Here's how the iPhone 5s stacks up to the competition
The iPhone 5s was officially announced this morning, confirming pretty much all the rumors we’ve heard about the phone over the last couple of months. (We wish that gold paint-job had stayed a rumor, though.) While Apple devotees are already lining up for the company’s latest smartphone, you, the more reasoned consumer, are doing some research before plopping down your hard-earned cash and signing away the next two years of your life.
Apple’s latest iPhone is an impressive piece of hardware, but the phone will go up against stiff competition when it launches September 20. Motorola, Samsung, HTC, and Nokia all have high-end phones with impressive capabilities, but at this point it’s a tight race with no clear winner in sight.
Here’s an overview of how the iPhone 5s stacks up against its four major competitors. (You can click the chart for a close-up view):
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Apple kept the same 4-inch Retina display it used in the iPhone 5 for the 5s, but it bumped up the processing power and upgraded the sensor in the camera. Nokia’s Lumia 1020 still has a higher megapixel count, but it’ll be interesting to see what improvements are brought about by the new sensor in the iPhone 5s, especially when it comes to low-light photography. Apple’s new A7 processor uses a 64-bit architecture, giving it a theoretical edge over the 32-bit processors in other current smartphones.
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