Apple has unveiled the iPhone 5S officially. Let’s take a quick look on it.
Design and Display:
iPhone 5S has a LED-backlit IPS LCD, capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors. And a resolution of 640 x 1136 pixels, Screen is 4.0 inches. Apple kept the pixel density of 326ppi since iPhone 4.
It has Corning Gorilla Glass protection with special Oleophobic coating by Apple.
iPhone 5S measures 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm and weighs about 112g.
iPhone 5S Specification:
The A7 chipset
The iPhone 5s has a brand new chipset called A7, which is twice as fast in CPU and GPU compared to the iPhone 5. It is based on 64-bit architecture for the first time ever in a smartphone, the new iPhone 5s is said to be up to 40 times faster than the original iPhone and graphics are up to 53x faster.
Touch ID
There were a lot of rumors about finger Pring sensor in IPhone 5S and here it is. Apple introduced a brand new technology called Touch ID which will be able to scan your finger for better security. To purchase anything on App store you can set the Touch ID as security so that no one can buy from your ID. It supports multiple finger print so that multiple users may use the device.
Camera:
The new camera has a wider f/2.2 aperture and a 15% larger image sensor. A larger camera sensor provides the benefit of lower image noise in low-light conditions and better tonal dynamic range in high contrast scenes. Camera is still 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus with dual-LED (True Tone) flash called this way because it allows to achieve more accurate colors tone. It consists of two LEDs, with each having a different color temperature. The main features of camera includes 1.5 µm pixel size, simultaneous HD video and image recording, touch focus, geo-tagging, face detection, panorama, HDR. Camera is capable of recording videos of 1080p@30fps and also slo-mo videos of 720p@120fps. It also has a front camera for Face time calling and self-portraits. Moreover it is capable of capturing panoramas of up to 28MP which is of course industry leading.
Operating system:
iPhone 5S runs on Apple iOS7, the latest operating system from Apple. iOS 7 is now a 64-bit OS, but it’s backward compatible with all the currently available 32-bit apps.
Storage:
It comes with 64/32/16 GB variants. So that you can get the storange of your choice.
Battery:
The iPhone 5s will offer 10 hours of 3G talk time, up to 250h of standby, up to 40h of music playback. These numbers are the same as on the last year’s iPhone 5, which is a nice achievement, considering the twice as fast CPU and GPU.
Availability:
iPhone 5S will launch on 20th of this month and preorders starts on 13th. It costs $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB and $399 for 64GB