Honza Dvorsky In the American Cupertino today, Apple revealed another addition to the successful series of smartphones of the American company. The seventh iPhone in a row has the same chassis as the previous iPhone 5, it has two new chips, an improved camera with a double LED flash and a fingerprint reader.
CPU
Apple once again showed that it is not afraid to come up with a big change first, when it fitted the new A5 processor with 7-bit architecture into the iPhone 64S – the iPhone will be the first smartphone in the world to have such a chip. According to Apple, it should have up to 40x faster CPU and 56x faster GPU than the first generation iPhone. The concrete use of such performance on stage was shown by the developers of the game Infinity Blade III, where the graphics are at the level of game consoles such as XBox 360 or PlayStation 3. However, applications written for a 32-bit processor will be backward compatible.
Movement
Another improvement is the added chip labeled M7. Apple calls it a "motion co-processor" - where the 'M' is probably from the word 'Motion'. This processor should allow the iPhone to better sense the position and movement of the phone from the accelerometer, gyroscope and compass. Additionally, separation from the main CPU will allow developers to take full advantage without compromising the fluidity of the user interface. So Apple added 'M'PU (motion processor) to the classic pair of CPU (main processor), GPU (graphics processor).
Camera
As is customary with the 'S' versions of the iPhone, Apple has also improved the camera. It didn't add to the resolution itself, it just increased the sensor itself and thus the sub-pixels (more light - better photos) to 1,5 microns. It has a shutter size of F2.2 and there are two LEDs next to the lens for better color balance in the dark. The software has also been improved for this camera to bring new features along with the new processor. Burst Mode allows you to take 10 photos per second, from which the user can then choose the best photo, the phone itself will offer him the ideal photo. The Slo-Mo function allows you to record slow-motion footage at 120 frames per second in 720p resolution. The phone also takes care of automatic image stabilization.
Fingerprint sensor
Revealed in advance, but still fascinating is the new fingerprint sensor. This biometric element will allow the iPhone to be unlocked only by placing a finger on the modified Home button. Another use is as an alternative to entering a password for an Apple ID. However, for security reasons, Apple encrypts your fingerprint data itself and does not store it anywhere other than on the phone itself (so it is probably not even included in backups). With a resolution of 550 dots per inch and a thickness of 170 microns, this is cutting-edge technology. Apple calls the whole system Touch ID, and we may see other uses in the future (e.g. identification for bank payments, etc.). The iPhone can store multiple user fingerprints, so use by the whole family is expected. The reader also uses a special ring around the Home button, which activates the reading sensor. It has the same color as the phone's chassis. The reading device is additionally protected against mechanical damage by sapphire glass.
Colors
The new color for the main iPhone series was a highly discussed innovation even before the launch of the iPhone. That actually happened too. The iPhone 5S will be available in three colors, the new shade is gold, but it is not a bright gold, but a less noticeable variation of the color that can be called "champagne". The black variant has also received minor changes, it is now more gray with black accents. The white and silver version remained unchanged. The golden color should be successful mainly in Asia, where it is very popular among the population, especially in China.
Launch
It will go on sale on September 20 in the United States, Canada and other countries in the first wave, information about delivery to the Czech Republic has not yet been published, only that by the end of 2013 the phone will reach more than 100 countries around the world. The price remains the same when purchased on contract in the USA (starting at $199), so we also expect an unchanged price in crowns like the iPhone 5. For those interested in an alternative (or cheaper) version of the iPhone, the iPhone 5C was also presented today, which you can learn about in separate article. For the iPhone 5S, Apple also introduced a new line of colorful cases. These are made of leather and cover the sides and back of the phone. They are available in six different colors (yellow, beige, blue, brown, black, red) and cost $39.
Great article! :)
I would mark the entire keynote with the words "...and so on?"
The evolution of the iPhone 5S is good – faster CPU (plus 64-bit), fingerprint reader, improved camera… well, you can see a lot of work there.
iPhone 5C – is the iPhone 5 in a plastic chassis. I would be embarrassed to go on stage with that and Jony made it even better…hmm.
What about Mavericks (didn't he deserve a mention?), Macs, iPads, ATVs and best of all for us enthusiasts "one more thing"?
Omfg macbooks with haswell. Where?!
Phill probably saved the bigger job until October... :D
Kliidek, we have the whole autumn, I'm guessing 2 performances until December.
