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For a device of this premium quality, users will expect it to survive the pocket test,

 

iPhone 5 Reviews

and especially do so for the first two weeks of life. It's a big fail for Apple to expect users to accept that a product can be damaged so easily.The same industrial band around the outside is in effect again as on the iPhone 4 and 4S, with small sections removed where the antenna joins.Apple has gone for a more advanced form of antenna here, meaning the days of lost signal are gone, and generally increasing the power of your call connection and GPS lock on too.There are other big design changes here too: the headphone jack has moved to the bottom of the phone,

iPhone 5 Reviews

and the iconic 30-pin connector has been retired in favour of the new Lightning port, giving a headache to all those that have invested in chargers, docks and other accessories over their iPhone lives.You can buy an adaptor, but it's pricey at £25.

And unless you want to keep it permanently attached to the bottom of the iPhone 5 you'll need to buy a few, which is far from ideal.There's also a small chink of light on the top right hand side of the iPhone 5 - when the screen is illuminated, you can see it under the band if you really, really look for it. It's been seen by a number of users, but is hard to actually replicate unless you mask the screen and hold it at the right angle.It's again a sign of slightly under-par machining from Apple, but in day to day use it's almost completely invisible.The decision to move the 3.5mm headphone jack to the bottom is an odd one, as while it allows you to slip the phone into the pocket head-first when listening to music, which is a more natural action, it's a real pain in the posterior for some apps that will only work in landscape a certain way up.

iPhone 5 Reviews

Using it this way means your headphones experience will be one of having to jiggle the jack around two fingers.It's not the most comfortable way to hold a phone, and even when using the phone in portrait mode, the jack gets in the way somewhat.Plus it's miles away from the volume keys, which makes it hard to change the audio level in the pocket if you don't use the dedicated headphones.There are other smaller design changes to the iPhone 5 too, such as the iSight front-facing camera moving to the middle and the home button being noticeably more robust to help reduce instances of a broken portal to your home screen.But enough about what the phone looks like - the killer question is how the thing feels in hand.

iPhone 5 Reviews

And we'll sum it up by saying: smooth. It's a little slippery, and we were always worried we would drop the darned thing.But that's the only negative thing about the design as it sits in the palm nicely and allows you to do it all with one hand, including hitting the top-mounted power lock button with ease.