Apple iPhone 5S: A Great Phone Inches Toward Perfection

Apple’s iPhone 5 was the best iPhone I’ve ever touched or used — until the iPhone 5S came along. The Cupertino, Calif. company's new hero handset is not a radical reimagining of this winning product, but the combination of new components and the fundamentally refashioned iOS 7 does make the iPhone 5S feel fresher than you'd expect it to be

The Body

You’ll be forgiven if you can’t, at a glance, tell the difference between the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 5S. The chassis are virtually identical, save for the new home button that also houses the Touch ID fingerprint scanner, a new dual LED "True Tone" flash and the two new metallic color options. For my tests, I got a lovely gold device. Not the least bit garish, the gold is more of a champagne hue and, like fine jewelry, all the iPhone 5S’s bevels shine with extra brilliance. Read more...