At least one Keynote is still waiting for us, as MacPro This fall. Add to that Mavericks and iPad Mini with Retina and it must be clear to you that this is not the last presentation this year.
Does anyone know when it should appear in our stores?
Until December :-D
That's the bomb! I hope that Apple is not so stupid as to compete with the competition for every megapixel in the camera... and the performance, beautiful! Zlatá also did well. Children will ask for money for 5C and wives for gold 5S. Apple did not disappoint again!
CrusoeCZ I completely agree with you..
Am I seeing wrong, or is the Home button without an inner square?
No, your eyes are fine. He probably got in the way of the fingerprint reader.
Agreement. Also quite a significant change, the original design of the Home button was with us from the beginning.
Does the square fit into the design?
It's hard to say, I'm not a designer :) But what kind of "distinctive sign" could you call it.
To me, a "sign" is something I can see from a distance. I probably won't see the square that someone has a finger on.
Whatever I call it, it sucks, I'll probably agree :D
Sure ;)
the square was replaced by a circle around the button :) I think the original meaning might have been that the button was almost "invisible" without a square, so a square with rounded corners was used... Well, since they made a circle for the sake of the reader, the button is visible with this and the square lost its meaning :) IMHO
Excited by the features and design of the iPhones, fascinated by the fingerprint reader and the speed of the iPhone 5S, very disappointed by the price and no other product launches. I really expected more from Time, like Apple TV. :-(
Good evening, do you know approximately when the 5S will be available in our country? ?????
In November-December it's like riding a horse here
lacks support for the latest / fastest wi-fi ac standard. I can see that. Shoe?
I looked at it too - I don't understand it. But most likely 802.11n will be ubiquitous for at least 10 years + Apple certainly has a good reason for this (technology or battery). But LTE will handle 100 Mbps.
Apple has never introduced 2 big products in one day, if only for the reason that they don't take away the "glory" of each other, and I'm already looking forward to what they will come up with maybe in a month :-)
Finally, it can also be seen that Apple is not only thinking about how to satisfy the masses, but mainly about how to shut them up and present a high-quality and premium product.
Another great upgrade from Apple, but I traditionally stick to a two-year cycle, so I'll skip the Sko and wait for next year...probably :) Since I don't enjoy playing with the beta, I'm looking forward to the iOS18 rollout on the 7th.
Just a small dig, there is a glaring inaccuracy in the camera paragraph. The Aperture value (f2.2) is not a shutter, it is a so-called aperture and determines how much light passes through the lens to the sensor, which affects the time at which the photo will be taken (plus ISO comes into it). As such, the iPhone has no shutter, it uses a so-called electronic shutter, nothing physical.
Yes, so it is a shutter after all. :-) Otherwise we would have to say that there isn't even a screen. The correct note should have been - it's not a closure, it's a closure.
Oh yes, please don't advise the author of the article what the figure f=2,2 means. You are mixing the proverbial apples and pears together and badly. The f2,2 value tells about the quality of the optical system as such (at maximum open aperture). So it expresses a certain ratio between how much of the ambient light passes (or does not pass) through that optical system to the chip. The lower the value of f, the higher the quality of the optical system. So one would like to say that the ideal value is f=1, but it's a bit more complicated because there were also lenses (fixed focus of course) that had if=0,98! Depth of field is related to the quality of the optical system. The higher the quality of the optical system, the more it allows you to take pictures with a shallower depth of field. It allows you to take pictures when you focus on an object and the rest is "blurred". Ideal for e.g. portrait photography or macro mode. Aperture and shutter are two different parts of a camera and each has a completely different function. The aperture (iris) is an adjustable mechanical part of the camera that allows the photographer to regulate the amount of light passing from the surroundings onto the chip. A shallow depth of field is not always desirable for a photographer (e.g. landscape photography). The shutter is another adjustable mechanical part of the camera, which indicates how long the chip will be exposed (illuminated) by ambient light. This is the "time" and it is given in seconds. Where you want the photo not to be blurred in motion, you set a short time and vice versa. E.g. in sports photography, you set the shutter to 1/650 s. That is, the light passing through the optical system will only fall on the chip for such a short time and it will create that "frozen movement". If we stay with sports photography... beautiful photos are those when, for example, a tennis player is photographed watching the ball just before hitting. At the same time, his face is sharp and the ball is already blurred - In this case, the shutter is set to a very short time (just 1/8000), the aperture is maximally open (we have a small depth of field), i.e. the maximum possible amount of light that it allows passes through the optical system (e.g. f=2,8). That's why high-end lenses with a variable focus have the same brightness throughout the entire range (most often just f=2,8). And that's why even the worse lenses have the indicated aperture range, e.g. 28 – 200 mm/ f=4 – 5,6. This means that at a small focal length (28 mm) you have a lens aperture of f=4, but when you zoom in on the object (200 mm), the lens only allows you f=5,6. Which in turn means that you have to set a longer time (on the shutter) in poorer lighting conditions, which is why the photos are often blurry at long focal lengths (the so-called "can't hold them"). Then it is convenient to have a tripod. Let's sum it up: f indicates the quality of the camera's optical system, the aperture affects the amount of light falling on the photosensitive chip, and the shutter regulates the time for which the chip will be exposed to the incident light. About ISO next time :-)
F or aperture number does not say anything about the quality of the optical system. You can buy an f1.4 lens that takes terrible photos, but also amazing ones. As I wrote, the value of f2.2 determines how much light passes to the chip with the shutter, it has nothing to do with it.
