The New iPhone 5S: 10 Reasons Why You Should Consider Buying it (or Not)
The iPhone 5S is dazzling, but do you really need an upgrade? Let's find out.
By Sadho Ram — 11 Sep 2013, 02:31 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
This is the new iPhone 5S. Should you buy it? Scroll down the Segments to find out
1. The iPhone 5S is “the most forward-thinking phone anyone has ever made”
By the admission of Apple senior vice president of worldwide marketing, the iPhone 5S is “the most forward-thinking phone anyone has ever made”
Image via gizmag.comPhysically, the 5s is made of high-grade aluminum with chamfered edges. It comes in three colors, including silver, the oft-rumored gold, and what Apple refers to as “space gray.”
gigaom.com2. The iPhone 5S is available in 3 new colours: Silver, Space grey and a bling-tastic gold model
The iPhone 5S is available in 3 new colours. Specifically silver, 'space grey' and a bling-tastic gold model
Image via heavy.comThe iPhone 5S will be available in three colours - Sliver, Slate, and Gold. The iPhone 5S will cost 16GB for $199, 32GB for $299 and 64GB for $399 with a standard two-year contract.
in.com3. The iPhone 5S has a fingerprint reader built into the home button, it's called 'Touch ID'
The iPhone 5S has a fingerprint reader built into the home button, it's called Touch ID.
Image via msn.comThe designers made it work by sandwiching an ultra-thin sensor underneath the surface of the home button, which is now made of super-hard sapphire glass and lacks the familiar square home icon. Instead, a metal ring surrounds the button — more in keeping with iOS 7's rounded design.
nbcnews.com4. The iPhone 5S has a brand new chip called the A7, which makes it 2 times as fast as the iPhone 5
The new iPhone gets a speed boost, courtesy of Apple's new A7 system-on-a-chip. It's still dual core, but is now 64-bit, the first of its kind in a smartphone. iOS 7 has also been updated to run both 32-bit and 64-bit apps.
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5. The iPhone 5S launches with iOS 7 and this includes a radical new version of the software that many of you are familiar with
The iPhone 5S launches with iOS 7 and this includes a radical new version of the software that many of you are familiar with.
Image via appleinsider.comThe iOS7 will see a much improved version of Siri - it can now draw on information from Twitter, Wikipedia and image searches. Apple said: "With iOS7, you can pull down from anywhere and type what you’re looking for and find it, just like that”
mirror.co.uk6. The iPhone 5S has a chip called the M7. It's a motion processor, which continuously measures motion data
The iPhone 5S has a chip called the M7. It's a motion processor, which continuously measures motion data
Image via blogcdn.comThe M7's job is to handle data from the iPhone's sensors—the accelerometer, gyroscope and compass—without firing up the A7. For the sporty set, this means the M7 chip turns your iPhone into fitness tracker that can serve up data about your movements that you can access instantaneously.
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7. The iPhone 5S features a faster, better 8-megapixel camera
The iPhone 5S has larger pixels instead of cramming more small pixels onto a larger sensor. The 1.5µm pixels are larger than previous phones, which allows the iPhone to take in more light. That means better low-light images, and faster exposures in good light so you can capture movement better. It also has an f/2.2 aperture to assist with gathering all that light.
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8. The battery life of the iPhone 5S is “even better than that of the iPhone 5"
The battery life of the iPhone 5S is “even better than that of the iPhone 5"
Image via cultofmac.comWhile Apple hasn't confirmed how big the iPhone 5S battery is, they have announced some stats for it. It can manage up to 250 hours of standby time, 10 hours of talk time on 3G, 10 hours of internet, 10 hours of video or 40 hours of audio. Almost all of that is up from what the iPhone 5 could manage.
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9. Apple will also offer its premium iWork and iLife apps free to customers who buy the new iPhone 5S
Apple will also offer its premium iWork and iLife apps free to customers who buy the new iPhone 5S.
Image via digitaltrends.comThe iWork suite includes Pages and Numbers, iMovie, Keynote and iPhoto. This set of applications covers most of the basic functions today's users often need on a computer. While the average $5 - $10 price tag per application is cheap in comparison to Microsoft's Office suite, for example, Apple is willing to scrap the cost.
zdnet.com10. Lastly and most importantly, with the launch of iPhone 5S, Apple is discontinuing the iPhone 5
Say goodbye to the iPhone 5, with last year's flagship smartphone from Apple set to be discontinued in the wake of the newly-unveiled iPhone 5S. However, the iPhone 4S lives on! For those looking to get in on the Apple-action super cheap, the 8GB iPhone 4S will now become the free option on contracts.
For more on the new iPhone5S and iPhone5C, check out this complete story:
Apple hari ini memperkenalkan iPhone 5s dengan cip terbaru A7 64-bit, kamera 8 megapiksel serba baru dengan teknologi 'True Tone flash' dan pengesan cap jari 'Touch ID' yang inovatif untuk unlock iPhone anda dengan hanya meletakkan jari.
ohgeekz.comApple Perkenal iPhone 5C dan iPhone 5S
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