uk.testseek.com  

 
 
Search:   
 

Home » Phones » Mobile phones » Apple iPhone 5



Working
Please wait...

  Expert reviews    

Reviews of Apple iPhone 5

Testseek.co.uk have collected 773 expert reviews of the Apple iPhone 5 and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Apple iPhone 5.
Award: Editor’s Choice May 2013
May 2013
 
(85%)
773 Reviews
Users
-
0 Reviews
85 0 100 773

The editors liked

  • New taller 4-inch screen
  • Thinner
  • Lighter
  • Better battery life
  • IPhone 5S likely to have better camera and tech specs
  • IPhone 5S could have two new colour options
  • IPhone 5S could have fingerprint sensor.
  • New 4” screen – A first for the iPhone
  • Custom designed dual core A6 processor – faster and more efficient than the 4S
  • Latest version of iOS including improved Siri and new PassBook feature
  • First iPhone to have 4G capability for faster mobile internet
  • It's quite hard to dislike an iPhone
  • No matter whether you love or disdain Apple's ethos. It's just so simple
  • With a quality screen and a real effort made into the design
  • And it's fair to say
  • Rather obviously
  • That this is the best iPhone ever made. T
  • The iPhone 5 adds everything we wanted in the iPhone 4S
  • 4G LTE
  • A longer
  • Larger screen
  • Free turn-by-turn navigation
  • And a faster A6 processor. Plus
  • Its top-to-bottom redesign is sharp
  • Slim
  • And feather-light
  • Sleek Apple design
  • 4G support to come
  • Larger
  • Vibrant display
  • Powerful performance
  • Nearly the same great snapper as on the 4S
  • Siri proves her worth now.
  • Thin and light design
  • Larger 16
  • 9 high-quality display
  • 4G support
  • Few competitors will better it in the smartphone category
  • “always on”
  • Fast to load
  • Thin and light
  • AF/AE lock
  • Great design
  • Quality camera
  • Design
  • Screen
  • 4G
  • Features
  • Amazing build quality
  • Perfectly executed design
  • Blazingly fast CPU
  • Excellent gaming
  • Vastly superior camera and video ——a solid all-rounder
  • Smarter design
  • Lightning fast interface and web browsing
  • Superb sound
  • Bigger pictures
  • Feather weight
  • Finishing
  • High quality display
  • Exemplary responsiveness
  • Intuitive interface
  • Photo rendering
  • Sound quality
  • Yes
  • The iPhone 5 looks eerily like its predecessors
  • But trust us when we say you haven’t seen it until you’ve held it. The iPhone 5 is a phenomenal feat of hardware
  • It’s just 7.6mm thick
  • And at just 112g
  • Incredibly light.Gone are the raised glass edges
  • Replaced by smooth chamfers
  • But the rock solid
  • Premium build remains. The metal back that replaces the glass coating of the iPhone 4 and 4
  • Slickest smartphone out there
  • Gorgeous 16
  • 9 Retina screen
  • Disconcertingly thin and light
  • Stunning design and build
  • Taller
  • More colourful display
  • 4G connectivity and superfast processor
  • Bigger
  • Better screen
  • Very elegantly built phone
  • Incredibly light and thin
  • Fast new customdesigned CPU

The editors didn't like

  • New Lightning dock connector means you'll need connector for all your old accessories
  • IPhone 5 and iPhone 5S could look essentially the same
  • IPhone 6 likely to bring lots more new features next year.
  • New 8 pin Lightning dock connector requires adaptors to work with existing accessories
  • 4” screen is still smaller than most rival flagship handsets
  • New iOS 6 features like PassBook and Maps don't feel finished
  • Seem rushed
  • IPhone 5 design
  • The iPhone 5
  • The iPhone 5 isn't without its faults though – it's a handset that suffers from an ageing OS that doesn't look overly different from when it was launched five and a half years ago
  • There are so many tweaks Apple could make to its OS to turn it into more o
  • Apple Maps feels unfinished and buggy
  • 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 Andro
  • Steep price
  • OS looks dated
  • Maps limited and suffer from bugs
  • Most apps have ugly borders
  • Lack of memory card slot
  • Fragile feel.
  • Google Maps removal
  • No wow factor
  • No zoom
  • No image stabilisation
  • Panorama issues
  • Hard to hold and keep stable
  • No manual controls
  • Lacks innovation like the PureView 808
  • LED flash should be brighter
  • High price
  • Poor maps
  • Ageing OS
  • Will scuff
  • IOS 6 plays it too safe
  • A lot of applications aren't yet optimised for the 4-inch display and Maps isn't up to scratch
  • Apple Maps is too much of a work in progress
  • Adapter issue is a pain
  • Interface now lacks wow factor
  • Expensive
  • Maps
  • Battery life
  • Few options for customising the interface
  • No NFC
  • High SAR
  • It’s hard to fault the iPhone 5 hardware
  • It may not be dazzlingly new
  • But it’s refined
  • Beautiful and packed with bleeding edge tech. Some people might grumble at the new Lightning port
  • But Apple had to draw a line in the sand at some point to keep making the iPhone thinner
  • Apple's AirPlay wireless streaming set up should more than make up for any docks you own now rendered redundant.If we ha
  • Old accessories will need an adapter
  • You'll want to upgrade the Earpods
  • Apple Maps can get lost
  • Scratchprone chassis
  • New Maps app is a step backwards
  • Lacks NFC
  • New Maps app needs a lot of work
  • Letterboxed thirdparty apps

