Everyone loves a good speed test video, and whenever a new flagship smartphone is released, YouTube is flooded with new videos showing how the latest and greatest device compares with the one that it just replaced. What we don't usually get to see though is a video showing the new hotness compared with every device that came before it.
One of Apple's biggest selling points for the iPhone 5s, or at least the one that is easiest to demo in-store, is the addition of the Touch ID system. Hidden below the Home button, Touch ID allows iPhone owners to unlock their device securely, without having to enter a passcode. Instead, the clever technology reads the fingerprint of the person pressing the Home button, and if it matches what it's looking for, then the phone unlocks. Magic.
At the time of my iPhone 5s purchase, I was really confused which color I should go for. Gold was hard to find, Silver isn’t really my thing, and Space Gray I thought would look exactly similar to the Black & Slate iPhone 5 that I already had for over a year. But when I unboxed my Space Gray iPhone 5, I was surprised at how different and appealing the new gray shade was.
To give you a glimpse of how much the camera has improved in iPhone 5s, we have got a comparison of photos taken from both the latest iPhone 5s and last year’s iPhone 5.
The new processor, fingerprint sensor, and introduction of a Gold color variant may have dominated the vast majority of the iPhone 5s-related headlines, but Apple has also done a pretty good job of improving the camera. On paper, it may read 8-megapixels, but with dual-LED flash and a new slo-mo mode, it's certainly a significant bump on the snapper of the iPhone 5, and if you were wondering whether the slo-mo was just a gimmick, we've got some rather elegant proof to the contrary in form of a demo video.
As well as being the very first smartphone on the market packing a 64-bit processor, Apple's iPhone 5s also features an M7 motion coprocessor, allowing processes to be more efficiently managed while also preserving those essential droplets of battery life. But while these new hardware upgrades are great and all, their powers can only be fully recognized once developers adapt their apps to take advantage of them, and Strava Run, the socially-swayed training app, is the first such utility to make use of the Cupertino's new coprocessor.
The iPhone 5s is in short supply right now, with Apple struggling currently to ship enough units to meet the insatiable demand. But if you want the look of the Cupertino's latest and greatest handset without paying the hefty sums Apple is charging, you may be interested in the much cheaper option of an "Upgrade Kit," which essentially allows you to turn your iPhone 5 into an "iPhone 5s" of any color variant.
Whenever a new gadget is released, the guys of the YouTube channel RatedRR take it upon themselves to basically wreck said device in the most brutal yet spectacular fashion. With the iPhone 5s being the biggest gadget released for a number of years and the gold model in such short supply as millions still await the shiny new color variant of Apple's flagship, the following footage, which shows the remains of the handset after a love-in with a 50-caliber bullet, may be unsuitable for some viewers.
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.
