IPhone 6s and 6s Plus: first look

Announcement of a new generation of Apple's smartphone has become one of the main events of yesterday's presentation. Despite the prefix "s", this year's iPhone lineup has received especially many significant changes. Actually, the old, the new product were only design and screen.

S line of the company has always been a kind of error correction and improvement of the previous versions. This year 6s remarkable generation like never before.

3D Touch

This technology is in varying implementation is gradually becoming part of the company's products. Force Click in the MacBook, Force Touch in the Apple Watch, 3D Touch - mobile technology continued under another new name. Actually, it is a good reflection of the essence: in addition to the usual movements of the left and right and up and down in iOS appears a third dimension - depth. By its revolutionary 3D Touch can be compared with the multi-touch in the first iPhone. Only now, the company does not rethink and come up with technology that is already in a few months will begin to rapidly copy competitors.

The system yet recognizes two types of strokes: a weak and a strong Peek Pop. But even that is enough to remove a few extra clicks to work with the system and give the kind of wow-effect. Nowhere is the function works with contextual elements of the application. Press a little more than usual on the resulting link in the message and get the thumbnail of the page to which it leads, to date - opens a calendar, proposes to create a new event in the photo gallery from the grid - get a preview. These pop-up windows occupy half to three-quarters of the screen, and an even stronger pressing on them - Pop - open these items in full screen. Another example - an email client, where Peek shows previews and Pop opens the entire message. To open a preview of available quick action familiar swipe left and right, such as "Mark as Read" and "Delete" for the e-mail messages.

In this cool features 3D Touch does not end there. On your iOS home screen, strong pressing on the icon opens a list of frequently used functions of the application. Thus quickly run shot to the front camera or the built route from your current location on the map home. Apple is already closely integrated 3D Touch with standard applications and iOS elements, and access of developers to complete instruments soon bring even more exciting fast interactions.

From a hardware point of view, all this has been made possible thanks to capacitive sensors integrated in the backlight Retina-display that sense even the smallest changes between the glass and illuminated under pressure finger. Despite the complexity of implementation, iPhone also received a similar Apple Watch, but more precise mechanism of kickback Taptic Engine.

His presence affected the capacity of the battery: in spite of the rumors of its increase, set the battery to 1715 mAh in the iPhone 6s. For comparison, the iPhone 6 of its capacity was 1810 mAh. Nevertheless, Apple declares 14 hours of talk time or 10 hours of surfing the Internet via LTE to "six" and 24 hours of talk or 12 hours of browsing for the iPhone 6s Plus.

Camera

For quite a long time, Apple refused to increase the number of megapixels in favor of other metrics Optical systems which provide perfect results with no additional user encumbrance settings. The new camera has a 12 megapixel sensor with the same physical size, and learned to shoot video in 4K. This is the most significant change for a long time.

If we talk about the details, the pixel size is reduced from 1,5 μ to 1,22 μ, and for the reduction of crosstalk noise insulation meets the new technology of light cells. Increased and a half times the resolution will provide a significant increase in detail and supply for the crop in daytime and regular increase of the phase sensor helps iPhone focus more faster. In the dark time of the fight with the noise will be assisted and increased computing power together with advanced algorithms.

By the way, iPhone 6s performance enough to parallel with the shooting 4K video to make an 8-megapixel photos. In addition, slo-mo at a frequency of 120 frames per second, you can shoot in Full HD, but with double the index - in HD. Additional 4 megapixels affected the resolution panoramas: iPhone 6s provides results with a resolution of 63 megapixels, compared to 43 at the predecessor. Among the new camera software features - Record Live-photo. This series of images, which consists of two half second intervals before and after the frame made in the gallery and is reproduced by pressing the aforementioned Peek.

No less significantly changed and the front camera. Archaic increased to 1.2 megapixels modern 5 megapixels with the same aperture f / 2,2, and the display function as taught True Tone-flash. Strange situation is far from the video: software resolution HD is still limited, it is hoped that this will be corrected in future updates of the system.

housing

In the current generation of Apple to protect themselves from the accompanying last year's announcement of the iPhone 6 feil with bend-gate. Phone has become a 0.2 millimeter thickness, and the body is made of the same durable alloy, as well as Apple Watch Sport - 7000 series aluminum.

Increased and weight: news on 43 and 49 grams heavier than their predecessors. Glass also has become stronger thanks to the double ionization at the molecular level. And add a new color "pink gold", focused on the Chinese market. By the way, Apple removed from the sale of the gold version of the 5s and 6, limiting the choice of the smartphone in a color scheme announced by novelties.

The hardware part

Inside the iPhone 6s all quite natural: the new A9 chip by 70% CPU performance in tasks and 90% in graphics performance. Apple claims that this processor desktop class. Finalized and coprocessor M9. He still believes the best steps, the rhythm of running time, lift height and distance.

What is interesting, the team "Hello, Siri» works even when your smartphone is not connected to a power source. You mentioned during the presentation of the modified and Touch ID. In its second iteration, the sensor has learned to recognize the prints twice as fast.

Memory prices

memory volumes remain the same: 16 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB. The presence of the first modification in the light of the emergence of video with a resolution of 4K is particularly strange. By purchasing this iPhone 6s, you will be able to write to the full capacity is only a half-hour movie. Prices iPhone 6s and 6s Plus yet known only in a variant with two-year contract check and start at $ 199 and $ 299 for both minor modifications smartphones respectively.