bestlaptopbattery.co.uk: iPhone 5 specs outshine iPad 2 for fence sitters

The iPhone 5 is set to bring imbalance to the force as its hardware specs appear set to outshine those of the iPad 2, as Apple’s two new high profile releases of 2011 gear up for an in-house spitting match as far as which one scores the highest in the upgrade department. At present, the existing iPhone 4 and first gen iPad find themselves fairly well matched. They both sport an A4 processor, and while the current iPhone has the superior screen quality, the current iPad offers a larger high-end storage capacity. But various bits of quasi-inside information are now floating around which peg the iPhone 5 as having a next-gen A5 processor even as the iPad 2 remains on the slower A4 platform. This is on top of the fact that while the iPhone 5 screen will remain at least as high quality as that of the current iPhone, there are repeated claims that the iPad 2 screen won’t even reach the quality of the one already found in the iPhone 4, as well as the assertion that the iPad 2 camera will only have a fraction of the megapixels of its iPhone counterpart. Bummer for those who are looking to buy both, but perhaps an easier decision now for those sitting on the fence as to which of these two new products they plan to pick up.

So does this mean the iPhone 5 will succeed with flying colors and the iPad 2 will lay an egg? Hardly. Predicting a device’s success based on specs alone rarely goes anywhere. For instance the iPod touch 4 offers a 64 GB storage option while the iPhone 4 tops out at 32 GB, and yet the iPhone still vastly outsells the iPod touch. In fact in the early days of the iPod, competitors routinely attempted to compete by packing heavier specs into their devices, which never did get them anywhere.

And with the iPad 2 and iPhone 5 coming from different product categories, they’re not competing directly with each other anyway. But there will undoubtedly be some users who already have an iPhone and an iPad, and know they only have the budget to upgrade to the new generation on one of those fronts in 2011, and will be looking for signs as to which new Apple product they should exchange their dollars for. For many consumers in such a position, it’ll come down to whether they happen to have more use for a newer better phone or a newer better tablet. For for others on the fence, the apparent lack of gee-whiz hardware specs in the iPad 2 may open the door for the iPhone 5 to claim many of the fence sitters – assuming the iPhone 5 ends up offering major spec upgrades in its own right.

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