Apple iPhone 5S vs iPhone 5C vs iPhone 5: Pick the right one!

Confused with all the iPhones around? Don’t fret as we give you a quick comparison of the different models released by Apple.

Latest reports are saying that Apple is cutting back the production of the recently released iPhone 5C as the colorful version of the very successful handset isn’t as appealing as its more premium iPhone 5S sibling.

The iPhone 5S screams of new hardware, software, features, and speed. On the other hand, the purportedly cheaper iPhone 5C isn’t really to be discounted as it is also a potent device with Apple’s gamble on offering a colorful chassis. Let us take a quick look on the possible sibling rivalry that is happening between the iPhone 5, iPhone 5S, and the iPhone 5C.

Operating System

Both the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C come out of the box with the iOS 7 while the iPhone 5 has the iOS 6 installed.

Display

All of the iPhone models in comparison enjoy a four-inch IPS LCD with a resolution of 1,136 x 640 and a pixel density of 326ppi. The 5S and the 5C both come with sapphire crystal lens cover.

Tale of the Tape

The iPhone 5S measures 4.87 x 2.31 x 0.30 inches (height x width x depth). It tips the scale at 3.95 ounces. The iPhone 5C is slightly bigger measure 4.90 x 2.33 x 0.35 inches (h x w x d). It weighs a bit more at 4.65 ounces. The iPhone 5 registered at 4.87 x 2.31 x 0.30 inches and weighed the same as the 5S at 3.95 ounces.

Camera

All of the iPhones in comparison are equipped with an 8MP, 1080p main camera. The iPhone 5S comes with a dual-element flash while the 5C and the iPhone 5 came with an LED flash.

Processor

The iPhone 5S comes with the 64-bit A7 chip working in tandem with an M7 motion coprocessor. The iPhone 5C sports a 32-bit A6 CPU, the same chip inside the iPhone 5.

Battery

Both the iPhone 5S and 5C can last for 10 hours while on 3G compared to the talk time of the iPhone 5 pegged at 8 hours on 3G.

Carrier

AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon offer the iPhone 5S and the 5C. Global also carries the 5C. All iPhones in comparison have 4G LTE capability.

Price, Storage, Color

The iPhone 5 is no longer sold. The iPhone 5 S comes in three variants 16 GB ($199), 32GB ($299), and 64GB ($399). It is available in Silver, Space Gray, and Gold. On the other hand, the 5C comes in White, Pink, Yellow, Blue, and Green. There is a 16GB variant for $99 and a 32GB version for $199.
The iPhone 5 is no longer sold, but it came as 32GB and 64GB variants.

Extras

Among the bunch, the iPhone 5S is the only unit that features Apple’s fingerprint scanner.

Here’s a chart below for a deep dive into the specs:

	iPhone 5S	iPhone 5C	iPhone 5
Operating system	iOS 7	iOS 7	iOS 7
Display	4-inch IPS LCD; 1,136×640 pixels, 326 ppi	4-inch IPS LCD; 1,136×640 pixels, 326 ppi	4-inch IPS LCD; 1,136×640 pixels, 326 ppi
Processor	A7 CPU (64-bit)	A6 CPU (32-bit)	A6 CPU (32-bit)
Memory	16GB, 32GB, 64GB	16GB, 32GB	16GB, 32GB
4G LTE	Yes	Yes	Yes
Camera	8-megapixel, 1080p front-facing, dual-LED flash	8-megapixel, 720p front-facing	8-megapixel, 720p front-facing
Battery	Talk time up to 10 hours on 3G; embedded	Talk time up to 10 hours on 3G; embedded	Talk time up to 10 hours on 3G; embedded
Fingerprint scanner	Yes	No	No
Dedicated fitness tracking	Yes	No	No
Weight and thickness	3.95 ounces, 0.3 inch	4.65 ounces, 0.35 inch	3.95 ounces, 0.3 inch
Colors	Gray, gold, silver	Blue, green, pink, yellow, white	Black, white

Just to recall, the iPhone 4S was also offered by the major US mobile carriers. It came in Black and White variants and had a storage space of 8GB. It was slightly smaller primarily because it offered a smaller Retina display measuring 3.5 inches. It also had an 8MP main camera and depended on an A5 chip. It also makes use of a 30-pin connector compared to the Lightning-type connector of the newer models.

