The iPhone 6 Plus changed the way people used the world’s finest smartphone. Now, Apple is making the jumbo phone even better with a faster processor, newfangled 3D Touch capabilities, and a revamped camera. This is the iPhone 6s Plus, and it looks predictably terrific.
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Design
The new iPhone 6s Plus looks just like the old 6s Plus, but it’s made of different stuff. The aluminium used is the same 7000 alloy that’s used in the Apple Watch, and it’s stronger, so hopefully you can stop worrying about bending the big old thing. Apple promises a new type of glass is stronger than the old generation, and the 5.5-inch touchscreen features capabilities, similar to the Watch’s ForceTouch. Apple’s calling the iPhone version 3D touch.
3D Touch
This is going to confuse a lot of mums and dads. Heralded as “the new generation of multitouch,” this combination of hardware, software, and design innovation allows the iPhone to detect how hard you press on the screen. With this new input variable, apps can recognise a new layer of interaction. For instance, you can push hard on the Mail app and see a menu of choices.
At first, it will take some getting used to since the iPhone will do new things that you haven’t seen before. Over time, however, you can imagine how app developers will come up with all kinds of quicker, more convenient user experience designs. 3D Touch looks like it will work great for previewing messages and links in the short term. Down the line, the feature will undoubtedly change how we play games on iPhone.
Camera
As we expected, the new iPhone 6s Plus will get a big boost with a 12-megapixel iSight camera. That comes with 50-per cent more pixels and 50-per cent more focus pixels for faster autofocus. All kinds of technical details that Apple says you “don’t need to know about” — including something called “deep trench isolation” — also ensure more detailed and more natural-looking photos. The bigger sensor also allows for bigger panoramas, like 64-megapixel big.
But the big upgrade is 4K video capabilities in the new iPhone. The breaks out into 8-million pixels per frame. Which, wow, so many big numbers it’s hard to tell what matters.
The front camera also gets an upgrade. It will be 5-megapixel FaceTime HD camera that uses the phone’s Retina display for a flash for “detailed selfies.” Apple claims that the new capabilities will now let the display light up 3-times brighter for a flash that’s comparable to the TrueTone flash on the back.
Guts
The new iPhone 6s Plus will include Apple’s new 64-bit A9 chip, which the company claims is 70-per cent faster at CPU tasks and 90-per cent faster at graphics tasks. The performance looked fantastic in an on-stage gaming demo. The iPhone 6s Plus also comes with a new M9 motion coprocessor built into the A9 chip. New Touch ID hardware also promises to be twice as fast as the last generation.
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