finish there's glass on these two pieces right here and then of course glass around the front it's also got a larger screen the much rumor to now expose larger screen of the of the iPhone 5 you go through the bezels been kind of cut down along the sides here so it just feels like it's all screen on the front this is the black version which is almost all matte black pretty sleek I have to say pretty slick looking and you know everything functions as you would expect on an iPhone it's of course running iOS 6 we've seen early versions of iOS 6 we saw it demoed at WWDC and this is the full version here a few new additions passbook is one of them which is going to collect all sorts of boarding passes and gift cards and stuff like that which was demo today there's also new mail features for instance the VIP and flagging has been changed and lots of little nips and tucks all over the OS but you know the big story today is not the operating system the big story today is the hardware and I have to say it's definitely it is an evolution in terms of the design language but I spoke to a Phil Schiller and he said that this was a complete ground-up new project for them they looked at this and they said let's just kind of blow you know blow part what we've already done and build something new from the ground up and you do see little differences that that indicate that that's the case particularly one of the things that I noticed is the detail on this the machined edges of this I heard somebody here say it looked a little bit like jewelry and I have to agree that there is kind of a jewelry feel to the way these edges are machined and and as clean as they are one other thing to note the headphone jack has moved down to the bottom and it now has the new lightning dock port which is much smaller obviously and faster as Apple claims and has a bunch of other features that are helpful of your dock in your phone so this is it I mean this is the iPhone 5 it's going to be available I believe it goes on sale September 21st and and we're gonna spend a little bit more time with it will have some impressions and and a lot more info soon