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what's happened in Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple and there's a whole bunch of both after Apple's iPhone event a few days ago in Cupertino now last year Tim Cook said Apple was doubling down on secrecy but nothing could be further from the truth after every new feature color and model name was leaked by the rumor mills months before the event let's do a recap of what Apple just announced in case you missed it now the iPhone 5s is here on September the 20th starting at $1.99 with contract it comes in gold white and Space Gray I actually didn't know space had its own color of gray until yesterday now you won't find a bigger screen or new design like we expected but there's a lot of features I like under the hood with an all new a7 64-bit processor in industry first but we won't really see major benefits from it in the near future there's a new m7 coprocessor that captures motion data for fitness apps doesn't use the a7 and requires less battery power now that feature doesn't affect me as much unless it can measure the size of my guns now the all new improved iSight camera remains 8 megapixels which is a little letdown and we know megapixels don't completely matter but keeping it at 8 compared to what's out there now there's a dual LED flash made up of one white and one amber flash a first on a smartphone and that's pretty sweet to give you even better photos with a flash so I'll report back to you on how this works at the club's there's a new camera app with features like 120 frames per second slow-mo video and a burst mode feature for action shots that plays catch-up to other phones but it can only be used on the iPhone 5s sure it can and that's a bad apple and the feature they just couldn't keep a secret which is kind of ironic since it's for security it's the touch ID fingerprint sensor that can be used to unlock your phone or approve purchases through the iTunes and App Store's now it's just those two things for now I'm really digging it and there's a lot of potential here for your finger to be the password for all your apps and services and to get people comfortable with the behavior of using your finger for actions but Apple won't give developers access to the feature initially which deserves kind of a crappy Apple but they left it open a change in the future and really they better open it up sooner rather than later now my take on the 5s is that 4s users you're gonna love it combined with iOS 7 you guys are really in heaven right now but a lot of iPhone 5 users are let down because they really wanted a bigger screen we already knew what to expect and that's if you watch the show and shame on you if you don't even though you can't hear me shaming you I think the jump from the iPhone 4 to the 4s was weak and I did an upgrade but I'm excited about the fingerprint scanner all the other improvements there's actually new tech inside here and yeah I wish it had a bigger screen too and you might not be in the same boat but I'm gonna get a 5s and can you guess what color it's going to be uh huh oh but no pre-orders for the 5s Apple is going to make us wait in line so it looks like their stores have big lines again and that's a bad apple now I draw with this phone but I don't want it that bad so I'll just order it online on the 20th now the biggest letdown from the keynote was the iPhone 5c I'm not even its target market but it was supposed to be the cheaper iPhone alternative instead Apple showed they won't play on the low cost space and it's basically an iPhone 5 with the same internals and five fruity colors so here's what Johnny I've had to say iPhone 5c is beautifully unapologetically plastic plastic do you really just say plastic come on was there like a trap door under Johnny's seat if he didn't say plastic we're talking about plastic now the 5c is selling for the same price the iPhone 5 would have been once a new model swooped in $99 with the 2-year contract 29 more bucks if you want a case with holes to show off two colors together now this phone unlocked is 549 bucks which is on par with other flagship phones internationally so this is not a cheap phone now I know people will get the 5c for their kids in school I have several girlfriends and let me make that clear they're girls who are friends who we're excited about a colored iPhone I told them it's not actually a new phone and yeah they'll sell a bunch but this is just an iPhone five with a color wrapper this isn't innovation and this might be Apple's most deceptive phone for the general consumer and guess what's the first thing that pops up on Apple's website not the 5s which actually brings new tech to the table it's the 5c I'm not even throwing out a bad apple from now on I'm just gonna call this the iPhone 5 crap alright got that out let's get back to the happy thoughts and iOS 7 is really the bright spot of this event it'll be available as a free download on September the 18th and will be compatible as far back as the iPhone 4 iPad 2 and iPod Touch 5th generation now we talked all about the features like control center and iTunes radio which Apple still says is coming soon but you want to know about the new stuff I found well check this out more new wallpapers like this one of Planet Earth or maybe this cool one of the Northern Lights or this one where winter is coming but even better new text tones and ringtones check this they even improve the original tritone from this to this Wow in other new stuff come in All Things D is reporting that we can also expect to see an Apple TV software overhaul on the 18th the same day when iOS 7 comes out one new feature will allow people to play content they've purchased themselves on the iTunes Store and play it back on someone else's Apple TV using airplay so you can stream content you own to any Apple TV box which is typically set up with just a single user account and Space Gray is here to stay apple also announced the iPod Touch iPod Nano and iPod shuffle will be available in that color but before we move on let's take a moment to remember the Apple products we've lost but we're so good to us all right now we said we get to some of your impressions and emails from Apple's event so check this out on Twitter dead access says can't wait to get a 5s my phone isn't slow yet but can't wait to be a Ferrari on the digital highway well vroom vroom to you now Mark Owens writes in with this was the time Apple needed to wow us all back in love with the iPhone I broke up with my iPhone 4 and haven't looked back Tim Cook is not the leader Apple needs right now all right mark I think the days of really being wild buy any phone are gone people want to be romanced back because Steve he did it so well but the reality distortion field is gone and guess what reality can sometimes suck all right B Wyman asks I was wondering with the new iPhone 5s and 5c chips and antennas will it allow for simultaneous talk and data with Sprint and Verizon well in LTE areas all right now you won't like this but the answer is still a no we asked Apple and they said Verizon's network tech prevents voice and data and that it isn't a problem specific to the phone but there are other phones that added an extra antenna to make it work but you just won't find it here on the 5s or 5c so there you go keep sending us your emails with your impressions and questions to the Apple bita cnet.com or tweet me at brian tong and we'll show some of them off now we'll also be doing another email episode in a couple weeks and I want you guys to really dig deep and ask me anything any question you have ever wondered and we'll answer them all right that's gonna do it for this week's show i'm brian tong thanks for watching and we'll catch you guys next week for another bite of the Apple you talk about plastic we sittin here apples supposed to be the leader for innovation and we in here talk about plastic I mean listen we talking about plastic not a new iPhone not a new iPhone not a new iPhone we talking about plastic not a phone not the phone that I go in live for and cry for and pay every penny I save like it's my last day not the iPhone we talk about plastic man I mean how silly is that we talking plastic