![]() There's no question Apple's fingerprint reader will garner lots of attention in the coming days, and with good reason: it's an innovative feature - arguably the iPhone's first real hardware innovation in years.īut it still feels, well, small. A little catch-up, very little innovation So where's the 128GB option many users have spent years clamoring for? 5. Schiller talked up the iPhone 5S as the "gold standard" of smartphones. Most Android phones have a microSD slot that allows virtually unlimited storage - maybe not in a big contiguous chunk, but at least you have the extra breathing room if you need it. Most users carry growing libraries of apps, games, music, movies, and the like, but Apple has never seen fit to push past the 64GB limit for iPhone storage. I've never understood why Apple doesn't offer this option. That's treading water while carrying more weight. Yes, Apple managed to deliver more or less the same talk, video, Internet, and standby times despite including a faster processor, but that's not an improvement. What I do need is a bigger, better battery. I don't need or want a faster processor in my phone, and I suspect the same is true for 98 percent of all users. ![]() A faster processor may help with certain games and apps, but it will also consume more power - which is why Apple said almost nothing about the iPhone 5S' battery life. Know why? Because for the most part, they don't. If you watched today's Apple presentation, perhaps you noticed that Phil Schiller spent a lot of time talking about the new A7 chip's specs - its 64-bit architecture, billion-plus transistors, and so on- and very little talking about how they benefit the user. Remember how in the early days of desktop computing, we all chased faster and faster processors, then stopped caring because they got fast enough? That's how I feel about smartphone processors. A faster processor? It's just a phone! The A7 chip sure has a lot of fancy specs. The iPhone 5S has the same screen dimensions as the iPhone 5, which is merely half an inch taller than my iPhone 4S. I'm not looking for an iPhablet, mind you, just something in the Galaxy S4 range to better accommodate my aging eyes.Īlas, it wasn't to be. The screen remains the sameĪs I noted back in August, Apple needed to do just one thing to keep me as an iPhone customer: enlarge the screen. Here are the five things I find disappointing about the iPhone 5S: 1. A swipe and tap-tap-tap to put in a passcode might turn out to be just as fast.)īut overall, I find little here to get excited about, and no motivation to trade up from my 4S. (I say potentially because it remains to be seen just how quickly a scan gets recognized and unlocks the phone. I'll cop to liking the fingerprint sensor, which adds a much-needed security option for folks who typically don't bother with passcodes and potentially a much faster option for those who do. Indeed, just as the iPhone 4S was little more than an iPhone 4 with a few minor upgrades, the iPhone 5S is little more than an iPhone 5 with a few minor upgrades. Apple iPhone 5S camera promises bigger pixels, slow-mo, better image processing.M7 chip adds health-tracking capabilities to iPhone 5S.Apple iPhone 5S event showcases Infinity Blade 3 using new 64-bit chip.Apple makes iWork apps free for new iOS devices.iPhone 5S First Take: 3 colors, new specs.
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