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Hands On: The Difference Between The iPhone 5S And The iPhone 5

Comparing the iPhone 5S with last year's iPhone 5 reveals more than a few differences—but most of them are under the hood.

Today's the day that the new iPhones have hit the shelves in the U.S. The pricier—and apparently more desired—iPhone 5S is not easy to find today, but after managing to get my hands on one, here's a quick comparison between the new 5S model and last year's iPhone 5.

First Impressions

The iPhone 5S, at first glance, is identical to its forebear. But with a flashy new A7 64-bit chip, the M7 motion co-processor, Apple's clever Touch ID fingerprint sensor and some powerful photography/video features, its insides bear little resemblance to the iPhone 5. Both phones boast a bright 326-ppi Retina touchscreen, of course, and the new version maintains the dimensions of its predecessor, weighing in at the same 112 grams. In our early testing, we compared a black 16GB iPhone 5S with a white Verizon iPhone 5 (pictured below).

Appearance

From the front, you could mistake the iPhone 5S for last year's iPhone 5 if it weren't for the new home button. The iPhone 5S's home button has lost the iconic rounded square of past generations in exchange for its nifty new fingerprint sensor. Beyond that, on the back of the device you'll note that the 5S has a new oblong-shaped dual flash to the right of the lens. The charging port, headphone jack placement, buttons and speaker arrangement remain unchanged. Beyond that, about the only discernable difference is that the iPhone logo has been Jony Ive-ified, featuring the printed "iPhone" logo in a thin font to match iOS 7's ubiquitous Helvetica Neue Ultra Light typeface.

Speed

As more comprehensive benchmarking comparisons would suggest, the iPhone 5S is noticeably faster than many competitors, easily doubling the speed of last year's model in many tests. The iPhone 5 is certainly no slouch, but upon activating my device, a "space gray" 16GB iPhone 5S running on AT&T's network, my first takeaway is whoa... this thing is fast. Granted, any new phone is blazing fast right out of the gate, but the 5S opens apps, loads webpages and executes so quickly it's hard to imagine a phone actually doing things faster than this. Next to an iPhone 5 over a shared Wi-Fi network, everything happens faster on the 5S. The camera was actually the most notable—it recovers in an instant with no lag at all. 

Camera

How does the iPhone 5S and its juiced-up camera compare to the iPhone 5? Well, the iPhone 5S's shooter is noticeably faster, like the phone is in most regards. The 5S, in our testing, seems to snap photos instantly. Burst mode is a cool trick, too—and one unique to the 5S, like the slow-motion video camera. Holding down the home button while shooting yields a ton of photos really, really quickly, but the only use cases we can imagine are tricky-to-capture shots, like maybe at a kid's football game when objects (and children) are moving, in order to get an in-focus shot.

The sample shots below compare the camera's respective capabilities in a handful of shooting conditions, though we've got a more in-depth examination of the 5S's camera features cooking too. In all of the pictures, we allowed autofocus to do its work rather than manually focusing with a tap like we make a habit of normally.

iPhone 5

iPhone 5S

iPhone 5

iPhone 5S

iPhone 5

iPhone 5S

iPhone 5

iPhone 5S

iPhone 5

iPhone 5S

iPhone 5

iPhone 5S

As you can see, the iPhone 5S performed a bit better under duress in bright- and mixed-light situations. The photos are mostly pretty comparable, though we'll be testing the 5S camera and its improved flash in more settings to see where (and if) it shines. Bells and whistles like Slow-mo, burst mode and the True Tone flash will likely be its strongest qualities, so we look forward to playing with all of those further.

