Apple's pattern of iteration isn't smooth when it comes to the iPhone. It bumps along: a new case design one year, more subtle advancements the next. The iPhone 5s is, as the name implies, a phone that doesn't look much different from last year's iPhone 5. But the mostly static exterior belies the numerous changes inside the device.
The result is, yes, Apple's latest best-iPhone-yet. From the addictive Touch ID sensor to the clever camera upgrades to the promotion of sensors from part-time to full-time workers, the iPhone 5s is a worthy inheritor of the iPhone throne.
All that glitters
I've been carrying an iPhone 5 in my pocket for the past year, and the iPhone 5s feels exactly the same: It has the same curved edges, same dimensions, same everything. Only the updated Home button and the new camera flash betray that this is not an iPhone 5.
That is, unless you count the color. Last year's slate model (black glass and very dark gray metal) has been displaced by a slightly lighter "space gray" version, but more notably the white-and-silver model has been joined by a second, white-and-gold variation. When the rumor of a gold iPhone first appeared on the scene, the response was a strange backlash. I still don't get it—were people really expecting that Apple's exacting designers would release a phone that looks like an Australian's nightmare?
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