Introduction:
The Best phone in the market, especially if you are looking for something that's "Future proof". The iPhone 5s is the most well fitted iPhone thanks to its new A7 chip and the Apple eco system.
Apple has dominated the smartphone market for a very long time, and the new iPhone 5s is the company’s mid cycle upgrade between the iPhone 5 and the next possible iPhone 6. Many questions arose during the launch of the product, including the most common one from existing iPhone 5 users ; Is it worth the upgrade? Lets find out!
Design:
Apple has tied in some of the best features into the whole iOS and Mac ecosystem, features like iCloud make setup and sync seamless and easy, apps, music, contacts and even settings stay synced with the cloud over various devices. With new features like airdrop sharing and multi user photo streams, people will be able to connect more easily with others on the ecosystem.
The Best phone in the market, especially if you are looking for something that's "Future proof". The iPhone 5s is the most well fitted iPhone thanks to its new A7 chip and the Apple eco system.
Apple has dominated the smartphone market for a very long time, and the new iPhone 5s is the company’s mid cycle upgrade between the iPhone 5 and the next possible iPhone 6. Many questions arose during the launch of the product, including the most common one from existing iPhone 5 users ; Is it worth the upgrade? Lets find out!
Design:
The iPhone 5 was a somewhat subtle but completely thorough redesign of the iPhone, from screen size to headphone placement. It introduced an aluminum frame, a thinner and lighter build, and came in two colors.
The 5S is a carbon copy, with some new color variations. You can get last year's white/silver color, or "space gray," which matches black glass and a darker gray anodized aluminum. And, yes, there's gold. But it's not like a prop from Liberace's home: it's mellow gold, more a champagne, or a light bronze. Paired with white glass on the back and front, you might have a hard time noticing the gold in the wild unless it was held in the sun. Of the three colors, I liked gray the best: the metal tones might do a better job hiding scratches, too, a problem I saw pop up on last year's all-black iPhone 5.
A year later, the iPhone 5's design still feels sleek and high-end in the 5S, great in the hand, and more compact than most competitor phones. But, it also has a smaller screen (4 inches) than most of its Android cousins. I love using a more compact phone, but competitors have found a way to make larger-screened 4.7-inch phones with excellent feel, like the Moto X, which has nearly edge-to-edge screen across its face. The iPhone 5S has a lot more bezel framing the display, and I couldn't help wondering if that screen couldn't be just a bit bigger.
A larger screen would have really helped this year: not because the competition has it, but because Apple's newest features and apps would put it to good use. I found editing and appreciating the improved photos and video recording, and even playing games, to be challenging; the better that graphics and camera quality get, the more you need a larger screen to appreciate them.
Hardware:
The iPhone 5s is the first smartphone in the world to feature a 64 bit chipset and the first smartphone in the world to have a capacitive fingerprint sensor. That being said you have other things that make the iPhone 5s a lot better than previous years model.
While everyone else was simple running around trying to fit in more cores into their architecture Apple simply made a 64 bit A7 chipset. There are many advantages of a 64 bit architecture, which come into play with a 64 bit compatible OS, and iOS 7 was designed to be such. The new A7 chip is the fastest on market despite the fact that it runs on dual cores.
The rest of the hardware seems mediocre on paper, including a 4 inch display with a retina 640 x 1136 pixel resolution. The 8 MP camera has a lot of fancy tricks up its sleeve, including better low light capture, improved lens system and a 120 fps Video capture at 720p that really works well.
Display and Multimedia:
No real reforms here, the display is still one of the best in the market. Nope, its not a full HD display but it is a “retina” display and it looks as gorgeous as ever. The screen could have become bigger, but a smaller phone isn’t essentially a bad thing. The iPhone 5s is perfectly portable, fits well in almost all sized hands and pockets, which is rarely said for the bigger bunch of smartphone market. The display has exceptional viewing angles and great outdoor visibility. It also manages to reproduce color accurately with almost zero banding.
The media experience is top notch, and despite many claims by most of the other phone manufacturers, we have yet to find a phone that has better sound reproduction through the 3.5 mm headphone jack. Overall sound volumes and quality is best in class, and the iPhone 5s truly removes the need of a separate iPod / PMP. The inbuilt speaker also gets an Audio boost improving overall sound.
