iPhone 5s

By Tim Ryan on March 12, 2014

The iPhone 5s can only be described as a smartphone way ahead of its inception. This is evident throughout its display, design and inbuilt magnificent features. The American manufacturer prides itself in being a market pace setter as far as smartphone cutting edge technologies are concerned. It’s the only smartphone that allows user to do purchases from iTunes Store, the App Store, and the iBooks Store, so you don’t have to enter your password but just use your fingerprints.

To illustrate these out of imagination features, let’s take a deep look at the features that comes with the iPhone 5s.

Design:iPhone 5s runs iOS 7, upgradable to iOS 7.0.4. The body of the iPhone 5s is made up of Corning Gorilla Glass, oleophobic coating of 4.87 x 2.31 x 0.30 inches in dimension. The phone is light and weighs 112g. One of the most amazing things about the body is the 500 dpi pixel density fingerprint sensor Touch Identification. The color is the market areSpace Gray, White, Silver, and Gold.

Display:Describing the screen as unique is an understatement. The LED-backlit IPS LCD, capacitive touchscreen with multi touch sensor coupled with sensors for proximity, acceleration, gyro and compass direction makes this phone technology of the future. 326 ppi pixel density on a screen size of 640 x 1136 pixels, 4.0 inches with over 16M colors.

Hardware:The iPhone 5s is pioneering the use of Apple A7 system chipset and 64 bit architecture. It runs on a Dual-core 1.3 GHz Cyclone (ARM v8-based), PowerVR G6430 (quad-core graphics), 1 GB RAM DDR3. Has an internal 16/32/64 GB storage with no microSD slot or card.

Connectivity and Technology:This phone has the capacity to connect to mobile network operator via all the available technologies that you can think of or mention. Just but to mention a few; GSM all versions, CDMA all versions, HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 – A1533 (GSM), A1453, LTE- all models. It supports GPRS and EDGE technologies for speeds of DC-HSDPA, 42 Mbps; HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps, LTE, 100 Mbps; EV-DO Rev. A, up to 3.1 Mbps. WLAN-Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP and USB v2.0.

Camera:It has a primary camera at the back and a secondary one on the front. The front camera is a 1.2 MP, 720p@30fps, fitted with face detection, FaceTime over Wi-Fi or Cellular ability. The rear primary one has 1/3” sensor size, 1.5 µm pixel size, simultaneous HD video and image recording, touch focus, geo-tagging, face detection, HDR panorama, HDR photo made up of 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED (True Tone) flash.

Battery:iPhone 5s comes with Non-removable Li-Po 1560 mAh battery (5.92 Wh) which has a talk time of up to 10 hours on 2G / up to 10 hours on 3G, stand-by time of up to 250 hours on 2G / up to 250 hours 3G and music play time of up to 40 hours.

Multimedia and Other Features:Audio/video player/editor, Voice memo/dial/command, Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, Twitter and Facebook integration, TV-out, iMessage, SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, HTML (Safari) browser, Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, AirDrop file sharing, Siri natural language commands and dictation, iCloud cloud service, iCloud Keychain, Maps, iBooks PDF reader, Organizer, Document viewer/editor ((Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Image viewer/editor and a Predictive text input.

Pros: All the above mentioned features makes iPhone 5s pros and obviously puts it way ahead of all the other competing technologies in that league of smartphones.