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Just my two cents, don't buy the iPhone 5c.
As much as it pains me to use the word futureproof, if you are one of those people who likes to hold onto their device for a while - the 5s is as good a starting point as any.
via Anandtech
And then via Twitter:
I just spent the past week doing the best I can to understand Apple's A7 SoC. In short? It's insanely fast. http://t.co/AgWzGv1ljr
A fantastic overview on the both new iPhones. Andy Ihnatko also details the security concerns that some might have with the new biometric scanner.
Biometric authentication is a great idea. But it has to Just Plain Work, every damn time, or else it’ll be relegated to the Scrapheap of Good Intentions where most of the new software features on a Samsung phone wind up.
It was so easy that I was able to train it within just three minutes. And while I didn’t have all that much time to try to trick the sensor there in the demo room, it worked flawlessly on the finger that I’d trained and not at all on any of my other fingers. You can train it to recognize up to five digits.
Did I worry about handing over detailed scans of my finger to a phone that I didn’t own? Nope. The phone destroys all copies of the data it collects as soon as it’s read your finger … and your fingerprint data isn’t backed up to the cloud.
When it comes down to having the best of the best, some people have asked me why it's worth it. Bottom line... over the course of a year or two, I'm shelling out $1.5 a day or $0.07 an hour for something that I'm on ALL THE TIME! Does that make it worth it... yes! The fact of the matter is that I might end up paying another $400 once I sell my iPhone 5 64GB in White for AT&T, but as the number one tool in your pocket? It's dumb to have a "free" iPhone 4S which is two years old and keep it for another two years. Also, if the iPhone 5c is nothing more that a .1 update to the iPhone 5, it's not worth it. The camera, and Touch ID alone along with the A7 64-bit processor, I'm expecting nothing but awesome with the new iPhone 5s. This also puts me in line with Brian Lam of The Wirecutter on the new iPhone 5s. I asked him a while back on the iPhone 5 and he responded to me via twitter with good points. He also recently wrote this on his website too.
I’m just saying you should upgrade because a few hundred bucks is not really a lot of money for something if you use it all the time, every day, and are already paying a hundred bucks and change a month in service fees over several years.
I'm going to find out what I can fetch for my iPhone 5. Any offers? Gazelle is up to $360 $340 buy I wonder if I could get $450 on Craigslist? It's still jailbroken too by the way running iOS 6.0.2.
update: Lifehacker also talks about future proofing for only $100.
Considering the price difference between the two models is only $100, your best bet if you have the cash is the iPhone 5s for future proofing, which is worth it considering since you'll have to sign a new two year contract to get the discounted pricing.
If you haven't been following the news of my twitter stream today, around 10AM Apple started its annual iPhone event. You can read all about it on Apple's website but here are a few details. The iPhone 5c is a colorful addition to the lineup with white, pink, yellow, blue and green while the 5s will be offered in silver, space gray and the new gold. The biggest highlights come from the iPhone 5s debuting a new camera, dual LED flash, slow motion video at 120fps, and the new biometric Touch ID home button that can be used to purchase apps on the App Store and primarily unlock your phone. For the techies out there, it's also the first smartphone in the industry to have a 64-bit A7 processor making it 2x faster than the now defunct iPhone 5. The 5c starts at $99 available for pre-order this Friday while the 5s can be ordered starting on the 20th. At $199, you'll have to chose between a 16GB iPhone 5s with all those new features of the 32GB iPhone 5c. Which one will you go with?
If you want a thorough update on what's new on the iPhones, check out 9to5mac. You can also find both iPhone 5s videos on Apple's website here.
