Summary: Apple unveils iPhone 5s and 5c, announces ship date for iOS 7
The rumor-mill nailed the main part of Apple’s Tuesday announcements: The company is indeed releasing two new iPhones, the 5s and the 5c, the first with dramatically improved hardware, the second with a dramatically lower price. It also committed to a date when it would release iOS 7. But rumor-mongers rash enough to predict new Apple TV hardware or software, new iPads, or a smartwatch were disappointed.
New iPhones: Surprise!
In the past, Apple has provided a ‘budget’ alternative to its current smartphone by continuing to sell previous generations at sharp discounts (see, for example, the simultaneous availability of the iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, and iPhone 4). But now the company now has two current iPhone product lines, one at the higher-end, the other one more affordable. (It’ll continue to sell—or, rather, give away—the 8GB iPhone 4s.)
The iPhone 5s (no word this time on what the ‘s’ stands for—and it is indeed lower-case) provides a couple of features to justify its higher price. The first big one is a fancy new A7 processor, which Apple says is roughly a jillion times faster than the chip that powered the plain old iPhone 5. It also sports a brand new M7 “motion coprocessor” chip, which could empower some nifty new motion-sensitive apps.
Apple is also touting the 5s’s new camera, with a new Apple-designed lens plus a larger active sensor area and bigger pixels on the sensor. (Bigger pixels should in theory lead to better pictures.) The camera also includes a new True Tone Flash (to adjust for ambient lighting conditions), automatic image stabilization, and a burst mode that’ll take 20 pictures in two seconds.
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