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Apple iPhone 5s Review

32 GB     See other variants reviews Score: 73.8 / 100

Apple iPhone 5s is a high quality phone released many years ago, which features a medium sized 4-inches multi touch screen, a great 1.3 gigahertz Dual-Core 64-bits processor, an 8 MP back camera and a 1.2 megapixels front-facing camera. Let's take a deeper look at what this cellphone has to offer.

This cellphone ships with a Apple A7 system chip, packing an extremely powerful 64 bits Dual-Core CPU speeding at 1.3 gigahertz and only 1 GB of RAM which is a little disappointing for a cellphone of this level. Graphic calculations generally uses lots of processing power, so the iPhone 5s counts with a 600 MHz PowerVR G6430 graphic processing unit to unload the processor. This cellphone has a big 32 GB internal storage and whereas it doesn't count with a slot for an external memory card, it it is more than enough to install hundreds of applications without thinking about how much storage is left.

About its construction, this device is manufactured with Aluminium, giving it a premium design. Apple offers this phone in black, gray and gold. This device doesn't feel very lightweight comparing with today standards, with a weight of 3.95 oz. The iPhone 5s is just 0.3 inches thick, making its way into the thinnest cellphones podium.

Apple packed the iPhone 5s with a gorgeous 4 inches screen, and a resolution of 1136 x 640 , which makes it impossible to even distinguish the pixels composing the screen. This screen uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, with a brightness of 500 candela/m2 and is multi-touch enabled.

The Apple iPhone 5s provides WiFi connection (which can be shared with other devices acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE 4G high performance connection and also HSPA+ data connection, a bit slower 4G type and 3G fast connectivity, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. The iPhone 5s uses a Nano SIM card to connect to GSM networks and it can use both GSM and CDMA carriers.

This phone is equipped with two cameras, an 8 MP back-facing camera and a 1.2 mega-pixels front camera. this phone's back-facing camera lens has a maximum 2.2 aperture so it can shoot clear pictures even in poor lighting environments. It also films videos up to 1920x1080 (Full HD) at 30 fps, and slow motion videos in 1280x720 (HD) up to 120 frames per second. Additionally, the camera counts with a lot of interesting features: flash, auto-focus, fast burst mode, digital image stabilization, HDR mode, face detection shooting, geo tagging and time lapse video.

The iPhone 5s also features a few useful characteristics as Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

This phone comes with a 1570 mAh medium sized Li-Ion non-removable battery, which is quite low for a consuming device like this. Apple afirms this device has a 250 hours stand by time and a 10 hs talk time. A key issue to take into consideration is that the Apple iPhone 5s's battery isn't replaceable so you can't buy a new battery when it starts losing capacity, leaving no choice but to buy a new phone or maybe take the cellphone to an expert who can disassemble it and switch its battery.

Apple sells the iPhone 5s for $ 440, which is expensive for comparing with similar devices. No matter if you need it for work, want this phone majorly for internet broswing and social networks, want a gamer device or are a photography fan, you will probably be very pleased with it. Apple also sells this phone with Lightning to USB Cable, USB Power Adapter, Apple EarPods with Remote and Mic and Documentation.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Apple
Operating System (OS):iOS 8.x, 7.x
Variant:32 GB
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Dimensions:4.87 x 2.31 x 0.30 inchesMetric12.37 x 5.87 x 0.76 cmImperial
Weight:3.95 ouncesMetric111.98 gImperial
Colors:Black, Gold and Gray
Materials:Aluminium
Accessories:Apple EarPods with Remote and Mic, Documentation, Lightning to USB Cable, USB Power Adapter
Release date:2013-09-10
Price:$ 440.00

Display

Screen Type:IPS LCD (16M colors)
Size:4 inchesMetric10.2 cmImperial
Resolution:640 x 1136 pixels
Pixel density:326 pixels per inchMetric128.35 pixels per cmImperial
Brightness:500 cd/m2
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:Apple A7
Processor:Cyclone ARMv8 (Dual-Core 1300 MHz)
RAM Memory:1 GB (1600 MHz)
Graphics Processor:PowerVR G6430 (600 MHz)
Internal Memory:32 GB
SD Card Slot:No SD card slot

Battery

Battery type:Li-Ion
Removable:No
Capacity:1570 mAh
Stand-by Time:250 hours
Talk Time:10 hours

Camera

Back camera:8 megapixels
    Aperture:f/2.20
    Focal length:29mm (35mm equivalence)
    Sensor size:0.33 inches (1/3")
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:1.2 megapixels
Max video resolution:1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD)
Max slow motion video:1280 x 720 (120 fps) (HD)
Camera features:Auto-Focus, Digital Image Stabilization, Face Detection Shooting, Fast Burst Mode, Geo Tagging, HDR Mode, Slow Motion Video (4 times slower) and Time Lapse Video

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
    Mobile Hotspot:Yes
SIM Card Type:Nano SIM
LTE (4G) Bands:700 (band 13), 700 (band 17), 800 (band 18), 800 (band 19), 800 (band 20), 850 (band 5), 900 (band 8), 1700/2100 (band 4), 1800 (band 3), 1900 (band 2), 1900 (band 25), 2100 (band 1)
UMTS Bands:850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
CDMA Bands:800, 1700/2100, 1900
Technologies:LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS, GSM and CDMA

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.0
GPS:Yes
Sensors:Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor