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okay hey what is up guys I'm Kay Bhd here and this is not the first iPhone 5s review and it probably won't be the last but sometimes when you use the device for a while longer than the typical review period for tech reviewers you get a little bit of a better sense of what you like the device for and what you don't like it for and just a little tidbits and quirks about it and overall a general idea of how well you like to use it and that's exactly what this video is about this is an iPhone 5s review from the perspective of a person who uses a lot of Google services I've done videos about iOS before this is my first iPhone review believe it or not this took me like seven iPhones to actually do a review of it but without any further ado let's get right on into this so this is the iPhone 5s in Space Gray it comes in three colors but this is the one I personally thought was my favorite it's just as familiar as the rest of the iPhones out there it's running iOS 7 it has that familiar array of icons like every other iPhone and it's just as small in fact let me start by saying that yes I'm aware that the iPhone looks very small in my hands that's because it is small in my hands the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is a phone I've carried for a while now and it feels pretty natural for me to hold but it's a bigger than average phone for most people and it has a 5.7 inch display but to me it doesn't feel all that extreme but a smaller more common option that you'll probably see more frequently is the samsung galaxy s4 this is a pretty popular phone and it has a 5-inch display and has that same general look to it as a Galaxy Note 3 but it takes up less space and involves reaching to the corners of it less but even smaller than that is the Moto X this is one of my favorite devices right now and it's very compact it stuffs a 4.7 inch display into a body that's not that much bigger than the iPhone so I can grip the whole thing but even this phone starts to look big when you compare it to the iPhone 5s this phone has a 4-inch display so it's easily the smallest of the displays on any flagship by any company right now but it's also one of the most compact mobile devices period which is something that Apple's really proud of in this phone and I don't blame them the device is really light really easy to hold and people can reach all four corners of the display with one hand although I think people could do that on a four and a half inch display too but this is also one of the most fragile feeling phones out there it's not actually fragile it's really extremely well built it's made out of premium materials like the HTC one it's got metal in there it's very tightly put together there's no creaking or any twisting or anything like that but the lack of any curves plus the glass on the back like the Nexus 4 make it feel like I better not drop this device like if I drop it from a few inches up it feels like it's very delicate and vulnerable to scratches like I should be putting a case on it or something now there are a couple of things about the battery in this device it's like we said a 1570 milliamp hour battery and that measurement is pretty small in fact this entire iPhone is about the same size as a galaxy note 3 battery which is over 3000 milliamp hours so with this having half the battery sizes and Note 3 has its pros and has its cons one of the important pros is that it charges very quickly I'd like to say it charges lightning fast but the cons are immediately that the battery doesn't last quite as long as any other smartphone out there with a larger battery now standby times are excellent on the iPhone I could go to sleep with an iPhone at 100% battery not charge it and it would wake up with 97% battery that's pretty good an Android device with a similar sized battery might be at 80% when you wake up so that's pretty good that iOS takes good advantage of what it thinks you should be closing in the background when you're sleeping but it doesn't have the best battery life during actual use in fact it's not even quite as good as the iPhone 5 I'd say maybe 5 percent worse than the iPhone 5 but it's it's about the same battery life as you'd expect from an iPhone so if you're coming from a previous generation iPhone you won't find too many surprises here with the battery life everything else about the hardware though is very well crafted we saw this in the iPhone 5 - it's solid aluminum on the sides in the back it has awesome buttons that are precisely crafted so that they don't wobble at all which is nice plus they have the laser etchings to indicate volume up and down the chamfered edges are angled ever so slightly inwards the headphone jack and the Lightning port are on the bottom with the precisely milled speaker grille holes I mean I don't think it's it's it's just about how all this is in such a small package that makes it a little difficult to appreciate which is why I think HTC one still feels just as good in the hand now the speakers on the bottom of the iPhone are one of the more interesting parts of it I expected them to be really good but check this out there are two speaker grilles at the bottom of the iPhone that looks great looks like stereo speakers but it's actually just a single driver on the right-hand side sort of echoes over to the left-hand side so if you cover up the left-hand side you will hear no change in the sound if you cover up the right-hand side where the driver is you can completely mute the speakers so you have to be sure not to do that by accident I'll give you a sample of a sound completely muted well anyway like we've said the iPhone has obviously familiar Hardware on the outside but what about the inside because that's where the main change came from between the 5 and the 5s now if you thought the Moto X was a consumer-oriented device that didn't care about specs and targeted the average consumer wait till you see the spec sheet of the iPhone 5s it has on paper the same specs as literally not even exaggerating a flagship from 2011 meet the Samsung Galaxy s2 release date April 2011 inside it had a dual-core 1.2 gigahertz chip 1 gigabyte of RAM 32 gigabytes of storage an 8 megapixel camera and a 1650 milliamp hour battery now meet the iPhone 5s release date a couple weeks ago it has a dual-core 1.3 gigahertz chip 1 gigabyte of RAM 32 gigabytes of storage and 8 megapixel camera and a 1570 milliamp hour battery so this is where Apple does its absolute best to make sure specs don't matter nearly as much as I used to they control the entire experience from the hardware to the software and there's a lot of optimization going on and in the end performance throughout iOS 7 is pretty snappy it performs on par with just about every other flagship today that has an 8 core chip and double the RAM and 20 megapixel cameras and iOS as we know never really required all that much resources to run smoothly and multitask well and not eat through battery life like a hungry wolf through steak so it's not really surprised that the iPhone 5s is quite fast especially when compared to older iPhones but how is IO s7 well for me actually like the look of ios7 at least a lot of it but its functionality is still exactly the same as iOS 6 it's essentially a layer of gloss over the top a visual overhaul if you will the motto here is you'll probably like it or learn to like it but if you don't too bad because you just can't change things you still can't customize a lot of the things that I'm used to being able to customize out-of-the-box on something like an Android phone in iOS 7 you'll probably like most of the new icons but if you don't like one or two or several too bad you might like the new keyboard but if you don't too bad you might love the new stock lockscreen or the new dialer or all the new stock applications but if you don't too bad my biggest gripe with iOS 7 was actually the animation so every time I unlock the iPhone 5s there was this new animation in iOS 7 that takes a solid half a second before it lets me do anything on the home screen and I don't like that at all and that's too bad so now anytime I want to unlock the phone and I already know I want to go to the second page of apps I have to wait for the animation to finish before I can do anything because wall is animating its unresponsive on the touchscreen still bugs me to this day I wish I could change the animation speed just speed it up a little bit there's also a lot of weird little bits of fragmentation like with the keyboard for example where if the app you're using isn't updated for iOS 7 it doesn't get to use Apple's new keyboard goodies the old iOS 7 looking keyboard which creates a bit of visual inconsistency and that will I guess be a bit of a mess until app developers get on the case and update their apps for the new OS but overall yeah I like the look of a lot of iOS 7 I think it's quite nice in a lot of areas that aren't the icons on the home screen but the functionality I still have problems with and those still remain and that's too bad now outside of this of course iOS is still a great choice for a lot of people and that obviously won't change I mean 10 million people bought this phone the first weekend it was available so it's clear that people love it and want it as a Google service user with stuff you know like Gmail Google Drive Google Calendar tasks etc you can get most of the core stuff you need and get away with it from the app store so the situation is really not that bad at all and then there are of course the few fringe benefits of the iPhone like touch ID for example which is the name for the fancy fingerprint sensor in the home button of the iPhone lets you unlock your phone or vente Kate your iTunes purchases and you can register up to ten fingers of course people have also found great ways to register things other than fingers like their toes their pets toes and even other body parts but uh it's a cool feature it works pretty well pretty accurately most of the time just note that every time you restart your phone you'll have to re-enter your whole iTunes password before using touch ID and app store again another thing that's great about the iPhone is the camera experience the camera experience in my opinion is made up of two different parts it's the quality and the control and there's a little bit of the scale I'd say between one and ten for quality and between one and ten for control a lot of devices that have ten out of ten for quality like the Lumia 1020 for example you can't just give it to a random person on the street and ask them to take a great photo with it they'll probably have a little bit of difficulty but if you get a really really easy to use camera chances are it's not going to take great photos so the iPhone strikes a nice balance because on the scale of one to ten for quality it's around an eight and on the scale of one to ten for control it's pretty simple but it's an easy to use app so that's another eight out of ten and I think that is what makes it a very likable camera you can just open it with a swipe up from the shortcut in the corner and immediately begin to take pictures so characterize the camera on the back of the iPhone 5s as a very fast camera and a bunch of different ways fast number one because it's very fast to take photos and to process shots that's number two because taking HDR's is very quick so you don't have to have it necessarily still subject fast number three because the aperture itself is very fast is wide open I believe it's F 2.0 or 2.2 which can be a little bit softer than the iPhone five but still is plenty fast and great for low-light and again fast because of the video modes in here you can take really really fast 120 frames per second video and then slow it down to 30 frames per second to get this awesome smooth slow-motion effect so this is a very fast camera what I most enjoyed about shooting with the 5s is camera though was the low-light capabilities the thing can essentially see in the dark where a lot of the other camera phones I've used fall short but you can see all the test shots that I took in the full imager link in the description right below that like button where I'll you see you know low-light shots and regular light shots and usually get the photos it takes are really pretty solid the colors were very accurate like extremely colorful and created the detail was pretty much all there it was only a little bit softer than the iPhone 5 because of the wider aperture but overall the shots you get out of this thing are very good overall though in terms of the quality of photos and videos you get and the control you have over them this is up there in some of the best smartphones you can get to take photos with so yeah using the iPhone 5s is just as you would expect you get great performance smooth animations throughout you get that super compact form factor and excellent build quality and design and material choices and you get the usual quirks with a relatively new operating system but those will either iron out or we will get used to them you get that future-proof ness with the new 64-bit architecture apple's new chip and apple having control over the whole OS and ecosystem and have a very reliable device that almost always works exactly as you'd expect it to even if you don't like the way it does something you can be confident that it'll do it that way every single time until you get used to it it's a very familiar device for a lot of people and probably isn't worth rushing to upgrade to if you're coming from an iPhone 5 but from any other older iPhone it's a great choice for all it's worth so at the end of the day there are some things that are really liked about the iPhone and some things that I really don't like obviously about the iPhone that a lot of other people will probably agree with the display is one of the most polarizing things to me I love the quality of the display I just wish it was bigger and there are a lot of things that I like about the build it's a beautifully crafted device it's just a little bit too small and feels a little bit fragile even though is in fact really sturdy no creaking or bending at all so there are some polarizing things about it at the end of the day though I'm not a big is user if you want to see a full dedicated iOS review or sort of a video on just me and iOS who free to leave a comment below or a thumbs up if you want to see something like that but either way this has been it this is the iPhone 5s in space grey thank you for watching the review and I'll talk to you guys in the next video you