The iPhone 5s is quite possibly the biggest S-update we've ever seen from Apple. I remember walking out of the venue during Apple's iPhone 5 launch and being blown away by the level of innovation, at the platform/silicon level, that Apple crammed into the iPhone 5.

iOS lives up to the hype; Truly beautifully hardware; An unbeatable App Store;

Screen feels increasingly small; Lacks the liveliness of Android; Currently few ways to use the extra grunt;

iOS lives up to the hype; Truly beautifully hardware; An unbeatable App Store;

Screen feels increasingly small; Lacks the liveliness of Android; Currently few ways to use the extra grunt;

Is Apple’s best iPhone ever really a better phone?

Beautiful design, Super fast processor, Fantastic camera

4-inch phones are starting to feel small, iOS is far from perfect

I confess that I use Android smartphones more than the iPhone, but every year when a new iPhone comes out, I get giddy with excitement. There is a simple magic to iOS devices, with a bevy of complex engineering, brilliant software design and killer marketing behind that simplicity.

Still stunning looking, great quality, sharp and colorful display, excellent camera, a fingerprint scanner that's actually easy to use.

A 4" display on a flagship smartphone in 2013 seems so old fashioned.

This phone has appeared in our Best budget smartphones 2016 list.

Apple's iPhone 5s has a small screen by 2013 standards and is unlikely to attract users switching from large screen Android devices, but it remains the best smartphone Apple has ever released. The useful fingerprint sensor, a faster processor and improved low light camera performance will keep most iPhone users satisfied.

Touch ID is genuinely useful; Improved low light camera performance; Excellent performance;

Average battery life; Same sized 4in screen; Touch ID needs more support;

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.

Touch ID fingerprint sensor; camera flash adjusts to ambient light temperature; big speed improvement over iPhone 5

Screen still feels small next to other high-end phones

The iPhone 5S is sill a solid phone but this is mostly because of the advantages derived from the simplicity and robustness of the OS. Apple no longer has monopoly over good design or even impressive hardware.

* Great performance, * Impressive camera, * LTE support

Per usual with these “S” revisions, the iPhone 5s is an overall improvement over an already great smartphone. But with fierce competition from the HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, and the Nokia 1020, the iPhone is a tough sell to those looking for a bigger screen, flexible operating system, and a new...

Touch ID is very well executed, Impressive camera, Excellent performance, Still the easiest smartphone to use

No real design upgrade, Still waiting for a bigger screen, iOS7 is still playing catch-up, No real improvement to battery life

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