iPhone 6S: technical data, analysis and Opinion
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Technical data
Design
• High 138.30 mm
• 67.10 width mm
• 7.10 thickness mm
• Weight 143 g
The new iPhone 6S measured 67,10 mm wide, 138.3 mm high and has a thickness of only 7.10 mm In terms of weight, the new version of the iPhone reaches 143 grams. The new Apple mobile, iPhone 6S is available in Spain in pink, gold, grey and silver.
Screen
• Size 4.7 inch
• IPS type
• Resolution 1334 x 750
• Density of 326 DPI pixels
• Type of protective coating oleophobic
The 6S iPhone screen has a size of 4.7 inches with a resolution of 1334 x 750 pixels on an LCD panel with LED backlighting and IPS technology.
The new 6S iPhone screen is protected against scratches scratches and bumps with a special Crystal that includes anti-fingerprint coating. The pixel density, which is measured in points per inch, is 326 PPI.
Among the features of the new iPhone 6S screen Force touch, an innovative system able to recognize up to 3 levels of pressure.
Hardware and performance
• Processor Apple
• CPU A9
• 2 nuclei
• Not defined speed
• Memory RAM 1 GB
• Memory internal 16 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB
• No MicroSD expansion
The Apple iPhone 6S joined the new M9 Apple processor 64-bit dual-core. In the section of RAM, one of the most sought after 6S iPhone features, there are express confirmation although it is very likely to keep 1 GB of RAM as its predecessor.
For storage of files, apps and data the new version of Apple's iPhone is available in three versions of 16-, 64- and 128 GB, and as usual does not have the possibility of extending the storage via microSD.
The iPhone 6S is priced in Spain of 749 euros for the 16 GB model, 859 euros for the 64 Gb version and 969 for the 128 GB model.
Software
• Operating system IOS
• OS 9 version
• Radio FM not
• Apps pre-installed iLife
The 6S iPhone running iOS 9 operating system, thus also using 3D Touch technology. As highlighted important pre-installed apps in the Apple phablet: iLife.
Camera
Main camera
• Resolution 12.0 megapixel• Flash coating oleophobic
• UHD 4K video
Features • Geo-location / face recognition / panorama / HDR
During the presentation of the iPhone 6S, the company has shown innovations present in the Chamber of the Apple phone. The main Chamber, the 6S iPhone grows up to 12 megapixels.
It also has LED Flash. As for video, it is capable of recording to UHD 4 K resolution.
If we move to the front camera for selfies or videoconferencing, new iPhone resolution is 5MP.
This camera also releases the so-called Flash Retina.
Front camera
• Resolution 5.0 megapixel• Flash Flash the Retina
• HD video 720 p
Battery
• 1715 mAh capacity
• Duration in conversation 14.00 h
• Long standby 240.00 h
• Removable
The company from Cupertino iPhone 6S has autonomy in 380 h stand-by and a duration in conversation of 24 h, always according to the manufacturer. The smartphone battery is not removable, so you can not replace it if it becomes worn or damaged.
Connectivity
10/10• NFC
• Bluetooth v4.0, A2DP, you
• WiFi Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
• USB connector Lightning
• Wireless charging not
• SIM card type nanosim
• Dual Sim
• Dual SIM 4G NO
• Networks 2G (GSM) 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• Networks 3G (HSDPA) 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
• Compatible 3G in Spain Yes
• 4G network (LTE) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30
• Compatible 4G in Spain Yes
In terms of connectivity, and in addition to the technical specifications that you have left, we can tell you that the iPhone 6S uses a card nanosim, as was the case with previous 6 iPhone models.
Of course, the 6S iPhone is compatible with 3G and 4G networks with support of up to 23 different bands, and the WiFi 802. 11ac.
Analysis
The best
• Improved construction and ergonomics• Outstanding performance
• Level of brightness and behavior on the outdoor screen
• 3D Touch screen
• 4K video
• Connectivity
• Camera
The worst
• Price• Screen resolution
• Non-expandable memory
• Sound quality
Specifications
iPhone 6, the only thing that has changed is all?
Try to go through new and innovative something visually does not differ one iota of what is already known, is risky only available to a few. Personally I admit that it is difficult to not face analysis as of this iPhone 6S that depart from a product extremely familiar and recognizable without scepticism.That is why in Computerhoy.com we wanted to take pause with this review of the iPhone 6S, lengthening the process of interaction with the terminal in search of arguments which can endorse the true depth of the innovations provided by the new iPhone.
And is that the novelties of the new iPhone are not noticeable at first glance: same size, same design, and even same colors except the new pink gold or Gold Pink, to which photos, by the way, do not do justice.
Design
Also remain the rubber bands that protect antennas touring across the back, and dragged so many criticisms at the time. And without the possibility of physical contact, it is impossible to distinguish an iPhone an iPhone 6 6S, except for simple screen printing on the back.
A "more personal" approach is necessary to begin to sense the first differences, although they are so subtle that only those who you've had routine contact with the iPhone 6 will notice real changes.
The new iPhone 6S incorporates a new type of aluminium, called aluminum series 7000, a compound used by the aviation industry offering - according to Apple - resistance 60% higher than conventional alloys with one-third of the density of the stainless steel.
The result is a body more resistant to bumps and scratches, no problems from the dreaded bendgate which caused so many problems to Apple in the launch of the iPhone 6 Plus.
But the real change occurs at the touch, rougher and less slippery. That translates into a greater sense of solidity and safety when you have it on hand. An important aspect when it comes to hold this 6S with greater confidence, but they will appreciate even more those who prefer bulky iPhone Plus 6S.
It also increases in thickness - motivated by the presence of 3D Touch and the new vibration system "taptico" of the screen which we will discuss later - and slightly weight, about 14 grams, although both aspects are almost invaluable even in direct comparison with its predecessor.
A continuous design that keeps the positive part, but that does not correct the deficiencies of its predecessor design. The effort by the symmetry requires that to keep the iconic Home button will continue to keep frameworks exaggerated around the screen, that also subtract floorspace to the same create an excessively voluminous chassis for a 4.7-inch screen.
Also repeats the mistake of a camera that excels without apparent reason from the surface of the terminal, or a badly located speaker that, for dessert, still throwing a poor sound that barely passes the approved.
Screen
A resolution of 1.334 x 750 pixels on an LCD IPS of 4.7 inch with a density of 326 DPI starts to be perceived as insufficient, especially when it comes to play multimedia content.
Despite all the iPhone 6S Retina display does not diminish in terms of balance of color, contrast, brightness level (appearance this in the currently remain unknown rival) or angles of vision from its direct competition, and continues to be, despite not to include any specific improvement, one of the best mobile screens on the market, with a behavior outside more than remarkable reach of very few.
That Yes, runs serious risk of become obsolete in terms of definition and viewing angles, points where Samsung's Super AMOLED screens and certain IPS LCD competition start to take an advantage which is becoming worrying.
Very different aspect is the issue of color depth. I still personally preferring me by the naturalness in the colors of the LCD IPS display, but did not enter disputed that front that says otherwise and defend at all costs the gamut of color screens AMOLED, matter of taste.
In direct comparaciom with 6 iPhone screen, the differences are virtually priceless. Just a slight correction of deeper tones slightly warmer than oportan to the screen of the 6S more of naturalness.
3D Touch, technology Apple gift
Inherited directly from the Apple Watch and the Macbook, the 3D Touch screen incorporates up to 96 sensors distributed over the entire surface of the screen allowing you to recognize up to two stages of pressure, what Apple called Peek (intense pressure) and Pok (pressure), which added to the usual press any touch screen.
In short, as heme posisido check first-hand in this test of the iPhone 6S is capable of detecting the intensity we practice with our fingers on the glass, which is the gateway to an extensive range of options led by the possibility to interact with the applications without the need of entering the same.
For example, by clicking on an email you will access to a preview of the same, and if you find it interesting just will have to exercise a little more pressure so that this opens completely.
You can do with any link or photo and can access other fast options (delete, mark as read, reply, forward etc.), simply by scrolling the preview up or the sides.
If you press on the icon of an application will give you access to a pop-up menus with quick actions. For example, WhatsApp is possible to start a new conversation or search in a chat, while in the camera application options are broader, since it allows to directly access the front camera to record video to the video in slow motion and, as no, to the main Chamber.
Even the screen keyboard 3D Touch of iPhone 6S can become a trackpad simply by pressing firmly onto the same, facilitating the tasks of text selection. In addition, by pressing on the left side of the screen you can access multi-tasking without pressing the Start button twice.
Experience with 3D Touch not has been more positive, especially when I have to admit that it started with fitness enough criticism based on my bad experience with the Force Touch of my Macbook Pro. He doubted not only its practical utility, also over whether it would be able to assimilate a particular interaction type routinely.
To my surprise, the doubts were quickly dispelled. System It 3D Touch of the 6S is fast and tremendously intuitive. It is true a bit hard to "change the chip" and assimilate that you have to "sink the screen" and not prolong pressing on it, in addition to assimilate a new gesture which until now did not exist. But once kind it - and despite some that another "misunderstanding" sporadic - learning is very fast.
3D Touch streamlines the interaction with the iPhone making everything much faster and more direct, which reduces the number of keystrokes on screen and makes the system much more accessible.
But note, not everything is perfect. At the moment only a few native iOS 9 applications make use of this technology, and yet few third-party applications that use it.
