The things we love and don't love about the new iPhone Elvis Costello seems impressed by the new iPhone 5S, as Apple CEO Tim Cook looks on, but while there's lots of love, we reckon there's a few niggles too. NEWS Corp technology writer Rod Chester has had a play with the new iPhone, and he's already got a love/hate list. The camera Apple call the iPhone 5 the world's most popular camera and certainly photography sharing sites such as Flickr support that claim. But the camera in the iPhone 5S will let you take much better pictures even though they are both 8 megapixel cameras. The iPhone 5S camera has a 15 per cent bigger sensor which means more light gets to the individual pixels. The iPhone 5S has a f2.2 aperture (compared with the f2.4 in the iPhone 5) which means more light comes in and gives you better photos in low light. If you're into using your iPhone to take family videos, you'll fall in love (at least for a while) with the ability to make slow-mo clips. If you want to take happy snaps, then the dual LED flash with "True Tone" promises better colour balance and skin tones. One of the features that will definitely improve the family snaps is image burst. The iPhone 5S can take images in a burst at 10 frames per second by holding your finger on the button. You then scroll through and find the image you want. The thing to note is that this they are full-resolution images. The speed The iPhone 5S has a faster chip, namely A7. It's the first 64-bit chip for a smartphone. Most smartphone owners will not be able to tell you what chip is inside their favourite device, and nor should they. What you need to know is that the A7 chip means your smartphone will run a lot faster. The chip is arguably the key area where Apple can claim that this takes the smartphone industry in a big step forward. The iPhone 5S also has a M7 motion coprocessor, which works with an accelerometer, a gyroscope and a compass. It will improve the device's abilities as a "fitness monitor." The new iPhone 5C will run iOS 7 is made from hard-coated polycarbonate and comes in various colours. Picture: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP Source: AFP The screen size Size is a personal issue. There are many people who love their phablets. Then there are those of us who find the iPhone screen size just right the way it is. Security Using a PIN on your smartphone tends to fit into the "I know I should but..." category. Having a fingerprint scanner built in gives the protection you need with no effort. If you ever lose your phone in a cab or just have your phone "borrowed" by your children, this puts you back in control of when people are using your device. One issue with fingerprinting scanning is that it's unlikely to be popular in cold climates where gloves are the norm. And if you don't like the idea that your phone knows your fingerprint just don't use the feature. It's optional. Battery life Apple says the battery on the iPhone 5S will last longer than the iPhone 5 - they're claiming 10 hours. That's good but we really had hope for mind blowingly good, like the way the new MacBook Air sets the standard. The new iPhone 5S features fingerprint recognition security. Picture; Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP Screen size Yes, we said it was a personal issue. Not everyone shares our view and some people will say the iPhone should have a bigger screen. Robust Nobody dropped an iPhone 5S at the Apple launch in Cupertino yesterday so we don't know how it would survive. But there are some smartphones made by companies including Sony on the market that are waterproof. We don't want to take an iPhone 5S in the bathtub but being robust is always a good thing. The new iPhone 5C model that will run iOS 7 is made from hard-coated polycarbonate and comes in various colours. Lack of "wow" factor You can blame the people who find and leak photos of upcoming iPhones, or you can blame Apple that they don't seem to have as tight a control on stopping the leaks that they used to. But today's launch definitely suffered because of the rumour mill of the last few weeks. Instead of a fingerprint scanner in a phone being a "wow" moment, it was a "heard about this moment." Megapixels The iPhone 5S is a 8 megapixel camera and that doesn't match the numbers of many competitors. Apple say, and it's true, that more pixels don't necessarily mean a better picture. But it would have been nice to have a bigger number just to mute that comparison.