When Apple envisioned the iPhone, Apple landed on a remarkably thin & light design. But its nearly impossible to make a device so thin & so light without sacrificing features or performance. Apple could have taken the easy way out & designed something more reasonable & less remarkable. But Apple didnt. If the technology didnt exist, Apple invented it. If a component wasnt small enough, Apple re-imagined it. If convention was standing in the way, Apple left it behind. The result is iPhone 5: the thinnest, lightest, fastest iPhone ever. iPhone 5 is just 7.6 millimeters thin. To make that happen, Apple engineers had to think small, component by component. They created a nano-SIM card, which is 44 percent smaller than a micro-SIM. They also developed a unique cellular solution for iPhone 5. The conventional approach to building LTE into a world phone uses two chips
- one for voice, one for data. On iPhone 5, both are on a single chip. The intelligent, reversible Lightning connector is 80 percent smaller than the 30-pin connector. The 8-megapixel i Sight camera has even more features
- like panorama & dynamic low-light mode
- yet its 20 percent smaller. & the A6 chip is up to 2x faster than the A5 chip but 22 percent smaller.