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First iPhone 5s Reviews: Touch ID a 'Real Advance', Two-Tone Flash Produces 'Lovely Results'
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Everybody here seems to be referencing Anand's review... they tend to be benchmark centric, dispassionate, & chock full of helpful unbiased raw info, backed by numbers, NOT opinions. Not in the least bit "starry eyed", imo.
The iPhone 5s battery is bigger and provides the same or better life than the 5. Read the reviews and stop trolling.
Are people's memory so bad that they forgot about Siri? Every new iphone release has a new "innovative" feature that is buzzed about, used for a few months, then forgotten about. The iTouch is the new Siri. Sorry to rain on people's parade, but a little reality check once in a while is a good thing. A little of me actually died when I read reviews praising the 5s' spec bump (faster processor and better camera) as amazing when all new phones have spec bumps, and these same reviewers call spec bumps just more of the same for any other phone. In fact, they sometime go out of their way to state that the speed increase isn't noticeable in real life. But when it the iphone, it's the new slice bread. The iphone is a great phone, don't get me wrong. But lets not go crazy, and call it innovative when its not.
I can't imagine anyone doing anything very "intensive" while walking through a mall with a coffee in the other hand or rushing through the airport, in which case the activities are most likely such things that could be performed with one hand on an iPad, let alone a phone that is perhaps 0,5" larger than an iPhone 5.
In any case, I don't have small hands, but they aren't huge either. Glove size between 10 and 11. In "one handed mode" I can reach my thumb out maybe 1,5-2" above the screen and about as much out over the left side of the screen so this 4" screen is definitely not some magical upper limit of human capability. And if I shift my grip, I can reach the corners on pretty much any 7-8" tablet while holding it in one hand.
Can I quote this is 5 years when most smart phones have fingerprint recognition?
Yes I know others have tried it before, but not like this. All reviewers have unanimously agreed that the Touch ID in the iPhone 5S is a fantastic feature that works great, and improves the overall experience.
The fact that its still Dual Core is a little bit disappointing but understandable, it also makes the 1GB RAM more forgivable. I guess we will see doubled cores and RAM in iPhone 6.
Hey Edward Baig, what happens when your home is raided or you're mugged and they want you to put your damn finger on the button? OH, right! They also get all your web passwords from your cloud! How dumb could you be!? I would never store my passwords in one basket or online for that matter.
That's cool, I'm not trying to dampen enthusiasm, more figure out why people are so excited for a spec bump on an already good device. It starts to look like people getting on a hype train and when you break down the actual improvements they don't seem particularly amazing. For some like yourself though I guess they are all features that you will benefit from greatly so fair enough!
Personally I'll wait for the 6 (since it ties in with my contract also), the fast processor looks great in stat tests but it will be a long time before apps begin to really benefit from that (graphic intensive games perhaps sooner but I don't use the phone as a hardcore games machine, more for Scrabble type games!). At the moment things don't lag so I wouldn't appreciate any increase on paper.
The camera will be a nice improvement for low light shots I'm sure.
It'll be interesting to see if the 6 changes form factor much, I don't think they'll need massive spec increases any time soon - memory capacity and screen size increase being the things I hear people wanting most. (with which I agree)
I see TouchID + NFC combo in the future of iPhones. And then those people who say TouchID is useless will all swallow their words.
Love seeing the posts from people who say they don't use a pin, or password, then follow up about security issues with a fingerprint scanner.
Are we supposed to take your opinion on Security (something you don't seem to care about) as fact?
Are we supposed to take your opinion on Security (something you don't seem to care about) as fact?
You're thinking about it all wrong.
Dual core, Quad core... doesn't matter.
According the Anandtech and other reviewers, the iPhone 5s is the fastest phone on the market.
That's what matters. Not the spec sheet.
Join me, then, and get the 5C. Honestly, I hate the look of iOS7 and the tall screen is a worthless update, but I'll jailbreak it the second it comes out and get used to the extra row of icons I don't really need.
Love those sweet colors and nice curved edges. I've been waiting for this since the 4 came out.
I think being the first to have 64bit is a winning factor. The fact it's 40x faster than the first iPhone is astounding. Technology has come a long way and Apple has been adopting it first, if not quickly. (eg. Wireless N, Wireless AC, TB, TB2, etc)
Except that it isn't yet on the market. I don't expect it to be fastest for very long, either. Not that I know why it should matter in the first place.
Seriously. I used to hate when PC people told me their build was faster than my Mac. Then when we start running applications, I'm chugging along while they struggle with blue screens, reboots, and non-intuitive software. I don't care how fast your computer is, if the OS and apps aren't written to support the technology and speed, and it's not intuitive, then you just wasted time and money.
Notice how when you go to Best Buy or back in the day, CompUSA.. they always sold you computers based on specs. At Apple, they sell you computers based on what tasks you are performing.
I was considering doing that, but the iPhone 5C is more expensive than I had expected it to be. Buying one without a contract (no option here) would be somewhat expensive... Here, righ now (which means, after the price being lowered due to the announcement of the new models), the iPhone 5 with 16GB is going for US $1.016,49. I doubt very much the 5C will be any cheaper than that here.
It's only a SPEC BUMP for people with a 5. For those of us with a 4 or 4s it's a whole new level of iPhone. And for those still with a 3Gs it's gonna blow their fragile little minds.
See, it's not that difficult to understand!
If you have a 5, you don't need to upgrade as you state.
Until someone's sensitive data is saved because the other person couldn't access the phone without the victims fingerprint. This is one of those features that falls in the background. And that's exactly how Apple designed it. To be something you set and forget but is always there for your protection/security.
While you may not use Siri, I use it all the damn time. Most of the time I'm using it, it gets what I need done much faster (eg. scheduling tasks and appointments for clients, opening apps burried in folders, etc). I probably save 5-10 minutes per day with Siri in my work week.
Lets hope this is not in Ipad 5 too ,I really hope to see 1G Ram in new mini retina as well an A6x and 2Gig in the Ipad5.
