Apple's latest iPhone 6s and 6s Plus with Live Photos and 3D Touch
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Apple latest "s" iPhone revamp—as it has every odd-numbered year since 2009's iPhone 3Gs—introduces a variety of significant changes under the hood without the device being readily discernibly different on the outside. iPhone 6s is faster, takes better pictures (including animated Live Photos), and delivers a deep new "3D Touch" interaction layer.
3D Touch
The most prominent new feature of the 6s generation is 3D Touch. After Apple Watch introduced Force Touch last fall, it was widely assumed that the next batch of iPhones would also introduce the same kind of technology.
Live Photos
Another use of 3D Touch is to invoke Live Photos, a new feature that works similar to Burst capture, but automatically in the background. When you take a photo with Live Photo turned on (it's on by default), the camera takes a series of photos and animates them into a GIF-like mini-movie. This is stored along with the original photo, but its compressed to the point where it only about doubles the size of the photo
Better Photos
One area that Apple always addresses in new iPhone generations is the camera, and iPhone 6s doesn't disappoint here either. The main iSight camera gets a resolution boost to 12MP from 8, while compensating for those smaller, more densely packed photo sensors with new technologies to mitigate the noise and color issues that typically accompany high megapixel counts in small, mobile camera sensors.
The front facing FaceTime camera also gets a much needed boost from 1.2MP to 5, and further enhances its ability to take Selfies with a new "Retina Flash" feature that (like Photo Booth on the Mac), momentarily over-brightens the screen to better illuminate the subject. Rather than just being a white flash, Apple says its using its TrueTone technology to sample the ambient light and flash the correct color to best illuminate the photo being taken.
Stronger body & brains
While iPhone 6 feels rather fast, every iPhone 6 Plus I've used has felt a bit laggy when switching between apps and opening the camera. There were also some complaints last year targeting its supposed "bendability," although those claims were later proven to be both overblown and not really any worse than other phones on the market.
Apple latest "s" iPhone revamp—as it has every odd-numbered year since 2009's iPhone 3Gs—introduces a variety of significant changes under the hood without the device being readily discernibly different on the outside. iPhone 6s is faster, takes better pictures (including animated Live Photos), and delivers a deep new "3D Touch" interaction layer.
3D Touch
The most prominent new feature of the 6s generation is 3D Touch. After Apple Watch introduced Force Touch last fall, it was widely assumed that the next batch of iPhones would also introduce the same kind of technology.
Live Photos
Another use of 3D Touch is to invoke Live Photos, a new feature that works similar to Burst capture, but automatically in the background. When you take a photo with Live Photo turned on (it's on by default), the camera takes a series of photos and animates them into a GIF-like mini-movie. This is stored along with the original photo, but its compressed to the point where it only about doubles the size of the photo
Better Photos
One area that Apple always addresses in new iPhone generations is the camera, and iPhone 6s doesn't disappoint here either. The main iSight camera gets a resolution boost to 12MP from 8, while compensating for those smaller, more densely packed photo sensors with new technologies to mitigate the noise and color issues that typically accompany high megapixel counts in small, mobile camera sensors.
The front facing FaceTime camera also gets a much needed boost from 1.2MP to 5, and further enhances its ability to take Selfies with a new "Retina Flash" feature that (like Photo Booth on the Mac), momentarily over-brightens the screen to better illuminate the subject. Rather than just being a white flash, Apple says its using its TrueTone technology to sample the ambient light and flash the correct color to best illuminate the photo being taken.
Stronger body & brains
While iPhone 6 feels rather fast, every iPhone 6 Plus I've used has felt a bit laggy when switching between apps and opening the camera. There were also some complaints last year targeting its supposed "bendability," although those claims were later proven to be both overblown and not really any worse than other phones on the market.