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in a year where the tech news has been dominated by new phones like the galaxy s4 the HTC One the Lumia 1020 I have been dying to know how Apple would strike back with a killer new iPhone and then we got the iPhone 5s now I'm sure is a great phone but even the most hardcore Apple fans have to admit that it's not quite the Android obliterating phone they were hoping for I'm Donald Bell and in this top five we're counting down the five biggest disappointments with the iPhone 5s starting off at number five catchup features not as tasty as it sounds whether it's the improvements to the camera or control center in iOS 7 many of the most appealing features in the new iPhone could have been pulled from any Android device this year I mean the best feature in the iPhone used to be the smug feeling of superiority I felt over other people but now unless I buy the gold one I don't think anyone's even gonna try to mug me for this thing at number four no 128 gigabyte model still the cloud is nice but I'd much rather hoard all of my apps and media on my phone making things worse is the fact that these apps have been getting more bloated ever since that Retina display and once things get all retooled for 64-bit it's going to get even worse Apple you are the world's largest digital Empire of games apps music and video and your phone only lets me hold a tiny thimble of it it makes no sense coming in at number 3 battery life now it does seem like a minor miracle that Apple shoved in a 64-bit processor and is still able to keep the same battery life but we want progress phones with monster battery life like the Droid RAZR MAXX have been around for two generations now so we know it can be done I would gladly trade in that 64-bit processor for an extra hour to of battery life even if it meant a slightly thicker phone and just think of all the drunken iTunes purchases Apple will get if they can just make a phone that can stay up past 8 p.m. coming in number two NFC it's not there we've been asking for this one for years a near field communication sensor like the one found in most hero Android phones out there would finally pave the way to making Apple's passbook a real mobile payment solution the fingerprint sensor gets you half way there by verifying who you are but you'll still need something like NFC if you're going to use this at the grocery checkout no one's really made this work yet but Apple is shown that they're pretty good at succeeding where others have crashed and burned all right now before I fall too far down the snark whole let's get some perspective the iPhone 5s brings a lot of new features that are a meaningful step in the right direction I mean we finally come out of the world of black and white we have colors now especially if you include the 5c the compatibility with OpenGL is going to be a big step up for graphics the camera definitely got more awesome the dedicated motion processor opens up some new possibilities for fitness and augmented reality and most of all a fingerprint sensor you know you're going to feel like James Bond for at least a week alright but now back to the big old CNET jug of haterade for the number one iPhone 5s disappointment the screen how stubborn do you have to be to sit back and watch the entire smartphone industry adopt bigger screens to the delight of customers and still insist that a 4-inch screen is the perfect size things have gotten so far gone that the brand new HTC One mini the mini is still larger than the iPhone 5s I know this is an issue that's as much Freudian as it is practical but come on Apple surely can go a little bigger without Johnny I've thrown a fit so there you have it five disappointments with the iPhone 5s that make you wonder if Apple is maybe lost a little bit of their mojo be sure to read rick boyd is full post over on CNET and for a full rundown of the iPhone 5s without the snark check out cnet.com / - - 5s i'm donald bell thanks for watching you