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New 2013 Jailbreak/Unlock iPhone 5,4S iOS 7.0.2 Untethered With RedSn0w

The Most wanted Popular jailbreak tool from www.Unlock-Jailbreak.net compiled by the iPhone Team ñ has just been released and updated with full and easy support for Jailbreak Unlock iPhone 5/4S/4/3GS iOS 7.0.2 & 6.1.4/6.1.3/ Jailbreak iOS 7 Untethered. You may have caught our tutorial, which detailed how one could jailbreak their device tethered using Redsn0w iOS 7, although since it was a pre-iOS 7.0.2 & 6.1.4/6.1.3/iOS 7 release, users needed to “point” the tool to the older firmware.

Team Unlock-Jailbreak was created few years ago, combines some of the jailbreak and unlock communityís most talented developers all known for producing reliable jailbreaks in the past. This team was assembled in order to develop a reliable untethered jailbreak and unlock iphone 5,4S,4 iOS 7.0.2 & 6.1.4/6.1.3/7 for post-A5 devices, including the iPhone 5, the iPad mini and the latest-generation iPad. This has now been achieved with the just-released userland jailbreak tool, known as Unlock-Jailbreak.net.

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They are a trustworthy, US company (iPhone Jailbreaks and Unlocks ). All unlocks and jailbreaks are guaranteed to work, or your money back. No quibbles, no questions, no hassle. Unlock and Untethered Jailbreak all iPhones regardless of bootloader, baseband and firmware version up to the latest and beyond. Since the founding in late 2007, more than 500,000 people have used the teamís services to safely and securely Unlock and Jailbreak their iPhones. Customers prefer them for 4 simple reasons:

The benefits of unlocking your iPhone are clear: You will be able to use cheap local (pay as you go) sim cards in the phone, and make phone calls at cheaper local rates. You can use the iPhone on cheaper networks (especially as data rates are often very expensive on the standard iPhone carrier networks). You can use more then one phone number on the iPhone, and switch your simcard at any time you wish. Of course, you can always use the original sim card after unlocking. The unlock does not affect the way your iPhone works (if you use a good unlocking service such as that offered by Unlock-Jailbreak.net) it enables the phone to accept ANY simcard.Other benefits of unlocking your iPhone are the addition of Cydia and installer on the unlocked iPhone.

The benefits of unlocking your phone are numerous. Not only will you benefit from being able to use any SIM card on any network in your phone, but you will also be able to take advantage of roaming services offered by most major networks.Unlocking your handset may also enable dual, tri or even quad band functionality, allowing you to use your phone in even more countries around the globe.Simply put, the iPhone in itÌs standard form is heavily restricted and jailbreaking and unlocking the iPhone enables it to be used to itÌs full potential, so why wouldnÌt you do so?

www.Unlock-Jailbreak.net Team have successfully jailbroken over 550,000 iPhones worldwide only in the past year. This is unparalleled by any other paid service in the industry. They have achieved this by combining a very simple solution with a fantastic 24/7 customer service department through many forms of contact, including telephone and live chat.

Jailbreakers, we are once again sitting right in the middle of that beautiful time period when updated jailbreaking tools are available to jailbreak iPhone 5,4S,4,3GS iOS 7.0.2/7/6.1.4/6.1.3, which allow us to free our iOS devices from their technical shackles. For those who have been sitting with an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad running Appleís iOS 7.0.2 firmware, you will no doubt be aware that after weeks of hard work and research, Pod2g and his team have released an untethered jailbreak for all existing iOS devices, excluding the third-generation Apple TV.

We have found ourselves in an all too familiar situation over the last couple of months, stuck in limbo between wanting to update to the latest official firmware, but not knowing when or indeed if a functional jailbreak iOS 7.0.2 would be released to jailbreak iPhone 5,4S,4,3GS iOS 7.0.2/7/6.1.4/6.1.3. Keeping history in mind, we should be able to rest easy in the fact that researchers such as Pod2g have always managed to escape the securities put in place by Apple to bring a jailbreak to the masses, but there will always remain a small part within us that has doubts each time Apple pushes a new version of iOS.
With work on the iOS 7.0.2 and iOS 7 jailbreak being finished and satisfactorily tested, the team involved have included the files and exploits in a new version of the Chronic Dev Teamís Absinthe tool that was introduced to us as a jailbreak solution for iOS 5.0.1. One of the main benefits of the tool is the extreme simplicity of the interface, with user guidance being provided all the way through and only involving a few clicks to get the job done.

