personal impressions of the Apple iPhone 5c
How to treat the Apple iPhone 5c? This cheap plastic or independent model with an unusual design for Apple? Does the product have a right to exist - or Apple stands to remove it from production? Editorial staff 3DNews tried to live with iPhone 5c and share their impressions
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Apple iPhone 5c - Jr. unit in modern model range phones Apple. Previously,
the company left in smartphone sales last generation, reducing the
price on it, but this time left the iPhone 5 list of offers Apple, and
his place was taken by iPhone 5c - for the same price, but in colorful
plastic housing.
From
the point of view of hardware, iPhone 5, and 5c are virtually
indistinguishable, but the lack of external differences - this applies
to both the case and materials and accessories and general positioning. In Russia, the average retail price of the iPhone 5s with 16 GB of memory is 21 000, recommended - 24 990 rubles. By the way, for the same amount in retail can be purchased the same iPhone 5c with 32 GB of memory or iPhone 5s - with 16. The recommended price of both of these devices, of course, somewhat higher - 29 990 rubles. With 64 or 128 GB iPhone 5c discontinued.
On
our site is completely unbiased review of published iPhone 5c, but
opinions on the new edition of the smartphone have been very disparate -
so we decided to publish them separately.
iPhone 5c - Feel the rainbow
Marat Gabitov
Editor newswires 3DNews
Uses Sony Xperia ZL
White,
pink, yellow, blue, green - I wonder could at least six months ago,
someone might think that it is in these colors will be presented to the
new iPhone? iPhone 5c, where "s" means color, and not cheap, surprised many primarily for its price. Who will buy this "plastic remnant" for 25 thousand rubles? Apple In that work idiots? These are the thoughts swirling in the brain as long as it does not reach the real smartphone usage.
Hmm, what a bright greens. And in the hand is as it should, especially after the "shovel» Android-smartphone. The first impression of the color iPhone is surprisingly pleasant. Coupled with a bright "Seven» iPhone 5c felt as a whole, a complete and organic symbiosis of hardware and software. Taking the hand phone, you know what guided Ive and company when they decided so radically redesign of the operating system.
Within a few days you get used to use iPhone 5c so as if they are using is not the first month. And
this despite the fact that in recent years, I prefer to only
smartphones on Android, and iOS with only encountered at its third iPad.
Plastic
case with "zamylennye" edges allows the device to slip easily into a
pocket of jeans and a few millimeters in thickness difference with the
older model do not seem redundant.
All good iPhone 5c, but in fact the elder brother quite a bit more expensive! Colorful
smartphone becomes a hostage of its metal counterpart, which is thinner
and more powerful, and he has a better camera, and a fingerprint
scanner is. The difference in price is not proportional to the difference in equipment. IPhone 5c would cost 20 percent less - and probably wanting to buy it would be substantially more. Perhaps with time and Apple will take such a step, as long as "life in color" chosen few.
More is not so!
You're lucky - you're not like everyone else.
Do you work in the office!
Denis Nivnikov
Editor in Chief 3DNews
LG G2 uses
And now is not like that! Several
years ago, Apple allowed machinery office plankton (forgive me the lack
of diplomacy, in the end, for some time, I also worked in marketing and
went to work at nine in the morning in a shirt and trousers) a little
to stand out from the mass of gray costume. Think different - look, I'm not boring clerk, I'm young and modern. And I have headphones - white! But
what here Think different, when in 2013 a new ayfonchik have everyone
... yes in general, each of the first colleagues in the office and every
other passenger subway?
But here I am again not like it, I broke out of monochrome framework: my iPhone - bright green! And maybe even coral, blue, yellow or white. Two-tone or even if you choose not to cover body color. Here it is - the freedom of expression! Now
the chance that all the participants on Friday evening at the table
nearest to the office will be the same beer smartphones - is minimal.
And if we leave aside the irony that I really like. I
will not repeat trite words about polished to a shine interface,
software quality, comfortable and elaborate functions, one of the best
in the class of camera. Convinced
user Android, I nonetheless dearly love iOS (especially new, seventh)
and would gladly use the iPhone as a second machine. And the new design it is very youth-to-face.
