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Was the 6s upgrade worth it?
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No it wasn't, at least for my preferences.
Bought two for family members, but knew based on specs they offered nothing of interest to me. Once they arrived I spent a few weeks with my wife's while she used my 6 Plus. It was more of the same other than the "features" you already know about. Nothing exciting about it. But I don't game, and any speed difference is not going to make much difference that I care about.
In fact, now more than ever I'm really happy I kept my iPhone 6 Plus since it appears that the iP7 won't have a headphone jack, my high end wired earbuds aren't old enough to toss just yet and adapters don't excite me. Well sorted and worked very well, my iPhone 6 will be my go to iOS smartphone until the 7S is released. I'll pass on the 7 while I watch the posts about it's bugs. The 7S will be sorted out and I'll decide then.
Bought two for family members, but knew based on specs they offered nothing of interest to me. Once they arrived I spent a few weeks with my wife's while she used my 6 Plus. It was more of the same other than the "features" you already know about. Nothing exciting about it. But I don't game, and any speed difference is not going to make much difference that I care about.
In fact, now more than ever I'm really happy I kept my iPhone 6 Plus since it appears that the iP7 won't have a headphone jack, my high end wired earbuds aren't old enough to toss just yet and adapters don't excite me. Well sorted and worked very well, my iPhone 6 will be my go to iOS smartphone until the 7S is released. I'll pass on the 7 while I watch the posts about it's bugs. The 7S will be sorted out and I'll decide then.
6 is not a big enough upgrade from the 5s. I wouldn't sign a new 2 year contract for what is mostly the same phone, right down to chipset. But if your work is doing it then why not I guess? Better battery life on the 6, and you get the bigger screen as well as a few small details. But think of the 6 as a larger 5s, and the 6s as the first significant improvement on the cyclone cores that were introduced with the 5s.
But if you're using it as a work phone, the 6s is more powerful and a (much) better multi-tasker depending on what work you do
If its just texting, calling that sort of thing, the 6 is fine. Especially if you're not signing the contract but your company is.
So much.
One hand wizard to shrink to iPhone 5 size
Activator for gestures
Tage for zephyr slide up alternative
Color profiles to make the screen do-able color and contrast of my general preference
Eclipse to make certain apps dark theme instead of all white iOS
Noslowanimations to speed up UI
Virtual home for touch to press home button
Huehuehue for Philips hue activator hooks
Type status to see people iMessage read and typing from status bar
SWIPESELECTION pro to make space bar the cursor slider as opposed to my finger over text
Delete cut to hold shift and delete to delete words at a time every time I press delete to speed process up
Breadcrumb arrow to have that instead of "back to this app" replacing signal bars
I'm sure even more. I love jailbreak
Definitely worth it for me, or I would not have upgraded.
- stronger aluminum
- 70% faster SoC
- 90% faster graphics chip
- 2 GB ram
- insanely faster finger print ID
- Hey Siri support at all times even not plugged in
- peek and pop 3D touch screen
- ac wifi with MIMO super fast with my AirPort Extreme with AC MIMO
- better camera front and rear
My battery life is better than 6+. 6s+ is best iPhone yet, have owned, 3Gs, 4s, 5s, 6+, 6s+. No right or wrong here, nice to have choice.
- stronger aluminum
- 70% faster SoC
- 90% faster graphics chip
- 2 GB ram
- insanely faster finger print ID
- Hey Siri support at all times even not plugged in
- peek and pop 3D touch screen
- ac wifi with MIMO super fast with my AirPort Extreme with AC MIMO
- better camera front and rear
My battery life is better than 6+. 6s+ is best iPhone yet, have owned, 3Gs, 4s, 5s, 6+, 6s+. No right or wrong here, nice to have choice.
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Do you really need to upgrade at the moment? If not just wait till the 7 comes out and get into the number cycle for the redesigns.
Sure, the 7s will be perfect and won't have any issues or bugs you mean aka 'Gate' as in Chipgate, BendGate etc ;-)
It was worth it only because iOS 9 made my iPhone 6 Plus slow, so I was "FORCED" to upgrade to 6S Plus to keep the same level of performance. If it weren't for the iOS 9, I wouldn't have upgraded.
