Apple Introduces iPhone 5s Release Date, Specs Including Fingerprint Scanner: Launching September 20th, Starting At $199, And Comes In Gold!
The long-awaited iPhone 5s release date has emerged. The specs and other details were finally announced yesterday. Oh, and that's a lowercase s, mind you.
CEO Tim Cook took to the stage at Apple HQ to introduce the iPhone 5s the second of two handsets announced by Apple, and there will be gold to bling things up.
The new device, as the name implies, will be an update to the iPhone 5, much like the 3GS and 4S....only this time, it'll be available in gold.
The iPhone 5s was called "the most forward-thinking phone we've ever created" by Phil Schiller.
The iPhone 5s will come in three colors: black, silver, and gold. The iPhone 5s will be made of high-grade aluminum...but it's what's inside that counts.
The iPhone 5s will have a 64-bit A7 processor that packs in twice the number of transistors as its predecessor; Schiller says it will clock in at more than 1 billion.
Apple execs say the CPU and GPU will be twice as fast as well. Apparently, the iPhone 5s does everything twice as well-or so Apple execs hope. The 5s will also have the M7 to measure motion data.
As for battery life, Apple promises-like, crosses it's heart and hopes to die-that there will be a full ten hours of 3G talk time and LTE browsing on the iPhone 5s. And that's not all...there should be 40 hours of music playback and a whopping 250 hours on standby. Hmmm. We'll believe that when we see it.
Oh, right, and there's the fingerprint reader. Dubbed "Touch ID", the iPhone 5s fingerprint reader will be a 170-micron-thick sensor with a 500 ppi resolution built into the Home button. It can be used to securely buy stuff on iTunes as well, obvs.
There will also be camera improvements, like a larger sensor, image stabilization, burst mode, slow-mo, and even "True Tone," which features 1,000 variations of color temperatures.
The iPhone 5s handset will be available for pre-order starting this week and hit stores worldwide on the 20th in the US, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the UK.
In the U.S., pricing will run at $199 for the 16GB version, with 32GB and 64GB models running $299 and $399, just as in older versions.
What do you think of the new phone? Are you excited? Sound off in the comments below!