Apple CEO Tim Cook just officially unveiled the much awaited smartphone
iPhone 6 with two varients as spotted in the leaks! an iPhone 6 Plus and its 5.5-inch screen in Cupertino alongside a
long-rumored (and handier) 4.7-inch model. This thing won't seem
all that foreign if you frequent the geekier corners of the web, but
it's a sure sign that Apple wants to give all those other pocket-
stretching phablets out there a run for their metaphorical money.
The company's live press event still chugging along (with a sketchy
stream, no less), but here's what we know so far.
There's no two ways about it: the star of the show here is the
spacious 5.5-inch 1080p Retina Display HD riding up front - to hear
Apple's Phil Schiller tell it, it's SRGB-accurate, has an ultrathin
backlight, photo-aligned IPS liquid crystals, an improved polarizer,
and ion-strengthened glass. More importantly (and at long last!),
the screen runs at 1080p.
You won't notice any dramatic design differences between this
model and its little brother - it's still dramatically thinner than the
iPhones that came before it (the Plus comes in at 7.1mm thick , and
the angular edges of the 5s have given way to a smoother, rounder
look in line with the company's most recent batch of iPads.
Remember all those leaks? They absolutely nailed it, and the end
result looks, well, really making the leaks come alive
What's Inside?
The new 64-bit A8 chipset - Schiller says it's 50 percent more
energy efficient (not to mention a hair smaller) than the the A7 that
graced earlier models, and about 25 percent more powerful to boot.
A new M8 coprocessor should also help keep better track of your
activity levels, since it can hazard guesses at distance traveled and
measure elevation changes for you avid stair-climbers. And
speaking of power, you'll be able to squeeze 16 hours of standby
time out of the 6 Plus, 14 hours of continual video playback and or
a full 24 hours of 3G talk time out of the non-removable battery.
Camera:
may be a little bummed to see that the 6 Plus has an 8-megapixel
iSight camera and an f/2.2 aperture lens paired with the same True
Tone flash as in the 5s. That's not to say that Apple's been slacking
-- it's got phase detecting autofocus (we've seen similar tech in
SLRs), improved face detection and a new Best Shot mode. Extra
bonus for Plus owners: you get optical image stabilization , so you
can lord your crisper shots over everyone else when it launches.
You'll be able to shoot 1080p video at either 30 or 60 frames per
second, and slow motion video has gotten even slower: think a
whopping 240 frames per second. The front-facing camera has been
updated with a sensor.
Apple's iOS 8 got the grand unveiling treatment back at WWDC, but
(to no one's surprise) it packs a few extra features to help it feel
more at home on bigger screens. Perhaps the biggest is the
inclusion of a two-paned landscape mode which makes the whole
thing feel a little more like a tiny iPad than an upscaled iPhone. If
you give the TouchID button (yeah, you're not escaping those
sensors), you'll also invoke a one-handed mode that moves
everything down to the lower half of the display for easy access --
great if you've got some short thumbs.
Pricing :
Apple has priced their beast very smartly making it affordable than their own predecessor 5S
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