The most glaring indicator was one night where I forgot to plug the 4S in before bed. I enjoyed the phone for a few days, but quickly realized there was some sort of issue with battery life. I picked up a 4S from my local Apple Store, restored from the backup of my 4, and off I went. The iFixit teardown (which revealed a higher capacity battery – presumably to counter power draw of the additional CPU), coupled with the improved camera and witnessing the endless toying around with Siri finally got me to bite the bullet. With my reservations against the new OS put to rest, the only thing holding me back was the possibility of the new dual core CPU drawing more power than the iPhone 4. While some of the iOS 5 betas were a bit unruly in the battery life category, those problems appeared to be sorted out by the last and final beta prior to release. I was a bit of an iOS 5 veteran by then, as I’d been using it to test applications for a developer friend of mine. Throughout all of these, I feel Apple did their best to prevent new versions from breaking application functionality, and while they did their best to keep bugs under control, every so often a few would creep in – typically with cross-compatibility of new features that could only be tested in a limited capacity before being released into the wild.Īpple’s iPhone 4S introduced some added features to their line-up – enough to get me to bite the bullet earlier than I typically do. I’ve also witnessed nearly every iteration of Apple’s iOS (including many of the betas). The original, 3G, 3GS, 4, and most recently the 4S. Like many iPhone users, I’ve upgraded through the various iterations over the years. That led me to the iPhone, which I’ve used since 2008. I just didn’t have the time to tinker endlessly with the thing that handled more and more of my work-related duties, yet as a techie, I still enjoyed the ability to cram a bunch of functionality into my pocket. While my phone used to be included in the list of things I tinker with endlessly, I eventually came to the point where I just wanted my smallest mobile device to ‘Just Work’ for those tasks I needed it to. My friends always jab at me because I’m a fairly die-hard techie, and they expect me to be sporting the latest overclocked super-smartphone with eleventy-thousand gigs and a built-in dishwasher. While I’m mostly a PC guy, I favor iPhones. There is also a 64GB model which be priced around the $1129 mark.Īpple have also released it’s new software iOS 7, which will be available as of the 18th of September.Down to Business We do some comparative testing between the power consumption of the iPhone 3GS, 4 and 4S to see what is going on… The 5S will start at $869 for a model with 16GB of memory and for a model with 32GB it will cost you approximately $999. Like the 5C the 5S has a 4-inch Retina display. The 5S has an 8-megapixel camera which also comes with a slow-motion video and burst photographic modes as well. The 5S also comes with fingerprint-sensor technology on the phone’s home button. The iPhone 5S has a number of special features including a 64-bit A7 chip that will make this iPhone work twice as fast. The 5C also has an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, an A6 chip and 4-inch Retina display. While it will start at $739 for 16 gigabytes of memory, the 32GB model will set you back $869. This low-cost model has been developed by Apple in a bid to compete with other cheap smartphones on the market, many of which use Google’s Android operating system.Īnalysts will be keeping a close eye on the iPhone 5C to see just how it’s able to compete in China and other developing markets. While Apple have released two new versions of the iPhone, with the cheaper coming in at $739 it’s still clear that they bet on people paying far more for iPhones than for other handsets. Australian telcos have yet to release their plans for the new iPhones. The 5S is a little more high-end and will be available in grey, silver and gold with a price point starting from $869.īoth phones will be available for purchase from Apple as well as through the major providers Telstra, Optus and Vodafone as of September 20th. The 5C comes in five different colours including pink, blue, green, yellow and white and starts at just $739. Apple has revealed it’s latest iPhone offerings in the form of the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C.
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