I'm certainly not a fan boy (I have an iphone and a first gen ipad mini) but the criticism on 1080 display vs 4K is silly. The 4k/1080 is virtually indistinguishable on this sort of display. There was a story recently about the new Sony phones that came out. All the tech journalists walked into the show room to marvel at the supposed new 4k displays - oohing and ahhing when they were finally told that those weren't the 4ks they were looking for - they were 1080 screens.,
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TechRadar not overly impressed with 6s
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I can't speak for everyone here, but I don't want to have to charge it multiple times per day. I want to charge it once. My iPhone 6 gets me through an average day reliably. However, I am no power user. On the occasion I need my phone more, I would rather not have to stop at a Starbucks to charge it when I'm in a city and need to rely on my phone to navigate, research on the fly, etc. I would rather not have to get a battery pack to make that happen as well.
You need to take it in context of the current market. For similar or lower prices, many smartphones now offer 2K displays. For the price you pay, a 1080p display is actually quite outdated.
Sure, Apple may have reasons such as battery life and performance, but you cannot deny that at the price premium Apple charges, you're hardly getting a premium display. It's good, but not great, relative to the current market of premium smartphones.
I've already seen good pics from 6S camera and thought the majority of the tech radar samples looked crappy. Maybe horrible is too harsh, but if all the review photos taken with 6S looked like their samples, I would be pretty disappointed. Thankfully, like I said, I've already seen better. Nothing's wowed me yet, though.
I'm a regular on XDA since I use a Nexus 6. There are lots of android users who have expressed they'd rather have a 1080 screen if they can save on battery life.
The problem is so many of these reviews are based on comparing it to the previous years phone when in reality most people upgrading are coming from phones that are several generations behind. And this is the same tech press that complains about planned obsolescence...
Ask yourself this, if the battery life was improved on the 6s and really nothing else changed would you upgrade?
For me, not really as the prior iPhone got me through the day. And maybe not everything has changed but enough has to influence me upgrading regardless. Heck, some folks are getting it just because there is a new color.
For me, not really as the prior iPhone got me through the day. And maybe not everything has changed but enough has to influence me upgrading regardless. Heck, some folks are getting it just because there is a new color.
I'm interested in the 6s because of the A9 processor and doubling the RAM to 2GB. I've had my 4S for almost four years and expect to get that long out of my next iPhone, and the 2GB RAM ought to enable me to do that.
"Live pictures" is more of a gimmick to me. 3D Touch is interesting and may be a plus. Higher resolution display would have been nice, but not at the expense of battery life. Actually, I would have been fine with a little thicker phone and increased batter life, but I suspect that the 6s will suffice.
"Live pictures" is more of a gimmick to me. 3D Touch is interesting and may be a plus. Higher resolution display would have been nice, but not at the expense of battery life. Actually, I would have been fine with a little thicker phone and increased batter life, but I suspect that the 6s will suffice.
Not to mention app support. They must look more than a little blurry being upscaled to such a high resolution.
To be fair Samsung Galaxy devices support VR and QHD is still pixelated so 4k is the next logical step once SoC performance and battery catch up. Without VR 1080p should be bare minimum.
VR is at the bottom of list of priorities for most new smart phone buyers but the few will be happy.
The thing about the screen is asinine. You don't need a 4K display in a phone as you can't distinguish the individual pixels without a magnifying glass or maybe even a low-powered microscope. I've never met a single person who could tell the difference in pixel density between an iPhone and the competition. Normal people usually look at me like I'm weird when I talk about PPI or jagged screen edges. They just look at them and say "Yeah, that's nice." Heck, many people I know who upgraded from non-retina iPads didn't even notice when they went retina!
I'm a pixel-perfect designer and pixel-peeping photographer with good nearsightedness and even I have trouble distinguishing between the 6 and 6 Plus PPI. Nobody in the real world, outside of the tech community cares. Will Apple at some point make all of their devices @3X? Probably. Like I said, it's slightly noticeable up close. Especially on serifs for text. But I see absolutely no point in going beyond that for a device of this size as @3X is already overkill. We've essentially reached the resolution end point. Now I'll admit that TVs and monitors have a ways to go because they're a lot bigger and their PPI is a lot smaller. But from typical viewing distances they aren't bad and you really need a pretty big TV or monitor to take advantage of 4K and higher. I also think there is some room to improve on the iPad but not much as it's held further away. I think improving the iPad would be more apparent than improving the iPhone. From here on out I expect most display improvements will be in increasing contrast, accurate color reproduction, reducing glare, improving viewing angles and making them easier to read outdoors in direct sunlight. It will be less about resolution for smaller devices.
I'm a pixel-perfect designer and pixel-peeping photographer with good nearsightedness and even I have trouble distinguishing between the 6 and 6 Plus PPI. Nobody in the real world, outside of the tech community cares. Will Apple at some point make all of their devices @3X? Probably. Like I said, it's slightly noticeable up close. Especially on serifs for text. But I see absolutely no point in going beyond that for a device of this size as @3X is already overkill. We've essentially reached the resolution end point. Now I'll admit that TVs and monitors have a ways to go because they're a lot bigger and their PPI is a lot smaller. But from typical viewing distances they aren't bad and you really need a pretty big TV or monitor to take advantage of 4K and higher. I also think there is some room to improve on the iPad but not much as it's held further away. I think improving the iPad would be more apparent than improving the iPhone. From here on out I expect most display improvements will be in increasing contrast, accurate color reproduction, reducing glare, improving viewing angles and making them easier to read outdoors in direct sunlight. It will be less about resolution for smaller devices.
So if you stopped 100 people in the streets today and asked them what they look for in a smartphone where do you think VR integration would fall in their list of priorities?
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”–Henry Ford
Ok, Let's talk about Apple then since we are at Macrumors:
"Some people say, 'Give the customers what they want.' But that’s not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they’re going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, 'If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, "A faster horse!"' People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page."
-Steve Jobs
The camera is just fine. SI had no problem capturing great images with it. http://www.si.com/mlb/photos/2015/09/21/iphone-6s-plus-sneak-preview-photos-si
Hm. Been playing with our store's demo 6s and 6s Plus and I'm very impressed. Screen looks magnificent in my eyes. Responsiveness is incredible. Haven't seen an issue yet with Live Photos.