iPhone 5 Launches! All New Maps, Nav And Many Other Cool Features Added. But Was It Enough?

From an AAPL holder: Too much HYPE!

Your wallet will a lot lighter after purchasing the new Apple Iphone 5.

Apple could come slap their logo on a dog turd and it would sell millions. This coming from a family with two iPhone 4S's, multiple iPod's, and an iPad2.

So Apple launched technology Google has had for over 2 years on Android. Wow!!!

If Android is so awesome, why is Apple selling iPhones by the boatload? I am sure some of the sales is attributable to customer loyalty or fanboyism, but certainly not all.

Android outsells Apple by a large margin

This phone is really going to suck for car owners with iPod interfaces. The new 30-pin to lightning connector 1) isn't available until October, 2) specifically states "does not support video or iPod out", also since it's an all digital connection does not look to work with any connector that uses the analog connectors. The only way it'll still play nice is either via bluetooth or if the USB digital output hasn't changed.

Seriously, that was one boring launch. If you guys haven't seen the Nokia Lumia 920, check it out. Blows this over hyped thing out of the water with real innovations. Not just " longer ".

Doh!

Nokia can't afford to make mistakes, and last week it made a big one. Some of the promotional videos and photos supplied as examples of how its Lumia 920 PureView device performs weren't legitimate, and Nokia was called out for it. The fallout has given the one-time market leader quite a black eye.

Last Wednesday Nokia held a press conference with Microsoft in New York City. The focus was the Lumia 920 PureView, a new Windows Phone 8 smartphone due to arrive later this year. Both Nokia and Microsoft spent the bulk of their time on stage discussing the merits of the 920's camera.

The most significant feature of the 920's camera is something called optical image stabilization, or OIS. Both the lens itself and the entire camera module are mounted on tiny springs to dampen vibrations. (Human beings, it turns out, can't hold that still no matter how hard they try, and small vibrations in the hands holding a camera can have adverse effects on the images the photographer is attempting to capture.) Nokia offered several sample videos of scenes captured using devices without OIS, and the same scenes captured using the 920. The video taken from the 920 was dramatically smoother and free of vibration.

But the video wasn't taken with the 920. Toward the end of one sample video, a reflection is clearly visible that shows a camera crew with lighting rig moving parallel to the video's subject. The camera crew isn't using a Lumia 920 to shoot the video at all; it is using a dedicated video camera.

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Not enough. It is just a tall 4S. There are more technically advanced phones out there. Agree with aboodesta, New Nokia Lumias look great and want to try how that wireless charging works.

Media hype almost ruined the launch for me, making me "disappointed" even though this is a very solid upgrade. Faster network, bigger better screen, better camera, lighter, CPU much faster than my 4...and even gets rid of the crappy old 30-pin connector. Looking forward to getting it on next Friday.