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iPhone 5 & how it will affect your business.

With more iPhone releases than Police Academy movies, it’s hard to keep up with what the changes are. Below are some of the changes in the latest iPhone 5 to help you determine the impact it will make business’s all business.

Here’s a quick run down, and the full version is below:

It’s going to cost $800 for the standard, all the way up to $999 for the 64GB.
Faster wi-fi – and access to the new 4G network.
It has a smaller SIM card, so bear that in mind if buying it outright.
Dedicated ‘Passbook’ for boarding passes.
New Connector – They’ve finally figured out a way to get us to buy more accessories. Your current one wont work with this.
Need to buy new docks if you have one already.

See the full article below:

It will be released in Australia on September 21st, starting at $799 outright for the 16GB version, $899 for 32GB and $999 for 64GB, as well as a range of monthly plan-based prices through Telstra, Optus and Vodafone.

The iPhone 5 will run on the 4G ‘LTE’ networks of Telstra and Optus, along with Virgin Mobile (which uses the Optus network) – unlike the ‘new iPad’, which boasted 4G technology but not on the radio frequencies used in Australia.That fast 4G connection will provide an average speed of 20-30Mbps, and let the iPhone 5 serve as a high-powered wifi hotspot with more bandwidth to be shared between other devices such as tablets and ultrabooks.If you step outside the 4G network footprint, of course, speeds will scale back to 3G. Even so, the dual-channel 3G system used by Telstra can deliver a solid 10-15Mbps in many cities and larger towns.

Faster wifi, too
The iPhone 5’s wireless networking now supports dual-channel 802.11n on the 5GHz band for significantly faster connections, and less congestion, on wifi networks – as long as they also run on 5GHz.
Apple hasn’t advised if the iPhone 5 will also use this same warp-speed wifi when running as a 3G hotspot.

Enter the NanoSIM
The iPhone 5 also marks the debut of the tiny nanoSIM card, which is half the size of the current iPhone microSIM wafer
This will be a ‘gotcha’ if you rush out to buy an iPhone 5 and then fly off overseas, because it will take some time before carriers can reliably stock up on nanoSIM versions of their prepaid voice & data packages – which could leave you without a local roaming solution.

iOS 6

The new iPhone 5 comes with the new iOS 6 operating system, which packs several of its own welcome features for frequent flyers – including a new Passbook app for mobile boarding passes (which Virgin Australia will support, as shown below), more iCloud synchronisation for reminders and notes plus the ability to tweak and tame notifications and email alerts

A bigger screen

As expected, the iPhone 5 stands taller than all previous models – a noticeable 8.6cm – which stretches the screen to 4 inches measured in the diagonal, compared to the 3.5 inches of its predecessors.

The extra on-screen real estate allows for one more row of icons on the home screen, which is honestly no deal-breaker.
But when held in landscape mode it will show a full five-day workweek on the Calendar, along with more display space when browsing the web, using maps and watching videos, with the new display fitting into a 16:9 aspect ratio.

All current iPhone apps will run with a small black border around them, like a ‘letterboxed’ movie. Developers are expected to quickly push out free updates to your favourite apps which will occupy the entire screen.
Despite the larger screen, the revised glass-and-aluminium design is claimed to be 18% thinner (at 6.7mm) and 20% lighter (at 112 grams) than the iPhone 4S, which nobody ever claimed was a porker to begin with.
Clearer calls

Sure, clearer phone calls are important to everybody – but business users certainly don’t want things to get crackly when it’s crunch time.
The iPhone 5 has three microphones – one each on the bottom, front and back – for improved voice pickup and noise cancellation, a more efficient speaker design and supports high-definition voice calling or ’wideband audio’, which is already running on the Telstra network.

New connector

Although the iPhone 5 is taller the connector socket gets smaller, going down from the skinny but wide 30-pin plug used in all iPhones, iPads and most iPods to date.

The new plug, called Lightning, means you’ll need to spring for special adaptors to continue using most iDevice accessories such as docks, cradles and even those spare USB sync-and-charge cables.

Apple will sell a Lightning adaptor for $35.
However, several dock-style accessories may prove physically incompatible with an iPhone 5 once the adaptor is fitted to the bottom of the phone

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