Apple iPhone 5s faces the LG G2 and Samsung Galaxy S4 in a specs shootout

Apple has just revealed its iPhone 5s flagship smartphone and it’s everything that rumors made us expect, really. The company hasn’t redesigned the smartphone, but has made plenty of changes on the inside.

But is it enough? That’s what we will be finding out in the following comparison table. The main rivals of the iPhone 5S come from Korea and they’re the LG G2 and Samsung Galaxy S4. Let’s see what Apple has done with the iPhone 5s in an attempt to stop its melting user base jump over to the Android camp.

Android can boast that the smartphones it runs on now push the 3GB RAM barrier and the eight-core CPUs. Apple has opted for its in-house built A7 chip with a dual-core CPU, but of the 64-bit variety. In a usual Apple fashion, we won’t know the details until at least a couple of days go by.

Okay, the iPhone 5s isn’t something completely unseen, in fact it uses the same body of the iPhone 5. The new smartphone is available is now available in three colors rather than two – Silver, Gold, and a “new space gray.” The other novelty is the fingerprint scanner-touting home button (Touch ID). It enables you to unlock the iPhone just by touching the home button and buy stuff without needing to enter your password. It’s cool, and it certainly better implemented than when we last saw it on the Motorola Atix introduced it in January, 2011.

Here’s the comparison table itself.

Naturally, all three smartphones have much more distinctive features than the ones we’ve mentioned, but we are currently looking at the major stuff here. Apple still bets on gradual updates and the overall feel and experience of its flagship smartphone. Everybody knows that the “S” in iPhone 5S stands for speed, but we’re yet to see how much faster it really feels compared to the now discontinued iPhone 5.

Apple claims it has updated the camera, which now supports “Burst mode” – it captures 10 photos and automatically chooses the best one (*sarcasm*we haven’t seen that before*/sarcasm*) and boasts a pixel size of 1.5μ. Just like the A7 chipset, we’re yet to witness how that camera fares against the competition, but at least on paper – it doesn’t seem like too great an update.

All in all, Apple’s offering is clearly lacking in terms of hardware, and it will have to rely on the splendid iOS 7 ecosystem to keep it relevant. It has worked quite well in the past, but times change and Apple might be made to pay the price for not being adaptable enough.