iPhone 5S to Be Available in Gold with 128 GB Option?

[FelixAng]

Nokia had a champagne/gold/vanilla phone in '06---it was a swivel, if I remember.

Maybe Apple has teamed up with Coach???

I think a (RED) iPhone would be way cooler (for many reasons) than any other possible deviation from black and white options. In any case, most people use a case, and what seems to matter most is the phone's face/bezel color.

 

[dampfnudel]

No way. It'll be closer to (on contract):

5C 8GB $0
5C 16GB $99
5S 32GB $199
5S 64GB $299
5S 128GB $399

Now, that's more like it.

 

[Klae17]

So that probably means:

On contract
5C - 8GB $99
5C - 16GB $199
5C - 32GB $299

Then, if you want a fingerprint reader
5S - 32GB $399
5S - 64GB $499
5S - 128GB $599

More likely to be:

5C - 16 GB - $99
5S - 32 GB - $249
5S - 64 Gb - $349
5S - 128 GB - $449

 

[dampfnudel]

The color is fool's gold.

Exactly.

 

[darthraige]

I'm hoping by iPhone 6 they will axe the 16GB model and offer 32, 64, 128. Leave the 16's to the new "C" models.

 

[dampfnudel]

More likely to be:

5C - 16 GB - $99
5S - 32 GB - $249
5S - 64 Gb - $349
5S - 128 GB - $449

Maybe, definitely not more.

 

[superman23]

Gold? Really? Don't see it. No chance.

(Quote me next month when the gold iPhone 5S is announced.)

likely a color requested by the China market

 

[dampfnudel]

I'm hoping by iPhone 6 they will axe the 16GB model and offer 32, 64, 128. Leave the 16's to the new "C" models.

I think that's general consensus here.

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Nokia had a champagne/gold/vanilla phone in '06---it was a swivel, if I remember.

Maybe Apple has teamed up with Coach???

I think a (RED) iPhone would be way cooler (for many reasons) than any other possible deviation from black and white options. In any case, most people use a case, and what seems to matter most is the phone's face/bezel color.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a product (RED) iPhone yet. Maybe this year or next?

 

[acorntoy]

Dual-core or quad-core? That's what I want to know...

Who gives a ****? When the iPhone 5 came out it matched the quad core s3 even though it was only dual core.

It'll be twice as fast, most likely faster than android equivalents (for a few months at least) stop looking at specs and start looking at actual performance.

 

[darthraige]

More likely to be:

5C - 16 GB - $99
5S - 32 GB - $249
5S - 64 Gb - $349
5S - 128 GB - $449

This will do.

 

[donutbagel]

Hmmm... From what I've read, the transfer rate of a Class 10 SD card averages around 35mb/s, whereas the internal flash memory in the iPhone 5 could average 10 times that. NAND memory has much better random access performance as well, while SD cards perform best at contiguous reads and writes like playback of a movie, and are not nearly as nimble, so to speak.

There's more to the story of course, and I wish I had a pertinent link to post, but the bottom line is that it's not a pure money-grab, it's just that available SD cards don't perform nearly as well as internal flash memory.

Even the Android cell phone OS doesn't allow you to run apps from an SD card without hacking the system. Beyond that, I know from my own experience that SD cards feel dog-slow on my MBA compared to just about any other storage medium I typically use, I certainly wouldn't want to run my OS from it.

Alright, then scratch what I said about everything on SD
You could have the OS internal and media on SD, but that would just be clunky, so forget it all. No SD cards on iPhones. I now just wish that the internal storage options weren't so expensive to get higher-than-minimum storage.

 

[hspace]

More likely to be:

5C - 16 GB - $99
5S - 32 GB - $249
5S - 64 Gb - $349
5S - 128 GB - $449

Indeed. And that's the max - otherwise they are really inviting Android to take even more market share.

 

[theheadguy]

I hope this is true, but knowing Apple, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the 16 GB model stays...

I hope you don't know Apple that well, because 16GB would be pathetic.

 

[Mackan]

I hope the 128g doesn't carry an extreme premium price.

Apple has always overcharged a criminal amount for more storage. They will royally rip off people with this 128 GB option, that is for sure.

 

[viperGTS]

Why does it matter how many cores it has? There are so many better things to worry about than how many cores it has.

Four cores doesn't automatically make it better than two until there are worthwhile reasons for the OS to take advantage of the extra resources.

Just imagine, if apple actually used quad core and then did their optimization magic, the 5S would be a beast of a phone. Why not push forward?

Why do people even post this? A nice dual-core can easily destroy crappy quad, hexa, and octa-core CPUs.

Read above...

Perhaps neither. The iPhone 5S could be tri-core. The A6 in the iPhone 5 has a tri-core GPU, so it'd make some sense to have a tri/tri in the A7 for the iPhone 5S.

Makes sense. I hope they push on GPU performance though. Otherwise it'll stay the same as the 5.

Who gives a ****? When the iPhone 5 came out it matched the quad core s3 even though it was only dual core.

It'll be twice as fast, most likely faster than android equivalents (for a few months at least) stop looking at specs and start looking at actual performance.

Well obviously I do.

Again, read my first response. Apple can definitely pull it off and make the 5S a true performance beast.

 

[Iconsonly]

Either one will blow samesung's 'octa-core' out of the water.

Really only if ios continues to be stagnant and caters to extremely old software. Then I can watch a small group of people stroke each other and tell me how great 2014 walkie talkie apps are in a world of cross platform apps that intergrate with your os giving you the seamless cloud and hardware connection. To top that off you can use any file the way you want to.

 

[irDigital0l]

32GB for $199 please

 

[befrank4444]

I use to think that the iPhone needed more storage than 64gb...not anymore.
For music you can use iTunes Match.
Pictures and videos honestly should be uploaded off your phone regularly to you Mac anyways. I mean, why keep it on your phone...? Use photo stream for the important memories.
How many apps do you REALLY use...? Not 64gb worth I'm sure.

Great that they are up-ing the capacity, but honestly it's just a bit excessive.
Up the cloud storage space to 10gb instead.

 

[Mackan]

Just imagine, if apple actually used quad core and then did their optimization magic, the 5S would be a beast of a phone. Why not push forward?

Agree, but it doesn't fit Apple's style. They do careful incremental upgrades to milk money in a controlled way. They will stay dual core and 1 GB RAM as long as they can.

 

[Macist]

Big market for this stuff out there.

 

[MacMulti]

The parts have already been leaking, so it's pretty much a sure thing. But it's not GOLD gold rather the "champagne" color that is mentioned in the article. Very subdued, like a tint of gold on silver, not garish. I could see it being very, very popular.

Image

Girlish pink should be popular among ladies.

No gold colored please, unless plated.

 

[Jiz]

from BGR

Color not correct.
Underexposed.

 

[regkilla]

Really want the 128GB iPhone 5S!

 

[Jibbajabba]

Why do people even post this? A nice dual-core can easily destroy crappy quad, hexa, and octa-core CPUs.

Unless proper multitasking is 'invented' by Apple and apps become proper multi-threaded, none of it matters.

 

[iZac]

Not that I'm especially looking forward to a gold iphone, but it is rather interesting to think of anodising in sympathetic metalic colours - i.e. when you scratch it or dent it, it could give a good layering effect for the device when 'used'.