so for the first time ever I'm reviewing both the number and number s variant of
an iPhone why you might ask well maybe
it's happening because I've gone full mainstream that is when I'm not busy
running two gaming systems off a single Tower like I did in this recent video or
maybe it's because the 6s is legitimately a really interesting phone
maybe even more so than the six before it what makes it so interesting you
might ask I guess we'll find out won't
we V cell cases are exquisitely finished
bumper cases made of wood and aluminum for the iPhone 5 6 and 6s series
products they're stylish slim minimalistic and just plain gorgeous
check out the link in the video description to learn more For Better or
For Worse other than the new pink color and yes it's pink rose gold Apple has
changed pretty much nothing about the device outwardly in spite of outcry
about the antenna panty lines or the ever popular rumors about Apple removing
headphone jacks or doing away with the physical home button it is to the naked
eye indistinguishable to anyone but a member of cooks cult from the previous
generation device which isn't to say at
all that this is the same phone being repackaged and sold to us as if it's new
they really did change a lot first there
was the knee-jerk reaction to the iPhone 6 Plus's Bend gate Fiasco which was to
assure us that the new phone is made of 7,000 series
aluminum then there's the really cool under the hood stuff like man this is
great if the S is for Speed then wow did the engineers ever take that to heart
first you've got the new A9 CPU which is lightning fast and single-threaded tasks
and even surprisingly competitive with quad and eight core processors in
multi-threaded workloads not to mention it's chart topping new GPU which is
useful for accelerating a lot more than games by the way with video and image
processing workloads both being capable of utilizing a graphics processor second
while Apple retains that inexcusable
$900 16 gig model a capacity that cost
$500 off contract back in February of 20
8 by the way they have at least acknowledged that RAM has gotten cheaper
and have finally upped the anti when it comes to system memory giving both the
6s and the 6s plus a bump to 2 gigs for
better multitasking which coming back to storage leads to our next s bullet point
the onboard storage it's noticeable like
daytoday opening apps switching between them loading web pages noticeable that
the 6s is fast and it's too much of an
improvement M over the six for it to be CPU speed alone but I had no idea why
until I read Joshua ho from a nonex early benchmarks of the 6s where he
figured it out Apple engineered an nbme
SSD controller for this new lineup no wonder it feels so fast we're talking
about a phone with storage that's nearly twice the speed of other Flagship
devices out there that are still using emmc holy crap and there are actually a
few more s notes before we move on the
AC Wi-Fi Now appears to be Wave 2 which resulted in the following speeds
compared to our iPhone 6 on a Ruckus r710 access point running on a gigabit
fiber internet connection the S6 supports LTE Advanced if you're one of
the lucky bastards with service in your area and the fingerprint scanner is more
reliable when covered with Grime or water and it is lightning fast now like
to the point where it's actually kind of inconvenient if you're like me and
habitually wake your phone to view notifications with the home button
they'll be gone before you even have a chance to see them enough about speed
though let's talk about 3D touch right
now the way it's used in some cases is just kind of a party trick a really cool
well-executed party trick but if we're being honest with ourselves the amount
of time that you save Force touching the camera app and then clicking selfie
versus launching the camera with a gesture like you can do on some Android
handsets and then choosing selfie mode is not sign significant where it really
got my attention was in Safari where it legitimately changed the way that I
browse the web similarly to how tabed browsing did for me on the desktop like
I'm I'm a skimmer so being able to force
touch articles or threads in a forum and read now in a new tab or save for later
is flipping awesome and I can see this being used in so many ways because now
with Force touch we effectively have three different clicks that we can
execute on a single thing you've got your short your long press and then
you've got your deep press and like I said in my 2015 MacBook video it just
feels great to use like I complain about
crappy vibration Motors in phones but for the most part the guys that are
doing it well have all been doing it the same level of pretty well for a while
uh-uh this is a whole new level it's easy to feel while it's next to you it
is damn near silent when it's not next to you so you don't get that
noise with the only disadvantage here being that uh it's kind of hard to find
if you accidentally drop it between a couch cushion like I did good thing for
me though I had an Apple Watch on when I did that so I was able to Ping it with
that little feature which is about the only good experience I had with the
Apple watch first gen while I was doing this review I was really hoping that
watch os2 would change my mind about the Apple watch and I could justify doing a
full review of watchos too but that's not going to happen time travel is
slower than just swiping through events would be and the way that it desperately
clings to its pathetic battery life makes for a terrible experience I feel
bad for me and everyone else who bought one still which on the subject of
software I guess leads us to ios9 there's still a lot of random stuff that
drives me crazy clearing the search field in apple map still requires me to
click again to start typing a new address and that ridiculous multitasking
Rolodex thing that I thought we all agreed was bad in Windows Vista why is
that back in fashion and and holy Apple
Implement T9 dialing if you're watching this it's
2015 let me dial the numbers that correspond to the names of my contacts
it is way faster than going through the
contacts list and you know what some people have more than you know 10
contacts okay it's way better on a more
positive note Apple continues their excellent support of older devices some
that many Android users poo poo noting that performance is often degraded in
these cases but I personally prefer to
having gaping security holes and what was it something like
87% of the user base out there so
there's that and on the subject of features they've added some welcome
stuff like that handy proactive thing when you swipe to the left that shows
you you know cool nearby stuff relevant news that kind of thing they've got this
cool battery life widget for your phone and your connected devices in the today
pull down um the scrubbing browsing
feature in photos I absolutely love especially when combined with the HTC
zoyes Snippets of live action with a second and a half on either side of the
shutter press that go along with your still photos in live photo mode those
are cool and then there's about 60 other some odd cool things this isn't a
comprehensive iOS 9 review check out the article Linked In the video description
on iphon hacks.com for a more complete list back to photos in the meantime
though the rear camera is great but not nearly as revolutionary as you might
think given the huge megapixel bump from 8 to 12 I mean to be clear it's very
competitive with the Galaxy S6 and the LG G4 but so was the iPhone 6 and if you
do a lot of lowl Photography or 4K video
recording which by the way it records 4K now which is cool the lack of optical
stabilization in the non-plus model will hurt you that is to say unless you
happen to be rocking inline skates when it's time to capture a moment the selfie
camera is a big Improvement it's 5 megapixels now and I guess having the
screen boost its brightness to act as a pseudo flash is better than nothing but
I still prefer the super wideangle lens on the Galaxy S6 for my portraits which
I guess leads us finally to the conclusion you can like apple or you can
hate Apple I don't care and frankly I doubt that they do either but what I'm
tired of hearing from the haters in particular is Apple doesn't innovate
innovate a new thing to criticize them about I mean sure Apple didn't invent
the idea of higher resolution displays being better when they launched the
iPhone 4 they didn't invent fingerprint scanners for authentication with the 5S
and they sure as hell didn't invent fast storage being critical for overall
system performance with the 6s but what they did do is Implement these
Technologies in a compelling way in a real product that isn't just a tech demo
the six didn't impress me it was uh hey
I can make a bigger phone 2 response to the changing Marketplace and did nothing
to lead the industry the 6s on the other hand is a striking return to form and
takes the place of the iPhone 4 as my
favorite iPhone yet this is a device that has so much to offer that Apple
didn't even feel the need to draw attention to the fact that it's just
about as water resistant as any other phone on the market it's a device that I
feel like you could buy with confidence knowing that it will last a long time
before there is a meaningful reason to need an upgraded iPhone that is to say
unless they finally decide at some point to compromise a millimeter here or there
and deliver a 4.7 in device with a half decent sized battery in it I made it
through the day without a charger only about 70% of the time but for some
reason we all accept that aspect of the iPhone experience so I guess complaining
about it won't do me any good and on the
subject of complaints we've had a few complaints that our phones always have
those vinyl skins on them in our b roll
and so we took those complaints and we burned them in a fire today's episode
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things about dbrand so will phones continue to have dbrand skins on them in
our reviews yes they will so there you
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