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hello guys you're watching J's two cents and we're back with a little bit of a tech vlog e blog e thing that we're gonna go ahead and do today because if you're not aware or you live under a rock or in a barn which would be really interesting if you have the internet in those places i po unveiled their brand new iPhones today which is kind of a milestone for them because it's the first time they've ever unveiled two new phones at the same time so we're gonna go ahead and talk about that whether or not these phones are right for you how they stack up against some of the other androids that are on the market and whether or not you should just skip this generation altogether okay so right off the bat I don't want this to turn into an iPhone or Apple versus Android conversation I truly don't because I firmly believe that both phones offer something to the market that the other doesn't or vice versa and they definitely have their places in this market my daily use phone is an iPhone 5 here it is right here it's a white one or I guess I call it white but it's really more or less aluminum with some white glass on it I do also carry a galaxy s3 for work and I do regularly keep my eyes on the Windows Phone and stuff that's going on with Windows 8 Phone and the some of the Nokia and other the some of the other manufacturers of phones out there but with that said I'm not a fanboy either I prefer iPhone because I like the simplicity of it a lot of people like Android because they like the custom custom ability or customization abilities of the Android so getting into this don't turn this into a fanboy conversation because that's not what this is about and that being what is it that Apple's bring into the industry here in 2013 because as you know Apple only releases one phone or one generation of phone per year speaking of that as I mentioned in the intro of this video this is the first time that Apple has released two new phones at the same time and those being the iPhone 5c and the iPhone 5s what we already knew the iPhone 5s was going to be coming we probably really kind of knew it was gonna be called the 5s too because it's just the nomenclature and the Apple uses is definitely generational it's always been a for for us you know five would be 5s and you got three 3GS so our 3G 3GS is they're not very creative on their names now a lot of people believe that the iPhone 5c stands for color a lot of other people believe that it's got one of those double meetings where it could mean color but it could also mean cheap because what they're doing now is Apple used to take the old phone and they would just kind of slide it over on the chart and listed at 99 bucks or whatever for the 16 gig and that's that that's the cheap phone but now that they're doing is they're discontinuing the iPhone 5 altogether it's not gonna be available anymore I didn't think it was anything a shock I mean most of this stuff was already leaked out in the Internet all we got today was confirmation that the room were true that that is a plastic phone now I am happy to hear that they have included a metal backing a steel metal backing or plate glued to the back side of the plastic phone which gives it more rigidity so you have to worry about it creaking cracking or twisting in your hand which isn't really a problem anymore because most of the screens are glass now so that kind of gives it rigidity as well but it also gives it maybe a little bit of weight to it so doesn't feel cheap and it's not really diluting what they feel is you know the Apple brand that once they went to these metal constructed phones they are worried about diluting the product by going plastic but a lot of people want plastic it's cheaper it's more durable you know I'm about denting it I've dented the crap out of this phone before because I dropped it and I got it replaced but I got it dented in on the top and then the phone twisted and it was just I could like put it on the table and it would rock because it was so bent from one drop and here's the thing you have a cell phone you're gonna drop it so plastic is a lot more bounce friendly as they say so I do kind of like that aspect of it it basically has the same processor that's in the iPhone 5 it's the a6 processor it's a little bit faster and other than that it doesn't really have much think of it it's just a plastic iPhone 5 that's really all they did there's nothing really incredible about it for 99 bucks if you're a new customer or you have an upgrade in this market if you have a lot of money it's probably a very good upgrade path for you or a new phone path but when it comes to the iPhone 5s there's a couple of increment chain incremental changes on there it looks exactly like the iPhone 5 which we kind of expected except they've added a new color which are calling champagne it kind of looks like a very faded or pale color gold which is not I mean like I'm really disappointed with Apple in this aspect because this phone is aluminum since they went with an aluminum phone it means they could have anodized this any color they could have done blue red gold yellow green purple you know a very got black and silver yellow they could have done any color because aluminum can be dyed and anodized through or died through anodizing process so cheaply and people are saying oh it's gonna add to the manufacturing cost I don't know what you don't understand is to protect this aluminum even the black and the clear this is anodized this is an de lumen uh if you know anything about metalworking you know that even the clear and the black are anodized in fact that's how you make a black but even the clear is anodized they could have given you some real options with color but I think they felt if they did that they'd be undermining the whole point of the 5c a little bit I'm a little disappointed that it didn't go that route especially since so many third-party manufacturers or companies that are now taking these clear cases and they're anodizing them where you can get the phone customized to a color of your own choice people are already doing that and it's obvious that people want that once again Apple just didn't feel like going that route for whatever reason I don't know whatever probably the biggest change on the phone with the exception of the camera because its face it every single generation is an incremental change to the camera it's now got I think that's at five layers of glass it's got a 2.8 aperture it's supposed to be good with low-light it's got new camera functions built into it is the change of the home button and now instead of having a plastic home button it is a glass sapphire crystal cover over the button that is on top of a fingerprint reader so it's no longer a push button I don't believe I believe it's simply a sensor and what that means is you know they say you don't have to slide to unlock it anymore you can just touch it and it'll unlock because it'll read your fingerprint a couple of things that like about that one it probably means that you've got to sorry about that it probably means that you have to have your finger like on it just right or when i unlock my phone I end to hold it like this you know so you see it I kind of feel like an idiot now holding my phone like this but when I push the home screen how do i how can i do this there i tend to just kind of push with the edge of my thumb