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CNET News - New low-cost iPhone unveiled, starts at $99 with contract

2013-09-10
this is iphone 5c and it's really stunning incredible new color design it delivers on color throughout the product every detail the volume buttons the switches the entire back and sides are made from a single part and the front is one glass multi-touch surface as close as you look you won't see scenes or part lines or joins it's absolutely gorgeous and when you turn it on for the very first time and iOS 7 runs on the new iphone 5c you'll see how incredible they look together the vibrant icons the color matched wallpaper the way the translucency brings color to the surface and it creates an entire experience of color an experience just doesn't stop with the phone design and the software the team has created a really cool line of custom cases specifically for the iphone 5c the made of a soft feel silicon rubber they're microfiber lined and they've designed areas like around the camera and flash but the color the iphone shines through in fact as we look down you're going to see these cool circular cuddle patterns so you get this amazing combination of color between the iphone 5c in its case and you can combine them in really amazing combinations to create the exact look that you love it's absolutely beautiful now when you pick up and hold the iphone 5c for the first time you're going to be blown away about the quality of it and how rigid and great it feels in your hand it's made of a hard-coated polycarbonate material that's ideal for this incredible color but it's more inside it's built with a new construction method that uses a steel reinforced structure it provides incredible rigidity it also serves a dual purpose as part of the antenna system so it's really smart it surrounds a beautiful 4-inch Retina Display with integrated touch layers so the colors feel like they're right sitting there on top of the glass as gorgeous range of colors is awesome for your photos and your videos inside it's powered by an apple-designed a6 chip that gives great performance and great battery life in fact the battery inside the iphone 5c is slightly larger than the battery was in the iphone 5 before it it has the world's most popular camera the 8 megapixel iSight camera with its backside illuminated sensor five-element lens hybrid IR filter it takes great photos and it uses that new camera app that Craig told you about that has all these great features as well as these live in line photo filters while you're taking your photos and zoom while you're shooting your video on the front side it's got a brand new FaceTime HD camera that's even better in low light scenarios bigger pixels better back side illumination and it works with this new FaceTime audio feature in iOS 7 you can make calls that are crystal clear using FaceTime the iphone 5c supports more network bands than any phone we've made yet in fact it supports more LTE bands than any other smartphone in the world it has download speeds up to 100 megabit per second down has dual band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 it runs iOS 7 and running the apps on iOS 7 on this beautiful color design is just an amazingly great experience so this is iphone 5c it comes in five colors blue white pink yellow and green it starts with a large 16 gigabyte configuration at a price of just $99 as you can see 32 gigabytes for 199 is on a typical US carrier two-year contract gorgeous cases there are six colors too
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