19/09/2012 17:00 | By David Phelan, Contributor, MSN Tech & Gadgets

Video review: Apple iPhone 5

David Phelan presents MSN UK's video review of Apple's iPhone 5.

What is it?
The latest iPhone, sleeker and more gorgeous than photos would have you believe

What's great:
Fast processor, stunning design, improved screen and fast wireless connectivity

What's not:
The new Lightning connector will disappoint many with speaker docks tailored for the 30-pin version

The bottom line:
Another spectacular iPhone, this time with a glorious screen size improvement, speed boost and 4G - if you're on the right network

Article: Read our full iPhone 5 review

David Phelan reviews the Apple iPhone 5 for MSN UK. Image MSN

In Pictures: Apple iPhone 5 hands-on

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19/09/2012 22:08

So why would I want to change and upgrade all my accessories as well, if I do change it will be for a Samsung Galaxy S3....

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19/09/2012 19:54

Is this an advert or something? Sounds like the writer has been given a free iPhone. Basically, its exactly the same shape as before, so it cant be more gorgeous. Making the screen bigger is not improving it, and the design is not stunning, just the same as before. Sounds like a piece of descriptive writing for primary school. Not that spectacular at all. You got a B-
Its bigger, but the S3 is much bigger. Hats off to apple they managed to copy their own product. However, somewhere along the line they accidently priced it for TV instead. And the man in the video needs a better shirt.

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19/09/2012 20:58

Iphone 5 specification is disappointing compare to samsung galaxy 3

samsung galaxy 3 have 1.4 Ghz processor, 1GB RAM, 8 Mega pixel camera

Iphone 5 have 1.02 Ghz A6 processor, 1GB RAM, 8 Mega pixel camera

Sony Xperia T have 1.5 Ghz processor, 1GB RAM, 13 Mega pixel camera

James Bond uses Sony Xperia T. I definitely go for Sony xperia T

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Ellis Watson (soadaa)

19/09/2012 19:15

It's terrible. You're just paying between £500 and £700 for ultimately another row of icons -_-

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mike sharratt (mikecmr)

19/09/2012 20:11

first 4g phone in the uk? i think you need to edit that out? samsung s2 was 4g last year!????

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19/09/2012 19:35

here we go again, more profits for apple, o.k, the iPhone 5 might b good, but why does it cost so much, the phone only costs $200 to make,

just more money for the fat cats of apple and it's share holders,

phones from nokia and samsung, are just as good, without the cost,

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19/09/2012 19:39

bigger screen.......trying to stand in galaxy s3 row i suppose ..come on apple bring somthing new we had enough of your 3g 3gs 4g 4gs now 5 and soon il be 5gs or sumthing ;p

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Nansord Casseres

19/09/2012 22:58

apple seems to have lost it after iphone 4 came out

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Susannah Maddock-Saint

19/09/2012 19:12

I think they should stop making iPhones and come up with a new invention. It's getting a bit old now.

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wayne lewis (Foxebrown)

20/09/2012 10:28

I design and make something then I strip it down to the bare minimum and launch the basic. Everyone runs out to get one. Then 6 months later I add something on it and relaunch it and the same people who bought the first one run out again to buy the second one. Then I add something and relaunch it and the same people run out and buy it again and the cycle repeats itself. I keep selling people things they don't need but are convinced they need it. Meanwhile somewhere else on my beautiful planet which I share (not sharing my iphone tho) with my fellow humans millions are dying everyday through War, Hunger and dehydration. Some can't even get the basic of necessities like water which is in abundance on this beautiful planet.

You don't "NEED" the iphone 5 but someone somewhere"NEEDS" a glass of water..!! I guess this is consumerism at it's ugliest.

#BRAINWASHED

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Susannah Maddock-Saint

19/09/2012 19:14

I think that all they have done is just made it bigger

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20/09/2012 08:48

Without Steve jobs an Iphone5 is just an empty box! Samsung GalaxyS3 and Note much better then Iphone5.

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19/09/2012 20:39

love i-phone but doesn't seem much different to 4gs. what happened to the curved back they showed 2 months ago and samsung brought out 4g already. Not to keen on big phones even though there better for games and video. Think i'll be switching to sumsung though. shame......

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19/09/2012 19:34

This review seems more of an advert than an unbiased critique. As for the phone,well its the same one but slighty bigger. My 4s is fast enough for the man in the street so 4g not a big enough incentive to upgrade. Apple need to up the ante if they want to keep ahead of the opposition.

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19/09/2012 19:08

This advert is just trying to push, force and persuade people to buy iPhone 5 BECAUSE IT FAILED TO IMPRESS. I have an iPhone 4S and I AM NOT buying the same thing... I will again when Apple surprises me again but not now! XX

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Vic SSSSSSH (GALLEYSLAVE)

19/09/2012 22:01

With Apple making more money than the bank executives with their over priced products i'll stick with the dumbfone that I have.

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19/09/2012 21:20

It looks as if they have just stretched the phone and then that's all folks!

With the price they are charging, no I'm not gullible enough to part my money for it when it only cost under £207 to produce (16GB) and to buy approx. £720. I would loves to see a business with honesty not greeds.

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Jimbo J (J1MB0 J)

20/09/2012 08:55

Well that just looks the same... only a little bigger... Apple used to be innovators, now they're just copycats!

Most of the apple bunch laughed at the size of my phone! Stupid they said! What do you need a phone that big for?! That was 2 years ago, now apple do the same. Ha! Silly people.

Apples are great phones don't get me wrong, but for less money I can have more technology, more minutes, and more data. No brainer...

I still don't know whats so good that people swear by i-phones..?? Please enlighten me

'HTC well thats not as good as my i-phone'

oh really whys that then??

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19/09/2012 23:38

no thanks, not when its made by ISlaves at a quarter of its retail price.

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20/09/2012 12:48

its not the thinnest at all , beaten by two that i know of, and its 30 quid more than last years iphone 4s . come on surely get facts right instead if just believing apples hype and repeating it ? hopefully the world will wise up to the fact that apple simply rip us off with "evolution not revolution" , a panoramic camera? wow ! my original galaxy had this 2 years ago , my wifes N8 had this 18 months ago.

flyover? little more than streetview on google?

A6 chip, twice as quick as what ? how does it compare to 1.4ghz? how much ram does it have ?

I`m still sure that it will sell in its millions by people who know no better and never will and that is what apple and many other retailers rely on , please people start doing your research before you spend your hard earned cash

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