It is true, is 0.2 millimeters thick and 14 grams heavier, but these figures can be seen in everyday little. Certainly less maneuverability, which was one of the biggest problems of the iPhone 6 and that this time is much improved. In practice, the tragicomic scene that occurred at the exit of the Apple Store in Perth, Australia, where the boy who first was able to buy an iPhone 6 knocked him tumbling to the ground just unwrapped, you should not repeat. At least in theory.
I wonder, however, if you repeat the file in kilometers in front of shops of Apple to win the first units sold in Italy. There is also waiting for the phone companies, which will give smartphone subscription. Three, as has become usual, organized the so-called “white night”, where customers can have their iPhone right from midnight on Thursday.
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Aesthetically, iPhone and iPhone 6s 6s Plus, respectively by 4.7 and 5.5 inches, are almost identical to their predecessors. Only by comparing them we notice the small difference in thickness and in size (the last exited are also slightly higher and wider). Yet there is a difference, and resides in the materials: the glass of the display highlights the Apple staff, is the most durable on the market, while the case is of a lightweight aluminum, the 7000 Series, which is used in the aerospace and which it is the same used for the Sport version of Apple Watch. Nevertheless, the weight of the devices increased slightly, probably because of the more powerful camera.
But a considerable novelty is also the introduction of a fourth color, next to silver (Silver, with the front white ), gray (Space gray, with black) and gold (Gold, with white): Gold rose (Rose gold, with white front). Dedicated mainly to women, it seems that is also appreciated by men, as evidenced by the boom in purchases and orders of the device in this color. In fact, to see him live the cell phone is a rose much more sober than they may appear in the picture.
A look inside
iPhone 6s mounts a chip A9 that is 70 percent faster and 90 percent more graphically powerful than its predecessor A8. The yield is especially noticeable with video games, which are particularly fluid. Free Wi-Fi and the sensor for fingerprints are faster, although in the case of the so-called Touch ID, rather than the speed, the problem is always the ability to recognize the imprint: in some cases (such as if you has slightly sweaty hands) is easier to directly enter the numeric code release.
3D Touch
The real novelty of this new edition of the smartphone with the apple is called 3D Touch. In practice, with increased pressure of the finger to an application icon, a message or an email, you access a list of shortcuts, which differs depending on the app or messages.
Apple has added to effect a dimension to the smartphone technology. Which, if one side violates the teachings of Jobs, who wanted less possible commands to simplify the user experience, the other gives the opportunity to access a greater number of functions by tapping a single icon. The 3D Touch has two levels of “depth”, the so-called “tap & amp; pop”: holding your finger down on an email, for example, you can quickly see the content. Raising his finger, the message will go back to his place, and the mail may not even read. If, instead of releasing, is pressed further, the message will open. Same thing for the web link present in a message (access permitting).
Using the 3D Touch on the icons of the apps that support it, you access a small menu, similar to the Right mouse. The functions of the 3D Touch applications depends from individual applications. For example, on Instagram you can go directly to their profile, or the last post of the people that we follow, while pressing the Phone button you can quickly add a new entry in the phonebook or view your favorite contacts or calling people contacted more recently. Among the applications that integrate the 3D Touch for now there are Facebook, Pinterest, Dropbox and Sky Guide.
It will be interesting to see if, using this feature of WhatsApp, you can quickly read a message without triggering the much dreaded double blue tick that indicates completion of reading.
Use the 3D Touch holding the phone with one hand can be uncomfortable and sometimes even a bit ‘dangerous, because you can risk to start by mistake of the calls. Far better to use it with two hands, especially on the extra-large version of the device, the 6s Plus. This is an innovation that will delight to those most familiar with smartphones, but it could also complicate the user experience of those less practical.
Camera
The camera, in order of importance, the second thing that Apple is most proud of these new devices. Because the 8 megapixel iPhone 6 is moved to 12. Given that the market there are smartphones that have 16 megapixels, it does not seem so significant a step forward. In reality, however, Apple can count on an advantage that others do not have: being both a producer of software, iOS, and hardware, its devices exploit the full potential of the camera. Apple had already demonstrated with the iPhone 6, when to emphasize the high quality of his photos, the Cupertino company has also launched a competition where the best shots taken by users have been used for advertising campaigns worldwide .
With the iPhone 6s quality is still improved, and the level of detail and definition of the images is impressive. Quality also increased for the front camera, increasingly used for selfie that 3 megapixel switch to 5. The company of Tim Cook has also devised a new way to achieve self-portraits even in low light: the “Retina Flash” where is the display itself to becoming a flash by increasing the intensity of the light.
Live Photos and videos in 4K
Another new feature is the Live Photos: 6s with iPhone pictures can be taken “animated”, a bit ‘like the old .gif, .jpg format only. A whim that will be used much chatting, but according to the staff of Apple may even represent a new frontier of communication. With the new smartphone of Apple you can then shoot video ultra-defined, in 4K. Too bad that is to record a occupy about 375 megabytes of memory and to display them in their better performance is necessary to a screen in ultra-HD.
If the camera shows one of the few real differences between the ‘ iPhone 6s and its “big brother”, the 6s Plus. The latter has in fact also an optical stabilizer which allows him to shoot video in keeping timelapse stops shooting.
Battery
We have to get over it: smart phones are like computers that have a complex operating system, and many functions, and so they need a lot of energy. Produce batteries that are lightweight and durable is still one of the greatest limitations of technology. The new iPhone is no exception. If you surf, talking on the phone and using the camera, charging ends in about a day. So the only way you charge your smartphone every night. In this regard, for Apple Watch it has been very good introduction, already in the original package, charger wireless: When you return home, you can rest there and the next day shooting. It would not hurt to have this accessory for the iPhone. But the Cupertino company merely give the usually supplied adapter cable. For now there is only a new desktop charger in the colors of the iPhone, but sold separately.
Prices
We are, as always in the case of Apple, the sore point: the price. IPhone 6s start from 779 € for the version with 16 gigabytes, to reach EUR 999 for the 128 GB, via the intermediate version, 64 GB, 889 euro. IPhone Plus 6s instead it goes from 889 Euros to 16 Gb, 64 Gb to 999 Euros for up to 1,109 Euros for 128 Gb. It must be said, however, that, given the increasing amount of available apps and photos more defined (and therefore heavy in terms of memory), 16 gigabytes are not enough if you want to fully exploit the smartphone. Perhaps it is time for Cupertino, to give up a “cut” of memory that will cause lower the basic price of the devices, but that is no longer able to satisfy the users.
Conclusion
From our testing of new phones Apple emerges a consideration that, in the case of Cupertino, now sounds trivial: the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, it had been a few months ago with the predecessors, rank without a doubt among the best smartphones on the market. The aesthetic is a strength, heightened, in this case, the handling. The introduction of 3D Touch bodes well regarding the momentum of Apple to innovate and the ability to be a trendsetter. One feature that was typical of the company Steve Jobs, but that in the era of Tim Cook seemed to leave room for the security of a brand that still exerts a fascination that they can afford to live on the income. But such an approach does not pay in the long run, especially in technology, where speed is everything. Apple seems to have noticed. That the drive towards rebirth steps from the push of a finger on a display?
Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 22:18 – Last Updated: 22:20
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