'iPhone 6s' Again Rumored to Feature 12MP Camera With 4K Video Recording

[nj-morris]

In all likelihood I'm probably making a switch to a GS6 this week. I'm mostly interested in the camera and fast charge on it. I'm not convinced the "user experience" on the iPhone 6S is going to be competitive. This camera will likely not be as good as Sammies and I worry about the battery suck from the new iphone hardware and processing and the GS6 seems to have this figured out. Am I wrong?

I wouldn't speculate. I would predict that the 6S will have some major camera advancements to catch up with the GS6 and the G4. And battery life will probably also be another improvement, if they make the A9 efficient enough. As for the user experience, that's by far the most important thing in a phone, and iOS 9 will probably be better than ever. Still, it is subjective whether you prefer iOS or Android.
Just wait and see. If the 6S doesn't have what you want, get the S6. In fact, I heard the S7 will actually come soon after.

 

[nj-morris]

They were always saying samsung and other phone makers were adding useless features and that there was no need for such high quality photos and videos. But like you said once apple does it it's like the best thing sine sliced bread. Sometimes I feel like folks on this forum have short term memory problems.

Maybe different people think different things? I challenge you to find one person on this forum that was against Samsung when they originally did something, and is for doing it.

 

[recoil80]

I wouldn't speculate. I would predict that the 6S will have some major camera advancements to catch up with the GS6 and the G4. And battery life will probably also be another improvement, if they make the A9 efficient enough. As for the user experience, that's by far the most important thing in a phone, and iOS 9 will probably be better than ever. Still, it is subjective whether you prefer iOS or Android.
Just wait and see. If the 6S doesn't have what you want, get the S6. In fact, I heard the S7 will actually come soon after.

They announced better battery life with iOS 9 across all their devices, together with a low power mode option.
I don't expect the A9 to be focused on power consumption but on performances. The A8 was the SoC designed for power consumption, this time they need to give their customer a huge step forward in speed.
I guess the camera improvements will take advantage of some processing in the A9, like it happened with the 4S.

 

[djgamble]

4K vide

Yeah because that will look so much better when viewed on your phone ay?

Maaaaan just get the battery life under control and quit cramming more features in Apple!!! 1 Week of battery life should be the minimum goal...

 

[Anonymous34]

So from the Chinese text, there's a new pink colour but not quite rose gold. Did I read that right? Something about taking pictures while also recording movies?

But the most impressive thing is the accuracy (just a touch from a finger tip) and even faster Touch ID performance, up to 30% faster than the 6, which is about the same as the Galaxy S6 (where the Samsung is not as consistently accurate).

Here's the translation from me, I'm a native Chinese speaker.


Earlier Prototypes of iPhone 6s had a 16MP sensor as its rear camera before it was replaced with a 12MP sensor. As expected, there're no major differences in appearance when comparing the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s. There will be a new color addition which is pink frame with white LCD (not sure about the back though). This combination seems odd though, looks like Apple is "inventing" something new again.

iPhone 6S internal testing codes are N66 and N71, the rear camera sensor is now capable in capturing 4K Videos and 240FPS slow motion videos. Users will be able to control ISO settings manually now. (This doesn't fit the following sentences though) That means than you will be able to take a video after taking a picture (wat?), but the video will be joined together. You will be looking at photo normally but the phone will show a video after holding it for a specific amount of time.

Force Touch is available in the iPhone 6S but personally I couldn't care enough about it as it's useless to me. The part where the iPhone 6s impressed me the most is the new TouchID sensor with its incredibly fast unlocking speed and it's accuracy. The phone can be unlocked in a split second at any angle. I'm currently using the Galaxy S6, there's not much speed difference in using the fingerprint sensor on the Galaxy S6 ad the iPhone 6. There's only a slight difference in accuracy when comparing the fingerprint sensor on the S6 and iPhone 6. iPhone 6 and Galaxy S6 was blown out of the water by the iPhone 6s. It only takes a slight touch to unlock it from the sleep mode to home screen. The whole process takes less than a second and is estimated to be 30% faster than the sensor on the iPhone 6.

As a conclusion for now, the front facing camera has a 5MP sensor, rear facing camera has a 12MP sensor, equipped with 2GB of RAM, base storage option is STILL 16GB, Pink as a new color option (No, there will be no Rose Gold option.), there's no visible difference (appearance) when compared to iPhone 6, still has a protruding camera. (He missed out the new Touch ID sensor with the Force Touch sensor) The rest is yet to be discovered.

The translation may not be perfect but I'm pretty sure it still can be understood,

 

[steveOooo]

It will use a new type of codec - h.265 - file sizes are half the size of current h.264 videos

Same codec used to stream 4k Netflix etc... Apple currenky use it for FaceTime over 3G in the iPhone 6

I'd imagine el crapatan will support it

It's supported by divx - you can watch h265 videos using heir free player

 

[Four oF NINE]

4K video recording will justify upgrading from 64 GB storage to 128 GB for me.

 

[Roller]

Here's the translation from me, I'm a native Chinese speaker.

The part where the iPhone 6s impressed me the most is the new TouchID sensor with its incredibly fast unlocking speed and it's accuracy. The phone can be unlocked in a split second at any angle. I'm currently using the Galaxy S6, there's not much speed difference in using the fingerprint sensor on the Galaxy S6 ad the iPhone 6. There's only a slight difference in accuracy when comparing the fingerprint sensor on the S6 and iPhone 6. iPhone 6 and Galaxy S6 was blown out of the water by the iPhone 6s. It only takes a slight touch to unlock it from the sleep mode to home screen. The whole process takes less than a second and is estimated to be 30% faster than the sensor on the iPhone 6.

