http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/09/dsc9766a.jpgForward-thinking. It’s ironic that Apple’s marketing slogan for the iPhone 5s invites us to look ahead to the future when, from the outside, the device looks like a carbon copy of last year’s model, the iPhone 5. But just like any other odd-year iPhone – the “S” version, if you will – the 5s plays the *Transformers *card by offering more than meets the eye, with a few key improvements on the inside.
Though it’s easy to dismiss this handset as iterative, the 5s is the first smartphone with full 64-bit support and a capacitive fingerprint sensor, and it also ushers in a fresh, revamped version of iOS. This might not matter to folks who were content with the status quo, but it matters a lot to Apple – and to its future as well, especially if the company wants to fend off an increasingly fierce pack of competitors. But is a “forward-thinking” phone worth the investment today?%Gallery-slideshow85056%
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