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iPhone 6s Reviews: 'Performance Beast' with a 'Truly Great' Camera Gives Enough Reasons to Upgrade
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I got the iPhone 4 one day early back in 2010 and I got interviewed by the Miami Herald (Bridget Carey, now with CNET) and my comments appeared in the tech section two straight days (next day due to the yellowing issue with some early iPhone screens).
Five days early! She should be on GMA.
Five days early! She should be on GMA.
How would you market it? Seems kinda dumb if you say: this iPhone this year is okay but you should either get the last one because that was okay too but wait until next year because that will be even better...
I will switch to Android if this post gets 500 likes! Hah.
I'm glad to see that this thing is defaulting to 1080p video still. That will save many normal users who buy the 16GB and don't mess with their settings. It's a good default for a device that starts at 16GB. Though it's too bad they couldn't do 32GB so people could better use the features of their phone.
The performance of the 6S is crazy. Has anyone seen any graphics benchmarks yet? I'll be interested to know exactly what chips they put inside. I also want to see some Geekbench scores running at 1.8GHz. That girl last night posted a single core bench from it running at 1.8GHz and then some subsequent benches showing multicore but with a lower single core score. It has probably stepped down in speed while it was loading her iCloud data or whatever. The Geekbenches I've seen online show 1.7GHz so I wonder how high it can go?
Every year the tech sites frame their review around whether or not you'd want to upgrade from last year's model. And every year the majority of people upgrade from a model that is two or more years old. And it's not like these sites don't know the difference. So then why do they always frame their reviews around a question so few people are asking?
I presumed that the early reviews of the 6s would be relatively postive. For me, unless my 6 somehow breaks or takes a dip in the water and dies completely, I'll probably sit the 6s out and wait for the 7. But for those that do upgrade, I'm sure it will be awesome.
Actually the Apple ][ also used PEEK and POKE, maybe a lot of 6502 based computers of the time did for reading/writing to memory locations in BASIC. My favorite:
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Apple should troll everyone by going 32 - 128 - 256 next year
It could just run at a lower clock speed when using both cores flat out. Intel chips do this and it's called Turbo Boost (raises the clock speed when a lower # of cores is being used since there is power and heat to spare while the other cores are mostly idle). This makes me excited to see what the iPad Pro can do as well.
someone else posted how to look up by reference and I now know that my phone is still in china. And yet I feel more at peace
Oh man. Exciting. Can't wait to get mine friday!! I am really looking forward to the faster touch id, new camera, live photos and 3d touch. And I don't want to be a complainer but iOS 9 does feel a tad slow on my 6 plus. By no means unusable but just in some areas it seems slower to respond than it did on iOS 8. So also looking forward the processor and RAM upgrade! Come on friday!
All those reviews are quite bad imho (not the verdict, the reviews themselves). No one took the courage to compare performance, camera, display or battery life with competitors in a somewhat scientific manner. "I used it a few days and at the end of the day I had 15% battery left" - that's not very useful information. Maybe try to run a benchmark instead of all this nonsense gibberish.
Apparently these sites only get hands-on time with the iPhone if they don't do any real testing. All these reviews basically are one giant Apple advertorial. No one even tries to compare the display or camera with the S6. And these people call themselves journalists.
I'll wait for some real reviews.
Apparently these sites only get hands-on time with the iPhone if they don't do any real testing. All these reviews basically are one giant Apple advertorial. No one even tries to compare the display or camera with the S6. And these people call themselves journalists.
I'll wait for some real reviews.
So some speed and camera improvements to a phone that was already very fast with a great camera. Ok.
Not that anyone minds more speed or better images, but I've never once felt my iPhone 6 didn't measure up in those areas. I'll wait for next year.
Not that anyone minds more speed or better images, but I've never once felt my iPhone 6 didn't measure up in those areas. I'll wait for next year.
Yes! Most likely the majority of upgrades will be coming from 4S/5/5S/5C so why are reviews done through the lense of 'is it better than the 6'? Do people really expect HUGE improvements every single year? And if they got them wouldn't they then be complaining about planned obsolescence and how ridiculous it is that their phone is only good for one year?
This is probably the best iPhone upgrade from one year to the next.
Even jumping from a 5s would get you 2x the performance, 2x the graphics, larger screen, 12MP camera with a new sensor + 240fps slo-mo, 3D touch, a significantly better front facing camera, touch ID, and 2GB RAM.
Pretty solid. Even more solid if jumping from the 5/5c.
I just wish there were 4.7" 1080p and 5.5" 1440p variants. I'd definetly consider upgrading my 5s then.
Even jumping from a 5s would get you 2x the performance, 2x the graphics, larger screen, 12MP camera with a new sensor + 240fps slo-mo, 3D touch, a significantly better front facing camera, touch ID, and 2GB RAM.
Pretty solid. Even more solid if jumping from the 5/5c.
I just wish there were 4.7" 1080p and 5.5" 1440p variants. I'd definetly consider upgrading my 5s then.
I mentioned it elsewhere, but he is wearing the apple watch in this review.
With all this speak of "performance beast" & benchmarks etc, who else is getting (even more) excited for the iPad Pro?
Me, for sure!
I hope all of you 6S & 6S Plus people enjoy your new iPhones ...
Me, for sure!
I hope all of you 6S & 6S Plus people enjoy your new iPhones ...