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in mobile technology it's the same story every single time the media goes crazy over every hot new device and after that review period wears off so does the buzz behind that new toy you might still want to buy but that now faces new competition in the real world things shouldn't be that way for most of us aging is just as important as the moment you unbox your product for the first time it's how that device performs after extensive use that really matters down the line so let's do something about it let's take a second look at one of the best-selling smartphones of the year at its first inflection point ever I'm high memory that I would pocket now and this is iPhone 6s after the buzz for nearly six consecutive years an iPhone has always been one of my two phones I carry the nun lied serves a purpose for me as it allows the bulkier Android phone to blend better with the thinner iPhone in my pocket in the past the Android would be my secondary phone I would carry but for the first time ever in 2016 the iPhone has actually been relegated to that title and there are a ton of reasons for that I can't say that it has anything to do with hardware if anything this iPhone is probably one of the sturdiest phones I've had to falls into tile and concrete have left some scuffs on the Border's but I was expecting a lot more damaged after I picked it up proving that the 7000 series aluminium is quite strong these falls actually compelled me to buy the Apple leather case which may not have aged gracefully after months of use but that's the best job I've seen in not permanently smudging the aluminum with lint marks the display hasn't really aged too well though scratches are very evident and I stand by my theory that Apple's oleophobic coating wears off after three months of use making the phone a horrible smudge magnet and then there's the case of this IPS LCD display that's very good in accuracy but clearly dated by competitors and things like colour reproduction of blacks and viewing angles from the bottom thinks that just shouldn't exist on a phone this expensive in the software Department Iowa's has also been a mixed bag of the same and the different the major selling point for the iPhone success was 3d touch adding quick shortcuts through a pink when soft pressed and through a pop when hard pressed the tactic engine built within even contributes the tactile feedback when you do making the feature cool to call upon every now and then the problem is that after months of using the iPhone success I'm not ashamed to say that I barely use it the inconsistency of applications that support it is really annoying and that includes apple's native applications and then there's the slow adoption rate by third-party developers but to make matters less enticing my biggest complaint over time is the fact that I really can't customize this feature if I can't really set my own shortcuts it kind of defeats the purpose instead of giving me for arbitrary options when peeking through the camera application that I don't really care about I'd love to be able to edit these at my own choice a lot of these complaints of 3d touch are actually addressed with iOS 10 hence the reason why my primary driver is currently running the beta applications that are already enhanced now provide a very useful preview into the widgets of the application these are still not user customizable but do provide a compelling reason to remember that 3d touches they're now gimmicks aside using an iPhone as your daily driver is still a delight features like touch ID continue to be so fast that you really don't even have a chance to view your notifications but again iOS 10 addresses this by allowing you to lift the phone and seeing these before you unlock the device and then pressing to hold the home button now one of my favorite features has to be hey Siri reminding us of the Moto X the a9 chip allows the service to wake from standby and voice training allows it to be very reliable to only work with your device it continues to be my go-to service for setting up appointments on the go and reminders and then there are the features that lock you within iOS like continuity which I constantly depend on for starting browsing things on the phone and then moving to the iPad or the Mac and this dual-core is the a9 chip maybe this phone continues to be a beast in graphics performance with games it also has one of the loudest earpiece and speakers that you can find in addition to continuing the iPod legacy of high quality audio through the headphone jack making it one of my favorite phones when on the subway now the two main reasons for me to move away from the iPhone as my daily driver have to be one battery life because no matter how you use it the 6s scratches the bare minimum of decency leaving you scrambling for a charger at the end of the day no matter what software version you're using ii believe it or not the camera i love taking photos and by no means am i saying that the camera on the iphone is bad on the contrary this is actually a very accurate camera when it comes to color reproduction and even without optical image stabilization i've taken photos while running with a success and never have i found myself with a blue photo in my opinion the main problem with this camera is really competing devices mainly because the resulting photos from the iphone tend to be dull are not as great in low-light even with the boost in megapixels the selfie shooter is okay with the most atrocious field of view mainly for video and then when it comes to 4k video on the camera the camera is great but then the stabilization from competing devices again just Dwarfs what the iphone can do and I guess that by now you may already understand where I'm headed with these conclusions at a minimum usable price of seven hundred and fifty dollars because buying the sixteen gig model is a horrible mistake the iPhone 6s is really a tough sell heck I don't even have to prove that the phone is really marked Apple's first decline in iPhone sales in history and that has to be for a reason it's not a bad phone by any means for those of you looking for the best and most reliable experience when it comes to the basics but it's not like if you can't get enough basic experience from devices like the oneplus three at half the price or a more powerful experience from devices like the HTC 10 or the Samsung Galaxy s7 for about $100 less it's clear that the iPhone 6s has marked the strong inflection point for Apple and it's come to the point where this would be the first time that I'd recommend you skip this bottle of the iPhone and wait to see what happens in September folks just like in the case of this we've got a ton of after the buzz episode so make sure you follow us on social media and hit that subscribe button down below for more videos like this one you can also catch our videos on vessel vessel comm / PocketNow and follow me on twitter hi mal - corey better on 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