Live blog: iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C launch event

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"It's built in a design that is absolutely the most beautiful, and stunning design in the entire phone industry."

by Tim Stevens 9/10/2013 5:34:33 PM
Champagne! Gold.

by Scott Stein 9/10/2013 5:34:37 PM
We're seeing some liquid metal, definite gold/champagne color!

by Tim Stevens 9/10/2013 5:34:41 PM
And it's time to know about the iPhone 5S.

by Ankit Tuteja 9/10/2013 5:34:45 PM
Gold and white.

by Scott Stein 9/10/2013 5:34:45 PM
The plastic is polycarbonate, which is the same material they've been using since iBook G3.

by Noah Robischon 9/10/2013 5:34:45 PM
And yes, there's a new home button!

by Tim Stevens 9/10/2013 5:34:49 PM
iPhone 5S video shows metallic coming together. Looks like that gold iPhone is real!

by Alice Truong 9/10/2013 5:34:49 PM
And a crazy capacative home button.

by Scott Stein 9/10/2013 5:34:53 PM
Big applause for the new iPhone 5S.

by Tim Stevens 9/10/2013 5:34:57 PM
Silver, Gold, Black.

by Scott Stein 9/10/2013 5:35:01 PM
I'm really against these cases. They're nice looking but the whole point of a plastic phone is that you shouldn't need to protect it.

by Farhad Manjoo via twitter 9/10/2013 5:35:05 PM
by Josh Lowensohn 9/10/2013 5:35:10 PM
by Carrie Mihalcik 9/10/2013 5:35:12 PM
Flash looks twice the size.

by Scott Stein 9/10/2013 5:35:14 PM
"This is iPhone 5S. It's made of a high-grade aluminum, with diamond-cut, chamfered edges." Yes, just like the iPhone 5.

by Tim Stevens 9/10/2013 5:35:21 PM
by Josh Lowensohn 9/10/2013 5:35:22 PM
No square on home button.

by Scott Stein 9/10/2013 5:35:25 PM
"It is the gold standard in smartphones." Nice one, Phil.

by Tim Stevens 9/10/2013 5:35:29 PM
Silver, gold, and "a new space gray." No more black. Too much scratching?

by Tim Stevens 9/10/2013 5:35:37 PM
by Josh Lowensohn 9/10/2013 5:35:41 PM
"space grey."

by Scott Stein 9/10/2013 5:35:42 PM
iPhone 5S made of high-grade aluminum with diamond cut edges and perfectly matched glass inlays. "It is the gold standard in smartphones."

by Alice Truong 9/10/2013 5:35:45 PM
Did he say Space Grey?

by Scott Stein 9/10/2013 5:35:49 PM
by Josh Lowensohn 9/10/2013 5:35:57 PM
Thanks, #Apple ;) http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BT0XKN1CUAArIgd.png

by nokia_uk via twitter 9/10/2013 5:36:03 PM
by Josh Lowensohn 9/10/2013 5:36:13 PM
He's talking about performance, downplaying sheer specs but calling the 5S a "huge leap forward in mobile computing performance."

by Tim Stevens 9/10/2013 5:36:17 PM
A7 is onboard. 64-bit.

by Scott Stein 9/10/2013 5:36:21 PM
by Josh Lowensohn 9/10/2013 5:36:30 PM
It's an A7 chip, 64 bit! The world's first 64 bit mobile phone.

by Tim Stevens 9/10/2013 5:36:33 PM
"The iPhone 5S is a huge leap forward in mobile computing performance." A7 chip is 64-bit, the first-ever in a phone, Schiller says.

by Alice Truong 9/10/2013 5:36:41 PM
by Josh Lowensohn 9/10/2013 5:36:42 PM
"The PC world made the transition from 32 bit to 64 bit and it took years. Today you're going to see that Apple is going to do it on one day."

by Tim Stevens 9/10/2013 5:36:53 PM
by Josh Lowensohn 9/10/2013 5:37:10 PM
Interesting to see how 64-bit plays out.

by Scott Stein 9/10/2013 5:37:10 PM
The colors for the iPhone 5S are Silver, Gold, and Space Gray. No champagne for you!

by Noah Robischon 9/10/2013 5:37:13 PM
by Josh Lowensohn 9/10/2013 5:37:30 PM
2x floating-point registers.

by Scott Stein 9/10/2013 5:37:30 PM
The A7 is a "Desktop-class architecture." ARM instruction set that's more efficient. 2x genral-purpose registers, 2x floating point registers, over a billion transistors. 102mm squared die size, about the same size as A6.

by Tim Stevens 9/10/2013 5:37:34 PM
The Apple iPhone 5S is the "world's first and only smartphone" with a 64-bit chip.

by Ankit Tuteja 9/10/2013 5:37:37 PM
A7 chip: 64-bit desktop-class architecture allows for modern instruction set. It has over 1 billion (!) transistors in it.

by Alice Truong 9/10/2013 5:37:38 PM
by Josh Lowensohn 9/10/2013 5:37:42 PM
iOS 7 was sneakily retooled for 64 bit in the background, and all the apps, too. But what about developers?

by Tim Stevens 9/10/2013 5:37:55 PM
by Josh Lowensohn 9/10/2013 5:37:58 PM

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