A month with the iPhone 5

Most of my biggest issues with Apple smartphones are legacy problems still present in the newest model.

Auto-correct shows some minor improvement in iOS 6 but remains a sad joke, there's no widget solution to present users with real-time data on home screens, time- and location-based actions are years behind the competition, notifications still aren't actionable, apps won't update automatically, and the iOS email client still stinks.

And yes, the infamous iPhone skull quake is still alive and kicking.

Apple clearly had other priorities when putting iOS 6 together, like ousting Google and launching its own awful mapping solution. I'm certain that Apple will add functionality to iOS in the future that addresses many of the issues I noted above. But the wait is becoming painful, especially since rival mobile operating systems had some of this functionality nearly a decade ago.

NEXT: The bottom line