“It is easy to take annual smartphone launches for granted as we enter the ninth year of the iPhone era,” Tim Bradshaw writes for The Financial Times. “That goes double when the biggest change to the appearance of the device is that it now comes in a bright metallic pink. But most smartphone buyers do not live on the bleeding edge. Apple said in July that only a third of its customers had upgraded to the iPhone 6, last year’s model. So while the iPhone 6s may seem too similar to its predecessor, it is a giant leap forward compared with a three-year-old iPhone 5, thanks to its fingerprint reader, bigger screen, voice-control and overall speed.”
MacDailyNews Take: The iPhone 6s/Plus speed is a significant leap over the iPhone 6/Plus, in fact.
“3D Touch shaves fractions of a second from each of the scores of interactions we have with our phones every day,” Bradshaw writes. “My favourite 3D Touch feature is in email. Instead of tapping into an email then swiping back to the inbox, a squeeze of the screen shows a preview “peek” at the message, which disappears again when you release or “pops” into full view if you press harder.”
“3D Touch is just one aspect of an iPhone that is noticeably faster than its predecessor, let alone older models. Touch ID unlocks the phone with no discernible lag after pressing the home button. Loading web pages, opening apps and sending messages all seem much nippier. Siri is also more efficient,” Bradshaw writes. “Apple refuses to say what the ‘s’ in its iPhone updates stands for, but ‘speed’ is the 6s’ standout feature.”
Read more in the full article here.
SEE ALSO:
Ars Technica reviews iPhone 6s/Plus: 3D Touch and the A9 chip are the stars of the show – September 28, 2015
John Gruber reviews Apple’s iPhone 6s/Plus: Everything is new – September 23, 2015
Insanely Great: iPhone 6s benchmarks as powerful as the Retina MacBook – September 22, 2015
TechCrunch reviews iPhone 6s/Plus: ‘The camera alone is worth the price of admission’ – September 22, 2015
Mossberg reviews iPhone 6s/Plus: ‘The best smartphone, period.’ – September 22, 2015
The Verge reviews iPhone 6s/Plus: ‘You should buy an iPhone 6S Plus’ – September 22, 2015
USA Today’s Baig reviews iPhone 6s/Plus: 3D Touch, great camera add up to tempting upgrade – September 22, 2015
Apple sees fastest iOS adoption ever with iOS 9 as iPhone 6s/Plus set to arrive on September 25th – September 21, 2015
Apple, enough with the stupid iPhone ‘S’ naming already – September 16, 2015
Nooooo!
The ‘s’ stands for: there ain’t no new features in this iPhone stupid.
Whens the last time you updated your cave.
I’m assuming cole left out the /s at the end. Guess other folks here assumed otherwise.
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Your comment was so eye opening and insightful that you should be invited by TED to give a presentation on your unique and world changing views.
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