Well, it was fine on the whole, but I did notice something holding it back: you had to push the volume a good few notches higher just to get the same output level as the 4 or 4S. Doing this caused the iPhone 5's on-screen volume display to turn a stress-inducing red color, which is arguably not what you need when you're trying to chill out to some chill-out.

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If USB does become the dominate display technology the volume increase would make this interface technology hard to beat for some years to come.

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Common sense would dictate this kind of increased volume of sq inches purchased from their display supply chain should yield some substantial discounting on the per unit cost of the display for an iPhone and an iPad!

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The display performance was especially worrisome, with the total volume of ads sold falling 7% year over year and the price per ad dropping 2%.

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In Corning's wholly owned display business and Samsung Corning Precision, total glass volume is expected to be consistent to down low-single digit percentage sequentially, depending on the level of normal seasonal inventory correction expected from panel manufacturers.

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There is also a display, just you don't see it until you nudge the volume up, or change the audio source etc, as it's set behind the casing.

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Additional tweaks include a manual volume adjustment (as opposed to the automatic gain the cameras usually employ), a brightness or RGB histogram display (this function, like some of these other features, has been available for a while as a hack), shutter and aperture priority modes have been added for movie shooting, and the audio sampling ramp has been bumped from 44.1KHz to 48KHz.

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