The iPhone 6 delivers a spacious, crisp 4.7-inch screen, improved wireless speeds, better camera autofocus, and bumped-up storage capacities to 128GB at the top end. iOS remains a top-notch mobile operating system with an excellent ecosystem of apps, and Apple Pay is a smoothphotos that allow you to zoom in for more detail.
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FaceTime front-facing photos feature an f2.2 aperture, HDR sensors and a quick-burst mode( first added to the rear camera with the iPhone 5) . It’s noticeably better for selfies in low light and for FaceTime calls, too. The FaceTime camera is located slightly to the left of the speaker, which helps line up your face with the lens in landscape mode.
The iPhone 6 Plus features optical image stabilization for photo and video recording, where the iPhone 6 provides digital image stabilization. In practice, there’s not much difference between the two.
The iPhone 6’s camera is better than the iPhone 5’s, especially its auto-focus performance; the 6 and 6 Plus are more or less a wash. Read our full comparison of the camera performance on the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus for a more detailed analysis.
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The bad Battery life isn’t much better than it is on last year’s iPhone 5S. And there’s wasted space: an even larger screen could have been squeezed into the same housing.
The bottom line The iPhone 6 is an exceptional phone in nearly every way except its average battery life: it’s thin, fast, and features the excellent iOS operating system. It was the best overall phone introduced in 2014.
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In 2014, Apple forked its iPhone product line, simultaneously introducing the next generation of its flagship model - the iPhone 6 - and debuting its super-sized sibling, the iPhone 6 Plus . The iPhone 6 is an exceptional phone in nearly every way but for its middling battery life. The iPhone 6 Plus is also impressive; larger and thinner than other iPhone models, and with the capacity for far more endurance on a single charge than most comparably-sized and smaller competitors.
When choosing between the 6 and 6 Plus, in the end, it’s a matter of personal preference. I know several people who love the iPhone 6 Plus, with its larger screen size and better battery life. But the iPhone 6 feels best in my hand. It’s thin, elegant, performs really well, and is considerably less expensive than the 6 Plus. For that reason, I think the smaller iPhone 6 is the way to go for most people.
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