The Electronic Generation of Tomorrow - Today

By: David Ding (age 12)

The Eye of the Apple, the IPhone 5

Apple has done it again with the IPhone 5. This phenomenon has brought change to all other IPhones. First, this IPhone has a 4 inch Retina display. It’s bigger but still fits just right in your hand. It also has the powerful A6 chip with performance speed up to twice as fast as the A5 chip. Not to mention the IOS 6, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system. It is 7.6 mm thick and weighs 112 grams making it 18% thinner and 20% lighter and 100% better than the IPhone 4S.

The camera is now an 8 mega pixel wonder with panorama mode and dynamic low light mode. Now Siri works even better; it can now place reservations at your favorite restaurants. Because of the smaller screen, Apple shrank all the chips inside, but it works just as well, if not even better. The A6 chip is 22% smaller than the A5 chip, the Nano-SIM card is 44% smaller than the Micro-SIM card. One catch frequent users of Apple may dislike about the IPhone 5 is the new charger, Apple got rid of the old 30 pin charger and replaced it with the 8pin reversible “lightning” charger. Apple says that there is an adapter priced around 29$ US to link lightning to the old 30 pin charger. The new IPhone has so much more, yet so much less.

 

The Windows Next Generation

 

Windows 8 is a major improvement over Windows 7, and much more efficient as well. One of the most important differences between 7 and 8 is that there is no start/home button on the taskbar in 8. It has been replaced by an empty space, and when clicking on it, it activates the metro tab. The metro tab is basically what used to be the home menu. Windows 8 also has a much better startup, shutdown and awaking from sleep speed than Windows 7. Windows 8 is the Superman of the universe of technology.