As confirmed by iPhone Dev Team leader MuscleNerd, the 7.0.2 jailbreak will also be available through the use of the tried and tested Redsn0w tool as well as an updated version of the command line interface cinject binary. We already know that a large number of users prefer the familiar interface that the Redsn0w tool offers jailbreak iPhone 5,4S,4,3GS iOS 7.0.2/7/6.1.4/6.1.3, but for those who arenít stuck on familiarity and want to go down the route of using Absinthe for its rather cool and edgy sounding name as well as the simple and intuitive interface, then it is officially available to download now! Some Redsn0w updates are just minor vanity house updates or meager bug fixes, but it gives me great pleasure to announce that the just-released version 0.9.12b1 uses Absintheís exploit to jailbreak 5.1.1 untethered. The fruit companyís latest and greatest firmware version hasnít coughed up many bugs hitherto, but the limited jailbreak capabilities have meant that many users still havenít been able to enjoy optimal performance, until now.

If you have already jailbroken your device using Chronic Devís Absinthe, you really donít need to use Redsn0w now. But if you are a unlocker, and have been waiting for a tool like Sn0wbreeze, PwnageTool or Redsn0w for restoring to a custom firmware (A4 devices only), you would be glad to know that Redsn0w has finally been updated with support for 7.0.2 untether.

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Apps Crash Twice As Often on iPhone 5S Compared to iPhone 5

BY MEG WAGNER5 DAYS AGO

If it seems like your apps are crashing more frequently since you upgraded to the new iPhone 5S, you're not alone.

Mobile applications crash twice as often on the iPhone 5S than they do on both the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5C, according to tests by Crittercism, a mobile application performance management company.

But even with the doubled rate, crash frequency is still relatively low across all versions of the iPhone 5. The 5S has a crash rate of about 2%, compared to the original 5 and 5C's rates of just around 1%, Kalyan Ramanathan, Crittercism's chief marketing officer, told Mashable.

In some cases, crashes are just annoying, such as when your app fails while you're reading headlines on a news site. But for some apps, a crash can actually harm business. For example, a customer trying to purchase something through an app may give up and not buy the product if it crashes, Ramanathan explained.

The 5S might be seeing more crashes than the 5C because of its new hardware, which wasn't available to developers before its launch, Ramanathan said. The iPhone 5S includes a dual-core, 64-bit A7 chip that's nearly twice as fast as the A6 CPU, the chip that both the 5 and 5C have.

He added that he expects the crash rate on the 5S to improve as developers have time to test their apps on the new hardware.

"When you change a lot of hardware, you're going to have cases where issues crop up," Ramanathan said. "Give it a few months. You'll see the crash rate render down to the norm."

To study crash rates, Crittercism looked at hundreds of millions of app launches since the release of the new iPhones.

Have you experienced increased app crashes on your iPhone 5S? Tell us in the comments, below.

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iPhone 5 vs. Samsung Galaxy S4 Comparison: 5S "Fastest Phone Ever Tested" vs. LG G2, HTC One

(Photo : REUTERS/Stephen Lam)

The iPhone 5S has one title it can boast in its battle vs. the Samsung Galaxy S4—"fastest phone ever tested."

In a recent test, researchers pitted the top smartphones from HTC, LG, Apple and Samsung against eachother to measure their processing speeds and performance. The test, which was compiled for Which? magazine, resulted in a big win for Apple's latest flagship smartphone.