Thanks for the translation!

I'm puzzled by the writer's enthusiasm for faster unlocking. I have a 6 Plus that already responds very quickly when I press the Home button. Any speed improvement would go unnoticed by me. It's also much more accurate than my 5S was in its early days, when it'd sometimes take multiple tries to unlock.

 

[nordique]

^ That is great to hear regarding the incredibly fast Touch ID unlocking.

yeah that slate was really sexy. But apple needs to figure how to coat the black aluminum better. My iPhone 5 had a ton of scratches and I only owned it for two weeks.

agreed, this was the big disappointment with the black & slate iPhone 5 - it was beautiful though.

 

[oopsroger]

All I'm saying is, if you really need to be so professional as to require 4K recording, get a professional camera.

I just don't give a damn about this feature on my PHONE.

 

[Menneisyys2]

That's why Samsung added the quick charging and both PMA and Qi wireless charging standards in the phone.

While I have no personal experience with the S6, there are a lot more Qi-compliant handsets out there, some sporting excellent battery life; for example, the Note 4.

Stock is where it's at if you want speed, but stock Android has terrible camera software

Samsung's own camera app is definitely more advanced than the stock Google camera app. I generally use it on my Note4, mostly because of the dual camera feature - something simply great for social videos. (Too bad iPhones still don't support dual cameras - this was one of the main reasons I've gone for Samsung and not Apple last year.)

 

[LordVic]

All I'm saying is, if you really need to be so professional as to require 4K recording, get a professional camera.

I just don't give a damn about this feature on my PHONE.

Good. So don't use it.

But your comment is purely assanine.

The best camera you have, is the one on you. Most people don't walk around carrying a camcorder or DSLR due to size and weight. It's just not practical.

We do all however generally carry a smartphone these days.

And if you're someone who lieks to take videos of family memories as they occur, you want to record them in the absolute highest and best quality as you can. Why, cause 10 or 20 years from now when you're viewing them, or embarsassing your children to their new boyfriend/girlfriend, and we're all on 20k displays, do you really want 1080p? or 720p? no. you want it in as high a possible quality from the sources as possible

its preuly short sighted to make the comment you do.

Do you still record your video at 480i? or 720p? no, you record at 1080p cause it's the highest quality you can record on your device.

 

[Shlooky]

quick question...will the new camera on the iP6S have depth of field capabilities like the SLR's?

 

[LordVic]

quick question...will the new camera on the iP6S have depth of field capabilities like the SLR's?

"Like" the slrs? Probably not. If Apple includes the ability to adjust for depth of field and make thigns out of focus (Bokeh), it'll likely be software driven, similar to how Android camp is doing it.

its just a matter of physics which makes shallow depth of field hard to accomplish with the small lenses. Real depth of field effects you see from SLR's are a physics calculation based on Aperture size and focal length.

some reading: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/depth-of-field.htm

 

[Shlooky]

Thanks!!!

 

[ErikGrim]

There are an increasing number of 4K television sets. I saw one at Target for about $1,000.

You can get 4K sets for <$500 here.

 

[Technarchy]

Good luck running Apple Music, 4k video, Apple Music, Force touch, and whatever else on 1GB of RAM.

6S+ owners = Forget it.

 

[chukronos]

Good luck running Apple Music, 4k video, Apple Music, Force touch, and whatever else on 1GB of RAM.

6S+ owners = Forget it.

That's probably why it has 2GB.

 

[thekeyring]

Wait I thought Mega Pixels don't matter.. :\

They're not the only thing that matter. Some argue that a 16MP camera is twice as good as an 8MP camera.

This is clearly not the case. 8MP is already way over 1080p HD, and most people's Facebook photos (as one usage example) are much lower than HD. With this in mind, picture quality, low-light capabilities, etc, are also very important.

 

[thekeyring]

They were always saying samsung and other phone makers were adding useless features and that there was no need for such high quality photos and videos. But like you said once apple does it it's like the best thing since sliced bread. Sometimes I feel like folks on this forum have short term memory problems.

Can't speak for everyone, but personally I feel that people point to a Samsung phone and say "Look, 4K video! That's better than iPhone". And I think, yeah, but I'd rather have an iPhone because it's better in other ways. Then, when 4K is added to iPhone, it is a reason to celebrate.

Then again, I don't leave comments on competitors products saying "x feature doesn't matter" unless I really think it doesn't.

 

[tripmusic]

Nope

 

[tripmusic]

That's why the base model will finally be 32gb's

Nope

 

[Ternary]

Hopefully 4k video recording is optional. Otherwise, videos will be nothing but a storage hog.

 

[JayIsAwesome]

Man, I hope this is true. 4k on the S6 is awesome and it would be just as good if not better on the 6S. I do hope Apple finally lets users change the video recording resolution (720p, 1080p, 1440p, and 4k) Android has been doing this for a while. No idea why Apple has yet to add this feature in the camera settings.

 

[lke]

4K video recording will justify upgrading from 64 GB storage to 128 GB for me.

And when you have the 128GB you will need a 256GB

It is time for Apple to include 256GB or more in the iphone 6S

It is now possible to include too much space without issues about size or weight