iPhone 5

YES. I have it.

I was not thrilled with the salesman I dealt with at the AT&T Store, who told me during his sales spiel that "you really should increase your data plan because LTE uses more data than 3G." Um.... WHAT? Either he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about or he was lying to me, either of which are a huge issue. Not happy with that at all.

The only scenario where the LTE itself would be to blame for increased data usage is for times when something would have taken too long to load over 3G and I would have aborted before the data transferred. On LTE, it might load in a jiffy and I wouldn't stop the process. Otherwise, data usage is data usage, whether via LTE or modem or horse-drawn carriage. Speed is irrelevant.

The backup & restore process from iPhone 4 to iPhone 5 was fairly breezy, other than my Google contacts stopped syncing, and when I re-synced, of course they lost their custom ringtones. OMG, it takes forever to reset them for every person.

See, I have set up my phone to have a special ringtone for callers not in my contacts list. Since Apple has yet to make this a simple setting (yesterday I added my suggestion to the bajillion others I'm sure they already have), the workaround is to make the "unknown caller" ring your default ring, and then set everyone in your contacts to another ringtone. It works, but when you initially set it up, it takes for-freaking-ever to change each contact's ringtone individually. As I add contacts, I just make sure they have their own ringtone, which is no biggie.

The screen resolution is noticeably better. I didn't even really remember that it was a higher resolution display and noticed it right away. The camera is the biggest reason I upgraded, and I haven't taken a single shot yet. Ha!

I like having more icons on a screen, so I don't have to page through as much. More contacts on a page. Etc. Very nice.

OH. And guess what?! That incessant "muting" of my phone calls that I (and my pals) have been dealing with for two years now was due to a faulty proximity sensor in my iPhone 4! OMG. Had I figured that out, I would have exchanged it two years ago. My phone screen never turned off when I was talking on the phone. People said it was supposed to, and I thought I was just holding the phone in a weird way or something. *forehead smack* So now, I can very happily report that I will not be muting my phone ever again by accident in the middle of a conversation. My new one works splendidly.