Just brightness.
The aperture number of the lens tells about its quality. The better the optical system, the more light it lets through. It tells you what minimum aperture you can set on your camera in conjunction with that lens. The lower it is, the better the optics of the lens. That is a fact. Please send me a link to photos taken with the of=1,4 lens, which are worth nothing. Or at least a review of the sf=1,4 lens, which is worth nothing. I agree with your last sentence. I also didn't write that the shutter has anything to do with the amount of light. Read it more carefully. I wrote that the shutter affects HOW LONG the light acts on the chip - that is, how long its exposure is.
Your thesis on the topic of conclusion vs. I didn't read the luminosity, I don't have time for that. The fact is that Apple indicates an aperture of f2.2 on its website... The fact that the author of the article is not familiar with the issue is another matter.
Shutter and aperture are 2 different things. One takes care of the length of the exposure, the other of the amount of light falling on the light-sensitive surface.
I don't understand the absence of wi-fi "ac" standard in the new iPhone 5S. Why isn't there? After all, Apple already uses it in AirPort Extreme, etc.
I'll just correct it: Shutter is SHUTTER in English. What you translate as shutter is APERTURE. In other words, the commonly used aperture or aperture number in photography. Please fix it. This is the umpteenth time and every time I read it, my eyes bleed and my brain short circuits.
I apologize for the inaccuracy regarding the camera, I don't do it myself. Definitely thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out.
As for the writing, it was about getting the essentials about the new iPhone out as quickly as possible - more detailed articles will come, this was written during the keynote.
We don't say anywhere that it feels more user-friendly - only that it feels like using the whole family. If the iPhone supports multiple fingers, then each finger can belong to a different family member. Of course, this is not true support for respect, but I really didn't claim that anywhere.
You don't write it anywhere, but the phone is like a passport - only you and no one else have it. As for the family, the new big iPad could come with a fingerprint reader, then it would make sense.
I personally imagine that a person unlocks the phone once with his thumb, because he is holding it in his palm, and another time, for example, with his index finger, because the phone is lying on the table. Sometimes we injure our fingers and before they heal, it would be silly to take off the band-aid from our thumb every time or enter a numerical password that we no longer remember.
The idea of a phone, which is such a personal thing these days, seems to me misguided and feasible only through user accounts with pre-set restrictions.
I'm only partially paranoid, but the fingerprint reader bothers me a lot. NSA :(
Yes, the NSA will run in and steal your new iPhone 5S so they can take it to the lab and get your fingerprints off of it. Exactly how many people will this happen to?
:))) Probably somehow ....
In addition, the fingerprint itself is not stored in the iPhone, only the hash of it :-) So the NSA can pull as much as possible.
I hope it is clear that by encrypting and storing it only on the chip, it is impossible to get the fingerprint itself out? It's like a password - the secret data is converted to a hash and it is checked. The fingerprint itself is therefore not stored in the iPhone - just like secure servers, they never store your password, only the hash of it.
So I would be more afraid of being run over by a car tomorrow than someone getting a fingerprint from my iPhone :)
Well, classics, play SW, factory settings, DFU mod and set your own fingerprint, if it doesn't work like this, here is another functional guide. If they would rather focus on other shortcomings, some kind of fingerprint :D
Soon.. At WWDC, Apple presented iOS 7 with Find my iPhone integrated under its own OS. That is as soon as I activate my iPhone with some Apple IDs, it is not possible to transfer and set another Apple ID. Even after playing the OS (I tried it myself) - you still get a message that you cannot activate the iPhone without the owner's Apple ID.
