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Apple Highlighting iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c Reviews by Tech and Mainstream Press
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Point by point:
1. Big deal
2. Big deal
3. Big deal
4. We have no indication this product is a success. iPhone 5S despite limited availability is selling far better
5. I agree.
6. I don't think buying a fingerprint company is innovative, and 64 bit designs haven't been used in a smartphone but are certainly being considered by all involved. It might be innovative, but we'll see a year from now.
7. I think Apple is doomed in the long term to profitableness, but I don't think it'll be anything different than "just another company"-Apple isn't really cool anymore and seem really dependent on reviews for something that right now is not particularly different from last year; we'll see this thing tested out soon, but I don't think the innovations at this point really matter. Fingerprint scanner isn't commonly enough utilized and aside from that, for most users, it will be an indistinguishable experience.
So we'll see. This changes nothing.
I doubt that the 5S gets significantly better battery life than a 4S, and I doubt more heavily a 4.
I'm not sure that the camera will make a difference to most people. Same with slo-mo.
The lightning connector certainly isn't a big deal to most people.
And my 4S has great performance. Don't see why I'd need more.
LTE is the only big deal and only from a 4S. Bigger screen? Bigger deal. Still tough to text without typo.
Is it a better phone? Absolutely. Is it a good phone? Yes. Does it address Apple's problems with the mobile phone market? I don't think so, but we'll see. I see no reason Apple fragmented between the 3.5 and 4 models in screen size-I think they should've kept the aspect ratio the same (as with the ipad) and went 3.5/4.5-4.8 for fragmentation-but I'm not an expert. I'm just a guy who knows I have no use for a 5S, as I have a 5 already.
No one's saying that this is a BAD phone, although they might be saying things like "it sucks" because...it isn't a bad phone, but to a lot of people, it isn't what they want. And to millions, it is what they want.
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The Verge is one of my main reads, but I agree the caliber of writing and reviews seems to have gone down, and the comments are overflowing with anti Apple drivel.
The only site worth a damn, and this has been the case since the dawn of time, is anandtech.
This new iPhone 5S is getting old MAN...let's talk about iPhone 6 
Let's talk about:
- NFC
- 5" 1080P Super AMOLED / HD screen
- A8 Quad-core processor @ 2.1 Ghz
- Wi-Fi 801.11 AC
- Internal Storage 128 GB
- 2 Gb of RAM - Faster memory for the 64 Bit ISO 7
Let's talk about:
- NFC
- 5" 1080P Super AMOLED / HD screen
- A8 Quad-core processor @ 2.1 Ghz
- Wi-Fi 801.11 AC
- Internal Storage 128 GB
- 2 Gb of RAM - Faster memory for the 64 Bit ISO 7
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Certain applications benefit from the 64bit registers in the A7 as well as ARMv8, which is in fact a significant advantage over 32bit registers in ARMv7.
Perhaps you should read up on some of the apps that already take advantage of these registers? Gaming would certainly be an example of apps that might take advantage of the 64bit registers.
This new iPhone 5S is getting old MAN...let's talk about iPhone 6
Let's talk about:
- NFC
- 5" 1080P Super AMOLED / HD screen
- A8 Quad-core processor @ 2.1 Ghz
- Wi-Fi 801.11 AC
- Internal Storage 128 GB
- 2 Gb of RAM - Faster memory for the 64 Bit ISO 7
Good lord, I hope they don't go with a 5" screen. The 4" screen on the 5/5s/5c is already pushing it in my opinion.
Alternatively, if they do, I'm hoping they offer a "iPhone Nano" SKU for those of us that don't want to be carrying around giganto-phones.
Here's an article that I think tries to be objective:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...rison-iphone-5s-lumia-1020-galaxy-s4/2868951/
Well that's exactly it. To Android users, the day to day "real world experience" of their phone is more fulfilling to them. The increased functionality of Android works better for them (and then there are the people who like to tinker with their phones on top of it, i.e. rooting/flashing is not a chore but a hobby). Android is perfectly acceptable out of the box (I won't quite put it on par as iOS out of the box in my personal experience) but really excels when you customize it to a certain degree that benefits your needs in a phone.
I'm a UK user, now on the EE 4G network. Have upgraded from a 4S on Orange 3G. With the slightly bigger screen, A7, and LTE, everything is noticeably snappier.
