“There are two of them, called the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. But you can call them the Bigger iPhone and the Much Bigger iPhone. And you’ll be able to order them starting Sept. 12, or buy them outright on the 19th,” David Pogue writes for Yahoo Tech. “In any mobile gadget, size is always a tradeoff: You want the biggest possible phone when you’re looking at it, but you want the smallest possible phone when you’re carrying it.”
“Apparently, the people have spoken, and they fall into the looker camp: The people want bigger,” Pogue writes. “Which is kind of weird, since the general direction of gadget growth over generations is usually smaller… Anyway, Apple has done everything engineeringly possible to minimize the downsides of having a big phone. The sleep switch, for example, is now on the right edge, so you can get to it one-handed. The Home screens, for the first time, now rotate with the phone. And if there’s something you want to tap on the top part of the screen — too far away for your puny little thumb to reach — you touch the Home button twice (not fully click it). The iPhone screen image slides downward so that the top half of the image is now in thumb reach.”
“Apple made the phone really, really thin. Thinner than previous phones. Thinner than the Samsung Galaxies or LG’s G3. About a quarter of an inch thin,” Pogue writes. “The edges are rounded, not sharp and square, for the first time in several iPhone models. It feels good. You’re tempted to rub your fingers over it as though it’s a worry stone. You can’t believe how little it weighs. And you can now tell which way the screen is facing in your pocket by touch, for the first time since the iPhone 3 family.”
“You know what? I truly expected these bigger iPhones to feel too big. At the very least, I expected that it would take some time to get used to them. But the iPhone 6 felt right and natural from the first moment I hefted it,” Pogue writes. “The iPhone 6 Plus is another story. It’s a monster. It’s like holding an iPad to your head. Heaven help you if you sit down with this thing in your back pocket. Then again, people buy those mega-phones, so who am I to know?”
Much more in the full article here.