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There's nothing too different about the design of the new iPhone 5S compared to last year's iPhone 5. The icon-less home button has a silver (or gold) ring around it to signify the 5S-exclusive fingerprint scanner but everything else is pretty much the same. Same unibody aluminum body. Same two-toned design. Same 4-inch display. All your cases for the iPhone 5 will work with the 5S.One thing is new though. The iPhone 5S now has a new gold color option, along with the usual black and white.
Spunk
Powering the iPhone 5S is Apple's new A7 processor which is a 64-bit chip. It's the first 64-bit chip in a smartphone and it'll make the iPhone 5S two times faster than the iPhone 5 (and 40 times faster than the original iPhone). The 5S runs OpenGL ES 3.0 which makes the graphics performance in the 5S pretty gnarly too (that's 56x faster than original iPhone, which yay, I guess). The A7 chip has 3x general-purpose registers, 2x floating-point registers and over a billion transistors.
Along with the A7, Apple is using a "motion co-processor" in the 5S called the M7. It continuously measures motion data with an accelerometer, gyroscope and compass support. It's supposed to "enable a new generation of health and fitness apps" by letting apps use all that motion data without tapping into the A7.
Scanner with finger
Just as we expected, the iPhone 5S' home button pulls double duty as a fingerprint scanner. Apple dubs the feature "Touch ID." The scanner adds another layer of security to your iPhone by allowing you to use the fingerprint scanner in lieu of a passcode. Place your thumb down on the new sapphire crystal home button and the iPhone 5S will unlock. The silver ring around the home button will detect when your finger is on it so you don't have to actually press down on the button.
Battery Strength
The iPhone 5S has slightly better battery life with ten hours talk time, ten hours LTE browsing, and 250 hours standby. That's an improvement over last year's eight hours of talk time, eight hours of LTE browsing and 225 hours of standby. We'll have to see how this actually translates in real world use though.
Market Exist and Cost
Apple is keeping the same price as the previous generation for AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. The iPhone 5S 16GB will cost $199, the 32GB version will be $299 and the 64GB version will cost $399, all with a new two-year contract. There's also an unlocked and contract-free version of the 5S for T-Mobile. Prices for the unlocked 16GB start at $650.
You can start buying the iPhone 5S on Friday September 20th.
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