iPhone 5S Vs iPhone 5C Vs iPhone 4S: Hardware, OS, Camera, Display, Design, And Prices Showdown! Which iPhone Model Is The Best Purchase?
Which of these Apple smartphones is worth the purchase? The iPhone 5S, the iPhone 5C or the iPhone 4S.
In terms of design and display, The three iPhones have Retina displays, but iPhone 4S has 3.5 inches screen which renders 60x640 pixels and 326ppi. It measures 115.2×58.6×9.3 mm and weighs 140 grams. The iPhone 5S has a 4 inch display which renders 640x1136pixels and 326ppi. Its dimensions are 123.8×58.6×7.6 mm and weighs 112 grams. The iPhone 5C has a 4 inch screen which has the same resolution as the 5S, but It is 20 grams heavier and measures 124.4×59.2x9 mm.
For the hardware and OS, the iPhone 4S has a Dual-Core 1GHZ Cortex-A9 processor and has an Apple A5 chipset, a PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU and 512MB of RAM. It runs on the iOS 5 and can be upgraded into the iOS 7.1. The iPhone 5S has a Dual-core 1.3GHz Cyclone (ARM v8-based) processor, partnered with the Apple A7 chipset and PowerVR G6430 (quad-core graphics) GPU. It has 1GB of RAM and it runs on the iOS 7, upgradable to the iOS 7.1.2, and on the iOS 8, just like the iPhone 5C. It has a Dual-core 1.3GHz Swift (ARM v7-based) processor, an Apple A6 chipset, a PowerVR SGX 543MP3 (triple-core graphics) GPU and 1GB of RAM.
For battery and camera specs, all of them are equipped with a non-removable Li-Po batteries, but of different capacities. The iPhone 4S has a 1432mAh battery for 8hours of talk time on 3G, the iPhone 5S has a 1560mAh battery for 10 hours, and the iPhone 5C has a 1510mAh battery that last 10 hours.
They also have an 8MP rear camera with features such as a Sapphire crystal lens cover, Five-element lens, LED flash, Backside illumination sensor, Tap to focus, Hybrid IR filter, Autofocus, Panorama, Face detection and Photo geotagging. In addition, the iPhone 5S’s camera is with 1.5µ pixels and has an extra feature: Burst mode and all three cameras record 1080@30 fps HD videos.
The iPhone 4S 16GB of internal memory costs $390 on amazon.com, while the iPhone 5S 16GB variant is $ 675 and the iPhone 5C 16GB variant cost around $505.
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