This was to prevent stolen iPhones from being resold. And in combination with a fingerprint sensor, it will be very difficult to hack an iPhone :) Both Find My iPhone and Fingerprint data are stored in a protected area of the chip itself.
But to that question - do you really think that Apple didn't think of this? :D You must have a very low opinion of them. It will cost billions of dollars to jailbreak an iPhone 5S, if it's even possible, and it's definitely not something a casual jailbreaker can do.
So if someone steals it from me (it's going to be stolen anyway), they can just throw it to the ground. And how will I sell it? My iPhone? I'll cancel the protection so that a new user can put it there, so he has to go around it. ;)
Well, it's the way it is, something like a fingerprint on a phone is pointless nonsense. But I can already see how it's going to be so much fun with a beer in a pub :D
I think that's better than nothing. More than 50% of people didn't even use a 4-digit passcode - so overall it could improve security a bit.
Absolutely everything is better than nothing, even the biggest cows!
Well, I don't see why you are so angry about the fact that Apple introduced a fingerprint sensor in the new iPhone. It won't affect your life in any way, so what's the point? :-)
In my opinion, and most likely also Apple (because it added it there), it will add to the security and Apple devices will be less prone to theft in the future, because they will not be able to be sold (which creates a huge demand today). As soon as the demand disappears, a few less devices will be stolen and thieves will focus on the last devices that they can grease and sell again. And that's quite an improvement for Apple customers. So what's the problem?
I like your convictions. If I treat the device the way the price demands, it cannot happen to me that I will be robbed, I never have been and I believe that I will not be. I would appreciate the development of other things!
That's right, the maximum team can hit the ground - and since people steal for money, not for pleasure, the total number of stolen iPhones will decrease quite a bit after a while :) Don't worry, Android will have it too in a few months or years.
Well, of course, when you want to sell your iPhone, simply log out of Find My iPhone on your phone. This will unlock it. It's just that the account logged into Find my iPhone is the only account with which you can activate the phone after reinstallation.
A mistake, it's primarily stolen out of envy and if it can't be cashed in, you won't have it either, if not me ;)
There are many reasons for theft, and the thief will not know that it has any fingerprints, so he will take it anyway.
We disagree on that - in my opinion, the vast majority of stolen electronics end up in bazaars. So they steal for money. If they then tell them in the bazaar that iPhones cannot be sold because they are blocked, they will steal something else. I don't believe that thefts will drop to zero, but in an organized way they will drop by half. And it's worth it in my opinion. In any case, it's stupid that it has absolutely no effect on theft - everyone has to admit that :-)
Well, it doesn't matter, here in this country people steal just to steal, so I don't think any fingerprint will tear it off ;) and as I wrote above, the thief has no idea that it has any fingerprint, he just knows that it is that iPhone for 20k
I'm not denying that, I'm just saying that when we look at the total numbers, in New York alone, about 20 iPhones are stolen per year (per month? I don't know exactly :D) - it doesn't matter - tens of thousands - so in the moment when find out that they cannot be sold, this number should be reduced to 000. It is not absolute, but it is a good advice before all Android manufacturers :) Find my iPhone + fingerprint reader will stop 5% of hackers/thieves.
The first iPhone I don't want to own..
it was already 5 for me
Also, I have a 4S and as soon as there is no update, some Android will come on the scene (because of performance), I will miss iOS!!
By the way, the plastic is 2k cheaper, who needs to save NOK 2 for goods that cost NOK 000?
I think Apple is doing very well, I fully agree with everything they have done. I really like their policy and especially their thinking and very good understanding of real values - I don't look for numbers but real performance - a good photo is not made by megapixels, real performance is not made by gigahertz. Finger reading is incredible, no codes or passwords, just be careful and don't cut off your fingers. There are 3 types of iPhones on offer - each with a different design and diagonals - there is a 3,5-inch for people with "small hands :-)", a 4-inch 5C for teenagers, people of color, and mainly toy Japanese women - an absolutely essential step for school-age youth and people who like extravagance, my high school sister who has a 5 would change immediately Then there is the 4-inch premium 5S for business class and people with a mature style, I won't look at the price and just buy the new generation and the old sales - and for husbands in gold. Well done Apple!
Gee, fingers will be cut xD