the iPhone 6 is my third iPhone with the four being the first full touchscreen
phone I ever used so while my daily driver is usually in HTC1 M8 I
appreciate the Simplicity and functionality of iOS and I've been known
in the past to say I pretty much don't have a preference today that changes but
which way does it go well I guess you'll have to watch the video no
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we'll kick things off with the speeds and feeds it's got a dual core 1.4 GHz
A8 chip with a gig of RAM 16 to 128 gigs
of internal storage an 1810 milliamp battery and a 4.7 in 1334 x 750 display
but don't let any of those very middling specs scare you off too much a 16 gig
based model with no micro SD expansion at $650 is embarrassing but everything else
is pretty much fine cores and gigahertz are meaningless without considering the
underlying architecture in fact we'll have a video coming in the future that
really dives into this subject so make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss
it RAM only affects performance when multitasking or with background
processes running and iOS 8 doesn't raise the bar when it comes to using
multiple apps at the same time nor does it lower it when it comes to expert
managing idle resource use so you don't need a ton of RAM and then the battery
also benefits from that same resource management and I easily ended up with 30
to 40% battery at the end of a medium workload day as for the resolution I'll
talk more about that one later I think physically man if you've seen one iPhone
you really have seen them all haven't you the back has an Apple logo two
antenna bands that the internet seems to care about a lot for some reason but I
think is fine a mic a dual LED flash that works stunningly well even in Pitch
Darkness at close range and an 8 megapixel camera whose f2.0 Sapphire
Glass Lens protrudes from the casing in a way that I thought was a big deal when
I heard about it at first but hasn't bothered me at all when using the phone
on the top we see nothing but the 6.9 mm thick profile of the phone on the left
is a mute button and a volume button and another volume button I guess on the
bottom is a headphone jack lightning connector and a speaker and on the right
is a nano SIM tray and a lock button the first significant change one that I
almost really like it's better than having it on the top since the iPhone is
no longer a one-handed Affair but Apple managed to commit the sin of having a
lock button that opposes other buttons in this case the volume rockers so it's
easy to change volume when reaching for the lock which brings us around to the
front at the top is a disappointing 1.2 megapixel camera love or hate selfies
guys you got to acknowledge that people take them and I think HTC made a smart
move here an earpiece speaker and then on the chin bar the classic I device
button with a new trick up its sleeve Touch ID is still awesome and a just
plain faster way to unlock your phone by apps and by regular stuff with the just
launched Apple pay service but now you get a double touch that what moves the
entire UI down to what more on that
later the screen itself boasts 100% srgb
color looks beautiful from all angles is super bright maybe even too bright for
you when using it at night with great contrast so it can easily be used
outdoors and it has such smooth auto brightness that I completely forgot I
had it on and then back to the resolution which I promised to touch on
again to me the iPhone 6 is Apple's
statement to the world that the pixel count race something they started with
the iPhone 4 is over and I think they're right however random
750p might be at this size it's just
plain good enough something I actually talk about in both my Moto X review and
my LG G3 review I did have some complaints though while I love the extra
screen size for watching videos compared to the 5S and 4 and 1 half to 5 in it is
is really my sweet spot for screen size which is why you won't likely see an
iPhone 6 Plus review from me and while the design is beautiful and so elegant
the way the glass itself is rounded into the aluminum unibody compared to the
Moto X's flat glass with a rounded housing this causes unavoidable
Reflections to show up around the edge of your content something that I did
find a little distracting but not nearly as bothersome as the general ergonomics
and usability of the device now I already whined about the lock button the
bottom speaker is still a relic of a bygone age but one that we I guess we
expect from Apple but on my podcast when rumors of larger iPhones first started
circulating I pointed out that because of the way back buttons are in the top
left and text entry fields are top Center things that are fine for
one-handed use on a small device Apple would need to rethink their
navigation and this two touch thing was
not what I had in mind it helps a bit I can search for a contact or navigate
back in an app more easily but it doesn't work across the board even in
apple Zone OS I mean why do I need to reach way up there to take advantage of
