“Like last year, you have the choice of a 4.7-inch iPhone 6s or a 5.5-inch iPhone 6s Plus,” Rene Ritchie writes for iMore. “One offers more utility, the other is easier to use. Which one you get depends entirely on what you want to do with it. Is it maximum portability and pocket ability or pure size and photo prowess?”
“In landscape mode the iPhone 6s Plus is treated like a small iPad. Mail goes from one column to two columns. So does Messages, Notes, and a host of other apps. Safari gets tabs and the rest of the tablet treatment. It may not sound like much but it’s a huge boon for productivity,” Ritchie writes. “If you like the iPhone the way it is, you’ll like the iPhone 6s. If you like the idea of having an iPhone in portrait and an iPad in landscape, you’ll like the iPhone 6s Plus.”
“If you’re not a camera enthusiast and don’t need low-light photography, you’ll be thrilled with the iPhone 6s. If you’re a photographer and really want OIS, you’ll really want the iPhone 6s Plus,” Ritchie writes. “[iPhone 6s battery offers] up to 14 ours of talk, 10 days standby, 10 to 11 hours of web browsing and video playback, and 50 hours of audio. The iPhone 6s Plus gets crazy good battery life. Up to 24 hours of talk, 16 days of standby, 12 hours of web browsing, 14 hours of video, and 80 hours of audio.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: After using our 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus units for a year, we’re not sure we could go back down to a 4.7-inch iPhone. They just seem too small now. Plus, (get it?) we’d certainly miss the ridiculous battery life, super smooth OIS (now for video, too!), landscape iPad-esque features, and all of that glorious display real estate.
With Apple Watches on our wrists every waking hour, we use our iPhones significantly less (they stay in our pockets), but when we do use our iPhones, we want to really use them to the fullest and the fullest iPhone you can get is the flagship iPhone 6s Plus.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]