Trip To San Diego - iPhone 5s review

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By              -  Matt Warman
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Apple’s current iPhone 5 is, by common consent, the best iPhone Apple has ever made, in an age when millions simply wouldn’t consider getting a phone made by any other manufacturer. Critics argue it is smaller and heavier than its rivals, with a battery that doesn’t last as long as a Galaxy S4, a camera that’s nowhere near as good as an HTC One, and an operating system that’s outdated compared to anything available on a Nokia. But it has nonetheless outsold all of those devices. The scale of iPhone’s dominance should not be underestimated. No wonder it provides more than a third of Apple’s profits. 

And indeed Apple doesn’t even really seek to compete with those rivals: its iPhone software, even with the new iOS7, doesn’t offer a host of the conveniences afforded with either Google Android or Windows Phone – something as simple as a commuter discovering the time of their next train is many more clicks away on an iPhone that it is elsewhere.

Yet with the iPhone 5s - an upgrade from the iPhone 5 but not a revolution – Apple has produced a phone that does what made it so successful in the first place. This is a device that adds features that make the existing iPhone even easier to use, more powerful and turn it into a better camera, all in a package that remains the classiest on the market. It doesn’t have the most features, but those that are there are accessible in a way the no other manufacturer has yet mastered. That improved ease of use and continued elegance mean the 5s is a worthy flagship to persuade iPhone users to upgrade, and it retains all the apps that have powered Apple’s success.

Its main new feature is called Touch ID - a fingerpint sensor that means there’s simply no longer a need to enter a pin code to unlock your phone. In my experience it works in any orientation around eight out of 10 times, it encourages users to add a vital security feature, and it is particularly useful when it’s used to authorise purchases on Apple’s App Store. It should become an industry standard across manufacturers, for everyone’s sake. While fingerprint scanners have been used before, this is the simplest implementation I’ve come across. Teaching it a new finger takes less than a minute. Security experts have raised concerns that it could encourage thieves to steal both iPhones and their users’ digits. Little do they know it also works with toes.