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learn more so why am I holding an iPhone
5S or why have I been using one lately you might ask great question since my
trust the iPhone 4 Apple has released three incremental updates to the
smartphone that served me really well for 3 years so I figured as a supposedly
unbiased technology lover who has been using Android in one flavor or another
for about a year now I owe it to myself and to my viewers to take another run at
iOS with the iPhone 5s and see if they've done enough to win me back
welcome to my late but hopefully interesting iPhone 5S
review as always the iPhone experience starts with the Box Apple's attention to
detail continues to amaze me all I had
to do was put the iPhone box on the coffee table and my toddler was
immediately drawn to it the power of great packaging eh once we get past that
stuff though physically the 5S is nothing groundbreaking the difference in
weight compared to the four was shocking for me now that they've done away with
the glass back but aside from the lightning connector and the bottom
mounted headphone jack the io and buttons pretty much haven't moved at all
and unfortunately neither have the speakers for a company that claims to
care about audio Apple's track record lately with poopy speakers on the
bottoms and backs of their devices hasn't impressed me compared to other
implementations that are available the home button hasn't moved either but the
tactile click does feel a little bit different to me although it could just be because my old one is worn out to the
point where it only registers clicks like half of the time now the size is
still perfect for one-handed operation for me which was a refreshing change now
that I can like type with one hand but I
did still find myself frustrated by the upper left corner placement of back
buttons in many apps and I think that's something that will have to change if
and when Apple does release a larger iPhone to be clear guys I'm aware of the
swipe back gesture the problem is that it doesn't work in plenty of third party
apps so it's still an issue for me speaking of iOS 7 features most of them
weren't really anything new because I still use my 4 as an MP3 player and
Apple has done really well by me here to have given me updates for so long on a
device that compared to similar class Android devices at the time like the
Samsung Galaxy S is equally old but
still much more functional but there were a few things that I hadn't used
much Apple's Maps app has evolved to the
point where not only is it not totally terrible but I've actually stopped using
Google Maps in the couple of weeks that I've been using the iPhone 5S Google
Maps has actually not been that great lately it started flaking out on me a
lot it can't find the local dump it never finds the nearest location of a
chain restaurant for me me anymore and its voice recognition for GPS navigation
is just plain not as good more on that later Apple Maps on the other hand was
world's better for me in these regards from my use and I also like their
Tastefully applied 3d effect um but I do
have a couple of complaints about it I did find that GPS data lagged a little
bit behind where I actually was on the road and I definitely miss the ability
to pan around when I'm in turn BYT navigation mode to look for alternate
routes and then quickly press a button to go back to turn by turn the good news
though is that like so many Google products Google Maps is also available on iOS now with turn by turn so you can
have the best of both worlds if you really feel like it that said it's not
always quite the same experience and heavy Google product users like me will
find little differences at every turn so
some of them are good and some of them are bad like for example two-step account validation is not as seamless on
iOS and you'll need to set up some app specific passwords to upload to Youtube
from iOS you still need to share to YouTube through the photo gallery versus
just uploading through the YouTube app like you would on Android on the other
hand the YouTube app supports sorting the comments by most recent instead of
just by most popular on iOS but I can't find that functionality on Android maybe
it's there but I definitely couldn't find it so there's a bunch of little differences I noticed and there are a
lot more than that moving on to the camera a lot of fuss got made about the
iPhone 5S camera and how amazing in DSLR quality it was and you know what the app
is fast and super easy to use it's pretty awes awesome I mean the beauty of it is definitely its Simplicity I did
miss sometimes the bajillion options that you get in various Android camera
apps but what I didn't miss was the fact that on Android they hide cool features
like slow-mo or 4K recording Within These like deep difficult to man
navigate menu systems that take a while to get to Apple makes it simple you
press the button you swipe for the different modes and then you press the button again to capture it's just faster
and gives you a better chance to grab that moment while it's happening that
said speaking of grabbing moments I did miss HTC's Zoey shooting mode now that
I've gotten used to it it takes a bunch of pictures and video at the same time
so it's great for uncooperative subjects like cats and toddlers with all that
said you know the camera is okay um when you're looking for perfect testing
scenarios to show it off I think you can make it look fantastic but at the end of
the day for me as a casual user it might be slightly better or slightly worse
than competitors s or H but it's not DSLR quality and it's it's all right
now I alluded to this before on the map segment but compared to the you know
it's all right it's still a phone camera camera Siri is not Siri is awesome from
the speed to the voice recognition accuracy to the fact that it just plain
does more stuff like allowing some system settings to be adjusted apple is
so far ahead of Google right now in terms of real world usability that I
really did find myself considering a permanent switch back just for Siri like
basic B stuff like being able to say take me home at the end of the day and
