New Apple phones, point by point: The iPhone can 5S and 5C iPhone - ABC Online

Apple’s new iPhone 5S and 5C differ not only in the housing. But what the high-end model, compared to the plastic phone, mainly because it is more expensive? And what about the iPhone 4S? A point-by-point comparison.

first time in the history of the iPhone, Apple has not introduced a new model, but two devices shown. A surprise was not, just as most of the technical details – in the run was already much leaked. But what can the iPhone and the iPhone 5S 5C, especially in comparison? And what about the iPhone 4S, which Apple wants to continue to sell – unlike the iPhone 5 by the way. The presented only a year ago cell phone disappears into oblivion.

1 Size and weight

The more expensive and the cheaper iPhone 5S iPhone 5C differ in size from each other: The model 5S is somewhat narrower, shorter and thinner. It measures 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm, the 5C 124.4 x 59.2 x 8.97 mm. Even when weight wins the 5S Model: With 112 grams, it weighs 20 grams less than the iPhone 5C (132 grams). So great is the difference then, however, in practice, not – 20 grams correspond to the weight of four sheets DIN A-4 stationery. The iPhone 4S is 140 grams and 9.2 mm heavier and thicker than the two new devices, but smaller (115 x 58.6 mm). The reason is that it still had the earlier usual at Apple smaller display.

2 Display

On the displays of the new iPhone, Apple has not changed since last year. Both 5S and 5C have a 4-inch retina display with a Auflösugn of 1136 x 640 pixels, as well as the iPhone 5 The iPhone 4S still has the old screen size of 3.5 inches, but also has a retina display. But that solves only 960 x 640 pixels.

3 Processor

The processor is one of the few major differences between the two new iPhone models. The cheaper iPhone 5C brings the A6 processor of the iPhone 5, so it is on the technical levels of a year ago. Apple iPhone 5S donated a new processor called the A6. Is to radically improve the performance of mobile phones. It is a 64-bit processor, according to Apple, the first 64-bit processor in a smartphone at all. Apple said during the keynote including a 56 times faster graphics. The iPhone 4S has an A5 processor, which is the penultimate generation.

4 Memory

As always, users can expand the memory of the iPhone does not – none of the models has a memory card slot. The internal memory is graded depending on the model Apple: The iPhone 5S comes with either 64, 32 or 16 GB, iPhone 5C with 32 or 16 GB and iPhone 4S with 8 GB

5. Camera

Apple equips iPhone 5S and 5C iPhone with two cameras – but differ in the features. Both bring a resolution of eight megapixels and shoot 1080p video, the front camera 1.2 megapixels each. But the camera of the iPhone 5S expensive can accommodate slow motion video and has a so-called True Tone flash, which should make better pictures in the dark. The camera of the iPhone 4S is significantly less – the front camera triggers, for example, only in VGA mode. The rear camera is also equipped with eight but megapxiel.

6 Connections

The new iPhone 5S and 5C have introduced last year Lightning port, nothing more. Everything else would have been surprising, Apple has always been built either USB ports or SD card slots. The iPhone 4S has the old dock connector, but of course no other connection options.