That's just ... No, I understand that that decision cost hundreds of focus groups and a thorough analysis of the market. But personally I do not understand why it took so strange position 5c and deprive his part functions? First, the low-end model is not enough younger - it stands as top smartphone competitors. And
secondly, and most importantly, the difference in cost with the older
not so noticeable to 5s seriously perceived as a premium compared to 5c.
The result - money tears and cinnamon pity! I'd like a little green, but with a sensor, like 5s.
Plastic ruined everything
Alexei Drozhzhin
Editor in Chief of destinations
"Mobile devices" on 3DNews
Uses the Nokia 3720 Classic and LG G2
"Plastic, Fu." This is the first - and last thought immediately of any Russian person who has ever paid attention to the iPhone 5c. No, I'm lying. A final thought is this: "Well, at least very cheap, I suppose? No? Then just fu. " And that's quite all: the verdict, saying nothing more.
In fact, things are not so simple. Apple
traditionally relies on the high cost of a thorough product
development, then discourage these costs (successfully) by unifying and a
huge number of issued units of one model. So everything is logical: iPhone 5s - this is the usual "five" with a slightly modified design. For it is almost ready components, assembly lines have been established, you can simply punch, as a year earlier.
Why not leave in manufacturing the same "five", making it cheaper than a new iPhone 5s? First, Apple decided to further encourage the purchase of more expensive iPhone 5s. Secondly,
probably the company could not reduce the cost of the "five" so to
reduce the price for the traditional "last year" value models. Plastic
housing costs a little cheaper - in itself worth even more expensive
polycarbonate aluminum production process but details less complicated
and expensive. As required.
In general, the appearance of 5c seems logical and correct. On the other hand, there are some unpleasant consequences on the part of the design and thereunder consumer qualities. For the sake of unification with the general structure of the iPhone 5 device left unchanged. However,
the structure was originally designed for an aluminum housing that
played a role, and only beautiful shell, and a strong, rigid frame.
Mechanical
characteristics are much worse than plastic, so the synthetic part,
first, it was necessary to make a thicker, and secondly, to further
strengthen the steel plates. As
a result, the smartphone has become a little more plump and
significantly heavier - and he became so not for the sake of something
pleasant, but only for the sake of diversity lineup and save nickels. Cause for joy in this hard to find.
It's
funny that in Russia the price of this device relatively more
profitable than in his homeland: he will save 5000 rubles, and there -
just $ 100. At the same time there it quite massively buying, but here the idea in most cases stops at diagnosis "Fu plastic." And really - plastic ruined everything.
Mixed feelings
Evgeniy Balashov
Web developer
Uses the Apple iPhone 5s
Apple iPhone 5c I got at the same time as the long-awaited abroad drove 5s - replace an old 3gs with a broken screen. So I jumped right in some models - and so I can not compare the new iPhones with some modern competitors. But I can - together.
Virtually limitless possibilities smartphones me as most users do not need. Only calls, cards and reminders - even without the games and social networks. And
most importantly my call to the phone - that he did not get me
anything: no brakes, no sloppy interface, nor what some intrusive
notifications. Plus - it just has to be enjoyable.
So, iPhone 5c? Phone leaves a dual impression. On the one hand it cool - bright, lively. On the other - no orange: if you take colorful phone - it should be "my" color. Plastic
case is very high quality and really looks gorgeous, but its luster
inevitably there are small scratches and all this beauty has to hide
under the cover.
Oh yeah, Case! Full-time
- $ 29 - very pleasant to the touch, but makes the phone too large: if
by itself is not bad and iPhone in hand and in your pocket, then cover
it becomes too thick. And the cover should protect your phone from scratches, but instead it attracts dirt. Holes on the cover work at all as cleansers - inward collect any muck that inevitably gets on the phone itself.
iPhone 5C after three days of use with original cover
Still possible to popridiratsya iOS 7. OSes became light and airy, but in some places the effects look strange. There is a new handy remote control, but soured "folder" on the screens. And yet I still can not get used to the strange options during an incoming call.
Compared with 5s phone is not such snobsky and much more cheerful. But he still weaker - and for non-top-end phones get expensive.
But ... it all comes to mind, if only to think long to find fault with anything. And if you do not think and just enjoy - that the overall feeling is very positive. He does not slow down, well removes quickly finds position on the map. It's comfortable, they are a pleasure to use, it was beautiful - all in the best tradition of Apple-branded wow factor.
