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Apple will no longer support the iPhone 5 with repairs, as it is now considered “vintage”. There are now few options for the people who prefer smartphones with displays under 5 inches, Apple added the iPhone 5, which came out in 2013, to its list of "vintage and obsolete products" for the US.
This means that Apple will no longer repair the hardware for the iPhone 5. iPhone 5 owners with broken devices, whether it's accidental or simply from old age, will have to buy a newer model (I suppose they could even get a second-hand iPhone 5 in working condition, but I wouldn't recommend that route now that Apple won't repair the phone).

Apple describes vintage products as "those that have not been manufactured for more than 5 and less than 7 years ago." As for "obsolete," that's a classification for devices that were discontinued seven years ago. The iPhone 5 isn't quite obsolete yet.
Apple doesn't sell any of the iPhone 5's successors that have 4-inch displays, including the iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S, and the iPhone SE. If an iPhone 5 owner wants to upgrade to one of those phones, they'll likely need to buy it second-hand.

The iPhone 7, which Apple still sells, is going for a great value of $450 from Apple these days. Still, it's not the small phone that iPhone 5 owners are used to. In fact, Apple no longer offers any iPhones with displays under 4.7 inches.
Apple users who prefer smaller displays may even be forced to look at Android devices, but even those are hard to find with displays under 5 inches. It looks like the days of smaller smartphones are numbered.

This means that the company has stopped hardware support service for customers with the iPhone 5. It also states that service providers cannot order parts for the product. In other words, Apple will no longer be able to repair the device for you if you're still holding onto one.
First introduced in September 2012, the iPhone 5 is a device with a 4in retina display. It was the first Apple smartphone to support 4G LTE.

When it was released in Malaysia, a 16GB model cost RM2,199 while a 32GB model was going for RM2,499. A 64GB model was priced at RM2,799.
The iPhone 5 had a short production run. Just one year after it was introduced, Apple announced that it will stop producing the iPhone 5 with the release of the iPhone 5S and 5C.
The model is also not compatible with Apple's latest operating system the iOS 12 as it can only go up to iOS 10.3.3


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And some ladies then traded their dignity for this vintage, yet to be obsolete device.


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