The American multinational corporation, Apple has announced their next generation smartphones, without any surprises, exactly as seen from a number of leaks in the past. At the company's scheduled Press Conference from United States, yesterday, came in, not just one flagship handset but couple of new smartphones as suggested in from the earlier reports.
Apple has named their new smartphones as iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus, which is of course the bigger version, coming with a larger screen size. Th company's CEO Tim Cook, reasonably addressed their new announcement as, "the biggest advancement in the history of iPhone". The new smartphones are the firm's largest iPhones ever announced till dates, accordingly Apple has still managed to maintain it's thickness impressively thin, this time around designing it's new releases as their iPods, unveiled lately. Indeed, the brand new iPhone 6 is just 6.9 millimeters in thickness and the new iPhone 6 Plus is measured just at 7.1 millimeters thick, which is way slimmer than the iPhone 5S, that had it's depth dimensions marked at 7.6 millimeters.
The new devices features a thinner profile than it's predecessors, incorporating their thinnest display yet invented, also attributing intuitively placed buttons on the sides, which is got revamped from their previous generation iPhones, where for this time the whole unibody chassis is made out of "beautiful" anodized aluminum, the Apple logo branding is precision crafted from premium high standard stainless steel, and especially the curve around the polished glass in front, is all adding the new successors more premier and luxurious finish and style, than ever before. The units will be available in Gold, Silver and Space Gray color options.
iPhone 6
The new iPhone 6 is the smaller version announced yesterday, yet being bigger than the previously debuted iPhone models, coming with a larger screen of 4.7-inches, which is embracing the new Retina High Definition display with IPS technology and LED-backlit widescreen Multi‑Touch of 1334 x 750 resolution pixels marked at 326 pixels-per-inch, 1400:1 contrast ratio, 500 cd/m2 max brightness, Full sRGB standard, Dual-domain pixels for wider viewing angles, fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating on front, Display Zoom and Reachability.
In term of the new processors, it is again based on 64-bit architecture, featuring the new A8 chipset, that is built using the 20nm manufacturing process, making it 13% smaller in size than the A7 chipset, also with the newly introduced M8 motion co-processor, for better measurements on motion data, collected from sensors including the accelerometer, three-axis gyroscope and compass, providing the users with more accurately measured physical activity data. The new CPU is said to be 25% faster from their first generation iPhone devices and their processors, adding more 50% of performance boost on the unit's Graphics Processing Unit, when compared to the laterally announced Apple iPhone 5S. The phone also debuts a barometer on board for further measuring of the outer atmospheric pressure. The new iPhone 6 will ship in 16, 64 and 128 gigabytes of on board mass storage options.
For the camera there is an enhanced eight megapixels iSight camera on the back with five-element lens technology and 1.5µ pixels, auto-focus with Focus Pixels, having f/2.2 aperture, dual-tone LED flash lights named as True Tone flash for great low light shots, Hybrid IR filter, Backside illumination sensor, Sapphire crystal lens cover and auto image stabilization. You also get, auto HDR, improved face detection scene captures, better exposure control, Panorama photographs with up to 43 megapixels, Burst mode, tap to focus, photo geotagging and lastly Timer mode.
The phone is capable of shooting Full High Definition 1080p videos at 30 frames-per-second or 60 frames-per-second, Slow motion videos at 120 frames- per-second or 240 frames-per-second, time-lapse videos, video stabilization, Cinematic video stabilization, Continuous auto-focus capturing, video geotagging and your also able to snap photos while recording video at 3x zoom. On the front you get a 1.2 megapixels secondary FaceTime camera with 1280 x 960 pixels resolution, at f/2.2 aperture, Backside illumination sensor, auto HDR for photos and videos, again improved face detection, Burst mode, exposure control and 720p High Definition video recording.
The new handset continues holding Touch ID fingerprint sensor or biometrics reader interpreted into the traditional Home button of the smartphone, where can now clear-off your payments bills with the new Apple Pay in stores and in applications, also traiting the fresh Near Field Communication (NFC) sensors for the first time in an Apple device, providing users with more easy wireless payment options.