I'm not someone who changes phones every year. That's why I took the iPhone 5s - this unit with a certain reserve for the future. If we do not know what exactly 5c inferior top model - the difference is very difficult to notice. A year later, she probably will be much more noticeable. But
if you acquire a new machine every year, then the iPhone - an excellent
option: he did not have time to become obsolete, will likely not have
time to completely scratched, well, he's great - and this is important.
This is the western industrial design, baby
Valery Kosikhin
Head lab 3DNews
Uses the iPhone 5
Once I admit: I once bought a iPhone 5c. But
not for personal use, but only to being in the American trip, take
photos and write a review for its part 3DNews, while it was still hot. And then cynically passed the Apple Store on the way home. After all, I already have "just» iPhone 5, which I was completely satisfied, and 5c me to anything.
Yet it was not easy to leave. For a few days I got used to the phone yellowish rubber boot, which bought dough. Oh very nice thing, solely on the grounds of kinesthetic. Pleasantly
lightweight heavy hand after the iPhone 5 and 5s (yes, plastic phone
weighs more than aluminum, because inside - steel insert for stiffness).
Smooth, the grip surface of the body. A hand holding a cover device is not worse than a rubber ball. In
general, talking about iPhone 5c anything, just do not repeat the
standard mantra: "Plastic - means for the poor" - and the like. Finally, aluminum - is not always status material therefrom make the spoons.
In fact, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the plastic iPhone does not seem cheap. Any plastic products from Apple are obtained as solid as it is metal. Power cables from the "Mac" Monitors and certainly thick, heavy and soft. Power supply "MacBook" or any Apple TV - RDX, which is hard to tap internal cavity. Now the smartphone in a plastic case - as always, solid and monolithic. This is the western industrial design, baby. Minimalism form and richness of texture.
About stuffing youngest of new iPhones nothing to say: last year's "five" as it is. Personally,
I can not complain about the performance of the Apple A6 chip, even in
comparison with the A7, set in the iPhone 5s. Interface iOS 7 is drawn with no brakes, and games on your phone, I think a waste of time.
Of
course, no matter how good of its kind iPhone 5c, dearer to me the good
old iPhone 5, which I once bribed not least because the metal housing. But if I saw a little bit more sense to set up the second phone, it would be 5c. Classic "five" - for working contacts and reading choleretic "politoty" on the way to the subway. With optimistic 5c had sent messages to the young ladies and photographed eating at Instagram.
Bright and eccentrically
Konstantin Denisenko
Editor of the "Drives"
Uses iPhone 4s
When
the September presentation broadcast was mentioned Apple iPhone 5c,
that at first I thought that the impossible happen - Apple will release a
really cheap phone. And it will be very bad. We
should clarify that the matter lies not in the cult of "expensive
iPhone" or psevdoelitarnosti its owner - the phone itself does not mean
anything. Produce a good product "for cheap" is almost impossible. In
such a case will be taken the wrong body materials, not the most
powerful hardware, but nothing of the development costs and can not
speak. The
final result is a phone that will be pleasant to just fly fly - in the
interface with the brake not find any redeeming features. That is why Apple did not save on materials and design iPhone 5c - and the phone came out a bit cheaper 5s. In general, the world is not overturned - floor and ceiling are still in place.
Photographs on iPhone 5c looks much worse than in real life. In fact, the plastic body of the aircraft was very pleasant to the touch, no brakes in iOS 7 was not seen. Of course, the assembly number performed perfectly - no backlash, squeaking and other "budget Trash" here. The only thing that did not like - it's case number. The
fact that it's not as slippery as the plastic case, and hence remove
the phone in the pocket of his jeans (or any other pocket) will not be
easy. And in all the holes will cover perfectly accumulate dust.
With the advent of iPhone line of smartphones Apple 5c divided into two parts. 5s will be the "pump" phone for geeks or people solid and 5c - catchy, fashionable and eccentric. Bright
housing iPhone 5c will effectively stand almost anywhere, but due to
the different (and less noticeable) covers, you can almost completely
change the color of your phone. In
addition, the operating system running iPhone 5s without brakes, which
is very rare in other smartphones whose manufacturers skimp on
components for low price.
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