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unveiled iPhone 5, its latest generation of smartphone that

features bigger display and support for faster LTE wireless

network, at a media event in San Francisco. "Now today we're

taking it to the next level, making a huge leap," Apple Chief

Executive Officer Tim Cook said at the event. The iPhone 5 has a

4-inch screen compared with the 3.5-inch display used by the

previous models, enabling a 5th row of icons to be displayed on

the homepage. According to Apple, the new phone features an

A6 chip, which is two times faster than the previous A5 but

22-percent smaller in size. Made entirely of glass and aluminum,

the new smartphone is the thinnest and lightest phone Apple has

ever produced. It is 7.6 mm thick, 18-percent thinner than iPhone

4S and weighs 112 grams, 20- percent lighter than the iPhone 4S.

The new iPhone 5 supports LTE networks by selected carriers in

North America, Europe and Asia, and its Wi-Fi speed is up to 150

mbps. The battery life is also expanded with a standby of 225

hours and eight hours of LTE browsing. The camera of iPhone 5,

which is 25 percent smaller than the one in iPhone 4S, has

several enhanced features like low light mode and taking

panorama pictures up to 28 megapixels. It is 40 percent faster on

photo capture and the Facetime camera is also HD. The iPhone 5

also has a suite of resigned accessories such as noise-cancelling

earpiece. The 30-pin connector, which has not changed since

2003, is replaced by a new connector called " Lighting." It is a

8-signal design and 80 percent smaller than the previous one.

Apple also introduced an adapter, enabling users to connect the

30-pin connector to the "Lighting" one. At the event, Apple

demonstrated how its latest iOS 6 mobile system runs on the

iPhone 5, showing off its new mobile map service and other new

features. The iOS 6 will be available as a free software update

next Wednesday. The iPhone 5 will come in white & silver or

black & slate. The price starts from 199 U.S. dollars for 16 GB

model in the United States. It will first be available in the U.S.,

Australia, Canada, France, Germany, China's Hong Kong, Japan,

Singapore and Britain on Sept. 21, and the pre-order will start on

Sept. 14. The new generation of iPhone will further roll out to 22

more countries on Sept. 28, Apple said. Analysts predicted that

the arrival of the iPhone 5 will spur a rebound in Apple's

smartphone sales and also give a boost to the growth of global

smartphone market in the rest of this year. Apple shipped 26

million units of iPhone in the second quarter in 2012, down 26

percent from 35 million units in the previous quarter, a drop

which was partly attributed to consumers holding off their

purchase in anticipation of the new iPhone. "Apple's smartphone

shipments typically are weak during the quarter preceding the

launch of a new iPhone model," Wayne Lam, an analyst at

research firm IHS, said in a report issued ahead of Apple's event.

"Buyers historically have delayed their purchases until the newest

model is available. Then they rush out to get the latest and

greatest version once it's being sold, leading to a spike in

demand. IHS predicts the same pattern will occur with the iPhone

5, " Lam said. 美国时间9月12日上午10点(北京时间9月13日1点)，苹

果将在旧金山芳草地艺术中心(Yerba Buena

Center)召开发布会，如期发布了旗下第六款手机iPhone5。 发布会之

前国内外众多媒体对苹果iPhone5外观、功能曝光的准确性、细致程度

都是史无前例的，而新iPhone的面世对于经常上网的朋友而言，显然毫

无神秘感。全新的苹果iPhone5采用了阳极氧化铝+玻璃材质的全新搭

配，机身厚度仅为7.6毫米，手感比iPhone 4S提升明显。 苹果iPhone