Apple has unveiled the new iPhone 5S which will come in gray, gold and silver and it goes on sale on September 20.
Billed as the “world’s first and only smartphone” with a 64-bit chip it features a brand new system on a chip called A7 which has more than one billion transistors which certainly sounds very impressive.
Apple says it is immensely fast – with graphics up to 56 times faster than the model it replaces.
Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, said the new flagship smartphone was “perhaps the most forward thinking phone anyone has ever made.”
It is clear that Apple is immensely proud of this new device.
It’s made from high-grade aluminum, with chamfered edges.
The iPhone 5S also comes with a new M7 motion co-processor which will continually measure motion data to allow a new generation of health and fitness apps to be used.
It also promises improved battery life – with 10 hours 3G talk time and 10 hours LTE web browsing and up to 250 hours standby time.
Apple said the phone’s main camera features a new, five-element Apple-designed lens with an F2.2 aperture and a sensor with an active area which is 15 per cent larger than the current iPhone 5.
When you take a picture the phone takes several images and chooses the best while the camera app sets white balance, exposure and creates a dynamic local tone map with autofocus matrix metering with 15 zones … all automatically.
In addition the new phone has two new flash LEDs – one cool and white, the other warm and amber – to automatically give the optimum colour balance by combining the two LEDs with more than 1,000 possible combinations.
The camera also features auto image stabilization and a ten frames per second burst mode and it will also offer 120fps slow motion while the video camera will captures HD video at 720p at 120FPS.
In additionthere is a 28-megapixel panorama mode where the iPhone adjusts exposure level automatically as you pan.
As was widely leaked the new phone will also feature enhanced security based on the user’s fingerprint.
The sensor, built right into the new sapphire home button, is 170 microns thin, senses 500 ppi and can scan in any orientation. A metal ring around the home button turns the sensor on when it is touched.
Prices of the new devices are $199, $299 and $399 on a two year contract for 16, 32 and 64GB models respectively.
