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the iPhone 5s is faster it's got a better camera and a pretty awesome fingerprint reader but it kind of looks the same as the iPhone 5 so is going to see if those upgrades are enough to keep Apple in the smartphone game today's video is made possible by Squarespace what is going on Tech people's Jonathan here with TLD hope you guys are doing well I am back with my full review of Apple's latest flagship for 2013 the iPhone 5s now I've gotten a chance to use it for around two weeks now so I feel comfortable bringing you my thoughts and insight on it and believe it or not that's actually after using pretty much nothing but Android for the better part of around a year and that range from the galaxy note 2 to the Nexus 4 to the HTC One to the galaxy s4 you went through a little Windows action in there with the Lumia 1020 and then more recently the Moto X and actually just got the monsterous Galaxy Note 3 in-house so thumbs up if you guys are excited to see comparisons I'm pretty much every one of those smart phones against the iPhone 5s now needless to say after using all those phones it was a little bit difficult going back to a 4-inch display on the iPhone because for me personally my ideal screen size on a smartphone is between 4.7 and 5 inches but at the same time you got to realize not everybody wants or even needs a huge display on their smart phone the beauty of being a consumer is that we have choice so you choose what suits you best now what somebody else says is best but what is most comfortable to you and what suits you the best so if you happen to like the form to display and the form factor of the iPhone then awesome I am here to bring you a balanced perspective and review on it but alternatively if you absolutely cannot use a screen that small then that's cool brother or sister there are plenty of other fantastic options out there now regardless of size or pixel density the display on the iPhone 5s is still one of the best looking smartphone displays on the market so like I said it sizes in at 4 inches diagonally with a resolution of 11 36 by 640 exactly the same as the iPhone 5 so it's not as pixel dense as something like the galaxy s4 or HTC One but in terms of brightness viewing angles and overall color accuracy it still looks absolutely killer now aside from the fingerprint reader touch ID home button on the front and the dual LED flash on the back which I will cover shortly the iPhone 5s looks exactly the same as the iPhone 5 and that rain just from the dimensions to the button placement to the actual lightness and weight of the phone but we do actually see two new colors on the iPhone 5s the first of which being Space Gray which actually replaces slate it's more of a graphite color and as goofy of a name as it is it is actually my favorite color right now with the iPhone 5s lineup next is the highly sought-after gold model which is extremely hard to find at the moment and last but not least the classic silver and white that we saw on the iPhone 5 now there were rumors at the possibility of 128 gigabyte iPhone 5s but those were put to rest as the current lineup stands at 16 32 and 64 gigabytes that's going to run you give or take at the time of this video $1.99 $2.99 or 399 respectively what they knew to your US contract but if you are interested in unlocked pricing and availability I will have those links down below now for me there are three major points and what separate the iPhone 5s not only against the iPhone 5 and 5c but also the iPhone 4s and obviously those before that and those are the fingerprint reader or the touch ID sensor as Apple has dubbed it the a7 processor and last but not least the camera now before I continue in someone freaks out and tries to chuck their big oak do their screen at my face I do on a state that Apple did not invent the fingerprint reader technology we actually saw a fingerprint reader on the Motorola Atrix couple years back it wasn't adopted so well but it was their first Apple actually paid a hefty amount of Benjamin's to the company authentic who have perfected the fingerprint technology so that Apple could then implement it into the iPhone 5s which they have and they've done it well so what it is is a super high resolution touch capacitive sensor that can store up to five different fingerprints so whether that's multiple fingers both your thumbs your girlfriend your wife your kids you can store up to five different fingerprints set up was relatively easy it only takes about a minute or two and once you're up and going it offers 360 degree readability so it doesn't matter which way your fingers facing it's gonna unlock it I will say though one gripe that I had is even with the touch ID unlock in place it still has these slide to unlock options so by instinct for the first couple weeks for me I kept wanting to slide to unlock there would be my password screen and I wasn't quite used to the touch ID just yet now I have since gotten used to it and it's become more instinctive to just unlock it with my thumb instead of sliding to unlock but I do wish Apple would give an option to not have that text there at all or at the very least make it less prominent so as far as my thoughts after using it for a couple weeks it is obviously faster than entering a password or even sliding to unlock and it is super awesome not having to enter your password for an iTunes or App Store purchase but it's definitely one of those things where if you use it and you get used to it and then go back to a phone without it then you'll miss it but if you happen to not have it on your phone it's definitely more of a luxury kind of feature not something that you absolutely have to have or a reason to upgrade the next major point is the a7 processor and this is the perfect example of why specks why cores why gigahertz mean absolutely zero unless the performance is there the efficiency and overall the software optimization is there to back it up because on paper you'd probably laugh at the specs the iPhone 5s it's rocking a dual-core 1.3 gigahertz processor with a whopping 1 gig of ram it does however have a quad core GPU but if you stack it up against most smartphones you would think that the iPhone 5s would get eaten alive but the fact of the matter is though it is insanely fast it's actually nearly twice as fast as the iPhone 5 so it absolutely flies there is no lag it doesn't slow down it absolutely tears through games now it's a shame there's not a bigger display with a higher resolution to take advantage of those graphics but regardless it is still a beast of a processor and on top of that the a7 processor now features an m7 coprocessor which acts as its p IC and virtual high five to anybody who gets that reference now the m7 coprocessor acts as a sidekick to the a7 processor and focuses solely on motion data I did get a chance to test it out on pedometer plus plus which takes advantage of the m7 coprocessor now what happens is even if the app is closed and your phone is asleep when you're walking it's going to track that motion data and store it onto the m7 processor not using the power from the a7 chip effectively saving battery life and then from there once you reopen the app it's going to take all that information is stored on the m7 processor update the app and as you can see it works really well now if you were trying to count along I did take 48 steps and it actually accounted for all 48 steps now you might have noticed I have mentioned zero about the iPhone 5s being 64-bit and that is because in terms of what it adds as far as performance that is zip 64-bit architecture takes advantages of systems with over 4 gigabytes of RAM obviously the iPhone 5s only has one so it's not going to take of that so well it does have zero effect on the iPhone 5s the fact that app will open the store it's awesome for everybody including Android users Samsung has already stated that their next flagship phone will be based on 64-bit architecture the galaxy note 3 for example already has 3 gigabytes around so you bet your ass when that Galaxy Note 4 might have 4 or 5 6 gigs of RAM with Apple open in that door everybody wins so again it is very important in terms of opening that door for the smartphone market but it should not be a reason of why you buy the iPhone 5s so the last major feature on the iPhone 5s is the camera and like I talked about on my top 5 iPhone 5s features video megapixels do not equal quality the iPhone 5s is still 8 megapixels but they increase the sensor size and they also increase the pixel size much like we saw on the HTC One so the megapixels on the iPhone 5s now sized in at 1 point 5 microns for reference the HTC one sizes in at 2 microns whereas most smartphones are around one they also widen up the aperture to an f-stop of 2.2 which is gonna help you get that blurred out shallow depth of field look and all that is ultimately going to help out with low-light performance so here's an example of the iPhone 5 right next to the iPhone 5s and you can see the iPhone 5s does a much better job with low-light pictures also new is true tone flash which is two separate LED flashes one is white one is Amber it'll actually gauge the lighting environment you're in - not only adjust the flash intensity but also the color temperature to give you the most accurate and neutral skin tone now I personally don't use flash all that often on the smartphone but if you happen to use it a lot this does make a huge difference this is actually my buddy Frankie over at his baby shower this past weekend him and his wife Alicia are expecting their brand-new baby girl Aurora later this month so of course congratulations from TLD there is also now burst mode so the iPhone 5s will shoot 10 frames per second for basically as long as you hold it and what it will do after the fact is actually put all those pictures in a collection in a group that way your photo gallery isn't bombarded by 8 million photos it'll