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eh what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and this is Apple's new flagship phone for the next year the iPhone 6 so there's a new design this year for Apple's flagship and of course the theme here is thin and light this phone is six point nine millimeters thin and it's all one piece of aluminum rounded off at the corners so instead of having the squared off edges like the last iPhone Apple's rounded off the sides the phone feels a lot more like the HTC One m8 now and this has two effects the first is that it gives the whole body this seamless feel if you start your finger on the screen and drag it all the way around to the back of the phone you won't encounter any seams it's just one smooth surface but two is that since it's so smooth it's actually a bit slippery to hold plus it's a little bigger and it's so light that my confidence actually holding and manipulating this foam in the hand is dropping every time but part of me wants to put a case on it but you guys know how I feel about cases so a high quality skin will suit me just fine and of course D brand has a couple of badass skins for the iPhone 6 to help out this grip ability so I'll leave links to those right below the like button if you want to check those out highly recommended but the rest of the build of this phone is definitely awesome it's a bit bigger than the last iPhone but I think it's a much better size now and you only take a few minutes to get used to it before you look back at the iPhone 5s and it starts to look like a toy it's obviously a bit bigger than other phones with a 4.7 inch display since this one has a big little chin for the home button and a big forehead to match but what's more striking than his size is I think the thinness again 6.9 millimeters that is crazy thin almost feels too thin and light to be a working phone it feels almost the same weight as the dummy phone it's so thin in fact the camera lens on the back protrudes out a bit now this turns out to be not a huge deal since it's coated in sapphire anyway and it just rocks a bit when it's placed on a flat surface but that's minor so this is the first iPhone to move the power button from the top to the side of the phone and that's good that's what other bigger phones have been doing for years and that's much easier to reach and also it has a physical mute switch and I think that's a nice touch most don't do this yet but sometimes got switched off in my pocket every once in a while but I like the physical mute button so I have a few mixed feelings overall about the build of the phone since it's so razor thin but it's definitely built well it shouldn't bend in your pocket or anything actually I think the worst quirk about the hardware is the speaker on the bottom it's a pretty loud speaker I mean it's got decent mids and highs and it's a little bit tinny but the thing is it's a small downward facing driver so it's really easy to accidentally block it when you're holding the phone watching a video or playing a game now I know that often in the room right now is the iPhone 6 plus which is the companion' 5.5 inch iPhone that Apple released alongside the iPhone 6 a couple of weeks ago and basically my opinion on that is this day I'm gonna review it separately in a completely different video and that's upcoming but if you're trying to decide between the 6 and the 6 plus consider this all of the factors that make the iPhone 6 a little bit slippery and a little bit difficult to hold in the hand or amplified on the iPhone 6 plus it's an even bigger phone in every single way and it's still rounded on the edges so it's even more difficult to grip the easiest way to see this is to go into an Apple store and hold one but trust me the 6 plus is huge so really besides improved internals the main physical advantage to this iPhone 6 over an older iPhone is the size it's a bigger screen and it has all the advantages that naturally come with having that bigger screen so bigger icons bigger UI bigger text bigger web browsing bigger gaming bigger video watching bigger keyboard but what's funny is it stops there so the iPhone 6 has a 4.7 inch 1334 by 750 IPS display with awesome colors and great brightness and incredible viewing angles and a pretty high pixel density 326 PPI makes it the same as the iPhone 5 and 5s and iOS 8 is trained to take advantage of every inch of this display by basically scaling everything up from the iPhone 5s but like I said there aren't really any extra features in iOS to take advantage of the larger display so there aren't no multitasking features or anything extra there is apples interestingly implemented reach ability which is basically to make one-handed use easier so you can double touch the home button to move the UI halfway down the display so you can interact with the top half of stuff I sometimes use this to reach those top corner buttons and apps or pull down the notification bar when I'm feeling lazy but yeah that's about it as far as apples extra features for a big screen go again it's a great display I just I guess I wish they just did more to take advantage of it maybe show more apps in the multitasking menu make touch targets bigger and first-party apps things like that they don't have to force anything but I just wish they'd been more with all those extra pixels but the rest of iOS 8 is very familiar to anyone who's ever used an iPhone or an iPad before I really don't have to explain that you have some improvements to the notification area so now you can add widgets just to the notification area that's stay there and permanently show information so you can get more apps from the App Store to fill up this panel with