The fifth one went

The American corporation Apple has started selling the iPhone 5 smartphone. The first buyers who will be able to purchase the new product are lined up in Australia.

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The Apple brand store in Sydney was occupied by fans of the Apple brand: some set up tents nearby last Tuesday, reports BBCNews . There are currently long queues for the iPhone 5. For example, in Sydney, at least 500 people stood near the AppStore in the morning; in Tokyo, by 8 a.m., 750 people lined up near the company store. In Hong Kong, the store, surrounded by a crowd of iPhone fans, also opened at 8 a.m., but two hours earlier than usual. According to analysts, the iPhone 5 is likely to break sales records: 10 million smartphones may be purchased this weekend, writes Bloomberg .

On Friday, September 21, the new iPhone 5 will be available in Germany, Hong Kong, UK, Canada, USA, Singapore, Japan and France. However, the French may be left without a smartphone, because Apple workers in Paris want to go on strike today . More than a thousand workers are demanding their 13th salary and food vouchers. Next Friday, the smartphone will appear on AppStore shelves in another 22 countries around the world.

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The start of sales of the iPhone 5 caused an increase in stock indices in the Asia-Pacific region amid market interest in shares of technology companies, Bloomberg reports. Share quotes of Apple suppliers increased: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. - by 0.6%, Genius Electronic Optical Co. - by 3.7%, Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co. - by 1.7%.

At the same time, it became known that the iPhone 5 could become the reason for a new patent lawsuit against Apple from the South Korean company Samsung, reports The Wall Street Journal . The conflict between the American and South Korean companies began in 2011, when Apple accused Samsung of copying the design used to create the iPhone and iPad. Samsung then accused Apple of copying the patents. Now there is already a lawsuit due to the previous “Apple” model - iPhone 4S. The trial is scheduled for 2014.

Apple presented its new smartphone in San Francisco on September 12. The glass and aluminum body is 7.6 mm thick, which is 18% thinner than its predecessor.

The weight of the new device is 112 grams, that is, 20% lighter than the previous model. Among the technical differences is a new socket for the power cable and charger. It will be much smaller. Instead of a microSIM card in the iPhone 5 there is a nanoSIM. The new iPhone will be the first Apple smartphone to support the 4G LTE standard not only in the American, but also in the European versions. The new phone has three cameras, one of them is 8-megapixel. The iPhone 5 battery has become more powerful, for example, you can listen to music for 40 hours before the battery is completely discharged.