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hey how's it going guys this is Dave - Dee and this is my review of the iPhone 6s and 6s plus so every other year Apple brings out their S line and it's normally like a couple upgrades from the previous generation with a lot of hype so this year I was expecting that i pre-ordered it I thought I'd just be getting a couple upgrades that were overhyped but I was a little surprised here's my review select last year's iPhones the boxes are embossed but now they have different colored lids so you can ID the color of the phone when you open up the box nothing's really changed I mean it's got the same charger same cable same earbuds same SIM tool same stickers the measurements of the phones have changed a bit they're a little bit thicker and heavier and you might think that these changes wouldn't be noticeable but if you've used the iPhone 6 or 6 plus extensively you'll notice a difference it's more noticeable on the 6 plus but both of them just feel beefier than they used to now they're still extremely slippery so you want to get a case or at least a skin for the phone and if you're wandering a properly cut iPhone 6 skin will not fit on the iPhone 6s okay no for real I actually tried and you can see that it's short by a few millimeters just get a proper fitting one D brand does some really good ones so this year they're made out of a 7000 series aluminium alloy it might look the same but it's a significantly stronger material it's more expensive it's harder to machine and it's more expensive to machine but after what Lou did to the iPhone 6 it's probably worth it there's a new color this year that they call rose gold now rose gold is difficult to capture on film because it's a subtle color to begin with and then everyone's screen is a little bit different so they're all going to reproduce this color differently but this ring here is rose gold and it makes the iPhone 6s look really pink in comparison if it's lit with more yellow lighting like incandescent bulbs or like in the evening sunset it does look rose gold but yeah I think most people are going to think it looks more pink the speaker down here is the same from last year it tends to fire away from you when you're watching stuff but sound quality has always been pretty good and it gets reasonably loud and everything around the phone is the same so down here we also have the headphone jack two mics lightning connector and on the right side we have the SIM tray and the power button there's nothing up top and then lastly on the Left we have notification switch and volume controls it's the same screen as last year so I'm not going to go into much detail it's a very good screen but it's starting to show its age a lot of people think that iPhone screens are like the best in the business Samsung phones just have way higher resolution and they're still brighter they have higher contrast ratio better color accuracy better viewing angles and they're even more like power efficient now that's not to say that the iPhone doesn't have a really good screen it does but it's not the best screen if you need to have the best screen out there you got to look at OLED tech on Android phones or a quantum dot IPS like the LG g4 so for the past couple years a lot of Android phones have been able to record some really crispy 4k footage and even though the iPhone 6 had great images it sucks that you couldn't record in 4k but they finally bumped up the camera to a 12 megapixel photos in bright light are really good photos in dim light are really good for a smartphone but the photos on the iPhone 6 and 6-plus were already really good they're just higher res now so for regular use you're not going to be noticing much of a difference in image quality unless you're doing a lot of zooming and cropping between the iPhone 6s and cameras on Android devices like the g4 the s6 and the note 5 it's really hard to call a winner like they're all really really good I've noticed that for macro photos the iPhone 6s doesn't focus as quickly or sometimes properly but I do feel that the color especially in videos are more true to life on the iPhones I do want to compare the cameras between the top-tier flagship phones so I'll probably do a camera test in the future in the meantime if you're interested in buying the iPhone 6s or 6 plus you will really really like the camera it's excellent one thing to keep in mind though 4k videos eat up space really quick you use up over a gig of storage in a three minute video so if you like taking high-res videos I'd stay away from the 16 gig model live photos are pretty cool you can turn it off if you want but it's fun if you take a lot of pictures of people sometimes it's cool to capture the full moment instead of just a still picture it eats up a little space like maybe 60 70 % more for the movie clip the clips aren't particularly high quality and the frame rates are pretty choppy but it's fun in the right situation the front-facing camera has been bumped up to five megapixel it's quite a bit better than last year's so this was taken in a very dark closet like almost pitch-black but it has a new feature that I can crank up the screen brightness for a moment to act