Sep 15, 2012

Vietnam - iPhone 5 disappoints Vietnamese, but will still sell well

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VietNamNet Bridge – iPhone 5, the most expected technological product in 2012, has not raised the special amenities among Vietnamese people as previously expected. However, iPhone 5, like other iPhone series, is still a high-end product with the Apple brand; therefore, they would still be selling well in the market, analysts said.

iPhone 5 officially hit the world market on September 13 morning, Hanoi time. Just some hours later, the first comments about the super-product appeared on some forums. iPhone 5 has a 4-inch, lager screen than its “elder brothers”, the weight of 112 grams and the thickness of 7 mm only.

Especially, iPhone 5 uses the stronger A6 SoC microprocessor and supports LTE connectivity as well. Its 8 megapixel camera with considerable improvement can provide better shoots, while some software features have also been upgraded.

Nevertheless, Vietnamese hi-tech product players have expressed their disappointment about the most awaiting technological product of the year, saying that iPhone 5 does not have big impression on them, and that iPhone 5 just has some outstanding features.

Tran Manh Hiep, the administrator of Tinh Te forum, said he feels some disappointment because iPhone 5’s design is similar to the image leaked before.

He also said that iPhone 5 has been advertised as integrating many new features, but he most appreciates the HD Voice feature.

Though HD Voice has been tested for the last several years, this is for the first time the better audio technology is integrated into a merchandise mobile phone.

“We once witnessed the strong development of the quality of the screen, camera, and now it’s the time we can hear each other better,” he said.

However, Hiep, while saying that iPhone 5 actually is not as wonderful as he thought, still believes that the product would still catch the special attention from the public.

Tran Quoc Huy, a reporter of VnExpress online newspaper, also thinks that iPhone 5 does not have any preeminent hardware characteristics if compared with other products.

“iPhone 5 can catch up with its rivals in terms of hardware. However, it still cannot pass the others,” he commented.

However, Hiep said with the good platform and good hardware connection, iPhone 5 would still be a redoubtable weapon Apple can use to struggle with Android and the rise of Windows Phone. Especially, Apple still has a stable force of users.

Tran Duc Trung, an editor of the Nghe Nhin (Audiovisual) journal, also said that the way Apple chose to introduce its new product was not really impressive. Meanwhile, customers cannot see any considerable differences in the design between the images of the products exposed to the public some months ago, and the real products.

This, according to Trung, would ease the eagerness of people for iPhone 5. However, Trung believes that iPhone 5 would still be selling well; though it would not cause a heat wave like iPhone 4 did in the past.

Mai Trieu Nguyen, Director of the Mai Nguyen Supermarket chain, also said that iPhone 5 does not have much improvement in comparison with the previous generations of the product.

However, Nguyen stressed that iPhone 5 would still be a product of Apple, the brand that ensures the good sales for any high technology products, especially when people have heard nothing new about Android series.

Affirming that iPhone 5 cannot “make a breakthrough” in the market, information technology experts feel worried for Apple. They have also pointed out that the fact that iPhone 5 uses Nano SIM would be a big challenge, since this kind of SIM is yet to be popular.

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