World, prepare yourself for the next-generation iPhone.
Rumors this season have included two new color flavors â€" gold and silver â€" along with the addition of a finger print scanner for added security. As is standard with Apple iterations, we’ve also been expecting a processor bump and even a camera upgrade.
Did all the rumors come true?
The announcement event has been underway for long enough without a mention of the iPhone, so let’s not waste any more time.
Colors
Apple has confirmed the iPhone 5S will come in a gold version as well as grey (black) and silver.
Many have considered the gold iPhone, particularly, as a very non-Apple move, but as MG explains , gold actually makes sense for the smartphone titan.
For one, gold is in right now, seen as glamorous after years of being considered gaudy. Plus, anodizing gold onto the iPhone would be far easier than anodizing the slate color used on the black iPhone 5. And beyond that, gold seems to be one of the most used colors in iPhone cases and after-purchase customization. Give the people what they want, right?
Design
The iPhone 5S certainly doesn’t look all that different from the iPhone 5. It has the two-tone back panel, albeit in new colors, and the same slim design we’ve seen before. However, the home button has changed a bit. There’s no rounded square icon in the middle of the button, but rather a ring around it.
(We’re still waiting to find out if this has to do with the fingerprint scanner we’ve been hearing about.)
New Processor
The iPhone 5S is almost entirely redesigned on the inside, with the most notable change coming in the form of a new A7 processor. The A7 Apple-built ARM CPU will have a native 64-bit kernel, libraries and drivers. The tech specs seem quite impressive: 2x general purpose registers, 2x floating point registers, over 1 billion transistors and 100 square mm die size.
In fact, it has twice the transistors as the A6 at roughly the same size. Still, the processor will run 32-bit and 64-bit apps.
According to Apple, the processor is more than twice as fast as the A6, with a 40x CPU performance bump. Graphics are said to be 56x faster.
The phone also has a brand new part called the M7, which is a motion sensor. It works alongside the A7 to continuously monitor motion from the gyroscope, accelerometer, and compass. This is meant to usher in a new generation of health and fitness apps, notes Phil Schiller, who mentioned that Nike would be building a new app leveraging this new architecture.
There’s a new part called M7, that works alongside the A7. It’s a motion co-processor.
Though Apple didn’t mention a battery size upgrade, they did note that the A7 processor will harness battery power better. Over 3G, you’ll have 10 hours of talk time. The battery/processor mix will also offer 10 hours of LTE browsing, as well as 250 hours of standby and 40 hours of music playback.
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