CNET Review the iPhone 5; SO NOT WORTH FIVE STARS and a video clip of how to get a five star review

From the verdict:

The iPhone 5 completely rebuilds the iPhone on a framework of new features and design, addressing its major previous shortcomings. It’s absolutely the best iPhone to date…

Sounds good! Here’s the positives:

The iPhone 5 adds everything we wanted in the iPhone 4S: 4G LTE, a longer, larger screen, and a faster A6 processor. Plus, its top-to-bottom redesign is sharp, slim, and feather-light.

And yet…

★★★★☆

Why?

Sprint and Verizon models can’t use voice and data simultaneously. The smaller connector renders current accessories unusable without an adapter. There’s no NFC, and the screen size pales in comparison to jumbo Android models.

What could have been, eh? If only it had a even more massive screen that no-one needs, a propreitory adaptor that has been around for so long that people think it is a standard, and a payment feature that, at least here in the UK, you can use approximately nowhere.

How do you get a five star review? Ask those who leave Amazon reviews. I urge you to watch this clip of John Gordillo at the Edinburgh Festival. Keep watching until the end.

(image from CNET)

  1. sbolen reblogged this from inspiredbyapple and added:
    Nailed it.
  2. inspiredbyapple posted this

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Apple has some of the best industrial design in the world. And don’t these companies know it.

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