as a flash and I think this looks a lot better than an LED flash because it's like a full panel of light right so it's not a point source like an LED so you just get more of diffuse lighting I think Kim Kardashian's and I love this flash performance across the board has been bumped up so starting off a fingerprint sensor quite a bit faster it's at the point where you don't have to wait on it at all like you just kind of press your button and the phone unlocks the taptic engine is a lot quieter and has stronger vibrations so that's kind of nice and of course we've got to throw on some benchmarks so I got to be honest even running iOS 9 the iPhone 6 never felt slow at all but the 6s feels that much snappier these phones now have 2 gigs of RAM which helps with multitasking and it's actually noticeable on the 6s plus when you have a ton of apps open that slight stutter isn't there anymore when you're switching between apps Siri performance is the same Wi-Fi speeds seem to be the same I mean I don't have crazy fast internet to really push it and battery life seems identical to last year despite the smaller batteries so with light to average use you're going to get a day on battery on the 6s and about a day and a half on the 6s plus I think 3d touch is the biggest feature of these phones it's the same mechanic as forced touch but it's a lot more intuitive to use because of how we already use our phones now the support for this feature is pretty limited right now even a lot of the included apps from Apple don't support it yet but it's completely open to developers and you can see the potential it makes phone interactions faster and more efficient and things like setting alarms scheduling taking notes switching between two abs checking emails anything that needs multiple inputs is going to be faster with 3d touch and there's going to be new games like squashing bugs or squeezing zits or popping bubble wrap whatever it is it's just going to be a better experience now the tech just launched but the hardware and software are so well integrated it doesn't feel janky or gimmicky at all it just straight up works and it's straight up functional ok recap for the iPhone 6s and 6s plus they're rockin the same displays as last year same resolutions pretty good screens but not the best out there it now has pressure-sensitive 3d touch which is really well implemented already and it's pretty much guaranteed to get even better over time we both have a new 5 megapixel front-facing camera with retina flash that actually takes pretty good photos a fingerprint sensor that's noticeably faster than last year's all covered in apples on glass that still shatters if you drop it hard on its face and on the back we have a 12 megapixel camera that takes surprisingly fun live photos really good regular photos and equally amazing videos up to 4k on the bottom we have a single speaker that sounds pretty good despite its location and we also get that prestigious s stamp on the back of the phone you got to let people know you're rocking the new one right you're not buying this phone for like the new tech you want that s stamp for its status alright and on the inside we're rocking batteries that are sadly smaller than last year's but they seem to give the exact same battery life which is ok there's also the a9 processor in there which is a really fast performer and extremely energy efficient it's noticeably faster than the a8 and lastly non expandable storage that starts off at a really silly 16 gigs and goes up to 128 gigs and all this isn't a package that is thicker and heavier than last year but stronger and pricing starts at $650 ok some closing thoughts when the iPhone 4s came out with Siri and when the 5s came out with a fingerprint sensor they were really cool pieces of tech but they didn't dramatically change the way that we use our phones I mean you can only use fingerprint detection and voice commands so often but with 3d touch it inherently changes the way that you use your phone I mean everything that you do on it can theoretically be affected by a 3d touch and Apple did a really good job implementing it so far and as developers pick it up and figure out what people want and figure out what people need the potential for it is massive I'm really excited about that now whether or not it's worth the price to entry it's a very expensive phone and there's parts of the 6s and 6s plus that feel really dated I mean the screen the 16 gigs of ram those shouldn't exist in 2015 on a flagship so that kind of bums me out but I will say this for a s variant from Apple it's a very it's the best one it's the best s line that Apple has released so they have that going for it if you're coming from Android I don't think there's anything compelling to pull an Android user in like if you're deep into the Android ecosystem it's a cool piece of tech 3d touch it's not enough to kind of pull you in not yet at least that's the end of the review hope you guys liked it thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it now there's one other thing if you noticed the thumbnail to this video was blue it's a blue phone it's real it will exist giveaway soon stay tuned it's been nice I'll see you guys next time