If it is true that in little more than two weeks we have been iPhone 6Sanalysis, some of the most "critical" as WhatsApp, Twitter or Facebook applications already have adapted to 3D Touch, some of them in quite haste untapped possibilities of 3D Touch thickness.
Finally, it is important to talk about the new Taptic Engine system or vibrator 6S iPhone screen taptico, largely responsible for the slight increase in thickness, and produces a slight localized vibration which varies in intensity depending on the intensity of pressure: Peek or Pop.
This change also affects the vibration when you receive any notice, message or call. Vibration is now weaker and more discreet, but no less noticeable since it is distributed over a greater surface (before the vibration motor was located in one of the corners).
Performance
Incorporates an Apple A9 processor with dual-core ARM architecture 1.85 GHz with the so coveted - this world Apple is called so - 2 GB of RAM.
Comparatively to the Android competition within the high range with its processors from eight cores and not less than 4 GB of RAM, hardware of the 6S can is dwarfed, but here is where Apple pulls out his wand and demonstrates, once again, that controlling all the links of the chain less can be equally, or even more.
The new A9 processor means swimmingly with iOS 9, Apple talks about 70% better overall performance and a 90% if we rely on the graphical part, although this is almost impossible to quantify in every day.
The general all processes are slightly faster in the 6S from the boot sequence will be reduced 24 seconds of the iPhone 6 to 15 seconds, until the processes of focus of the camera, the access to the contents or the response time of a new sensor of fingerprint Touch more precise ID, and twice as fast as its predecessor. Therefore sometimes you get really really doubt whether phone was blocked.
Applications, next-generation games, multimedia, multi-tasking, web browsing, and even edit video such as iMovie and 4K video tools, move with total fluidity and harmony.
But honestly, except Touch ID fingerprint sensor, and today, the ability to switch between multiple open tabs in Safari without having these be recharged again and again, the performance with the iPhone 6 gap is narrower than would be expected.
For lovers of data and by way of curiosity, Geekbench 3 Benchmark, the 6S manages to overcome widely the results obtained by the iPhone 6, despite the fact that as we discussed this is not endorsed in day to day use, although if it can serve as indicator of the great potential of the new iPhone.
With regard to competition, repeats the common story in which the two nuclei of the A9 processor get to stand up, and even surpasses the performance of 6-8 core with higher clock frequencies.
Testing for performance and review of the iPhone 6s show control software being able to squeeze more and better your processor, offset specifications hardware which, at least on paper, much lower.
Camera
You hover over the image to see the differences between the 6S iPhone camera and the iPhone 6
But times change, and even if Apple want to give the impression of being immune to the environment, he is aware that his competition has improved, and much, and iSight from your iPhone camera needed more than just a facelift.
You hover over the image to see the differences between the 6S iPhone camera and the iPhone 6
The answer is a new camera for the 6S which increases its resolution to the 12 MPX, a few pixels that are smaller, 1, 22µ front las1, 5µ 6 iPhone camera.
Outdoors with a good lighting iPhone 6S camera analysis sheds some natural images with excellent sharpness and natural colours. Undoubtedly some good results, as you would expect from a terminal of 800 euros, but that does not provide excess facing the already seen on the iPhone 6 camera.
You hover over the image to see the differences between the 6S iPhone camera and the iPhone 6
Perhaps some more contrast and definition, and the possibility of better settings due to the increase in sensor resolution, but honestly I have not found any difference extremely important thing to go crazy.
Similar is the perception when we talk about night photography or in situations with low light. The leap in quality from the Chamber of the 6S in this aspect is perhaps somewhat higher: best details, more light and, above all, a truly accurate white balance, appearance in which the new iPhone 6S does not have any competition.
You hover over the image to see the differences between the 6S iPhone camera and the iPhone 6
In the case of the front-facing camera or camera selfie here if noticed generous improvement, something normal taking into account that Apple had not paid him special attention to this element further than Facetime video calls.
The new front of the 6S iPhone camera raises its resolution up to 5 MPX and incorporates a new curious flash simulated "FaceTime Flash", by the intense illumination of the display.
An ingenious solution that will get results even better from that would be achieved with a conventional flash, since given the proximity of the face with respect to the camera the use of an LED flash is often resulting in whitish face and burned images.
Results are significantly better than its predecessor, none of the other world that Yes, but must take into account that we started only 1.2 megapixel.
Another aspect which improves is the panoramic photography, which increase its resolution to the 65 MPX and which remains an aspect in which the iPhone has no competition.
