Apple iPhone 5s: the world's first 64-bit smartphone

So here it is, or will be by the end of the month, the world's first smartphone to use a 64-bit chip. Immediately I would suggest that you can forget about most of what was announced yesterday, what you simply cannot forget, however, is that 64-bit smartphone status. An iPhone that, and we have to take Apple's word for it right now, runs twice as fast as the previous model. Indeed, with a new chip that has more than a billion transistors (double the previous chip transistor count) Apple also points out it is some 40 times faster than the original iPhone.