the much improved Spotlight feature and even with this feature Apple's UI moves
you around on the screen so much that combined with the incredibly light
design and rounded sides this phone is
one of the most slippery fish that I've ever used even with this debrand carbon
fiber wrap on it on top of that I feel like aside from content consumption I'm
not really getting anything extra from the bigger screen anyway most UI
elements are just blown up and while I do get an extra row of home screen icons
the only solution to moving my frequently used stuff to the bottom
right is still to fill the top rows with crap that I don't use as often for shame
apple and I guess since we've already started down this path I might as well
do the rest of my ranty stuff now iOS still doesn't allow landscape lock on
small screen devices this seems like such a small thing to ask for for those
of us who use our phones in bed a lot sharing options are still very
inflexible I know you have an email client built into the phone and you have
your own cloud storage but I don't use them I use Gmail and Dropbox and you're
making my life slower apple and last but
not least I can call people people with my voice through the contact list
through recent in a message and now even by double clicking and selecting
favorites way up at the top of the screen or I can double click I guess but
none of these are as fast and as versatile as T9 dialing Apple please
just implement this back to good stuff though the camera rocks it's lightning
fast to launch autofocuses so fast you hardly even notice it it captures great
images without thinking about it and can even do 60 FPS 1080P and 2 40 FPS 720p
capture the default app is still pretty limited you can take lightning fast
Burst photos you can tweak exposure very easily but that's about it and now that
they're adding more camera modes I really don't think the swipe to change
modes model is that great anymore U maybe Square could take a hike in the
next update or they could come up with something a little bit better but I mean
part of the beauty of you know Apple's camera app is a Simplicity and the good
news is that they now allow thirdparty camera apps so manual control gear can
get their jollies by using those as long as they don't want to change the
aperture which isn't supported at this time speaking of third party app support
though iOS finally supports thirdparty keyboards which is good because I found
the stock ones prediction just plain not useful and while I appreciate the
forward and back arrows due to Apple's otherwise slow cursor positioning method
the landscape layout moves everything so close to the middle of the phone that
for me to reach it comfortably is just not that great it's just too that swift
key iOS keyboard sucks so far it's super
responsive and I really wanted to like it but the space bar position moves in
certain particularly social media apps a behavior that you can't turn off and you
can't access a secondary layer of functionality on all the keys by
pressing and holding that feature combined with the user adjustable hold
down delay has made swift key my go-to on Android I it's not there yet here
hopefully they get there in time but it's still very early days I got a
notification there are a lot of other little improvements that come with iOS 8
as well Mac Rumors has a great list of them that I'll link in the video
description but some standouts are these recording last location in find my
iPhone before the battery dies using Siri to ID song so you don't need Shazam
anymore Wi-Fi calling if your carrier supports it calling out hey Siri when
the device is plugged in to activate what is still my favorite voice control
method easier insertion of photos and messages sending out a randomized MAC
address when scanning for Wi-Fi networks some health crap that I don't care about
at all and the coolest thing of all I really did Save The Best For Last here
Family Sharing I mean imagine that Apple
being the one to follow valve's lead and let us share the digital crap we bought
with the people who live with us in the same way that we used to be able to do
with physical stuff it works with apps music books and more and I applaud
Apple for being Forward Thinking in this regard which leads to the conclusion
which oh sorry right first the obligatory right this thing is actually a phone uh bit call Quality on my side
was excellent I received no complaints about the mic from the other side and
now the conclusion it's an iPhone if you
don't like iPhones it's not going to change your mind and if you like iPhones
and thought they should be bigger then go buy it or the even larger plus
version because let's face it you were going to do that anyway but for me the
rate at which Android continues to improve and the way that iOS with the
exception of little things like Family Sharing continues to not really take
huge strides forward and the way that it didn't adapt correctly to the larger
devices is a a real stumbling block
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