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iPhone 5c Review

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Upon receiving the iPhone 5c I thought two things; it’s pretty and it’s, actually, just a phone. The second comment upset my mother and fiancee, who were fast to tell me that the iPhone is certainly not ‘just a phone’. So with such passion inspired by this little smartphone I decided to give it a fair chance. I love Apple products myself and the only non-Apple piece of tech I own is my phone. Which is a Blackberry (don’t laugh), it is awful and never works. In fact, by the end of this review if I haven’t convinced you to get an iPhone I have absolutely no problem with that, after all this is only a review, but please, for the love of god, do not get a Blackberry. I don’t know a single person who is happy with them.

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So, to the iPhone 5c review.

It’s pretty and pink. It looks the part; cool, high-tech, slick, expensive. There is a lot of screen which I love. I have seen people watch movies on iPhones and you can do so and have a great viewer experience. It comes in bright colours (green, yellow, pink, blue, white) and is the lower cost version of the iPhone, a cheaper version of the iPhone 5s. This was the first time Apple released two versions of the iPhone at the same time. Not only is it gorgeous, but it is also not made with cheap plastic. It is made from steel-reinforced, machined polycarbonate, and then coated in a glossy finish. The craftsmanship, the colours, the design, is all stunning. Although the cheaper version it is not a cheap phone. It will cost less to make and Apple will get a high profit margin but that doesn’t come across in the phone. It also has a great 4-inch Retina Display screen.

It has a lot of features that the iPhone 5 had but comes with an improved front-facing camera and global LTE support. The minus with the iPhone 5c is that you are not getting a lot of new technology. It is a lot like the iPhone 5 when it comes to features, which means you are paying a lot of money for a phone without a lot of new features. You also don’t get the fingerprint scanner that the iPhone 5s has.

If you are not someone who needs the latest technology and features then the iPhone 5c is a really good buy. It is smaller than the iPhone 5, which was long and slim. It is chunkier too but I like the size and you still get a decent screen. It is certainly lovely to look at. It was hard to not feel happy when holding a hot pink iPhone. The ‘c’ could mean ‘colour’.

It comes with iOS 7 and runs smoothly. It has good battery life. Something that used to be a negative with iPhones, they needed charged half-way through the day if you were lucky. The iPhone 5c has a lot going for it, although I know a few people see it as an iPhone for poor people. In fact, there is no such thing. Poor people definitely cannot afford iPhones, but with the lack of new software on the iPhone 5c it is easy to see why some people see it as a lesser version. However, it’s not. It is a good phone in it’s own right and it is beautiful to look at. So just make your own mind up.

iPhone 5c (green/ blue/ yellow/ pink/ white) available for £19 on Vodafone Red 4G-ready plans from £42 per month

iPhone 5S Launched – First Look Specifications

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Apple has just launched two new phones. The more expensive and faster 5S and the new cheaper plastic 5C. Here are the first look specifications for the 5S (5C coming soon).

iPhone 5S Specifications

New Colours

The iPhone 5S will come in new colours; silver, space grey and gold

8 Mega Pixel Camera

Apple claims to have made big strides with the iPhone camera, despite deliberately not focusing on increasing the number of pixels. Apple claims that the bigger pixels take better pictures.

Tim Cook said ‘We think deeply about the experience we want to create’

It has a brand new sensor with an aperture of f/2.2. The sensor is also 15% larger which should help it to perform better in low light. Like the Samsung S4 the new iPhone camera now features a burst mode which takes up 10 shots per second. The video camera can now take slow motion video at 120fps in 720p.

Perhaps the biggest hardware feature of the camera is a new ‘True Tone’ dual LED flash. This should make a big difference to the cameras performance in low light. Until now the small bright flashes on all smartphone have always taken poor quality images. We’ll have to wait and see if Apples prove to be true.

Fingerprint Sensor

The fingerprint sensor has been integrated into the Apple home button. The sensor can apparently read your finger from any direction. It can be used to unlock the phone but also as an authentication when making a purchase from the app store. It has also been speculated that app developers will create new applications which will take advantage of the feature, although fingerprint data is encyrpted and will be stored inside the phone and won’t be to iCloud or Apple’s servers.

A7 Chip

Apple claims its new chip is the first 64bit chip in a smartphone. Apple claims the new chip will run much faster than previous phones, perhaps even twice as fast. It should be much better at playing more powerful games as Apple demonstrated. It has been fully optimised to run with iOS 7. Apple’s new operating system.

M7 Chip

The new M7 chip continuously measures motion data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass which should make it possible to develop a range of new apps, especially health and fitness apps which have become very popular recently. This technology may also point to a future Apple smartwatch.

Battery Life

Battery life is improved. It has 250 hours of standby, 10 hours of browsing on LTE, and 10 hours of talk on 3G. This might actually be the most useful of all the 5S’s features as many previous smartphones struggle to last for a day.

iOS 7

The new iPhone 5S will come with Apples brand new operating system iOS 7. Apple already showed off iOS 7 during the summer (It will be possible to download on the 18th September). iOS 7 is Apples biggest software overhaul for a long time. The user interface has been completely redesigned by Johnny Ive. The new operating system is packed with loads of new features. One of the biggest is Apples new radio service which will compete with Spotify and Pandora. Apple should hopefully improve on its heavily criticised map application. It will probably be the software optimised with the new hardware which will be the main reason to buy this phone.

Price

The iPhone 5S will start at $199 for the 16GB model on a two-year contract, 32GB at $299 and 64GB at $399.