I just don't get it. Maybe the press is jumping the shark finally with Apple. If Apple created a brick with a Logo on it, they would sell 2 million units because of all the fan boys waiting to buy, and many paying $650 because their 2 year contracts aren't due yet.
Maybe it's me but I have no 'phone envy' when I saw the Iphone 5 vs. my Galaxy S3....After 2 years of the Iphone 4/4s, what do you get...
1) .5"" of screen length (not width), making it still smaller than the vast majority of alternatives from every other mfg. If your a small person, with small hands and 20/20 eyesight, this is great for you. Not so much for my 46 year old reading glasses eyes however.
2) Shaving some weight and thinness, only to get re-bulked up with the rubber cases you need due to Apples notoriously fragile screens and scratchable back materials. Still not as thin as last year's Razr, and I have found that a phone can get so thin that its not easy to hold. They should have kept thickness and increased the battery life (or finally figured out a way to allow it to be removable and an SD card to be used so Appleheads aren't running from charger to charger, egad)
3) Yay, you get a smaller connector, even though there is still plenty of room for the older one. No advantage other than you lose the ability to send audio and video through it like the 'old' connector. Oh wait, that lets you buy a $29 adapter that costs about $4 to make. Times 30 million phones, yeah, some more GDP for the US. Every other phone on the planet uses Micro-usb and is legally mandated in Europe so you will have to have an adapter there
4) Faster processor. Most say in the league of most every other modern android phone that shipped in the last 6 months or so.
5) LTE. Only matters if your on Verizon and LTE Android phones have been out for 18+ months. (every other carrier's LTE has so a puny footprint, your more likely to find wifi)
6) The most important reason of all to upgrade.....drum roll....'I want an iPhone'.
Do you realize people used to say that about Blackberry at one time? If Apple doesn't start really innovating again, somebody is going to lap them like Palm and Blackberry got lapped by Apple