On September 9th, 2015, the company Apple held a conference about their soon to be released products. One device announced was the new iPhone6S. They showed off the new phone and some of its new features.
iPhone6S
Apple's new phone, available for purchase September 25, is a solid upgrade from the iPhone6. You'll have the option of buying a regular 6S or a 6S+. The iPhone6S+ comes with a bigger screen and battery.
One big thing Apple boasts about the iPhone6S, is 3D-Touch. 3D-Touch, also known as Force Touch, gives the iPhone the ability to sense how much pressure you apply to the phone's screen. iOS9 has been designed to make the most out of it. Pressing hard on any of the built-in applications will bring up some quick actions that you can do with that app. Say you want to take a quick selfie, just press hard on the camera app from your homescreen, and then swipe to take selfie. The app will open with the back facing camera up and ready to capture yourself.
Speaking of the camera, Apple added a new 12 megapixel camera to the new iPhone6S, allowing for a better image quality, recording 4k videos, and faster focusing. They also added a new feature called Live Photos. Live Photos records a few seconds before you take a photo, and a few seconds after to create a little video, or gif, to bring the photo to life. Pressing harder on a photo in your gallery will allow you to view the Live Photo. The back facing camera wasn't forgotten, and now has a 5 megapixel camera, providing a crisper image for video calls, or for just taking a selfie.
The iPhone6S also sports the new 64-bit A9 Processor and 2 gigabytes of RAM, which will provide better graphic and CPU performance. Apple for a long time has only had 1 gigabyte of RAM in their, iPhones. With double the amount of RAM, the new iPhone will have a lot of resources for app developers to take advantage on. The rest of the hardware in the iPhone6s is similar to the previous iPhone6.
Opinion
The iPhone6S looks to be a solid follow-up to the iPhone6. Following the path since 2008 with the iPhone3GS, the S models have typically been a solid upgrade to the speed of the phone, and this would be the case for the 6S. With the A9 processor and RAM upgrade, the 6S should preform a lot better, but with more processing power could mean less battery life.
3D-Touch is an amazing feature for the 6S in iOS 9, but Android has had this capability since Android 2.0 Eclair. Though, having the capability doesn't mean it was used, most Android phones have not taken advantage of it.
Live Photos is a cool feature, but raises a concern with storage. With the base model being 16GB, and not having expandable storage, it will eat space a lot faster than a regular photo, meaning if you want to take advantage of this feature, you'll want to buy the 64GB or 128GB model.
Overall, decent improvement from the previous iPhone6, but would be an expensive upgrade if you just recently bought the iPhone6.
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