Apple Announces iPhone 5s & 5C

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do you get paid to announce apple news?

To those s of us without our heads in the sand, it's actually quite interesting to have news items about the tech industry

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...and of course the A7 chip; an ARMv8 based 64-bit a dual-core CPU ("Swift" = Apples own, internal CPU design instead of using ARM's pre-designed cores) running at a 1.7 GHz with an integrated quad-core PowerVR SGX 544MP4 graphics processing unit (GPU). AFAIK, this makes the iPhone 5s the first 64-bit smartphone. The camera with improved "flash" (with much improved performance, enabling much faster focus and a burst mode, etc) is another highlight I suppose.

Maybe not as exciting as the "gold paint and plastic cases" features you choose to highlight, but still...

I have to say the CPU in the 5S is an amazing piece of Tech! I rather like the camera too

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There are sure happening cool things in the ARM corner of the computer world. We will soon see many new ARMv8 based CPU's, from many manufacturers.

Oh yes, I've been drooling over the ARM v8 since I downloaded the ISA document a while back!

They have made some interesting design trade offs that do seem to be pretty good ones!