Here's the top-seven finishers along with their single-core and multi-core scores:

1.) iPhone 5S: 1410 (single), 2561 (multi) 

2.) LG G2: 882 (single), 2355 (multi) 

3.) Samsung Galaxy S4: 687 (single), 1939 (multi) 

4.) HTC One: 643 (single), 1805 (multi) 

5.) iPhone 5C:  711 (single), 1281 (multi) 

6.) Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini: 649 (single), 1135 (multi) 

7.) HTC One Mini: 477 (single), 880 (multi)  

From Which?: "In June of this year we found the iPhone 5 had been eclipsed and that the Samsung Galaxy S4 had seized the number one spot for processor speed. In fact the iPhone 5 languished back in 7th place. But Apple is back. New Which? lab tests have revealed that the recently released iPhone 5S has broken all records in our processor benchmarking tests."

The benchmark tests were used with Geekbench software.

"These benchmarks are useful as they let us compare phones against one another but they aren't the be all and end all," said Which? technology researcher Jon Barrow.

"In truth most of the top phones feel fantastically smooth in everyday use. The iPhone 5s will feel a little snappier when swiping through menus and opening apps - and that fraction of a second when you launch a programme is not to be underestimated when you consider how often we use our phones.  But premium handsets, like the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One, also feel lighting fast."

Galaxy S4 vs. iPhone 5 Comparison

The Samsung Galaxy S4 and the iPhone 5 battle has been one of the more memorable smartphone comparisons for smartphone users in recent years. Each device has its own fanatics and critics, and while the average smartphone user doesn't understand the complicated technolgy behind each device, they are adamant on which phone provides a better experience for them.

The iPhone 5 has been lauded for its smooth operating system right out of the box, but the Galaxy S4's advanced Android OS allows the user to personalize their experience. These are two of the most significant differences between these devices, which also shed a bit of light on the type of user that owns each smartphone.

However, one considerable factor consumers may want to consider when deciding between the smartphones is the cost it takes to build each model-which trickles down to your pockets during purchase.

Samsung's Galaxy S4 is all the rage these days, but its Apple competitor, the iPhone 5, may still have a leg up on its smartphone counterpart in at least one category: the iPhone is a cheaper model to make.

A estimate by HIS iSuppli suggests quite a difference in prices between the two mobile phones. This, of course, means Apple will have more profit and, as a result, more money available from the smartphone business for innovation, marketing, support and price competition.

According to the His iSuppli estimation, the Apple iPhone 5 with 16GB of storage costs $196 to manufacture (for the lowest-end model), including materials. The cost for the 32GB version is estimated at $217, while the 64GB version runs $238.

Samsung Galaxy S4 estimates to cost $244 for the 16GB model at the high-speed packet access version (a 4G mobile standard), with $236 going for materials and $8.50 for manufacturing. That means the S4 roughly $48 more per unit to make than the equivalent iPhone. The LTE version of the S4, with 16GB, is $3 cheaper.

"Although [the S4's] hardware is not radically different from the Galaxy S III introduced in April of 2012, the Samsung Galaxy S4 includes some critical component updates that enhance its functionality as well as its BOM cost," said Vincent Leung, senior analyst for cost benchmarking at IHS, in a statement. "Among the upgrades are a larger, full high-definition display; a beefed-up Samsung processor; and a wealth of new sensors that set a record high for the number of such devices in a smartphone design."

According to the His iSuppli estimation, the Apple iPhone 5 with 16GB of storage costs $196 to manufacture (for the lowest-end model), including materials. The cost for the 32GB version is estimated at $217, while the 64GB version runs $238.

Samsung Galaxy S4 estimates to cost $244 for the 16GB model at the high-speed packet access version (a 4G mobile standard), with $236 going for materials and $8.50 for manufacturing. That means the S4 roughly $48 more per unit to make than the equivalent iPhone. The LTE version of the S4, with 16GB, is $3 cheaper.

"Although [the S4's] hardware is not radically different from the Galaxy S III introduced in April of 2012, the Samsung Galaxy S4 includes some critical component updates that enhance its functionality as well as its BOM cost," said Vincent Leung, senior analyst for cost benchmarking at IHS, in a statement. "Among the upgrades are a larger, full high-definition display; a beefed-up Samsung processor; and a wealth of new sensors that set a record high for the number of such devices in a smartphone design."

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