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bet you didn't see this one coming hey guys it's Austin if this is the iPhone 5s not exactly the most cutting edge of devices however it is now eight hundred and fifty dollars well some people are paying six seven eight hundred dollars for the brand new iPhones you take just a little step back you can save a ton of cash and the reason is this is on a prepaid carrier there are actually multiple ways to get this for $150 and the cool thing is you still have no contract so you own the phone outright and as someone who used the 5s for a little while this is a lot of phone $450 this design has held up really well so sure the 5s is a couple years old at this point however it's still all aluminum it's all glass you've got the chamfered edges it's a little bit of a small foam but this absolutely still holds up and of course the most important underrated feature the iPhone 5s is stands up unlike you know every other phone ever the box should look really familiar so here we have our Apple paperwork and stickers you get the power adapter itself with a lightning cable and you get the non courage edition of the earpods this might only cost 150 dollars but you're getting the exact same experience from with this cost over 600 the cool part about having an iPhone that's this inexpensive is it's actually even cheaper than iPod Touch so this is a great first device to give to a kid who maybe is not ready for a smart phone however when they are throw a SIM card in here and you've got a fully working smartphone this is still very much a modern iPhone so you have the Lightning connector you have bluetooth 4.0 so it work off all the latest accessories like the Apple watch really the only downgrade is that it has a headphone jack and of course there's no way anyone would ever want a headphone jack that's so ancient and useless right this design really has held up well even though it's a few years old apple just released a few months ago the iPhone se and design wise it's almost impossible to tell them apart to put things in perspective another phone you can get for around $150 is the Moto G for now this is not a bad phone at all however when you put it side-by-side with the 5s well that's a bigger phone sure the plastic bill just cannot hold up with you really nice metal and glass here something cool about the 5s is that even a couple years later it is still fully up to date on iOS 10 knowing apples track record I won't be surprised to see this get updates for at least another couple years not something you can say about all other budget smartphones probably the biggest downside of using the 5s in 2016 is the display now it's not exactly a bad screen we've got a four inch display with a resolution of 11 36 by 640 the issue is it's just small that's not to say that apps don't work on the 5s but everything is just tiny so the keyboard is well it takes some getting used to especially if you used any kind of reasonable sized smartphone over the last couple years and abs tend to have a little bit more of a compact view isn't that a deal-breaker and some people might in fact like the smaller size but it is definitely gonna take some getting used to if you are coming from a larger phone there are also cool features like touch ID normal fingerprint sensors have become very common on the higher end of smartphones on the budget side they're pretty rare and while this is the first generation of touch ID honestly it's really hard to distinguish the difference between this and what you would find on the iPhone 7 and that really is one of the advantages of buying an older flagship so something like the Moto G 4 which is built with a budget in mind has to make some sacrifices on performance side on the build quality side where something like this was built to be as high end of a phone as you could get sure it's a couple years old at this point but it's really hard to tell this is this is it's hard to get over the idea this is a hundred and fifty dollar smartphone I am curious about the performance story though so when the 5s came out it was hands-down one of these fastest phones you could buy so with a couple years advantage and a few more cores to work with how does the g4 stack up oh it didn't even win a multi-threaded okay so I think that just settles it right there the moto G for it's not a bad phone it's not a slow phone with a 5s it's just in a different league gave me why is the 5s is no slouch so even with the newer titles such as asphalt extreme but are we getting a nice smooth frame rate but this still actually looks pretty decent although my driving skills are not so decent one thing I'm really curious about is camera performance so when the 5s came out it had a great camera however the last few years have seen smartphone cameras especially in the budget end get so much better this is pretty close so I think the Moto G has the big advantage in detail so those 13 megapixels actually do make a noticeable difference and I also think it did a little bit of a better job with the exposure and especially the white balance I think is much more realistic on the moto the iPhone shot is definitely warmer but I do think that there's a little bit more depth of field maybe it's got a bigger sensor I'm not totally sure but this is a very nice looking shot for $150 iPhone 5s is absolutely worth it compared to any other budget phone in this category you're getting better build quality more performance a great camera there's a lot to like here considering that this is the cheapest way to get your hands on a brand new iOS device there's a lot that you can do with it and it's a gift if you're gonna upgrade grandma to an actual smartphone or you just want to give us a shot so what do you guys think about this thing definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one