first of all, i don't personally like apple, and i will confess that i'm a big sammy fan....
after clarifying this, i will give my personal opinion on the specs you've got, and this opinion will be neutral... i usually do not throw **** at apple lovers/users, because that's their personal taste, and i respect that, just the same way i like to be respected for my personal choices....
Rumor has it that the next iPhone 5S will come with new features such as:
- NFC and fingerprint reader
- sapphire crystal touch home button
- 12MP camera with dual-flash, 1080p 60FPS front-facing camera
- quad-core A7 chip
- 1600mAh battery
- 32/64/128GB storage
- multiple colors
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The phone most likely won't be released until August though..... I am using an iPhone 4S at the moment, it's still working fine... but I can sell this phone for around $350 and use the proceed to get a better phone. I don't really care for Touchwiz, but a bigger screen seems like a big plus.
-first of all... NFC... NFC is kind of an open source feature/hardware... anyone have open access to what it does and can create code and apps for it.... Apple is not a company that likes this kind of stuff... in other words, they like keeping their stuff for themselves (have you ever noticed that iPhones do not have as much carrier's crap as any other phone on the market? which is something i really like about them)...
-Fingerprint reader is something that i believe is plausible for future smartphones, and why not, the iPhone being the first one using one of them...
-sapphire crystal touch home button....i actually see no pro in using this material just for the home button... i mean, i haven't ever heard of someone physically breaking a home button just by simple use.... i know it sometimes stops working, like with any other brand, but that's up to the electronics and switch used behind the button.... it would be nice for them to use sapphire on, let's say, the whole back of the phone, or use it as the actual screen, but that would fire the price of any phone up to the sky!!! and i'm not actually sure of the actual resistance compared with the Gorilla Glass 3... haven't seen any comparison with both of them, but i think sapphire would be harder, stiffer, and smoother tho...
- 12MP camera with dual-flash, 1080p 60FPS front-facing camera.... this sounds completely realistic, and i do believe apple will use this kind of specs for the camera...
- quad-core A7 chip - well, following the pattern they do tend to follow on processors, they will use a new chip, that will probably be named A7, and to compete with the latest top-end smartphones it will feature 4 cores... BUT, they usually tend to undervalue the use of more cores on iPhones (which sometimes they actually don't need for how is programmed the iOs), and if they keep this tendency, this chip will be a faster dual-core....
- 1600mAh battery... iPhones are gentle with battery life, but they usually don't take big steps increasing the battery size, the latest big jump they made, was from the 3GS to the iPhone 4, and it wasn't this big... supposing a jump like that, they will go from their actual 1440 mAh, to let's say 1600mAh.... but if they keep with the tendency they've had with the latest models, it will probably be 1450mAh.... (just to note, it is funny how the 1st gen iphone had a battery much bigger than the 3G and 3GS, with 1400 mAh)...
- 32/64/128GB storage.... i don't believe they will drop the 16 GB model... but i would like to see a 128 GB model...
- multiple colors... well,, apple is not known for using a lot of colors on their devices (at least, lately)...they usually (and lately) use different colors for their, let's say, cheap devices, like the shuffle, and the nano, which at first they wasn't even sure if it was going to work, but using a lot of colors on their high end device, would make it look not so very high-end, and they will certainly not use more colors for the iphone....
personal thought here, but we'll have to see when it comes