I appreciate your reply... I dont have the iPhone 5S yet, life/work is keeping me away from going to get one right now, maybe in couple of days. So my input so far is Tech Reviewers, and Real experiences posted on forums. So the benchmark tests may be showing what the new iPhone is capable of, but I understand not everything is going to take advantage right out day one. But I do make a long term investment with my $200, to prove it - I'm currently using iPhone 3GS as the only and primary phone for business and common tasks, (iPad 3 for entertainment and games). I had many opportunities years ago to upgrade to current phones, but did not need to as my phone never slowed down, always got current updates, and with battery life I think I got lucky. So this next purchase will need to be future proof - THAT'S where iPhone shines for me!!!
I agree that's been a huge advantage in the past. I obviously don't know this for certain, but the most recent versions of Android seem to be good enough to allow Android phones to have longer lives. Apple has always been good at allowing older devices to last a lot longer without slowing down to a crawl. I also appreciate people not taking advantage of their subsidies as soon as possible. It helps pay for my new phone every two years.
Now speaking of real experiences, my wife has iPhone 5 and in comparison, the iPhone 5S that I had the opportunity to play with, dealt with similar tasks must faster, you notice from app launches, unlock speeds (not to mention Touch ID), editing software, to restarts, transitions, scrolling and management of battery is absolutely astounding.
Again, the question isn't whether or not the 5S is faster, it's how much the 64-bit architecture really contributes to that. Since we're allowing anecdotal evidence, I have a friend who's a big Apple fan. When you go to their house there are three Mac laptops sitting on the coffee table, Apple TV on the television and he bought the iPhone 5 outright last year and then woke up at 2am to order the 5S. His impression of the 5S is that, "I guess it's faster, but it's really hard to tell when you're just browsing Facebook and the web. I'm using my old iPhone 5 case with it and I'm considering buying a new case just to make it seem different from my old phone."
That being said, my wife's iPhone 5 is already consistently smooth and pleasurable to use compared to both Samsung S4's that I compared it to (one was literally brand new). So YES, the same RAM, same clock speed, but as a 64bit architecture does handle 32bit faster with improved experience.
I like this anecdotal evidence precedent. My wife has an iPhone 5 and I have a S4. Having used both phones quite a bit since we got them in May I can confidently say that we have not had that same experience. I'm not talking about using one at a store with unknown firmware or apps installed, either, I'm talking about months of time with both phones. They preform very similarly (which is probably a plus for the iPhone 5 since it's several months older), but I have all of the Google Now cards going and a bunch of Tasker profiles, including location based profiles, running. If she turns Google Now on it destroys her battery. She also had two days where she couldn't open the iTunes store on her phone without the app immediately crashing and she's currently having problems with iMessage. When she first got iOS 7 she talked about how she liked the settings panel, but then quickly realized she was impressed with a feature that she had on her past two Android phones.
Regarding cost. The phones that are top end are all $200 for me (living in the US) - so iPhone 5S is no-brainer when it comes to pricing. But even in full prices I dont understand how you see comparable phones that these phones are cheaper then iPhones. If you're going by spec sheet comparing to iPhone's you're comparing low budget Android phones, but we both know they dont live up to the iPhone even if they have the same specs. <--- is that what you're talking by saying phones are cheaper? because those phones wont work for me...
I'll start here. For $200 you can get either a 16GB iPhone 5S or a 16GB Galaxy S4, unless you look for a better price. Sprint has the S4 for $150 right now. It won't be long before other carriers start dropping the price as other new phones come out. The 5S will stay its current price for a full year.
Though let's ignore that and pretend the S4 won't drop in price. For $200 you can get either one. Let's say that you need more space for pictures and music. The 32GB 5S is $300. You can buy a 16GB uSD card for about $15. That's an $85 price difference. Let's say that you want the memory internal. The 32GB S4 is $250, for a savings of $50 (and you still have the option of adding more memory via a uSD card). Lets say you want 64GB for your whole music collection. The 5S is $400. You can get a 64GB uSD card for $50, so you can either have 80GB for $250 for a savings of $150, 64GB (32 internal 32 uSD) for $275 for a savings of $125 or 96GB for $300 for a savings of $100.
If you go with the HTC One (another phone with specs similar to the S4) you can get 32GB internal for $200 at the most. It's not uncommon to find them for $150. That's $100 to $150 less than the 5S. The 64GB One is also $100 less than the 64GB 5S.
So the only way the 5S is cheaper is if you stick with the 16GB version, which many consider to be nowhere near enough storage space.
Keep in mind that the iPhone 5 had the same pricing as the 5S until a couple weeks ago. So a month ago we'd be comparing phones with similar to better benchmarks that cost less for more storage. That will happen with the 5S as well.
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