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While the initial drop tests have already crowned the iPhone 5 as one of the most durable handsets every built, performance benchmarks from AnandTech and PCMag now seem to confirm that it's actually the fastest smartphone in the world as well. As previously reported by AnandTech that iPhone 5's A6 is s something completely different than anything we've seen...

Apple has uploaded new TV ads, with three of them for the iPhone 5 and one for the new EarPods. The ads were uploaded to their YouTube channel just over 25 minutes ago. Check them out below and tell me which is your favourite: "Physics": The iPhone 5 is here. The biggest and tallest yet...

Ouch, earlier we reported that the iPhone 5 rear-casing may be vulnerable to scratches. Since then, iFixit has released a video to prove just how easily the device could be scratched. Melissa Jenna of iFixit and her 2-year older daughter presented some real-world situations of how the iPhone 5 could be scratched. With minimal power, the 2-year old...

Earlier this week, folks over at AnandTech revealed that iPhone 5's A6 is the first Apple SoC to use its own ARMv7 based processor design whose cores are purely Apple's own creation. While hesitating to predict more details about the S0C's specs earlier, the same source has now revealed that the A6 S0c has a 3-core GPU. First diffusion...

Today marks the official launch of the iPhone 5 in 9 different countries around the world and while some are busy carrying out drop tests and scratch tests with Apple's latest gadget, some have decided to troll the fine people of Amsterdam by gluing it to the pavement at a busy square in the city. Find...

Our own Kris Meador (@meadorsmusings) in Edmonton got his iPhone 5 nice and early. So of course the natural thing to do would be to film an unboxing video for those still on the fence. Check out his unlocked 64GB White iPhone 5 unboxing video below: Meador doesn't mess around when it comes to Apple....

The iPhone 5 has officially launched in Canada today and around the world in the U.S., the UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Here in Canada the iPhone 5 is available from Rogers, Telus, Bell, Fido, Virgin Mobile and Koodo (with SaskTel and MTS soon to come), with prices starting at $179.95...

According to AppleInsider, analyst Gene Munster and the Piper Jaffray team scouted out Apple Store lines at three major U.S. locations this morning. The New York, Boston, and Minneapolis locations had an average of 83 percent longer lines than what the 4S had created. That has led Munster to believe that Apple will sell 8 million units; double the...

Apple's official iPhone 5 user guide is now available as a free download in .pdf format, as pointed out by folks at iDB. As the iPhone 5 went on sale today, Apple has published a comprehensive guide detailing every bit of its latest smartphone. So while you wait for yours to arrive, we suggest you...

While lines for the iPhone 5 formed around the world, a group of Japanese thieves couldn't wait any longer to grab a unit of their own. At around 3:00 AM in the morning in Osaka, burglars robbed two carrier stores, including Softbank and KDDI. When police arrived at the locations there was in-total 191 units stolen. The...

The iPhone 5's anodized aluminum edges may be slightly more prone to daily wear but the real test of time would be how well the device's chassis holds up against every day drops, in comparison to its biggest market competitor, the Samsung Galaxy S3. Looks like the folks over at Android Authority already have the answer...

When I first saw Apple's iPhone 5 demo video, no doubt I was extremely impressed with the kind of engineering techniques they have used to achieve those shiny edges on the new iPhone. However, the thing that instantly came to mind after watching that video was the scratch prone nature of the new anodized aluminum....