There are some other nice surprises. This phone finds and holds on to network signals much better than the 4S in large Faraday cages (trains). The Bluetooth sync'ed immediately with my 7 year old Audi. Battery life has improved and its easier to switch resource hungry wifi / Bluetooth on and off under iOS7.
The Product Red leather bumper works well too. Just wondering about getting some GGS glass protection . . .
No, since I picked the date at random (and it's 2005).
You mean, besides the Hot News page?
My opinion is that you are making something out of nothing.
You may doubt it. But you're wrong. Check out the tech specs for each model.
Over-generalization and rationalization at its best!I have no idea what that has to do with what I said.
This new iPhone 5S is getting old MAN...let's talk about iPhone 6
Let's talk about:
- NFC
- 5" 1080P Super AMOLED / HD screen
- A8 Quad-core processor @ 2.1 Ghz
- Wi-Fi 801.11 AC
- Internal Storage 128 GB
- 2 Gb of RAM - Faster memory for the 64 Bit ISO 7
The Iphone 6 will not have the following:
NFC or a Quad core 2.1ghz processor.
NFC has not taken off in North America (where most iPhones are sold) and will likely be dead in 2 years and replaced by BLE.
If the A8 is quad-core, the indivduals cores will be slower to reduce heat and battery drain.
That's asinine.
Let's look at the demographic of people who would buy an iPhone in the week of launch:
Rabid fanboys
Scalpers selling the handsets to rabid fanboys
Anyone who would have otherwise bought an iPhone 5 in the last few months
Success for the devices isn't decided in this week, but over the life cycle of the product.
LTE was a big positive for me going from the 4S to the 5. The added screen size didn't make too much difference but LTE was a BIG reason to upgrade for me.
Not sure where you got that from as the Verge wasn't highlighted on Apple's we site.
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The Verge has found their niche - sucking Google's you know what.
The 5s had to share an assembly line with the 5, and there were numerous new components that could introduce delays. No one would have wanted to produce more iPhones than Apple. Given the number of leaks we saw, they were already producing them months prior to introduction. Making more phones isn't a simple matter.
Objectively via specs or objectively by comparing camera output? You can have all of the mega pixels in the world but that means nothing if the output looks more like a typical "smartphone" photo than DSLR quality.
A higher pixel density sensor with more megapixels packed in can actually produce a much worse picture quality in certain conditions than one with lower density but a higher quality sensor, optics and colour processing.
@Zerilos:I also don't foresee a quadcore A8 processor as most tasks such as web browsing and games utilize just one core and the A7 handily beats the quad-core processors used in Android phones on single core task benchmarks.
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People with Galaxy SIII's probably don't have much urge to run out an buy a Galaxy SIV either. Yearly upgrades simply aren't things most people do. That's not a problem. Right now, Apple's only "problem" in the mobile phone market is making enough phones to meet demand.
Will a larger screen iPhone drive sales? Sure. I bet it will bring in record sales, just like every previous generation did. I think offering more screen sizes is a necessary step to take at some point to reach more of the market, but I wouldn't say the 4" iPhone is problematic right now, given its sales. There are a number of companies that would love to have Apple's "problems". This apparently includes Samsung, who had employees asking customers why they line up for iPhones.
You must be confused. I upgraded from a 4S, and the 5S is a LOT faster, with a LOT better camera and a larger screen and its a bit lighter too.
With the iOS7 update, the 4S is noticeably slower than the 5S and the speed of the 5S' camera is an amazing improvement. No waiting around between shots or for the app to load. What's more, the lower-light performance of the 5S' camera is considerably better than the 4S.
Maybe the move from a 5 to a 5S is not as big a step, but from the 4S it certainly is.
Oh, and then there is the fingerprint sensor. Almost forgot about that one.
Except for the fact that Apple has in the past posted reviews of the iPhone on the Safari Start page - going all the way back to the first iPhone.
I don't want eye candy features, I want innovative features, such as the ability to run multiple apps at once on the same screen, the swype keyboard, automatically remove moving objects from pictures, etc. that the competitors have done. But not just for Apple to catch up to these features, but to also come out with something truly new and amazing.
Or what about making the phone waterproof up to a depth of say 30 Ft. for 3 hours, crushproof with up to 15lbs of force, drop proof from heights up to 15', freezeproof, etc.
If they can do it with a touch screen digital camera, they can surely do it with a touchscreen phone. Yes, the touch screen might not be able to operate under water, but at least make it survive such an incident.