iPhone 6s Reviews: 'Performance Beast' with a 'Truly Great' Camera Gives Enough Reasons to Upgrade
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bchreng
macrumors 65816
According to some of the bigger fans here, yes, because he mentioned that the 6 design wasn't the best.
Depends what you plan on using your phone for. The 6+ with iOS 9 is still plenty fast for me. The 5mp and 12mp camera updates tempt me far more than the CPU/GPU/RAM upgrades, though they still very welcome.
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jhfenton
macrumors 65816
H.265 is viewable on almost every computer made in the last few years, Mac and PC. Windows 10 has native support. VLC supports h.265 cross-platform. Plex Media Server supports h.265 cross-platform. Handbrake supports encoding h.265 video cross-platform.
I encode and watch h.265 video on my Macs and PCs on a regular basis.
Rogifan
macrumors Penryn
Yes, I'll still call him that. For writing pieces like "the mobile web sucks" and then blaming it all on the fact that Apple doesn't allow different rendering engines on iOS. Never once owning up to the crappy ads they run that take up more than half the page and often times the full page on mobile devices.
macduke
macrumors G5
Ok, so time for my future iPhone predictions. I've been slowly compiling these over time in a text editor. They get fewer new features over time as it's more difficult to gauge what will be available further out.
Things we will likely see in the iPhone 7:
Things we will likely see in the iPhone 7:
- Liquid Metal enclosure using a seamless design, perhaps in a few new colors as you can mix colors into the material itself which doesn't scratch or dent very easily
- Sapphire display coating to resist scratches. This will likely be combined with stronger glass underneath like a veneer.
- Thinner and lighter…you know the drill
- Touch ID integrated into display using 3D Touch in place of a home button
- Not sure where you would force touch to go home. Unlocking could happen anywhere on the screen, which would be simple for implementation. I believe Apple can work it out.
- Much slimmer bezels, especially on the top and bottom, making the devices smaller
- They may simplify to 4", 5", and 6" sizes, especially with the smaller bezels that will make those sizes similar to existing ones and would make a 4" device that roughly the physical size of a 3.5" device.
- Same battery life (wha-whaaaa)
- 32/128/256GB sizes (alternatively I could see them doing 32/64/128 for a year at $199/249/349 or therebouts)
- Low-light camera improvements—perhaps wider aperture combined with new sensor tech
- Even slower slow-mo
- Moderate speed improvements, including a faster flash storage controller like on the iPad Pro to make apps open faster
- MIMO WiFi to boost speed and connection
- True @3X retina displays across the line
- OLED or other new display tech that has much better contrast outdoors
- 4K 60fps
- Bluetooth 5.0
- The rumored "dual camera, dSLR-like camera" improvements. It apparently uses two or more cameras to not only make a higher-resolution photo, but to fake depth of field effects to make subjects pop from their background using the offset between the cameras and software algorithms. I think there is a small chance of this being in the 7, likely by the 7S and sure thing by the 8.
- Apple Pencil support for making quick sketches
- Moderate speed improvements
- Battery life increase. I doubt we'll see any in the 7 because of the reduction in device size, but the 7S will probably give a small bump of 15-20%
- Remove most ports (depends on how thin—they may wait until the iPhone 8 for this):
- Integrated programmable sim card
- Bluetooth Earpods
- Remove mute switch to streamline design, moved to control center like on iPad
- Water resistant would be a lot easier after removal of ports
- Inductive charging with a hidden diagnostic port like the AW
- That rumored tech that changes the feel/friction of items on the touch screen surface. Could maybe simulate keyboard key edges to make typing better? Better taptic engine feedback could be a part of that.
- 5G wireless
- Edge-to-edge display
- Larger battery life bump as it will be roughly the same size as the 7/7S but not really thinner. The device thinness limit plateaus for a while as battery life constraints limit it, and more importantly ergonomics prevent it
- Folds in half with flexible display hinge. Easily pocket-able and able to navigate with one hand, but unfold it to have a good sized 6" phablet.