Touch ID:
"Touch ID" is Apple's fingerprint sensor, a secret sauce of clever scanning technology that amounts to a home button that's now both capacitive and clickable. The fact it does both can be a little disorienting at first, but the clicking is what the home button normally does, while gently touching the sensor activates the fingerprint scan
Touch ID's simple round button works on a simple press, versus a "swipe" gesture on a lot of previous fingerprint readers. The scanning technology, when it registers your fingerprint, encourages you to press from a variety of angles, so your fingerprint can be read even on its side or on an edge. It's fast: a simple click on the button and the phone unlocks, the scan happening invisibly. Most people won't even know it scanned them, but try another finger and you'll see that it worked.
A few previous smartphones have added fingerprint sensors before, like the Motorola Atrix, but those were more awkward bars that needed finger-swiping. The Touch ID-enabled home button feels invisible; it works with a tap, can recognize your finger from many angles, and feels like it has less of a fail rate than fingerprint sensors I've used on laptops. It's impressive tech. It worked on all my fingers, and even my toe (I was curious).
Its only limitation, really, is how little Apple has employed Touch ID into the iPhone experience at the moment. Scanning your finger takes the place of entering a passcode in most instances, or entering a password every time you purchase something from the App Store or iTunes. But, that's all Touch ID does for now: it doesn't remember your other passwords on various cloud services, or link to your credit card, or pay for movie tickets via Fandango.
In fact, you'd better remember whatever passcode you used to lock your phone, because Touch ID isn't a pure replacement. If you restart your iPhone, or turn it off and on, or don't use it for 48 hours, it'll ask for your passcode again before allowing fingerprint recognition. That's potentially useful as an extra deterrent for would-be fingerprint thieves, but it proved a little quirky over a week of use. I never knew when the 5S might insist I enter my passcode again.
Worried about a kid pressing his finger down over and over and erasing your phone's memory? Never fear. Touch ID cleverly defaults to asking for a passcode after three fingerprint attempts, and after five bad tries, it requires it. Then you still have 10 passcode attempts before any "erase contents after 10 passcode failures" setting you've possibly enabled kicks in.
How much time does it save? A little, especially since this process skips the "swipe to unlock" gesture. You'll also save a few seconds over entering a passcode. But, in terms of convenience, I really only appreciated it during the day, in those little moments when I quickly needed to hop on my phone.
I have a bigger dream for Touch ID, of its fingerprint scan acting as a password replacement for third-party apps or even a way to make payments, or check in to flights. It could be a mobile wallet killer app, and a companion to Apple's somewhat dormant PassBook app that launched with iOS 6. But those extra features won't be coming anytime soon. Apple currently intends Touch ID and your fingerprint -- which gets encrypted as mathematical data, according to Apple, not an image -- to stay on the A7 chip of the iPhone 5S, out of reach of third-party apps or cloud services. That could be good for added security, but it means Touch ID isn't a magic remember-every-password savior or credit card replacement yet.
Camera:
Touch ID may be getting all the headlines lately, but the iPhone 5S' improved camera is probably its biggest selling point. Cameras are no longer afterthoughts on smartphones: they're becoming the most important feature, for many, as they slowly but surely replace point-and-shoot cameras.
If you're getting a new iPhone for its camera, get the 5S. A suite of new and useful upgrades help make the already-good iPhone 5 camera into something even better...but, in a landscape riddled with increasingly impressive phone cameras, the iPhone stands out a little less than before.
Unlike many megapixel-packing smartphones (41-megapixel Lumia 1020, I'm looking at you), the iPhone 5S camera stays at 8 megapixels, the same on paper as last year and even the year before. The sensor, as Apple will proclaim, however, is 15 percent larger: the pixels are physically bigger (1.5 microns), even if there are the same number of them. The camera's aperture is larger (f/2.2). All of these elements add up to better low-light exposure.
Newer A7-driven processing also enables true burst-mode shooting: hold down the shutter button and you'll snag as many shots as you desire. The iPhone 5 could take multiple shots with quick taps, but the iPhone 5S can capture rapid-motion activities like sports events (or, in my household, random baby tricks). Instead of spamming your Camera Roll with identical-looking images, the new iOS 7 camera app cleverly bundles them in a subfolder, and even autopicks what it considers the best shots. This decision is based on image crispness and other factors; sometimes it's on the money, but I also saw it pick a blurry image of my 7-month-old over a sullen but crisp side profile. You can pick your own favorites easily, and delete the rest at the touch of a button.
