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Lucky Customer Receives Rose Gold iPhone 6s Nearly Five Days Early [Updates]

pacalis said:
Especially if that camera is in a GS6.

It's not a good thing. I'm getting my wife the pink, ahem, rose gold one and it doesn't look like she's going to be happy with the photo quality. This is what came out of my GS6 from vacation a few weeks back. View attachment 583958 View attachment 583960
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After looking at those pictures I guess she will likely be as happy with the iPhone as with the GS6...of course your pictures have a lot more pop to them as the ones posted by the early receiver, but the butterfly was clearly shot with better lighting (and thus much less noise and way crisper) and if you check the areas with low contrast in the second picture (for example the bus on the right or that gray roof bit on the left) you see the same artifact/noise garbage as in the picture of the dog on the couch...I guess there are lots of situations where phone cameras are good enough (better a compromise in picture quality then no pic at all) and I guess that the one in the new iPhone will be among those that are at least ok...only drawback: the old one may be just a bit better suited for those situations that are not favorable to the concept of a tiny sensor...while i doubt there are that many situations where one would actualy benefit from the added mp count of the new sensor...ah well, we will see when we get our hands on them...till then, let's keep the hope up ;)
 
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Images are pretty good for indoor photos. You can see the texture of dog's cushion in great detail. Colors are also very nice and warm. I think that in outdoor situation this phone will shoot amazing photos. Don't be so freaked out about these samples. It's like with any other camera - some photos are poor, some are stunning.
 
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Pink confirmed. Where are the people saying "nobody" would get it early. Lol. Someone always gets it early.
 
Wonder how many people are now regretting their Rose Pink choice now?

"I was hoping it was copper, but it's deffo pink"-gate.
 
vertsix said:
Those are some powerful cores.

I wanted 3 cores though. It's better for performance. Three average-sized brains is better than two big brains.
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It's not better for performance, actually. You really only start adding cores when you can no longer increase the performance of the cores you already have. As long as Apple is able to drastically improve their single and dual core performance there is no overall advantage to going higher for a smartphone - most tasks on mobile are still better suited by 2 very fast cores.

Serban said:
Smasung galaxy s6 edge has 4700 scores in multicore !!!!

http://wccftech.com/iphone-6s-galaxy-note-5-benchmark-scores-comparison-handset-takes-crown/

so the iphone 6s only in single core is king
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Yes but close to nothing on a phone is going to take advantage of quad cores. Lots of things will still be single or dual core which will be nowhere near as fast (in theory) as those same things running on a 6s.

Another interesting thing that the Exynos octacore is still the Big.Little scheme with the 4 regular cores and the 4 low power cores - It's interesting that Apple still isn't using this- they must still get better power efficiency (or think they do) out of just using the same two cores for everything. On the surface the octa core model looks a lot more complicated in trying to juggle tasks around to all of the different cores while trying to manage performance vs. battery life.

Will be cool to see more tests this week!
 
Thank god they delivered early to someone who knows how to run and post benchmarks, has a cute dog and flowers on hand to demo the 4k video and camera. Normally it's the guy living in his parents' basement who ends up getting it early and we get horrid demos.
 
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xmichaelp said:
That's not surprising, Apple always beats the competition when a new phone is. The great part is the iPhone absolutely kills everything else in single core... But of course Android phones still chase core counts as if it matters.. lol.
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The good reviewers don't. But I've already seen a Galaxy S6 vs iPhone 6 comparison which starts the article listing specs. The worst thing is when you see "Finger Print Scanner" and "Yes" for the Galaxy and "Yes" for the iPhone as if all fingerprint scanners are created equal.
 
teknikal90 said:
why?
2.2 is already a very wide open aperture.
the difference between 2.0 and 2.0 is like 1/3 of an f-stop. means nothing on depth of field but decreases sharpness.
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Have you seen what the LG G4 is capable of? 1.8, tack sharp and great low light performance (for a phone, of course). I'm doubtful the 6s+ will match it. The 6s lacks OS, so that's not even worth the comparison.
 
it would be cheaper for IFIXIT to give her a lot of money for the phone instead of flying people out to Australia.
 
chriscrowlee said:
Thank god they delivered early to someone who knows how to run and post benchmarks, has a cute dog and flowers on hand to demo the 4k video and camera. Normally it's the guy living in his parents' basement who ends up getting it early and we get horrid demos.
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After making that post, it still somehow escapes you that this is a controlled Apple sponsored leak?

Apple Exec: "Normally it's the guy living in his parents basement who ends up getting it early and we get horrid demos."

Apple PR: "I have an idea. Why don't we just manufacture a controlled early leak to a girl who knows how to post benchmarks, has a "cute" dog, and flowers on hand to demo the 4k video and camera, and make it look like random chance"?

Apple: "Good idea! Most of our clueless customers won't even clue into that fact, no matter how obvious it is."
 
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Misaki said:
It's a camera in a phone, you're expecting WAAAY too much. People expecting to take theatrical level video or professional grade photos on their smartphone are way too optimistic.
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Have a look at this video shot entirely with iPhone 6 and then think once more about your words:



SoCalAppleWatch said:
I've always wondered this. I'm not very smart, BUT, is there a way that Apple can design an iPhone camera that will orient landscape no matter what? Can this be done with software?
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The name of the iOS app is Video Rotate & Flip. Does it without quality loss.
 
For now, I can forgive the bad quality pictures simply because I feel as if the person who took them doesn't know what they are doing. Filming vertical video and taking pictures in low light without checking the focus or seemingly doing anything but pointing and shooting. This is a typical smartphone user, just doing what comes natural without any consideration for how it may affect the picture quality. There's nothing wrong with that but if you want better picture quality you will have to try harder.

Hopefully when we have the phone in our hands, with a little bit of care in the way we take pictures, they will come out better than this.

For everyone who says "It's a smartphone camera, what do you expect", take a look at some of the shots from a Galaxy S6 & LG G4, even in low light they do very well for smartphone cameras, very much better than what we have seen here so far. Now she did get a 6S not a 6S Plus right, the 6S doesn't have OIS so it may not do as well as the 6S Plus in low light. Comparatively, the Galaxy S6 and LG G4 both have OIS.

The Geekbench score looks great and I'm very excited to get my 6S Plus, but my pre-order is on a 3-4 week wait :(
 
aront said:
After making that post, it still somehow escapes you that this is a controlled Apple sponsored leak?

Apple Exec: "Normally it's the guy living in his parents basement who ends up getting it early and we get horrid demos."

Apple PR: "I have an idea. Why don't we just manufacture a controlled early leak to a girl who knows how to post benchmarks, has a "cute" dog, and flowers on hand to demo the 4k video and camera, and make it look like random chance"?

Apple: "Good idea! Most of our clueless customers won't even clue into that fact, no matter how obvious it is."
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I think the better question is who cares? The review embargo is probably going to be lifted tonight, we're only hours before the flood of reviews anyway.
 
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