And now for connectivity, the new Apple manufactured iPhone 6 characteristics Bluetooth 4.0, Wi‑Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, GPS with GLONASS, UMTS/HSPA+, DC-HSDPA, CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B (for CDMA models only) and LTE Cat.4, network radio connections. As aforementioned, the sensors include, Barometer, three-axis gyroscope, accelerometer, proximity sensor and ambient light sensor. The phone supports nanoSIM and Lightning connectors, running iOS 8 straight out of the box, with a built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery, giving you juice for talk time up to 14 hours on 3G, standby up to 10 days (250 hours) and 11 hours of video play back.
iPhone 6 Plus
And as said above, the iPhone 6 Plus announced late yesterday, is the company's first phablet smartphone, now coming down the Cupertino streets with an even larger screen of 5.5-inches, which is also based on the new Retina High Definition display with IPS technology and LED-backlit widescreen Multi‑Touch of 1920 x 1080 resolution pixels marked at 401 pixels-per-inch, 1300:1 contrast ratio, 500 cd/m2 max brightness, Full sRGB standard, Dual-domain pixels for wider viewing angles, fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating on front, Display Zoom and Reachability.
In term of the iPhone 6 Plus's processor, you will find the exactly same 64-bit architecture based A8 chipset, built with 20nm manufacturing process, and then the new M8 motion co-processor, for more accurate measurements on motion data, of course.
Over the back sits an eight megapixels iSight camera with five-element lens technology and introducing Optical Image Stabilization, like never before, a 1.5µ pixels rate, auto-focus with Focus Pixels, having f/2.2 aperture, dual-tone LED flash lights named as True Tone flash for great low light shots, Hybrid IR filter, Backside illumination sensor, Sapphire crystal lens cover and auto image stabilization. The shooter also features auto HDR, improved face detection scene captures, better exposure control, Panorama photographs up to 43 megapixels, Burst mode, tap to focus, photo geotagging and Timer mode.
iPhone 6 Plus records Full High Definition 1080p resolution videos at 30 frames-per-second and 60 frames-per-second, Slow motion videos at 120 frames- per-second and 240 frames-per-second, time-lapse videos, video stabilization, Cinematic video stabilization, Continuous auto-focus capturing, video geotagging and your also able to snap photos while recording video at 3x zoom. On the front you get a 1.2 megapixels front facing FaceTime camera with 1280 x 960 pixels resolution, with f/2.2 aperture, Backside illumination sensor, auto High Dynamic Range (HDR) for photos and videos, improved face detection, Burst mode, exposure control and 720p High Definition video recording.
The new bigger sibling will also showcase the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, which is interpreted into the traditional Home button of the smartphone, alike the iPhone 5S, allowing payments with the new Apple Pay in stores and in apps.
Now finally for the new iPhone 6 Plus's connectivity options, there's Bluetooth 4.0, Wi‑Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, GPS with GLONASS, Near Field Communication (NFC), UMTS/HSPA+, DC-HSDPA, CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B (for CDMA models only) and LTE Cat.4, networks supports. The sensors on board for the biggest iPhone includes, Barometer, three-axis gyroscope, accelerometer, proximity sensor and ambient light sensor, just like the other phone. The smartphone also supports nanoSIM and Lightning connectors for charging, running customized version of iOS 8 on top, with the new landscape mode to take full advantage of the large display, a built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery, providing users juice for talk time up to 24 hours on 3G, standby up to 16 days (384 hours), 14 hours of video play back and a mammoth 80 hours of audio playback.
For the anticipated availability and pricing news, the phones will begin rolling out of the Apple factories to the store shelves by 19th of this month with pre-orders opening on 12th of September. The iPhone 6 will come priced at 200, 300, and 400 United States Dollars, respectively for 16 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB models, on-contract. And as far as iPhone 6 Plus is concerned, it will set you back for, $300, $400, and $500 for the same storage versions.
Source: Apple
