iPhone 5S vs. iPhone 5C vs. iPhone 5 –  which one is better?

The production of iPhone 5, iPhone 5c and iPhone 5S are discontinued. However, some people are still interested in purchasing these devices. If you find it as a difficult task to locate the best out of these three devices, here is a small comparison that can be followed in order to figure out the best.

External differences

All the three devices have compact dimensions, but the iPhone 5S has not been provided with a rounded square icon on its home button. That’s probably because of the introduction of touch ID fingerprint sensor. Therefore, people will be able to use their fingerprint as the passcode for iPhone. All the three devices have the same 4 inch retina display, with a screen resolution of 1136 x640 pixels. It has been identified that iPhone 5C is a little heavier and thicker when compared to the other two devices. In other words, this phone has a 0.05 inch enhanced thickness and it weighs 0.7 inches than the other two devices. The lightning connector, microphone and headphone jack of all the devices are mounted at the bottom of it.

Camera

It is possible to find dual cameras on all the three devices. However, there is a significant difference in between the quality of these devices. It is also important to note that the difference can only be found in the rear camera. That’s because all of them have the same 1.2 megapixel front camera. The iSight camera that comes for iPhone 5C and iPhone 5 are similar. Both of them have a 8 megapixel sensor and the ability to record 1080p video. However, the rear camera of iPhone 5S is slightly improved. Even though this camera has the same 8 megapixel sensor, it comes along with 1.5µm pixels when compared to 1.4µm pixels of other two devices. A duel LED flash is associated with this camera, which delivers a True Tone performance for the users.

Internal Differences

Both iPhone 5 and iPhone 55C are powered by dual core processors with 1.3GHz. They have 1GB of RAM as well. Apple iPhone 5S was the first device to be released with the 64 bit architecture. It has a M7 motion coprocessor and a A7 processor. As you can see, the processor of iPhone 5S is powerful than the other two options and the users will notice it once they are using.

Battery Life differences

When it comes to smartphones, people are always concerned about the battery life. The battery life of all the three devices is decently good. In other words, you will be able to get 10 hours of video playback, 40 hours of audio playback and 10 hours of Wi-Fi for the users. It is possible to have a talk time of 8 hours from iPhone 5 and iPhone 5C whereas you can get 10 hours of call time from the iPhone 5S. As you can see, there is no major difference in terms of the battery life.