OP needs rationale and justification for corporate, not preferences or anecdotes. Tell corporate the 6s is a major revision that includes two key features all iPhones going forward will have: at least 2 GB RAM and 3D Touch. Well before two years are up, iOS updates and major app updates will take increasing advantage of the larger RAM and 3D Touch options. The 6 will be obsolete (though still usable) at the same time the 5s is, and that's the one your upgrading from. Of course, between you and me, the 6s isn't $200 better than the 6 right now. And you'll be getting another new phone in two years.
I second what the guy said. I would add 1 more point. If you use safari a lot then the 2GB of ram will be worth it because reloads will be almost entirely eliminated. In other words the 2GB of ram helps a lot with productivity. In fact I would say the RAM is bigger than the 3D Touch. iPhone 5, 5s and 6 all share 1GB of Ram so that is a 3 year old bottleneck at this point.
The 6S in my opinion is not a significant upgrade from the original 6. It's a bit faster but not strikingly so. 3D Touch isn't terribly useful.
I agree it isn't now and wouldn't be something I used much if I had a 6s
But my fear is if I have this for 2 more years, Apple will add 3D Touch to everything going forward and a 6 won't have the capabilities
Doubt it. 3D Touch is mostly a gimmick. Very few 3rd party apps are supporting it and the functionally isn't great e.g. open new tab from springboard. The problem with 3D Touch is it's non-intuitive, you never know what apps support it and where to force touch. IMO 3D Touch might find a niche in video games because they are soo limited in terms of controls but I don't see it becoming mainstream for general apps.
This year's 6s definitely cemented that in my mind, that the S is the way to go if you're doing a 2 year cycle. If you can resist the shiny new design, it's always in your best interest to hold out for the S. Over the years, I've seen the S improve some aspects, fix some issues, and add features. It seems there's inevitably some issue with the number releases. Maybe I'm revising history based on my experience, but the last iPhone I had before the 6 was the 4. I remember antennagate well. The 4s quietly fixed it up, and was a real nice jump in performance. To me, that mirrored the 6 pretty close with bendgate. The 6s fixed that up nice along with a host of improvements and added features.
The iPhone 6 was NOT crippled by the 1gb of RAM; the iPhone 6 plus was.
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One thing that wasn't great changing from the 6 plus to 6s plus is the battery life. It's noticeably worse unfortunately.
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I bet to differ. The 3D has been awesome to use in particular with Safari, News, Flipboard and Instagram. There are also a plethora of apps that support 3D touch now and that is excluding games.
My battery life has been ok on 6s plus
I have tsmc chip, and probably more importantly good battery with good cells
100 charges and 98 percent health still. According to battery life, another jailbreak tweak in the form of an app
I have tsmc chip, and probably more importantly good battery with good cells
100 charges and 98 percent health still. According to battery life, another jailbreak tweak in the form of an app
I'm definitely not taking the free 6 at this point. I'd rather keep my 5s until the 7 comes out or pay $200 for the 6s.
I agree with most that the non S cycle is usually the same specs as the previous model in new packaging and that's what gets the majority out to buy. The S gets the bigger leaps in specs but most see same package and "can wait".
Now, can I?
I agree with most that the non S cycle is usually the same specs as the previous model in new packaging and that's what gets the majority out to buy. The S gets the bigger leaps in specs but most see same package and "can wait".
Now, can I?
Well by waiting until the 7 comes out, wouldn't the cost for the 6s then drop from $200 to $0?
So by waiting till Sept, you can get a 7 for $200 or the 6s for $0.
An option to consider...
Business reasons:
- The 6S supports more bands, which means you will have reception in more places (especially on TMobile, but also true of other roaming). More reception means they can reach you via email or text or calls in more places, and you have less excuse of no reception for ignoring work.
- The 6S has more RAM, which means you can run more work-related applications without having to re-open or re-load them.
- The 6S supports more bands, which means you will have reception in more places (especially on TMobile, but also true of other roaming). More reception means they can reach you via email or text or calls in more places, and you have less excuse of no reception for ignoring work.
- The 6S has more RAM, which means you can run more work-related applications without having to re-open or re-load them.
I assume that could be the case, but fear this new 6e ( or whatever this new 5s like model that is all but sure coming out) could be the free phone?