I took a bunch of shots in a ton of conditions, from indoor photos in a zoo's reptile house to still-lifes of flowers and colorful kitchen accessories. Close-up photos show off pretty incredible detail and a shallower depth-of-field effect, which feels more "SLR-like." See this rug picture, for instance.
Apple credits this to a new image signal processor (ISP) on the iPhone 5S' A7 processor. It does result in quicker autofocus, faster snapshots, and less blur all around. Considering how shaky the average person's hand is when taking casual phone shots, it's a necessary improvement.
Apple has made a big change to the built-in LED flash, too, doubling its size and creating an intelligent "True Tone" flash that senses the photo environment and serves up the appropriate flash tone from separate white and amber LEDs.
It's a splashy endeavor, but the results do look significantly better, and warmer, than the iPhone 5's flash pics. I avoid flash on my smartphone whenever humanly possible, but this year's improvements may have changed my opinion.
The 1080p video recording also gains a little more digital stabilization, 3x digital zoom thanks to iOS 7, and there's a new Slo-Mo recording mode, which is separately toggled in the camera app. The iPhone records 720p video at 120 frames per second, and applies the slow-motion effect afterward, playing at 30 frames per second.
IOS 7 and iCLOUD:
Apple has tied in some of the best features into the whole iOS and Mac ecosystem, features like iCloud make setup and sync seamless and easy, apps, music, contacts and even settings stay synced with the cloud over various devices. With new features like airdrop sharing and multi user photo streams, people will be able to connect more easily with others on the ecosystem.
The good: The iPhone 5S delivers an improved camera, a nifty fingerprint sensor, and a next-gen CPU and motion-tracking chip. Apple throws in the iWork app suite for free. iOS 7 adds some nice step-ups, too, including AirDrop file transfers and the Android-like Control Center.
The bad: External design is identical to that of the iPhone 5, including a 4-inch screen that looks downright tiny next to Android competitors. For now, the fingerprint sensor only works with Apple apps. The 64-bit A7 processor and M7 motion-tracking chip don't have killer apps yet. iOS 7 differences are potentially jarring for longtime iPhone users.
The bottom line: The iPhone 5S is not a required upgrade, but it's easily the fastest and most advanced Apple smartphone to date.
Apple iPhone 5 detailed specifications:
| General | |
| Release date | November 2012 |
| Form factor | Touchscreen |
| Dimensions (mm) | 123.80 x 58.60 x 7.60 |
| Weight (g) | 112.00 |
| Battery capacity (mAh) | 1440 |
| Removable battery | No |
| Colours | White, Black |
| SAR value | NA |
| Display | |
| Screen size (inches) | 4.00 |
| Touchscreen | Yes |
| Touchscreen type | Capacitive |
| Resolution | 640x1136 pixels |
| Pixels per inch (PPI) | 326 |
| Hardware | |
| Processor | 1.3GHz dual-core |
| Processor make | Apple A6 |
| RAM | 1GB |
| Internal storage | 16GB |
| Camera | |
| Rear camera | 8-megapixel |
| Flash | Yes |
| Front camera | 1.2-megapixel |
| Software | |
| Operating System | iOS 6.1.4 |
| Java support | No |
| Browser | HTML |
| Browser supports Flash | No |
| Connectivity | |
| Wi-Fi | Yes |
| Wi-Fi standards supported | NA |
| GPS | Yes |
| Bluetooth | Yes, v 4.00 |
| NFC | No |
| Infrared | No |
| DLNA | No |
| Wi-Fi Direct | No |
| MHL Out | No |
| HDMI | No |
| Headphones | 3.5mm |
| FM | No |
| USB | No |
| Charging via Micro-USB | No |
| Proprietary charging connector | Yes |
| Proprietary data connector | Yes |
| Number of SIMs | 1 |
| SIM Type | Nano-SIM |
| GSM/ CDMA | GSM |
| 2G frequencies supported | GSM 850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900 |
| 3G | Yes |
| 3G frequencies supported | 850, 900, 1700, 1900, 2100 |
| Sensors | |
| Compass/ Magnetometer | Yes |
| Proximity sensor | Yes |
| Accelerometer | Yes |
| Ambient light sensor | Yes |
| Gyroscope | Yes |
| Barometer | No |
| Temperature sensor | No |
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