different widgets that show info and you can you can kind of mess around with these and get shortcuts and real-time stats and info and stuff and that's nice but you can only have them like I said in this today section or notification panel but overall you have a nice layer of gloss over the top of a very familiar user interface it's pretty DUP with this gloss and reflections all over the place I still like iOS a lot even though it's a bit restricted in terms of where I can share too and how I can get into Google services but it seems like every new version there's a flash of something that makes the OS a little more appealing speaking of flash there's a highlight of the new iPhone and that is the camera on the back actually the camera is always a highlight of the new iPhone but that doesn't mean we should take it for granted the iPhone 6 has a great camera one of the best and one of the fastest in any smartphone I think that's a key word here towards making the camera so great it's extremely fast so use your interface is fast taking a picture is really really fast it can take high frame rate fast video at 30 60 or 720p even 240 frames per second it has fast autofocus with this new technology it has a fast wide open aperture glass for great low-light performance and now it's still an 8 megapixel camera but on that 130 inch sensor it's kind of like a hybrid between HTC's massive ultra pixels and Samsung's cramming as many pixels as possible mentalities maybe this is the middle ground that we were asking HTC to all along all the photos it takes are very clean the camera tends to have a bias towards a faster shutter speed kind of like the oneplus one to avoid blurriness so it's willing to crank up the ISO and just trust its top-notch image processing to clean things up and that's really where it's separated it has great image processing and this does a pretty good job of cleaning up noise which makes some crispy clean shots with excellent color the only downside of this camera I would say is the fact that it's only 8 megapixels which means no 4k video 4k is actually 8.3 megapixels so this 8 megapixel sensor means this iPhone will not shoot 4k video until the next one so overall like I said before this whole phone is a very familiar phone a safe upgrade for previous iPhone users for sure if you just straight-up look at the numbers you'll see a 1.4 gigahertz dual-core chip and one gig of ram but the thing performs like any other phone with a 2.5 gigahertz chip and three gigs of ram so you can bank apples vertical integration and the awesome a8 chip for that so with the iPhone 6 you're getting a great performer a great camera a great display and a great design all in a super thin package so with a super thin phone you also get a super thin battery so the iPhone 6 is rocking a 1810 milliamp hour battery on paper that's really small and you might consider that super small by other phone standards by Android phone standards by other flagship standards by other 4.7 inch phone standards but Apple has the advantage of at least it owns that AAA chip it has iOS under control everything is optimized to give it the longest battery life possible so I would summarize by saying it has but about 10 to 15 percent better battery life than the iPhone 5s it's not amazingly great but it's not bad it has the advantage of having a really good standby time so if you don't use it a lot during the day or if you have a light usage day you'll probably make it throughout the day not having any problems you can go to sleep with 100% battery forget to charge it and wake up with 98% so that's great but on a heavy day if you're doing a lot of web browsing a lot of photo and video taking a lot of video watching a lot of gaming if you're doing a lot of stuff where the screen on time is high during that day you're probably not going to make it to the end of the day and you're gonna have to go find a charger before the day is out this is not different from the iPhone 5s this is just something that comes with having a small thin phone and apples totally fine with making that sacrifice I just wish the phone was a little bit thicker so they could fit maybe a 2000 or 2100 milliamp hour battery and that would make the phone yes a little bigger at but it would get rid of the camera protrusion and might make it a little bit easier to hold but that's all stuff I've said before but look there's one more thing iOS isn't perfect there are hiccups sometimes there are bugs sometimes there was that 8.1 update that freakin bricked the phone but they quickly fix that but this is the first time in a while that I've seen a significant lag in major developers getting their apps updated to iOS 8 on this bigger iPhone especially the 6 and the 6 plus apps that haven't been updated for this larger display look big and awkward and fuzzy and strange and I hope devs get on that to fix their apps and then and only then I will have basically nothing except the battery to complain about in the iPhone 6 so solid phone apple so my overall final verdict obviously as a heavy Google service user Google+ user a YouTube user a gmail user Google Tasks Google keep Google Calendar all these things iOS 8 and iPhones aren't my first choice obviously but my choice of iPhone is also not the iPhone 6 it's the iPhone 6 plus and I'll be talking more about why the iPhone 6 plus is my iPhone of choice in that full review video but for right now the iPhone 6 is a safe step forward it's a it's a definite upgrade from the last iPhone but like I said not a mandatory upgrade so stay tuned for that 6 plus review video and many more forward videos to come thank you for watching this one and I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace