The similarities are in many ways as exciting as differences between them
By Ken Subedi
Recently Apple launched the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C, and announced the retirement of iPhone 5. No doubt, you can still buy the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, but Apple releasing two brand new iPhones at the same time is a first. So a question whirls arises regarding the difference between iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C.
To find out real differences we compared the specifications of both. The iPhone 5C comes in five different colours: green, white, blue, pink, and yellow wheres the iPhone 5S comes in four different colours, gold, silver, space and gray.
Software and display
Both smartphones will start with iOS7, and can be upgraded for free to all new versions of Apple’s OS. One of the areas iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S look too similar is the screen. Both have four inch widescreen multi-touch display, with a 1136x640-pixel resolution that make for a pixel density of 326ppi.
Battery
Both phones have built-in, non-swappable lithium-ion batteries. As per the company, both batteries will give backup for the same time. The iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C will last for up to 250 and 10 hours on standby and talk time. Web surfing is eight hours on 3G, and 10 hours on LTE and Wi-Fi. Apple declares 10 hours for video playback and 40 hours audio playback, for the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C.
Camera
Both iPhone 5C and 5S have a front-facing (FaceTime) and a rear-facing (iSight) camera. The modus operandi of the specifications is as follows.
Having eight megapixel sensors, iPhone 5C iSight camera comes with ƒ/2.4 aperture and LED flash. With video stabilisation it supports 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps and 3x zoom in it. The same phone’s FaceTime Camera takes 1.2Mp photos at a resolution of 1280x960 offering up to 720p HD video recording.
On the other side, the iPhone 5S iSight camera has eight Mp sensor, listing it as eight megapixels with 1.5µ pixels. It has aperture of ƒ/2.2 and a true-tone flash. The video capabilities and the FaceTime Camera are like that of iPhone 5C.
Processor
The first smartphone to have 64-bit is iPhone 5S. With 64-bit architecture it comes with a brand new A7 chip. Apple also has M7 coprocessor that means it possesses uncountable apps that uses motion-tracking, for example fitness apps.
On the other hand, iPhone 5C comes with an A6 chip which makes the difference. It can be called as the iPhone 5 with a new appearance. Well, we can’t fairly comment on the level of performance it makes. But one thing is sure that if iPhone 5C’s performance is like that of iPhone 5 it be less valued as a smartphone. We hope that iPhone 5S is an improvement. However, Apple does not talk about the RAM it has put into its new smartphones.
Storage and dimensions
Another marker that makes them different is storage. The iPhone 5C comes in 16 GB and 32 GB ambience, but the iPhone 5S agrees all and goes up to 64 GB. The iphone 5S’s dimensions is 123.8x58.6x7.6mm and weighs 132g.
The similarities between the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S are in many ways as exciting as differences between them. The battery life, display and software offered by them are more or less the same. But the iphone 5S is faster with a better camera and some additional features.
The writer is associated with Braindigit IT solutions and can be reached at kengb1@gmail.com.
