iFixit tears down iPhone 5, reveals new camera sensor and sapphire glass lens

Some people have Gaydar, but I have Appledar and can spot 'em a mile off, they don't even have to say anything!

... or even walk funny.

How do you tell an iPhone user to get lost?
Recommend they use Apple maps

How do you annoy an iPhone user (UK)?
Ask them if they have 4G.

@ The Jacal - it was funny when Zach Braff said it.

iphone in the our country(and in many other countries) is not a smarphone but thing that shows your social status for many people ;) like expesive car or something like that. So, you can't wear previous year collection and you can't have previous iphone ;)

Pavel, Quite pretentious and childish. Very sad. In America many do the same.

Perhaps, but adults do that all over the world.

Interesting, because where I live, owning anything produced by Apple makes you look like a gullible idiot!

Before their battle with Samsung, owning an Apple product basically made you look like a follower, someone who can't think for themselves. But now it's even worse, it looks like you have no morals either.

One thing for sure is that it's no status symbol here, at least, not unless you want your status to be one of those I mentioned above :-)

Pumeco, it sounds like you may be suffering from Apple-envy. It is treatable but expensive. It requires the purchase of an iPhone 5 ;)

The iphone is not a status symbol. It just works. Its a tool, nothing more. I own one---who cares? No one.

Let me gess pumeco, you live in Korea.

@Sephirotic
My god, I wish I did live in Korea, the women ... the beautiful women!

@Pavel Sokolov
Count yourself lucky then, because where I come from, an iPhone still hints you are gay even to this day.

gotcha! pumeco is from Mordor! ;))

"current price for iphone5 in russia is about $2000 for 64gb model"

The same model without 2-year phone plan (and it's subsidy) is going to be $849 in the US (at least in the states without sales tax). You can fly to NYC from Moscow, rent a car, drive to Delaware, buy unlocked iPhone5 64GB, fly back - and still be better off than buying it in Russia.

So much vitriol–why? Apple's just another brand, after all. I use their computers bcuz my experience has been they are simple and reliable. My Dad still uses my now nearly 15-year G3 Power Mac desktop, purchased new for my senior year in graphic design school. It's slow and has had to add a USB port since the SCSI that was then mainstream is no longer supported, but for desktop publishing and playing music, he's happy with it. Matter of fact, every one of the six Macintosh computers I've bought is still in use by someone in my family. That I am a user of Apple gear isn't because I'm pretentious, slavish or not smart enough to get on with a PC, but because they've proven to be high quality, high performance and reliable devices. If I could say the same of the PCs I've used, I'd be a happy user of PCs.

My iPhone 4 was preceded by a Motorola Cliq and Blackberry Bold–both of which suffered catastropic failures within 6 months. 2 years later, the iPhone has never experienced a failure.

The new iPhone is more of a fashion statement than a real jump from the 4s. It should have been named the 4sS ..

I strongly disagree that you can determine a person's morals by the phone they use, or the car they drive, or the movies they like.

sapphire crystal = glass

Don't buy into the hype.

Super! This is what distinguishes the iPhone owner from all others: They don't think it's funny and they don't know what the fuss is about.

@RadPhoto
UK Price without contract for the 32Gb version is £600, nearly $1000 US
64Gb is £700 ($1135 US)

NO, the iPhone has digital stabilization. We want OPTICAL image stabilization. http://wpnow.net/2012/09/10/iphone-4s-vs-nokia-lumia-920-image-stabilization-test/

Digital IS can be very good if made well :)
Don't compare apple with oranges. Nokia got amazing, well-made OS - praise for them. But it has nothing to geal with digital vs optical IS. Only issue with digital OS is the fact that it produces artifacts in video - through this as well depends on processing power and methods used.

Just so you know, it's a wisecrack, not an assumption.

If I were dumb enough to actually care what's inside an iPhone, I'd likely be the type of person that already owns one. Thankfully, I'm not, and couldn't give a crap about what's inside an iPhone.

To me, the fact that there are Samsung and Sony components inside an Apple product, but there are no Apple components inside a Samsung or Sony product, speaks volumes.

Then again, I'm not a brainwashed Apple user, and therefore, am perfectly capable of working these things out for myself. I prefer freedom, and being an adult capable of knowing when I'm being manipulated, I refuse to be kept on Apple-branded leash called iTunes.

I'm not a dog, and won't play fetch for Apple.

pumeco, what we resist, persists.

WTF, Jink, you're going around replying to all my Apple posts :-P

You'll never convert me to Apple, never, no matter what you say. Only Apple can convert me to Apple and there's no way that is going to happen until:

A - They quit tying everything to iTunes.
B - They allow iOS development actually on an iOS device.
C - They provide an editable EQ as standard.

The only reason Apple have been able to achieve what they have achieved, is the physical quality of the hardware. Without that, it's just far too manipulative a format compared to the competition, and no one in the right mind would pay the prices they demand otherwise.

Sorry mate, no Apple here ;-)

@ pumeco
You replied to an article that's about iPhone teardown even though you did not actually go through the teardown.

After being pointed out you don't actually don't know what you are talking about you proceeded to rant how Samsung and SONY is superior.

Is there a chip on your shoulder? Are you compensating for something or just looking for a fight?

@Peiasdf
I always visit Apple related threads because I like to analyse the behaviour and reactions of the general Apple using public, it's been a favourite pass-time of mine for years now.

As for me not knowing what I'm talking about, let's remember that I'm not the one who owns a "locked-in" Apple product, you are.

It might surprise you to know this, but I'm guessing that when people try pointing out to you what you're supporting, they are doing it, subconsciously, for your own good. Sure there are those that do it just for a kick, but for most it's the unfathomable fact that "adults" actually buy Apple products.

I mean if you're a teenager, then fair enough; a teenager can't be expected to pick-up on when they're being manipulated without more life experience. But for an adult to do that, I'm sorry, but an adult should know better; that's what drives people to comment in the way they do.

It comes across so incredibly dumb for a adult to fall for it, it makes a person wonder.

Most generalization are in fact a byproduct of limited knowledge and biases, and you're projecting a whole lot of generalizations. Do you disagree that Apple products are different enough to warrant a fairly knowledgable person into opting to buy an Apple product rather than products you would consider superior? Perhaps, they like the OS better or the handling, size, or a number of other reasons? I mean, do you actually think everyone who buys an iPhone are in fact dumb people who only fell for the marketing and not because they just might like the device?

You're sitting here and talking about dumb people who fall for marketing and love a company to an unreasonable degree, but do you realize that you're on the exact opposite of this spectrum, and your kind is just as annoying. It's fine if you don't like a product, don't buy it. Instead go and buy a superior product and then spout on online forums how you're the pinnacle of your species, because that's the "adult" thing to do.