FORTUNE — The good news is that Apple’s (AAPL) new plastic iPhone 5C — the one that comes in colors and starts at $99 with contract — feels solid and not at all cheap.
The bad news is that it took me a half-dozen tries, two reboots and two different phones before I could get an iPhone 5S to register my thumb print. Maybe there’s something wrong with my thumb, but the software had a hard time getting a handle on the very center of my print, and until it did, Touch ID could not move on.
The iPhone 5C didn’t feel at all cheap. And at $549. it isn’t. Photo: PED
The iPhone 5S fingerprint scanning technology had trouble with my thumb. Photo: PED
The room was crawling with media heavies. Here, CNBC’s Jon Fortt does a demo for the camera. Photo: PED