iPhone 5 is Apple’s thinnest and lightest phone ever

The iPhone 5 is here – hurrah. And as expected from that bastion of brilliant design, Apple, it’s had an overhaul in the looks department. In spite of being crammed with better features than all its predecessors, it’s both thinner and lighter – while being made entirely of glass and aluminium.

The iPhone 5 weighs in at 112g, making it a full 20 per cent lighter than the 4S. It’s also thinner than the 4S by 18 per cent at 7.6mm in thickness. And it does all that while maintaining those drool-worthy good looks. It’s also been upgraded to an A6 processor and ekes out 8 hours of LTE talk time or browsing from the battery. Never have our pockets – and walllets – felt more overstuffed than right now.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home