Apple has ended the one-year wait which starts off for next device just as the latest iPhone is announced.
This year, they made an amendment to the usual tradition by 
announcing two phones instead of one. The iPhone 5S is the 
top-of-the-line phone as evident by the ‘S’ and brings some incredible 
changes to the table.
The Display and Design
The design of the iPhone 5S follows the footsteps of the previous 
iterations and is made of high-grade aluminum with high-chaffered edges.
 It will be available in three colors: Black-Slate, White-Silver and 
White-Gold. One major change comes in the home button.
The button has seen its biggest change ever with a built-in 170 
micron thick fingerprint scanner in it, called Touch ID. The 
technology’s use has been maximized in iOS 7 so alongside usual things 
like unlocking the device, it can also be used for things like iTunes 
purchasing verifications and other stuff. Multiple users’ fingerprints 
can also be memorized.
The iPhone 5S is very slick at just 7.6mm thin and 112g heavy. It’s 
also very environment-friendly, being made of components which are 
arsenic-free and mercury-free.
The display of the phone was one thing which was almost completely 
forgotten in Apple’s event. It’s still a 4 inch Retina with 640 x 1136 
resolution. In an age of phablets with the Note III
 being announced only 6 days back, it’s a bit disappointing that Apple 
hasn’t enhanced the display. That was undoubtedly one of our bigger 
expectations.
CPU And Other Internals
The iPhone 5S has seen a major overhaul under the surface. The new 
chip called the A7 is twice as faster as before and 40 times as faster 
as the 2G. It does 2 times as many general purpose and floating point 
registers and packs twice as many transistors (1 Billion) as the A6.
The bigger innovation is that it’s the world’s first 64-bit 
smartphone processor. It will have support for OpenGL ES 3.0 and Xcode. 
The A7 will also have 64-bit kernels, libraries and drivers. The 
graphics are twice as fast as well. Overall, the iPhone 5S is 56 times 
faster than the original iPhone. Half of that spectacular figure is a 
direct blessing of A7.
The 64-bit chip is still compatible with the 32-bit apps. Also 
announced was an M7 chip which looks after motion-sensing in real-time 
and will be great for fitness apps.
The hardcore capabilities of the iPhone 5S were proven in the 
dazzling demo of Infinity Blade III which is also the last game of this 
series.
Software
The iPhone 5S comes with iOS 7 pre-installed, of course. That alone 
brings quite a lot of change including flat icons, better lockscreen, 
Control Centre, Notification Centre and a male Siri. Apple also 
announced that all of its essential editing and productivity apps, i.e. 
Keynote, iMovie, iPhoto, iWork and Pages and Numbers will be free from 
now onwards. This offer is limited to new iPhones which will be bought 
in the future only.
As for the rest of the iPhones, the iOS 7 update is coming on 18 September.
Camera
The iPhone 5S’ camera is still of 8 megapixels with a 5-element lens 
and f2.2 aperture. The sensor area is 15 percent larger. iOS 7 
automatically corrects white balance & exposure balance and creates a
 local dynamic tone map for a better image.
That’s accompanied by a new dual-LED Flash dubbed “True Tone” which 
consists of a blue and an amber LED and operates on up to 1000 different
 levels to make photos appear natural. Auto Image Stabilisation and 
Burst Modes have also seen an entry with the latter being triggered 
whenever the shutter icon is held. It shoots at a rate of 10 images per 
second.
As for the video, the 5S captures 1080p video at 30fps, alongside 
720p video at 120fps. Slow Motion videos can also be shot. For doing 
that, 720p videos are shot first while the portions to be slowed-down 
are chosen afterwards. A combination of the two can also go along, 
together. Facetime camera has also been improved to perform better in 
lowlight.
Miscellaneous
The phone’s battery is of 1440 mAh capacity and provides 3G talk-time
 of 10 hours and 250 hours of standby. Bluetooth 4.0, LTE, Wi-Fi and 
Lightning Port are used for connectivity. And as usual, a nano-SIM card 
is used.
Pricing and Availability
The phone will be available in Pakistan for the usual price tag of 
around $800 or Rs. 85,000 at launch. This price is likely to go down 
around Rs. 70,000 with-in one month of the launch. Special covers will 
cost $39 each. The iPhone 5S, alongside the 5C will be put up for sale 
on the 20
th of September. By the end of 2013, it would’ve hit 100 countries.
The iPhone 5S is the high-point for Apple. A lot of future-proofing 
has been done this time especially on the inside. Had Apple increased 
the display size to 4.5 inch, the package might’ve become even more 
tempting but even without it, the 5S is no slouch by any means.
One more thing to note is that unlike others, Apple hasn’t gotten 
itself into the numbers race. The camera is still 8 megapixels, screen 
still Retina. Why fix something which isn’t broken? For that, Apple 
deserves a pat on the back.
As for the phone itself, we’ll let the sales figures decide.