That could be good for added security, but it means Touch ID isn't a magic remember-every-password savior or credit card replacement yet. Apple currently intends Touch ID and your fingerprint - which gets encrypted as mathematical data, according to Apple, not an image - to stay on the A7 chip of the iPhone 5S, out of reach of third-party apps or cloud services. But those extra features won't be coming anytime soon. It could be a mobile wallet killer app, and a companion to Apple's somewhat dormant PassBook app that launched with iOS 6. I have a bigger dream for Touch ID, of its fingerprint scan acting as a password replacement for third-party apps or even a way to make payments, or check in to flights. But, in terms of convenience, I really only appreciated it during the day, in those little moments when I quickly needed to hop on my phone. You'll also save a few seconds over entering a passcode. How much time does it save? A little, especially since this process skips the "swipe to unlock" gesture. Then you still have 10 passcode attempts before any "erase contents after 10 passcode failures" setting you've possibly enabled kicks in. Touch ID cleverly defaults to asking for a passcode after three fingerprint attempts, and after five bad tries, it requires it. Worried about a kid pressing his finger down over and over and erasing your phone's memory? Never fear. Ratings should be considered tentative, and may evolve as testing continues. We will continue to update this review in the coming days, based on subsequent testing. How much better depends on how fast apps and services can take advantage of the features.or whether we'll be waiting until iOS 8 to see them truly take shape.Įditors' note: Updated September 30, 2013, with expanded M7 fitness-tracking section and hands-on with M7-compatible apps, an additional battery test, and observations on real-use battery after several weeks of use. But, for now, it's more of refined improvement. But, after a week of using the iPhone 5S, it's hard to find situations that currently take advantage of these features, except for the fingerprint sensor and camera.Ĭheck back in two months after new apps emerge, maybe the iPhone 5S will start seeming like a truly new iPhone. That doesn't mean there aren't changes, but many of them seem like roadwork for the future a cleverly ingenious under-the-home-button fingerprint sensor, a clearly better camera, majorly upgraded graphics, a motion-tracking M7 coprocessor, and a new A7 processor capable of 64-bit computing are a lot of under-the-hood tweaks. There's really only one new iPhone, and that's the 5S. But the 5C is really the iPhone 5 in colored plastic. Enter the iPhone 5S, which along with the iPhone 5C mark the first time Apple's delivered two new iPhones in one year. What did Apple do this year as an encore? It added.a few new improvements. It met nearly all our wishes and expectations. Last year's iPhone 5 was the best iPhone we'd ever seen. Its promises haven't come to fruition yet. But it doesn't manifest these changes right off the bat. The 5S introduces technologies that could transform the future of iOS as a computing platform, and maybe pave the way for future products in 2014. It's telegraphed by the name itself: adding an "S" versus giving the phone a whole new name. I'm tempted to call the iPhone 5S the iPhone 5P, for "potential." This is Apple's half-step year, a rebuilding year. The 16GB model now sells in two configurations: 16GB ($99 with a typical 2-year contract in the US, $549 off contract £459 in the UK AU$749 in the Australia) and 32GB ($149 on contract, $599 off contract in the US £499 in the UK and AU$799 in Australia). However, in addition to the iPhone 5C, the iPhone 5S (reviewed here) will remain on sale at a reduced price. Editors' note (September 19, 2014): The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are now the flagship phones in Apple's 2014-2015 product line.
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