Now the big questionis the camera of the iPhone 6S the best camera mobile at the time? It is among the best, no doubt, but the competition has evolved a lot and well, and currently have little or nothing to envy the new iPhone's camera. Here is a complete gallery of photos taken with your camera, you can judge for yourself:
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge or LG G4 can compete openly and even improve in many aspects to the new iPhone's camera, as well we have seen in this review of the iPhone 6S.
Live photos and video 4K
Its operation is very simple: with Live Photos active (a small star on the interface of camera icon is colored in yellow if it is active) If you press the camera's shutter, the device stores, in addition to the picture at full resolution, 3 seconds of video. In particular, 1.5 seconds before taking the picture, and another 1.5 seconds later.
The result is a dynamic image - that is double the space that one photograph normal, about 6 MB - playing with sound by pressing on it, and that can also be used as dynamic wallpaper.
Live Photo of the 6S iPhone images are striking, and even fun. Warn that the first will be a disaster, since it is hard to remember not to move the terminal nothing pressing the fire button, as usual, and spend a quiet moment so complete it correctly capture, so you have to be attentive to the LIVE indicator at the top of the screen. (Update: it seems that Apple has reacted quickly to this problem and fixed it with the update iOS 9.1.) Now the Live Photos stops as soon as you move the phone).
Playback is choppy, especially if the image is very moved and is clearly perceived that the video clip does not have the same resolution as the fixed image, but still is a fun feature providing without being innovative is very well implemented by Apple.
Most important is the step to 4 K of the 6S iPhone video, really impressive in terms of definition and image quality and, important detail, without time limitation. Too bad to enjoy it fully, you may need to have a screen UHD something that, for now, is not the majority.
That Yes, if you intend to record long video 4 K forget the version with 16 GB of storage, since the 4 K videos occupy a whopping of almost 400 MB per minute, nearly double a normal video at 1080 p resolution at 60 fps, the second option of higher quality video recording.
The 6S 4 K video option appears not active by default, so you have to go to settings (General/photos and camera) to select it. Yes, we are sure that like me, you also are wondering is what problem for Apple not to integrate this option directly into the interface of the camera.
Battery
The new A9, 2 GB of memory RAM LPDDR4 processor and co-processor movement M9 - responsible for monitoring all the movements of the terminal and that now, besides being integrated into the processor, let us use Siri only with voice by using the command "Hey Siri" even when iPhone is not connected to the mains, - not only influence positively on the performance , but which also make it a very efficient way, getting that these milliamperes of less not appreciate at all.
Comparative term in the table below you can see some approximate data of autonomy of the iPhone 6 from the 6S and previous models, in addition to the Galaxy S6 Edge, a model with almost 900 mAh battery capacity.
As we can see the results not only not get worse, but in the case of the iPhone 6S battery improve slightly. Despite everything, the result remains disappointing, again.
Day to day I have managed to overcome even the day and a half of moderate use (browsing, mail, some other photo, listen to music and a few sporadic games), being impossible to get the day complete making an intensive use. In short, the same old. He will play continue waiting for that some manufacturer take really seriously the issue of autonomy, meanwhile, is not another that follow attached to the charger one day Yes, and another, also.
Conclusion
There is no doubt that a lot of positive things, such as improvements in the resolution and quality of the camera, outstanding performance and a more solid and less slippery construction can be indicated. Although if something we will remember forever of this test and analysis of the iPhone 6S is the 3D Touch screen.
3D Touch is the element which makes it peculiar that makes the new iPhone 6S not a simple transition to a future iPhone 7. But... is it enough? The answer depends, largely, from your point of departure
If you are a user of iPhone 6 directly tell you that it is not worth, you look with some envy 3D Touch of your friends for a few days, but little else.
If on the other hand you are a fan convinced of the brand, user of a previous generation or you're thinking to prove what is that having an iPhone, you'll find this 6S arguments enough to make the leap.
In addition to the version of silver that we used for this analysis of the iPhone 6S, there are another three finishes: gold, space grey, and the new finish Gold Pink or rose gold.
The price of the iPhone 6S part of 749 euros from the more basic version with 16 GB of storage, a choice little or nothing advisable if you have in mind to install some other game and make use of your new iPhone camera.
If case studies, I recommend you to do a little extra effort of 859 euros for the 64 GB version, more than enough if you can manage yourself well. But you will always have the option of 969 euros get the higher capacity version, a far from negligible 128 GB.
Evaluation of the analysis:
• Display 7/10
• Hardware 10/10
• 9/10 software
• 8/10
• Battery 6/10
• Connectivity 10/10
• Good 7/10
This article is based on information accessed and updated publications dedicated to digital technology:
PC World en español: (web) http://www.pcworldenespanol.com/ (spanish)Xataca: (web) http://www.xataka.com/ (spanish).
TecnoMagazine: (web) http://tecnomagazine.net/ (spanish) And other websites consulted.