kind of automatically select what it thinks your favorites will be and of course you can go within that and manually choose your favorite pictures from those shots you of course also do get a 1.2 megapixel 720p FaceTime HD camera on the front nothing is really new there and then jumping back to the rear camera video probably my favorite feature of the iPhone 5s in terms of the camera is slow motion video so what it does is shoot 120 frames per second at 720p and if you were to think about it in terms of a 30 frames per second project you could actually slow that down to a quarter speed and not lose any frames with that said like I talked about in my iPhone 5s unboxing this was some of the most fun I've had testing out a feature on a new phone and what I mean by that is just watch you you so yeah thumbs up if you guys enjoyed that and lastly the iPhone 5s also there's shoot 1080p video and here is a quick sample so you guys can see how that looks so this is a 1080p rear-facing camera test we got melody hanging out and up comes Big Mac Big Mac goes crazy for his uh basketball what is up dude LD sahagun don't get it and melodies get a little jealous so it's been a quick little test of how it looks is going to jump back into the review now in terms of battery life that was one of the areas with the iPhone 5s that I found myself disappointed with not to say that it was bad or terrible by any means it just really wasn't any better than the iPhone 5 so as much as the processor has advanced the battery really hasn't jumped at all now of course the iPhone 5s does ship with iOS 7 which is a complete overhaul of anything we've seen before and there are a lot of good things I like about iOS 7 and there are some things that drive me crazy I really do like the access to quick settings so you can quickly access and toggle your Wi-Fi bluetooth brightness you can control your music player airdrop actually works really well with other iOS 7 devices in terms of sharing videos or pictures you also have access to your flashlight your timer your calculator and lastly the camera notifications are much improved multitasking is also better where now you can actually swipe to close apps but it still drives me crazy that you cannot close all apps at once you have to individually close them or you can actually kind of trick it and use multiple fingers to close multiple apps at once but you still could not kill everything at once the overall speed of iOS 7 is awesome and that combined with the processing power of the iPhone 5s is a killer combination on the other hand some of the icons on iOS 7 are absolutely atrocious and they make my heart sad the Safari icon looks like I got smacked with a fugly stick and I am not even gonna talk about the Settings icon now all that aside the iPhone 5s at the end of the day is still one of the top smartphones on the market if you don't like iOS 7 then obviously it's not going to be for you if you don't like a smaller screen that is not going to be for you you're gonna want to look else for to Android and obviously a bigger display now if you're coming from an iPhone 5 I wouldn't say that it is a must-have upgrade like I've talked to some of my family who are asking me is it worth it to go from the 5 to the 5s and I couldn't comfortably tell them yes go sell your iPhone get the 5s because to me there's not really enough there yes it's faster but unless all you do is game you're really not gonna notice that extra performance not like you're gonna make phone calls 10 times faster now the other hand if you really use your camera a lot on your phone and you think the flash or the slow motion video might benefit you then maybe there's a reason there but overall I think you really can wait till the next iPhone comes out and kind of save your money for now now lastly like I talked about the fingerprint reader it's definitely more of a luxury than necessity and it's not something again that you need to go sell your iPhone 5 just to have if you're coming from an iPhone 4s or anything earlier than that and you don't have any interests in Android or Windows Phone then yes by all means upgrade to the iPhone 5s it will be a huge upgrade for you so at the end of the day while the iPhone 5s isn't my perfect phone there is a lot to like about it it's insanely fast it's got an awesome camera and the fingerprint reader does work really well now before I hop out of here I want to give a quick shout out to Squarespace for making this video possible if you guys aren't aware Squarespace is probably the easiest and simplest way to set up your own website they have over 20 customizable themes an awesome 24/7 support based out of New York City now when you're building your website everything is optimized automatically so whether you're on your laptop your desktop your smartphone tablet everything is gonna look good pricing starts at just eight dollars a month plus you get a free domain if you sign 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