Apple Announces iPhone 5s & 5C

[takemehomegrandma]

Way to go with that legendary innovation Apple, a finger-print scanner, gold paint and plastic cases.....awesome

...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...

[takemehomegrandma]

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

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.

mmm 64 bit.........yawn.

Sorry but to release a 'new' model like this shows about as much of the legendary Apple innovation as putting sugar in your morning cup of Joe.

I don't really think it was meant to be so very innovating. In many (visible) ways it's still an iPhone 5, especially so the "5c". You know, that's probably why they still call it iPhone 5, and not "iPhone 6". Still some nice improvements though, and I guess iOS 7 will bring a lot more.

Hopefully they will finally make this one with "4G" bands that's used by network providers in *this* part of the world. They have been neglecting this in all iPhone models this far, leaving iPhone users "stranded" at 3G while all the users of the competitions products happily can in 4G.