Is the iPhone 5 The Best Smart Phone?

Apple launched the latest version of iPhone, iPhone 5, which is thinner at the event in San Francisco, but Android users perceive the company was just trying to catch up.

Apple said the iPhone 5 to use the four-generation 4G technology, 18% thinner and 20% lighter than the iPhone 4S.

The smart phone version has a sharper camera with Siri voice recognition application as well as the latest navigation systems.

But the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones says Android system users, particularly those who use Samsung Galaxy S3 production, assuming Apple just trying to catch up because the camera features as it has long been their use.

However, Rory Cellan-Jones says Apple's smart phone will continue to attract the attention of consumers as a new form of thinner.

With a size of 10.2 cm, smaller than the iPhone 5 production Samsung smart phone, Nokia, Motorola, LG, HTC, and Sony.

Apple's latest smart phone camera has eight megapixels, the same as the iPhone 4S, and lower than the latest smart phone specs LG or Sony.

But Phil Schiller - Apple's vice president of marketing the product launches this Wednesday (12/09) - says the iPhone 5 will create a clearer picture even with limited light.

The smart phone iPhone 5 will be sold with a memory of 16 GB, 32GB, and 64GB, and the cheapest model will sell for around 948 Singapore dollars (U.S. $ 7.4 million) in Singapore.

Sales of Samsung's larger

This new device can not be used as a cordless charging Lumia 920 Nokia production.

The launch of the latest version of the iPhone is critical to Apple's advantage.

Revenue from the company's recent iPhone and other devices related to about 52% of the U.S. $ 120 billion in total sales during the nine months to July. Approximately 98 million phones sold in the period.

Late last week, Apple's record $ 637.85 billion U.S. dollars based on stock prices. But competition is also increasing.

Apple's margins rise but sales Samsung smart phone devices is rising faster.

According to data from market research firm IDC, the South Korean company is worth 43.6% for the smart phone market in Western Europe between April and June, while Apple is only 19%.

Samsung also offers more models and the Galaxy S3 has a newer device than the iPhone has to offer.

An industry observer said telwpon clever competition will intensify in the coming months.

"Samsung is very efficient in promoting their products by offering larger commissions to sellers," said Francisco Jeronimo, IDC researcher told the BBC.

"The momentum they have with customers is very high and the public see their products as an innovative brand ... Samsung also will increase its profits by reducing prices before Christmas," he added.