It's hard to overstate just how successful, at least in the early days, the iPhone 5s has been. Allied to the iPhone 5c, which will also have shifted a few fair units, the first weekend has seen almost double the amount of sales as compared with the iPhone 5, and when you pit the numbers against the first weekend of Samsung's Galaxy S2, S3 and S4 combined, it's still not what you could call a contest.
Even before the iPhone 5s went on sale, we were hearing rumors about extremely limited supply. It even transpired that the country with the beautiful Gold Coast wouldn't have any stock whatsoever of the Gold iPhone 5s. The limited availability of the new gold tinted hardware has meant that prices on secondary sales site eBay have risen past the $1800 mark.
Let's immediately jump into the basics of Apple's new iPhone 5s and set the tone. Apple consistently tells us that each new iPhone release is the "best iPhone yet". So, is this latest iteration of the device the best version that we have seen, or is it nothing more than a money-making spin on the sixth-generation iPhone 5? The rest of this post will offer my subjective opinion on the Gold iPhone 5s, after spending a couple of days using and interacting with everything it offers. There'll also be plenty of pictures to show off just how beautiful it is.
As with any new major gadget, both of Apple's just-released smartphones have been given the teardown treatment, and resident iDevice repair manual company iFixit has once again done the honors. Both handsets, as you might imagine, have very different innards, although the iPhone 5c, which, on paper, is very similar to its predecessor, shares an almost identical interior to the iPhone 5.
Apple's product design has been an instrumental component in their market dominance for the past few years. Combine their beautiful hardware aesthetics with the ease of use of their software, and you have a recipe for selling a lot of products. Under Steve Jobs' direction, as they became the market leader, Apple rarely released a product which could have been considered to have 'questionable design'. Strangely enough, however, the new iPhone 5c came with a case that could only be described as having questionable design.
We're now what we like to call 'post-iOS 7,' and as the dust settles on what can only be described as the biggest change to Apple's iOS since multitasking was added, the response has been mixed.
After a lot of speculation, the mythical Apple TV software update has finally been released by Apple, after keeping it in beta for a long time. The update features a lot of notable changes which we’ve outlined in this post along with the direct download links for the update.
Here's a complete side by side video comparison of iPhone 5s vs iPhone 5c vs iPhone 5. This video that we have put together compares all the said phones, you can find it embedded at the end of this post.
This morning, September 20th, Apple has started to sell the iPhone 5s to consumers queued up around the world. I trekked it off at 5am this morning to my local Apple Store to be one of the first to have access to the new Apple smartphone, and can say I'm definitely not disappointed with the two products I picked up. Now in my possession are the iPhone 5s in ‘Space Gray’, and the iPhone 5c in light blue.
Both iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c are now on sale in 11 countries worldwide. The launch of the more expensive and more in demand flagship iPhone 5s is significant for a myriad of reasons, what with it being the first smartphone with a fingerprint sensor and a 64-bit processor. The new device is also the very first iPhone to ship in three colors, and with a budget iPhone 5c also on the table, many are headed to retail stores without having made up their minds about which one to pick up. Here, we'll be taking a look at what's on offer, and help you to decide which iPhone model is the best fit for you.