it plotting a course for home very satisfying love it another thing I ended
up loving was the touchbase unlock if you recognize that for what it is and
for what it's not it's not a bulletproof security measure it is a convenient way
to sign in quickly and make purchases without entering a password then it's a
great feature and another one that really had me kind of teetering on the
edge there it works really well and I went from feeling like it was gimmicky
to using it every single time I unlock my phone within like 2 days but it's not
all completely Rosy and touch land and the touch screen actually gave me
constant headaches the 5S is known to have poorer touchscreen accuracy
compared to other Flagship smartphones but I didn't expect it to affect me
quite this much I often misclick letters at the bottom corners and icons along
the top and not because I'm not familiar with the Apple keyboard but because it's
just not picking things up speaking of the Apple keyboard I do still like it
and I have missed the multi-word correction that it does in special cases
like Mother's Day where it goes back and fixes capital letters for you but I also
wish as a you know longer term Android User now that I could change it out for
something else if I wanted I mean maybe something with much easier click and
hold access to symbols like swift key for example which I guess leads pretty
well into the list of the rest of the things that I really missed about
Android while I was doing this battery life is not as good as a flagship
Android device but I guess I wasn't expecting it to be I am still typically
getting around 20 to 35% battery at the end of a workday but that's about 15%
less than the 1 M8 and on a heavy day I did find myself running out of battery
sometimes I find it infuriating that I can't put a text cursor in the middle of
a block of text or even in the middle of a word without holding and dragging it
that was something I really missed about Android uh home screen
customization um maybe is less of a big deal for me than it is for heavy widget
users but not being able to at least
turn my bottom row into folders or Force
apps into a particular position on the desktop rather than waiting for the
whole thing to fill up is a real drag the bottom right is where I like to put
the icons for my most frequently used programs and it's the last part of the
screen that fills up even though it's the easiest one to reach bummer the home
button and multitasking are pretty darn good but not a replacement for a back
button a universal back that works both
within an app and for switch ing back to recently used apps is something I've
always felt even before I used Android like iOS is missing the continued
omission of a landscape mode lock is annoying when I'm trying to watch a
movie in bed for example it's on the iPad Apple it's been years please just
add it thank you and the quick toggles can't be customized can't be used to
access the general settings menu and can't be used to turn on a Wi-Fi hotspot
quickly it's something I use a lot so that bothered me as well NFC is
something I never cared about before but since we did that recent video about it
I've actually found myself using it more often I really wish Apple had that or
something equivalent and finally taking iTunes off my computer is the first
thing I'm going to do now that I'm done this video what a horrible blast from
the past that was but as negative as all
of that sounded in the grand scheme of things it's relatively minor stuff and I
could probably find matching complaints in terms of annoyingness level on
Android to match up to pretty much all of them
but if you're still here watching this video thank you for sticking around and
I guess it's time for the conclusion here it goes I'm not sticking with iOS
not because it's terrible or because Tim Cook is the devil or something I just
happen to like the bigger screen and better speakers on the 1 M8 better and
on top of that my iPhone 5S is unfortunately a 16 gig model so it
doesn't hold much of that sexy slow-mo video footage and this is what I think
at the end of the day it's just a smartphone and doing this trial run
reinforced the belief that I already had that with a bit of effort pretty much
anyone could fairly easily get used to one platform or the other switching from
the 1 M8 made the iPhone 5S feel like a little light toy but switching from the
5S back to the 1 18 makes the M8 feel a bit like a clunky brick it's all about
perspective and I think that people lack that sometimes when they get into the
whole Apple versus Android Fanboy thing
speaking of perspective I wasn't really
sure how to do this normally when chero
power has us talk about their stuff in our videos we are talking about like uh
a great deal on one of their excellent portable battery Banks or something like
that but when they generously provided us with the iPhone 5S that we needed to
do this review they actually wanted a shout out not for a battery bank but
rather a revolt Tech Dan board figurine
that features artwork on the character's head that is inspired by chiro's
danboard themed 10,400 Mah portable battery bank that we have featured in
the past the figurine comes with a little stand is posable and even
includes another head the link for where to buy one is in the video description
and I have to confess here though manga
figurines are a little bit outside of my area of expertise so I'd love to hear
from you guys in the comments is this kind of stuff like totally Neato or are
you more likely to geek out over being able to charge your cell phone multiple
times off of you know a wicked battery
pack like this when you're on the go and it's okay for enough you know to have
like a cute character for your charger
and you don't really need see it like lights up like that actually this guy lights up too there's a little switch on
it and you don't really need uh like a like an actual action figure of it would
love to to hear what you guys think about that um
I think that's pretty much it thank you guys for watching my iPhone 5S uh I
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