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Apple iPhone 5s
CDMAA1533
| Global Score | |
| 75.5 | 75.8 |
| Basic Information | |
| Apple | Samsung |
| iOS 8.x, 7.x | -- |
| 2013-09-10 | 2017-01-13 |
| 4.87 x 2.31 x 0.30 inches | 5.75 x 2.81 x 0.31 inches |
| 3.95 ounces | 5.61 ounces |
| Black, Gold and Gray | Black sky, Blue mist, Gold sand and Peach cloud |
| Aluminium | Glass and Metal |
| -- | Scratch-Resistant Glass |
| $ 205.00 | -- |
| Display / Screen | |
| 4 inches | 5.2 inches |
| 640 x 1136 pixels | 1920 x 1080 pixels (Full HD) |
| IPS LCD | Super AMOLED |
| 326 pixels per inch | 424 pixels per inch |
| 500 cd/m2 brightness | -- |
| Capacitive, Multi-touch | No touch screen |
| 8.9 | 8.1 |
| Performance | |
| Apple A7 chipset | Samsung Exynos 7 Octa 7880 chipset |
| 64-bit Cyclone ARMv8 (Dual-Core 1300 MHz) processor | ARM Cortex-A53, 64-bit, 14 nm (Octa-Core 1900 MHz) processor |
| 1 GB (1600 MHz) RAM | 3 GB RAM |
| PowerVR G6430 (600 MHz) GPU | Mali-T830 MP3 GPU |
| 9.27 | 9 |
| Storage | |
| 64 GB internal memory | 32 GB internal memory |
| No SD card slot | microSDXC (up to 256 GB) external memory slot |
| 7.7 | 8.88 |
| Camera | |
| 8.00 MP + 1.20 MP | 16.00 MP + 16.00 MP |
| f/2.20 aperture | f/1.90 aperture |
| 29.00mm focal length | 27.00mm focal length |
| 0.33 inches (1/3") sensor | -- |
| 1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD) video resolution | 1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD) video resolution |
| 1280 x 720 (120 fps) (HD) slow motion video | -- |
| 8.69 | 9.24 |
| Networks | |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi |
| Mobile Hotspot | -- |
| LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS, GSM and CDMA | LTE-A (4G), LTE (4G) and HSPA |
| Nano SIM | Nano SIM, Dual SIM |
| 7.1 | 5.5 |
| Battery Life | |
| 1570mAh Li-Ion Battery | 3000mAh Li - Ion Battery |
| Non-Removable Battery | Non-Removable Battery |
| 250 hours standby time 10 hours talk time | -- |
| 3.36 | 4.96 |
| Other Features | |
| Bluetooth 4.0 | Bluetooth 4.2 |
| GPS | GPS |
| -- | NFC |
| -- | Fingerprint ID Scanner |
| Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor | Accelerometer, Barometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor |
| -- | FM Radio |
Comparison review
The Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) is a little bit better than the Apple iPhone 5s, getting a overall score of 75.8 against 75.5. Although the Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) is much newer than the Apple iPhone 5s, it is noticeably heavier and a little bit thicker. The iPhone 5s has a little more vivid screen than Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017), although it has a really smaller display, a little inferior count of pixels per screen inch and a way lower resolution of 1136 x 640.
Galaxy A5 (2017) features more memory to install games and applications than iPhone 5s, because although it has only 32 GB internal memory, it also counts with a SD memory slot that admits a maximum of 256 GB. IPhone 5s has a little faster processor than Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017), because although it has lesser and slower cpu cores and lesser RAM memory, it also counts with an extra graphics co-processor and a 64-bits processor.
The Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) has a very superior battery performance than iPhone 5s, because it has 3000mAh of battery capacity. The Galaxy A5 (2017) captures just a bit better photographs and videos than iPhone 5s, and although they both have the same 30 frames per second video frame rates and the same (Full HD) video resolution, the Galaxy A5 (2017) also has a back-facing camera with much more MP and a bigger camera aperture to capture better low-light images.
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