The iPhone 5C (marketed by Apple with a stylized lowercase 'c' as iPhone 5c) is a touchscreen-based smartphone developed by Apple Inc. It is one of two successors to the iPhone 5, along with its higher-end counterpart, the iPhone 5S. Apple held an event to formally introduce the iPhone 5C and 5S on September 12th, 2013, and they were released on September 20, 2013,[1] therefore discontinuing sales of the previous iPhone 5.
The 5C runs on the latest iteration of the iOS operating system, iOS 7, which was announced at the company's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2013.
The 5C uses much of the same hardware as the iPhone 5, lacking new features from the 5S: it uses the previous A6 chip from the iPhone 5 instead of the A7, does not include fingerprint recognition, and lacks the Burst iSight camera mode and slow-motion video recording mode. It uses a polycarbonate casing (in blue, green, red, yellow, and white colors) instead of the metal used by the 5 and 5S, with a black glass front.
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