- Wireless charging (not inductive, but really wireless using some kind of power base station)
- Third bullet point. I'm out of ideas. If you think I'm crazy with the above, this is 2021 after all so why not?
You won't see the best reviews until it's been released. Only the shills get them early.
TallManNY
macrumors 601
If you are getting anywhere near a days worth of battery life on a 5 than the 6s should do the trick for you. I've got a 6 and it is definitely better battery life than the 5 and that was before iOS 9. Also the Plus versions have even greater battery life.
macduke
macrumors G5
Hah. I made a pretty safe bet. This isn't reddit—not gonna happen!
0098386
Suspended
This is what worries me the most! I hope they introduce an option to slow it down. I like to just read notifications on my lockscreen, which I do by pressing the button. Sometimes it scans my finger quickly and just launches me back into my phone, erasing all the notifications.
iOS9 has made it easier to check them though, since you can now arrange the drop-down menu to show all notifications by time received. But it's still more work than just pressing the home button.
peterdevries
macrumors 68040
I think Apple's response to this would be that they invented the on-off button for that. I use it in the same way as you, but this reeks of a "you are using the home button wrong" scenario.
Rogifan
macrumors Penryn
Joanna Stern at the WSJ wrote a pretty meh review for being a shill. Nilay Patel said 3D Touch isn't useful. I guess Apple needs to work on getting better shills.
I find it hard to believe they don't know where 3D Touch will not work since Apple has integrated it into almost all of their apps. It's kind of a natural thing, it works by pressing on the app and content in the app, links, pictures or whatever it may be. Especially after watching apple videos it has become almost a no brainier on how to use. So no I don't believe whoever said it's confusing to use.
When they do that I'll switch after eight years of iPhones (five iPhones) to another brand (which supports such a mute switch). (Or stick to iPhone 7 for many years.) I need that switch urgently 20+ times a day at work.
Bet you that Joanna Stern won't be writing any major articles again. Patel would probably get major flak for that.
peterdevries
macrumors 68040
This is nonsense. Many of the reviewers cannot afford to have a bias. There is much more at stake than just early access to a new device or an invitation to an event.
Apple is not afraid to send their devices to critical reviewers. Just because they are getting good reviews does not mean that Apple pays them all. Not once has any reviewer come forward (not even Gizmodo) that Apple pays them or provides them with benefits to favour their products in reviews. If Apple would do this it would come out and it would be all over the media.
This is tinfoil hat quality speculation.
Keirasplace
macrumors 601
Right... Shills... Even though what they usually report is mostly the same as those that report later. But, hey, whatever narrative suits you...
shills was a bad word choice. How about nontechnical? I could've wrote most of these reviews without even having the phone. If any of these "reviews for dummies by dummies" actually help you make a choice, then more power to you.
Superhappytree
macrumors 6502a
Just saw this review on the 6s Plus, no more lag it seems! (1:50 seconds in)
I assure you Live Photos is not a gimmick. It is intended to capture the moment better than a still photo. What's better than a still photo than a video integrated into the same file and there isn't anything extra you must do to turn it on? I love taking photos, and while I love videos too I honestly find it bothersome to switch to video camera and record. This solves the problem. I can snap away all I want and capture a few seconds of video with it too.
It looks like Nilay Patel is back on the bandwagon, though.
thekeyring
macrumors 68040
Great, unless the screen felt a "tap" from your pocket. My current iPhone will accidentally scrub through a song if I don't lock it and put it in my pocket. (Obviously I always lock my phone, but you can scrub through a song from the lock screen.)
Keirasplace
macrumors 601
Since this phone is basically 6, which was well reviewed, with almost everything upgraded, why would you expect some bad or even critical review? What kind of "scientific" review would even convince you? Running Geekbench a few time under a few conditions? This thing seemingly has enough power that I don't even know if there is a app out there that can test it meaningfully right now.
Luis Mazza
macrumors regular
Yes, I can. People use YouTube everyday, so it must look good on it. If you can't judge, don't say I can't.
Yeah LG phones did that (a few models ago anyway, not sure about now). Double tap to wake. Cool feature.