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iPhone 6s vs iPhone 6 - Worth the Upgrade?

2015-09-28
Devlin 6s is undoubtedly an upgrade over the iPhone six it's faster it has better cameras and an all new 3d touch display the question is though is it worth it so what's great guys johnathan here this is iPhone 6 and this is the 6s at first glance there really isn't much of a difference between the two which is expected being an S upgrade but looking a little closer there are some subtle changes the obvious change is the addition of a new rose gold color and unlike most iPhone upgrades where the phone is thinner and lighter the iPhone 6s is actually slightly thicker and heavier than the iPhone 6 there's a point to millimeter bump in thickness which really isn't significant but as far as weight goes that is definitely noticeable with the iPhone 6s coming in at 14 grams heavier with a lowercase G now as much as that most likely burned Johnny I've sold the reason the iPhone 6s is heavier is mainly due in part to the 3d touch display there's also a stronger 7000 series aluminum on the iPhone 6s which levels up its durability and of course an S on the back which to note said it is unquestionably an S model now jumping back in time for a second back to 2009 when Apple dropped the 3GS / Phil Schiller the S stood for speed the 4s marked they'd be a series or alternatively for Steve by fans and while the S and the 5s was never officially addressed there was speculation that it stood for scan or even security with the inclusion of touch ID fast-forward to the iPhone 6s and again while there was no official acknowledgement of the S I'd say speed is pretty fitting with this one on paper you really wouldn't expect a huge difference with the a9 chip on the 6s still being dual core but there's actually a pretty significant difference between it and the a8 and on top of the speed bump there's also now two gigabytes of RAM and Geekbench 3 on the single core side of things the iPhone 6 dished out a score of 1617 whereas the iPhone 6s jumped up to a score of 2500 as far as multi-core scores go we're looking at 29 13 on the iPhone 6 and 43 81 on the 6s now as far as graphics performance goes running GFX bench the iPhone 6 pumped out 27 frames per second whereas the iPhone 6s nearly doubled that with 51 frames per second so yet numbers are cool but what does it actually mean in real-world performance what I did was take the exact same one-minute 1080p project in iMovie and export them on each phone the iPhone 6 export of the project in 53 seconds and the iPhone 6s to the exact same thing in 35 seconds which is pretty impressive 18 seconds might not seem like a big difference but multiplied overtime or a bigger project that's huge staying on track with speed touch ID is crazy fast on the 6s not to say that touch ID was necessarily slow on the six but you can literally press the home button and that will unlock the screen on the 6s now with the past few iPhone upgrades the camera have been locked at 8 megapixels but with the iPhone 6s we finally see a jump up to 12 megapixels so with the extra megapixels you're gonna get obviously more resolution and more detail but I wouldn't say this by itself is solely a reason to upgrade from the 6 what may persuade you though if you love them pixels is the iPhone 6s now shoots 4k video so if you haven't already make sure you click the 4k button to watch this video in its full resolution and I know it might be hard to see any difference if you're not watching on a 4k monitor but to put things in the scale these are the actual amount of pixels in a 1080p video file compared to 4k on the iPhone 6s touch them real quick on the front-facing camera for a second the 6s is a pretty solid upgrade with a jump to 5 megapixels compared to 1.2 on the 6 what was surprisingly useful though on the 6s is what Apple calls retina flash it's a lame name but the 6s selfie game is strong there's also live photos but that's really just a glorified short video and it might sound cool but it's really just a gimmick at this point now lastly and what is probably the biggest difference between the 6s and the 6 is the implementation of 3d touch now this is extremely hard to explain if you haven't experienced this in person but what it is is a pressure-sensitive display that reacts by how hard you press now Apple comes up with some pretty ridiculous things but these two are up there peek and pop or one of the ways you use 3d touch so for example if you're an email you could peek to get a preview or pop to fully open it up this also applies to app shortcuts let me be clear you are not long pressing you are physically putting pressure on the screen and that will grant you access to various shortcuts within that app now is this useful yes is it a game changer absolutely not there's a very limited amount of apps that take advantage of it right now and honestly by the time there's a healthy amount that do the iPhone 7 will probably be out so at the end of the day I would not call this a must-have upgrade obviously if you're that guy or that girl that upgrades every single year you will more than likely really enjoy the iPhone 6s if you're coming from anything prior than the iPhone 6 and this is a big upgrade and I would def I recommend you jump up to this now for those curious those fancy-pants graphics for courtesy of videoblocks who specialized in stock footage motion tablets and After Effects templates on top of that they also have a marketplace you guys that shoot video maybe some crispy iPhone 6s goodness can submit your footage to be sold as stock footage and make a hundred percent of the cash you guys can check it out for free for seven days and the details are linked down below so aside from that thank you guys very much for watching hopefully enjoyed the video if you did and you are feeling like being awesome make sure to go Walt Mossberg on that like button peek at pop it just don't force touch it if you want to see how the iPhone 6s stacks up against the original iPhone check out my buddy Austin guns Evans comparison which you can click right here
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