"If you're wearing skinny hipster jeans like your average Apple fanboi,"

Christ, what an asshole.

"but for the rest of us, that's insignificant."

Mentioned in almost every professional review but whatever, I'm clearly on Apple's payroll here.

"Again, 21 g. Not a big deal"

Mentioned in almost every professional review but whatever, I'm clearly on Apple's payroll here.

"so many people reporting chips"

That sounds scientific. Maybe every time an apple product is released and 4-10 million people get their hands on them in the same weekend perfectly normal quality issues are magnified by the size of the release pop and tech blogs who want click traffic.

Almost every professional review says higher build quality but whatever, I'm clearly on Apple's payroll here.

"iPhone's slightly longer battery life"

+60% > web browsing. Almost every professional review says the same thing but whatever, I'm clearly on Apple's payroll here.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/13

"is a result of its puny screen."

+14% hotspot battery life with the screen off. Same link.

"<replaceable btty>

http://www.mophie.com/

"1.3 GHz dual-core processor, whereas the Galaxy S3 has a 1.4 GHz "

Newsflash: different ARM processors have different Dmips/Mhz making this an Apple's to Oranges comparison. Samsung's cortex A15's at 2 Ghz are twice as fast as the A9 chips at 1.5 Ghz.

North American GS3's don't even have the quad core 1.4 Ghz chip tho, they run a dual core Snapdragon.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/10

GS3 not shown in all charts on the page but:

Anand: it's clear the iPhone 5 ... tends to outperform the latest ARM based Android smartphones.

FWIW I'll say the international GS3 is very close and ahead in some benchmarks but this is paid for by even worse battery comparisons and heavily mitigated by the gpu difference.

"that the iPhone has a better display is far from a foregone conclusion"

From your article:

"Another study done by DisplayMate, which conducts testing for manufacturers, found that the iPhone 5's display was "state-of-the-art accurate," and only fell short to the new iPad in terms of accuracy and contrast.

DisplayMate president Raymond Soneira blasted the study, arguing that the color gamut test IHS conducted was based off of an old standard that has led to incorrect conclusions.

Jakhanwah declined to comment on the new standard or Soneira's comments.

So lols and all the superior quality of Apple's display is mentioned in almost every professional review but whatever, I'm clearly on Apple's payroll here.

"<re: apps/ecosystem> Are you kidding me?"

No. Almost every professional review says the same thing but whatever, I'm clearly on Apple's payroll here.

"Let me know when there are functional Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Voice apps for the iPhone"

Besides the fact that asking for first party titles on another platform is total bullshit there actually are substitutes for all of those and have been for awhile. There's actually a Gmail app as well, I haven't used it because there's better.

"<maps>"

Zing. Maps for Android is indeed better. Google Maps has never routed anyone off into a comical place. One of those statements is laughingly false.

"I'd rather not have updates"

Well I can see why you're so happy with Samsung.

"Go back to Daring Fireball kid."

Go back and look at the post I was responding to. Do you really want to encourage the sort of empty derp OS cheerleader comments like that?

Despite being wrong about everything (as cited) above you probably thought you were right. You probably still think you are. But I'll leave you with someone else who thought the iphone 5 wasn't that great until he used it as his phone and learned something on Daring Fireball which is a good blog that I have many criticisms of:

I’ve made a huge mistake. I’ve had the iPhone 5 for about a week and a half, and I’m still annoyed about the dock connector thing. But it’s a small problem, and in retrospect I was wrong to allow myself to become overwhelmed by dock-based frustration.

That’s because, in all other ways, the iPhone 5 is the best phone ever to grace the earth. It beats every single rival on just about every metric you can think of, including speed, battery life, and especially beauty and workmanship.

...

I could have remained silent about my reversal. It’s been weeks since the iPhone 5 went on sale, so there’s no real point in my writing a review—dozens of critics, and more importantly millions of actual customers, have had a chance to use the device, so the opinion of one more tech writer isn’t really a big deal. But I decided to speak up after reading John Gruber’s review of the phone...

Farhad Manjoo:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/10/...