like the edge of my thumb and i don't want to now have to be very you know flat thumbed if that makes any sense a lot of people are like oh no no they're gonna be able to read your fingerprints and spiritually theorists out there when i was tweeting this i did say that i mean who knows what happens with that fingerprint reading is that a security risk in itself that's when we reading your fingerprints i don't really need to worry about with my finger prints in fact I'm already fingerprinted I'm already in the system I in the system for years because of some of the jobs that I've had security clearance getting on military bases of God I'm in the system people rusty Shackelford would be terrified if he was me I am deep in the system there's a lot of people out there just don't like the idea of have a fingerprint reader because even if they don't set it up as security every time you touch your phone your finger touches that reader so is that a good thing is that a bad thing it's up to you really and how paranoid you are with your government depending on where you live but when it comes to hardware a little bit better camera it's got the a7 processor in it which is they say 2 times faster it's also got the m7 processor in it which is it handles the gyro the Java scope accelerometer GPS and all that sort of stuff so that it take a offloads those tasks off of the main processor and it's like a secondary processor that handles all those tasks which makes your phone more efficient faster and they claim it didn't hurt battery life at all for them to add this other processor in there so that's kind of a cool thing cool thing about it being the same size and dimensions as the iPhone 5 it means all your cases and accessories are gonna fit everything's gonna be the same there it's not like when you went from the 4 to the 5 or the 4s to the 5 you get all new accessories so at least you have one more generation there and when it comes to the rear camera they did add another LED for brighter more blinding photos in the dark and the movie theatres and all those Gabby girls taking photos and blinding the out of you but really the only thing that I think is exciting is the iOS 7 change and the reason for that is because it's a whole new staff for iOS 7 I mean if you guys remember last year they cleaned house came in with a guy's name that he resigned from Apple he was the guy that was in charge of iOS a lot of people on Apple kind of felt that he might have been holding things back when it comes to iOS advancement so he departed from the company and now you've got other people running iOS so he got I Oh s7 which is supposed to bring 200 new features maybe good maybe maybe bad I don't know a scene that took a poll today and I think it said 80 80 percent or 81 percent of people polled felt the iOS 7 was a good change for Apple really what it is is it's I heard there was a really funny quote on CNET today where they Apple was claiming that the this whole operating system iOS 7 is supposed to make them more Android free being more free of Android like breaking itself apart and the guy that was talking about this article was like if you asked me I see an awful lot of Android inside of iOS 7 because really what Apple is doing now is catching up to a lot of the software development changes that have taken place with the Google developers and that's perfectly okay with me because the farther apple falls behind the more people are gonna play apples gonna play catch-up if they do catch up it means Google is gonna keep pushing ahead and you need companies like Apple and Google to be competing for US consumers to have really cool choices and options in this market now that brings me to the last thing I want to talk about here is Android and Apple and which is right for you if you're like me and you are a tech head and you work in a software development office and you are dealing with technical issues and IT and software updates and just constantly dealing with very complicated things I like a phone that's very simple I like a phone that I can just pick up push one button it's just basic I don't have to worry about rearranging you know widgets or setting things up and have a pet I just honestly I don't want all that and iPhone is perfect for me in that it's just icons I can just open up Twitter I can type and off it goes and I know and Google and Android do all that too but do you guys have all set it yourself there's a lot more to Android and androids a little bit more complicated than it comes to iPhone and that's okay there's nothing wrong with that for me personally I just want the simplicity of the iDevice now this isn't like Apple fanboys and this is a hipster ism or anything like that in fact a lot of people are shocked to find out that I prefer iPhone over Android just given the my nature of customizing everything that I don't put my device I just want to pick it up and go I don't want to worry about it I don't want to customize anything and I want to set anything up I just wanted to if I could get a feature phone a basic phone like an old Nokia that would allow me to tweet and do the Facebook and email and all that and still have a nice interface I would probably ditch some art phones all together because I'm just honestly getting tired of it but if you like to customize the experience if you want the phone to be tailored perfectly to you and you want it to just be an extension of you down to the font that you use definitely go with Android there's a lot going for Android it's definitely farther ahead than iOS and Apple when it comes to the software development you know there's nothing wrong with which what you choose I hate the Android vs. iPhone fight because honestly that's probably the most petty argument there is next to console versus PC so here's the thing here's my recommendation to you if you have an iPhone 5 like I do it's a little bit sucky to think well before I have now is getting taken completely off the market there's no reason to update though the iPhone 5s unless you want a fingerprint reader reader a little better camera skip it altogether don't even consider a 5c it's a plastic version of what you already have if you have an iPhone 4s or you have an iPhone 4 or you're coming to Apple from any other device then the 5c or the 5s is all is your only option obviously go for the 5s if you can afford the extra hundred bucks it's gonna last you a little bit longer if you're like me though waiting for that whatever is going to come out next year is the better option I would like to see a little bit bigger screen though we'd like to see a four and a half inch screen maybe a little bit wider screen when it comes to the next model iPhone so there it is guys that's my opinion when it comes to the iPhone so in about 7 days you can expect an iOS 7 review we can do another one of those Apple vs. Android type videos considering it's my where my most popular videos on this channel with considering this is a PC channel with nearly a half million views on that on my iPhone video so guys when we get on out of here thanks for listening sorry for this long rambling rant video about IAI phones and apples and stuff we'll get back to your regularly scheduled PC biased opinions next time take care this can't be right where am I I'm not in Lansing hey you can't make this up that just happened right now that just happened I'm not in Michigan I'm in California