Show Show

 

Reviews

page 1 of 78
Order by:
Score
 
  Published: 2019-11-27, review by: knowyourmobile.com

  • Amazing build quality, perfectly executed design, blazingly fast CPU, excellent gaming, vastly superior camera and video ——a solid all-rounder
  • A lot of applications aren't yet optimised for the 4-inch display and Maps isn't up to scratch

 
Was this review helpful?   
 
(90%)
 
  Published: 2017-05-10, Author: Devon , review by: devontechsupport.com

  • It's quite hard to dislike an iPhone, no matter whether you love or disdain Apple's ethos. It's just so simple, with a quality screen and a real effort made into the design, And it's fair to say, rather obviously, that this is the best iPhone ever made. T
  • The iPhone 5 isn't without its faults though – it's a handset that suffers from an ageing OS that doesn't look overly different from when it was launched five and a half years ago, There are so many tweaks Apple could make to its OS to turn it into more o
  • Is the iPhone 5 the best smartphone ever? If you're an iPhone lover and won't ever leave, without question. It's got a larger screen, a superb new design and generally all the moves required to make it into a worthy evolution.But as ever we can't get over...

 
Was this review helpful?   
 
-
 
  Published: 2016-08-12, review by: expertreviews.co.uk

  • Aside from some 4G limitations, the iPhone 5 remains a great phone, and a better one than the 5C that replaced it...

Read the full review »    
Google translate to English »
 
Was this review helpful?   
 
(100%)
 
  Published: 2016-02-05, Author: David , review by: expertreviews.co.uk

  • If anything's missing from the iPhone 5, it's NFC. This technology has been in several Android handsets, but Apple so far hasn't bothered with it. We don't see this as a massive problem at the moment, as there isn't the infrastructure to use it, but it's...

Read the full review »    
Google translate to English »
 
Was this review helpful?   
 
(100%)
 
  Published: 2014-05-20, review by: mobilephones.com

  • Abstract:  Apple has gone down the evolution not revolution route with the aesthetic design of the new iPhone and produced a similar looking handset but with subtle differences. If it ain't broke is the order of the day here and an understandable one at that.The iPh...

 
Was this review helpful?   
 
(88%)
 
  Published: 2013-10-29, Author: Richard , review by: knowyourmobile.com

  • Amazing build quality, perfectly executed design, blazingly fast CPU, excellent gaming, vastly superior camera and video ——a solid all-rounder
  • A lot of applications aren't yet optimised for the 4-inch display and Maps isn't up to scratch

Read the full review »    
Google translate to English »
 
Was this review helpful?   
 
(90%)
 
  Published: 2013-10-21, Author: Madeline , review by: v3.co.uk

  • Abstract:  Apple's iPhone 5S is the firm's latest flagship smartphone, and brings a range of new features to tempt users to upgrade or move over to the iOS family. We've put the 5S up against its predecessor, the iPhone 5, to see if it's worth upgrading from last ye...

 
Was this review helpful?   
 
-
 
  Published: 2013-10-15, Author: Carly , review by: v3.co.uk

  • Abstract:  Apple's iPhone 5C and iPhone 5 handsets are admittedly not very different from one another. Both sport 4in Retina displays, Apple A6 processors and run the firm's iOS 7 mobile operating system, so you might ask why we're bothering to compare the two phone...

 
Was this review helpful?   
 
-
 
  Published: 2013-10-13, Author: Ashleigh , review by: macworld.co.uk

  • The iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S look very similar, but the iPhone 5S has significantly improved camera and spec boosts thanks to its new 64-bit A7 chip. Additionally, if you like gold, you might like the new colour option for the iPhone 5S. The new Touch ID fi...

Read the full review »    
Google translate to English »
 
Was this review helpful?   
 
-
 
  Published: 2013-10-09, Author: Nirave , review by: techview.co

  • Abstract:  You might notice that Best for 4G has changed and been simplified since our last comparison – this is to make the series easier to understand and results easier to gather.It's back again – thanks to popular feedback of our first Best for 4G comparison , w...

 
Was this review helpful?   
 
-
    page 1 of 78 « Previous   1 2 3 4 5 ... 78   Next »  
 
More popular products from the same category


Join our Consumer Panel!

  • Infuence products of the future
  • Up to 3€ per answer
TestSeek will regularly send you survey invites to your email, you choose if and when you participate.

Join now! » (opens in a new window)


×