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I want to buy an iPhone 5s and I want to hear some opinions about it.
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Calling it perfectly smooth is probably a stretch and a fanboyism.
However, I have a 5S on the latest update, and there are no major concerns. There are weird buggy things especially when switching from landscape to portrait. Sometimes the keyboard looks odd, sometimes it activates the microphone button without pushing anything, etc. Minor stuff. Nothing that would prevent me from buying a phone.
Overall, I did feel as if 7 was a bit smoother. I will most likely not be upgrading this to 9 next year.
Oh and BTW, battery has been pretty bad lately. I've texted for maybe 20 minutes today and it's below 50%
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That's been my experience and there is no need to call it into question like that.
Obviously, YMMV.
No it's perfectly smooth whether you want to believe its famboyism or not.
The biggest issue is I have to shake the phone when it comes out of sleep to turn the screen back to portrait. In addition battery life is on par with 7.1.2.
I concur. The 5S is entirely satisfactory on iOS 8.1.1.
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I'm not a "fanboy" and find it perfectly smooth.
No issues with battery life in 8 for me, either.
I've had my 5s for about a year now. Whilst the battery has seen better days, the actual phone itself runs very well so saying that it's "fanboyism" is completely false. It's a personal opinion and experience.
My daughter loves her 5 and is the type to scrutinize products too. So, yeah, go for it. Very nice phone.
I'll summarize my experience of iphone 5S ON iOS 8.1.1
Pros:
- a tad buggy but the phone is still really fast, and people exaggerate over how buggy it is
- quick phone
- Very Light and compact, one hand use is great
- Touch ID has a 98% success rate
- good built in speaker / loudspeaker
Cons:
- battery life SUCKS (for me anyways) it spends about half the time plugged in (but I do live in a crappy signal area so that doesn't help)
- ios 8 is buggy on it
- camera takes a while to take pictures with flash because it has to calibrate the 'truetone flash'
That's mosrly the negatives I have with the phone. Otherwise it works pretty great for me.
Pros:
- a tad buggy but the phone is still really fast, and people exaggerate over how buggy it is
- quick phone
- Very Light and compact, one hand use is great
- Touch ID has a 98% success rate
- good built in speaker / loudspeaker
Cons:
- battery life SUCKS (for me anyways) it spends about half the time plugged in (but I do live in a crappy signal area so that doesn't help)
- ios 8 is buggy on it
- camera takes a while to take pictures with flash because it has to calibrate the 'truetone flash'
That's mosrly the negatives I have with the phone. Otherwise it works pretty great for me.
I have absolutely no issues at all with my 5S on iOS 8.
I don't have any issues with the battery or lag or anything at all. It runs pretty smooth..
So I guess I am a fanboy, and would highly recommend you to go for the 5S..
Good luck...
I don't have any issues with the battery or lag or anything at all. It runs pretty smooth..
So I guess I am a fanboy, and would highly recommend you to go for the 5S..
Good luck...
It works great for mine, my beef lately has been that my camera seems to be behaving poorly....like I can't get a killer, sharp shot in anything except 2,142,532,525,252 sunlight. It seems to treat indoor light like low light in a lot of ways and I feel like it didn't used to do this. Outside of this, yes, love my 5S.
Why?
Wife's 5S (64GB AT&T) is on 8.1.1
Runs okay but there are some bugs - you can see most in this forum. Her biggest complaint is the occasional issue with iMessage freezing (fine with iMessage off) and that indoor pictures are not as good as they were under 7 (compression algorithm issue).
Other than that, it is fine.
Personally, if you are doing the 5S, I'd shoot for the 6.
Great, Great, & Great ....
Touch ID is a good reason to get a 5S.
However i can't say the same for iOS 8... May want to think about a iOS 8 first before u go for a 5s.. unless u can fine one that is still running 7.1.2.
"Its it ain't broke, why fix it" not just because Apple tells u too.
I never need to hand off or any iOS 8 type features, i just upgraded because of third party extensions in Safari, part apart from that, for me, i have all this extra stuff i don't even use..
No one installs apps they never ever use right ? so why should it be the same for OS's ?
Stay with 7.1.2 .... I wish i did..
Touch ID is a good reason to get a 5S.
However i can't say the same for iOS 8... May want to think about a iOS 8 first before u go for a 5s.. unless u can fine one that is still running 7.1.2.
"Its it ain't broke, why fix it" not just because Apple tells u too.
I never need to hand off or any iOS 8 type features, i just upgraded because of third party extensions in Safari, part apart from that, for me, i have all this extra stuff i don't even use..
No one installs apps they never ever use right ? so why should it be the same for OS's ?
Stay with 7.1.2 .... I wish i did..
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So, obviously, you're getting responses on both sides of the fence.
This could all be solved by apple allowing us to choose which ios we want to have for our devices. But they force you to keep your latest version, and that is a device killer (and a money maker for them, of course, because you have to run out and buy a more advanced model when your current one worked fine 5 minutes ago).
This could all be solved by apple allowing us to choose which ios we want to have for our devices. But they force you to keep your latest version, and that is a device killer (and a money maker for them, of course, because you have to run out and buy a more advanced model when your current one worked fine 5 minutes ago).
True, Apple doesn't force u to upgrade, but they may as well do, because your nagged to death by popups if you don't upgrade.. regardless of weather u'r plugging in or not.
I can't say the number of times running iOS 7.1.2 i good cheesed off with constantly dismissing "iOS 8.1.x is available ..." popup on home screen. In the end, I finally said "What the hell ... u win Apple"
I can't say the number of times running iOS 7.1.2 i good cheesed off with constantly dismissing "iOS 8.1.x is available ..." popup on home screen. In the end, I finally said "What the hell ... u win Apple"
OR if you really hate Apple's way, you could go and buy another phone... right? No point bleating and moaning on here, vote with your wallet and you may get a change...
Why do you think Microsoft has changed its way and trying to upgrade their software and add features to their OS? People were peeved off, with years of junk Microsoft used to ship, and with no viable choice available, we used to buy cheap plastic laptops running poor Microsoft softwares. Now there is a genuine choice available with OSX, and it has made Microsoft change its way... This good for competition and ultimately for consumers.
Same with iOS.. Prior to iPhone, the phones which hardly added any new features for consumers, were being churned out like crazy.. iOS and iPhone has changed that and I welcome it.
When you buy Apple products you know full well you are buying into their eco system as well. No point whining about it after....
At work I can moan all I like how the competitor gives better choices to their personnel... My company will only change their policy, if it benefits them & their customers, else I am free to find job elsewhere...
That's not true though. The only sign I have of an update is the one red notification on the settings icon. The key is to just delete the automatic download that iOS does if you usually update OTA. It has luckily never bothered me with any messages or notifications at all.
I went from a 4S to a 5S a year ago. The 5S is noticeably better, I didn't think I'd want the extra screen space but now I appreciate it. TouchID is amazing.
The iPhone 5S doesn't have any particular issues with iOS 8, iOS 8 is just not the best that it can be. The "instant hotspot" feature is a bit hit or miss with my 5S and my iPads, but the SMS text forwarding feature has been fantastic. Battery life is fine.
Let's put it this way: the 5S is going to perform far better than your 4S. Maybe this October the iPhone 6S will introduce something that makes the 5S appear outdated, but otherwise the chipset is still very fast and the interplay with other iOS devices is as strong as the iPhone 6. The only thing we're missing is Apple Pay.