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For the aboriginal time, Apple is ablution not one, but two new iPhone models, including the high-end iPhone 5S and the lower cost, added bright iPhone 5C. Aside from the accessible catechism of alternative in style, which adaptation is best for you? We analyze the features, specs, and added qualities of anniversary to advice you deicide.
iPhone 5S: Performance, Photography, and Convenience
As Apple's new flagship device, the iPhone 5S boasts the company's latest and greatest tech, including its new 64-bit A7 processor, authoritative it the accessible best for users who appeal the best processing power. Early reviews accept cited aberrant achievement in not alone CPU speeds, but graphics. Processor specialists AnandTech address the the iPhone 5S yielded abundant cartoon benchmarking assets over the Galaxy S4, HTC One, and the contempo Moto X in several tests. Of course, whether the A7 will action a apparent aberration in optimized apps charcoal to be seen.
But those that opt for the iPhone 5S will account from added than aloof the A7 processor. Apple has fabricated notable improvements to the camera, which could amplitude those that booty a lot of photos and video with their smartphone. While the absolute megapixel calculation charcoal banausic from the iPhone 5 — both it and the iPhone 5S accept 8-megapixel sensors — the new archetypal differentiates itself in two audible ways: pixel admeasurement and aperture. The benefit, in simplified terms, is that the iPhone 5S' camera will apparently booty in and abduction added light, for added active photos and added low-light performance. At atomic in theory. There's additionally Apple's new TrueTone LED flash, which adjusts the hue and accuracy of the congenital beam to anticipate absolute out or over-saturated colors.
The A7 and new camera sensors additionally action functionality that is absolute to the iPhone 5S, including 720p HD slow-motion video, admission photo capture, and bigger angel stabilization.
On its own, it may not be abundant to drive consumers to the iPhone 5S, but the new TouchID fingerprint sensor is absolutely a convenience-enhancing bonus. Never afresh will you accept to admission a 4-digit PIN to admission your buzz or admission your iTunes countersign back aggravating to download or acquirement an app.
As mentioned, the artful amount of the iPhone 5S as compared to the iPhone 5C will be a amount of preference, but there are added factors to accede as well, such as backbone and size. The iPhone 5S is thinner than the iPhone 5C (7.6mm vs. 8.97mm) and lighter, too —the iPhone 5C is over bisected an ounce added than the 5S. On paper, the aberration may assume negligible, but in-person, it's absolutely noticeable. The iPhone 5S' aluminum anatomy is additionally beneath affected to abrading and accumulating dirt, admitting its chamfered edges are decumbent to dings and dents.
iPhone 5C: Colorful, Amount Conscious, and (Potentially) Added Storage
It's accessible to address off the iPhone 5C as artlessly the cheaper, plastic-encased advantage with aftermost year's specs — and to a degree, that's accurate — but aftermost year's specs are still exceptional. If you aces up an iPhone 5C, you're accepting the iPhone 5's attractive Retina Display and 8MP camera with Apple's aberrant angel processing technology. In effect, the iPhone 5C will still booty some of the best photos of best smartphones on the bazaar and advance a adequately aerial akin of performance.
But iPhone 5C additionally adds a few small, but noteworthy accouterments improvements, including expanded LTE abutment and an bigger front-facing camera. The 5C's broadcast LTE bands add added arrangement affinity away in Europe and Asia. It acutely allowances those that abide in those regions, but it additionally agency greater believability and affinity for travelers. The front-facing camera now sports bigger behind beam over the iPhone 5, enabling it to abduction bigger low-light photos and videos, which could be advantageous for FaceTime calls. A contempo FCC filing additionally appear that the iPhone 5C appearance a hardly beyond array over the iPhone 5, activity from 1440mAh to 1507mAh.
The iPhone 5C may not be the bargain archetypal abounding pre-announcement rumors it appropriate it would be, but it's still a analogously bargain iPhone. For anyone on a budget, it comes in $100 beneath than the iPhone 5S with a 2-year contract. Those beneath anxious with amount and added absorbed in added storage, the $199 32GB iPhone 5C offers bifold the accumulator of the $199 16GB iPhone 5S. If you're accommodating to abandon cutting-edge specs, the beyond accommodation will be abnormally advantageous for autumn added games, apps, and media.
The iPhone 5C's artificial carapace additionally apparently offers added shock assimilation than the iPhone 5S' aluminum casing, admitting is added acceptable to scratch, scuff, and aggregate dust as a aftereffect of the high-gloss finish.
Still can't decide? Analysis out our spec-for-spec allegory amid all of the new models, as able-bodied as some of the competition. For alike added extracurricular reading, be abiding to analysis out our all-embracing analysis of iOS 7 and our iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C Buyer's Guide.
Scott Lowe is IGN's citizen tech able and first-person ballista fanatic. You can chase him on Twitter at @ScottLowe and on MyIGN at Scott-IGN.
