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iPhone 5S vs iPhone 5 – Six new features to expect

 The iPhone 5S may be launched in less than a month – 10 September is the date according to the latest reports. But what will the next iPhone offer?

By our count, there are six main features – bar iOS 7, which we already know about – that deserve your attention.

More colours

One of the most recent rumours is that the iPhone 5S will be available in a ‘gold colour’. At present the phone essentially comes in black and white shades – or white plus black and ‘Slate’ if you want to use Apple’s own nomenclature.

The prospect of a bright gold phone sounds like Apple losing its design marbles to us, but a lighter ‘champagne’ shade could  work. Asus adopted champagne as a lead colour for its Zenbook ultrabook range, and it works well with aluminium, which the iPhone is made out of.

A much wider range of shades has also been considered, matching the rainbow of colours that the iPod touch comes in, but the consensus is that these brighter colours will be reserved for the budget iPhone 5C model. It’s one way to convince people the ‘C’ doesn’t stand for ‘cheap’.

An improved camera

The iPhone 5S camera will certainly get a bump-up, especially since there was little progress in the move from iPhone 4S to iPhone 5, and the current mode is now significantly outclassed by the Galaxy S4 in terms of detail.

It’ll reportedly have a 12-megapixel camera sensor. Interestingly, this suggests it won’t use the same Sony sensor used in the Galaxy S4 – which we half expected. This 12-megapixel rumour comes from a Vietnamese blog, though, so it’s hardly concrete.

Claims of ‘improved low-light performance’ also suggest that the iPhone 5S will have a faster lens. The iPhone 5 uses an f/2.4 lens, which is not that fast when the HTC One has an f/2.0 lens and the Lumia 720 an even quicker f/1.9 lens.

NFC

One of the most important features of the iPhone 5S is NFC, not so much for the iPhone itself but for the development of NFC in general.

NFC stands for Near-Field Communication and is a wireless standard that is still finding its feet. It seemed at one point that it would become a widespread wireless payments standard that would be used across the high street, but its absence in the iPhone 5 seemed to put the brakes on its progress.

NFC is starting to gain popularity among accessory-makers, though. You’ll find it in many new wireless speakers, which use NFC to let the phone talk to the speaker (audio is still transmitted over Bluetooth, though).

An IGZO screen

Former rumours that the iPhone 5S will feature a larger screen have more-or-less been dismissed. If you want a screen bigger than four inches, and higher-res than 1,136 x 640, you'll have to wait until 2014, if not longer.

However, it is possible the iPhone’s screen type will change. Apple’s talks with Sharp about their IGZO display technology have been reported for a long time now, and its possible Apple will ditch their favoured IPS screen type this time around.

The main benefit of IGZO is its lower power consumption, which could result in significantly better battery life. We doubt whether it’d massively increase an iPhone’s stamina, though.

A fingerprint sensor

The upgrade that’s sure to draw the most attention if it turns out to be true is the fingerprint sensor. It’ll be built into the Home key of the iPhone, therefore removing the need for a drastic change in design in the iPhone 5S.

However, once the hubbub has died down, it may not actually be very exciting. It may only be used to unlock your phone, in place of the current standard security measure of a pin-code. There’s some hope that it may be used to stop you having to input your password as often, but it may start off being a simple phone unlock measure.

Still, technologically it’s one of the more interesting parts of the new phone.
 
A quad-core GPU, with more RAM

A very recent rumour is that the iPhone 5S will use the same processor architecture as the iPhone 5 – with an Apple A6 chipset. It’s rumoured to stick with two cores as well, but will have a higher clock speed.

The iPhone 5 has a 1.3GHz CPU, which will reportedly be bumped up to 1.5GHz in the next model. If this seems like too small an improvement, there are also reports that a quad-core chip will be used.

It’s arguable that other improvements are more important, in particular RAM and GPU. RAM will reportedly be doubled from 1GB to 2GB and the iPhone 5S’s GPU will be a PowerVR SGX544MP4 chip. Not only is this a more advanced GPU type than the SGX 543MP3 used in the iPhone 5, it’s also a four-core chip rather than a three-core one. More power equals prettier games.

In summary
It doesn’t look like the iPhone 5S is going to be a particularly innovative phone that brings a bunch of dynamic changes to the iPhone series. If anything, the iPhone 5C – if real – will be the most exciting new Apple product revealed this September.