Apple officially announces iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S (What you guys think)

Today Apple officially announced the much rumored budget friendly iPhone 5C and the high-end iPhone 5S.



The iPhone 5C is made of hard-coated polycarbonate, features a 4-inch Retina display and A6 processor (same as the iPhone 5), slightly larger battery, 8-megapixel iSight camera with BSI, hybrid IR filter and 5-element lens, new Facetime HD camera (1.9-micron pixel size, BSI and FaceTime audio) and supports more LTE bands than any other smartphone in the world.



It will be available in blue, white, pink, yellow and green for $99 for the 16GB and $199 for the 32GB version with a new 2-year contract.



The iPhone 5S is made of high-grade aluminum, its powered by a A7 chip and it's "world's first and only smartphone" with a 64-bit chip, it's twice as fast in speed and graphics (40 times faster CPU and 56x faster GPU than the original iPhone) and runs OpenGL|ES 3.0.There is also a new part called M7, that works alongside the A7 that continuously measures motion data (accelerometer, gyroscope and compass). It comes with improved battery that will provide up to 250 hours of standby, 10 hours 3G talk time, 10 hours of LTE and browsing, 10 hours of video playback and 40 hours of music playback.



There is also new iSight camera, it has a 5-element Apple designed lens with f/2.2 aperture, a new flash called True Tone (double LED) that solves the problem of clashing color temperatures (there are over 1,000 unique variations), auto image stabilization new burst mode - 10 frames per second, and Slo-Mo feature that captures HD video at 720p at 120 fps.




The iPhone 5S is equipped with a fingerprint (Touch ID) sensor built right into the home button (made of sapphire), it's 170 microns thin, senses 500 ppi, scans your sub-epidermal skin layers and 360-degree readability. You can simply touch your home button to unlock your phone but you can also make iTunes purchases by using your finger to authenticate, it can be set easily and can read multiple fingerprints.

The iPhone 5S will be available in space grey, silver and gold color options. It will be up for pre-order starting September 13 and will hit the stores in US, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the UK on September 20. What about the price? It remains the same, 16GB for $199, 32GB will cost $299, while the 64GB is priced at $399. Apple promises that by December 2013 the iPhone 5S will be available in more than 100 countries.

Apple has announced that iOS 7 will be available starting September 18 and will be compatible with iPhone 4 and newer, iPad 2 and newer, iPad mini, and 5th-gen iPod touch. Also Keynote, Pages, Numbers, iPhoto and iMovie apps will be free for new devices (iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S).

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