Apple iPhone 6 review: Scaled to order

26 September 2014
This is Apple like we’ve never seen before. Apple like we never thought we’ll see. To begin with, there’s supposed to be no better iPhone than the iPhone 6. That’s the sort of thing you’d expect of Apple. Come September every year, the world grabs a bag of...

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  • 27 Sep 2014

MdN8, 27 Sep 2014Mono sound in video recording? What is this? Even VHS suppo... moreDepends how good the noise(wind, car/plane engine, air conditioning, etc) cancelling and directional sound reception is(usually you want to record the sound that comes from the front of the phone more that the sound coming from the sides).

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    • akv
    • 27 Sep 2014

    Mono sound in video recording? What is this? Even VHS supported stereo sound.

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      • 27 Sep 2014

      X, 27 Sep 2014Are you sure? Apple uses the fastest Flash memory on the ma... moreP.S. The doubling of the Flash speed on the iPhone 6 comes from the wider bus, dual channel, each 64 bits. The Snapdragon 805 bus is also dual channel, but at 32 bits.

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        • 27 Sep 2014

        [deleted post]Sony Z3 wil sell maybe 3 million time's Iphone 6 and 6 plus over 80 million
        haha soon Sony Smartphone's wil Die !! very soon, together with HTC !!!

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          • 27 Sep 2014

          Anonymous, 27 Sep 2014That synthetic graphics benchmark is going to be a lot of u... moreAre you sure? Apple uses the fastest Flash memory on the market(900MB/s), from Samsung nevertheless. The others use cheaper 450Mb/s Flash, including Samsung. That 1GB of RAM btw, is sufficient to load a BMP picture of 18.257x18.257 pixels at 16 Million colours(24bit/pixel) or 166 full HD 1080p screens. And you need at most 60 full HD screens per second on a full HD screen. On a 2K screen you'll need double than that(120 full HD screens per second) and still you have place to spare on that 1GB of RAM. The problem arrises when you need to replace that data from the RAM. On the iPhone 6 you can do it in a second, but you need to replace only less than half of it(for 60 screens, for iPhone 6 Plus).
          On the Android Phones you can replace only 450MB of data / second, or about 70-80 fullHD screens. If you replace data for 60 screens you have for spare data only for 10-20 screens. And guess what? For 2K screens, the Flash on the Android phones is too slow to transfer data for 60fps, no matter the RAM size(once the RAM fills up, you need to replace old data). So it transfers less in fact(1K at most) and the GPU just scales it to 2K.

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            • 27 Sep 2014

            Anonymous, 27 Sep 2014but Iphone 6 kick Z3C in the ass on GFX benchmark. Iph... moreThat synthetic graphics benchmark is going to be a lot of use to you when your Web pages keep having to reload due to having half the RAM. Let's also not forget that a proportion of that RAM is required for graphics memory, and you have less of it :P

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              • Anonymous
              • n%g
              • 27 Sep 2014

              The Sony has still a metal body but itis covered by plastic.

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                • spa
                • 27 Sep 2014

                Tim, 27 Sep 2014Your Android device is not as safe as Apple let alone Black... moreTim, you are fascinating:

                my entire argument was about something else: that you, Tim, are not important. I don't want to hurt your feelings. I want you to understand that security is not as important as BB and Apple guys want you to think.

                Look, a simple exercise:

                imagine that nobody cares for me. I go to the store to buy a phone. I have 45 features to choose from. Security is no. 26. Should I choose it? Hmmm, no, because I should give up features no 1-10 and 30-45.

                Or, in more simple words: if I want to sell you a product which has only some features, I should be insane to speak with you about other potential features. Instead, I would organize a national campaign, explaining each and every one how important they are to me. Then, I would instill some more fear about potential threats. Then, I would present to you the new, EXTRA SECURE BB or Apple phone. Perfect.

                You create the context, you create the need, and then you sell the product that covers that need. It's called basic marketing.

                The sooner you will understand this, the sooner you will challenge that fear of yours, the better.

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                  • 27 Sep 2014

                  AnonD-302151, 27 Sep 2014In my opinion the disadvantages list should be like this: ... moreAll of that exist .
                  If not why you think they list it ?

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                    • 27 Sep 2014

                    Chupacabra, 27 Sep 2014With the heavier memory requirements of iOS 8, 1GB DRAM is ... moreye as more feature included in rom, as heavier is it, but for iphone users it does`nt matters :D for them main thing is: "Its iphone, its best" but practically they are right if they were in 2011-12 years :D :D

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                      • 27 Sep 2014

                      AnonD-142922, 27 Sep 2014Please Please GSM Arena make fight Huawei Honor 6 VS this, ... moreye yee :D and also OnePlus one :D

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                        • IVV
                        • 27 Sep 2014

                        Aluminum alloy 6061-T6 is not good for BendGate.
                        Apple should consider to use 7075-T6. This material is used for constructing fuselage of Space Shuttle.

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                          • 27 Sep 2014

                          Tim, 27 Sep 2014Your Android device is not as safe as Apple let alone Black... moreHmm, have u removed your **** photos from your safe iCloud.

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                            • rJA
                            • 27 Sep 2014

                            APPLE just sell your IOS and let other companies make good phones with it

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                              • 27 Sep 2014

                              AnonD-45523, 27 Sep 2014adreno 420 spits on powerVR 6450 GPU in apple iphone produ... moreYes ...Ad420 are liltle bit better than Gx6450 during [off screen] test....but sadly for Note4 screen...using 1440P screen..and
                              that will going shit the Ad420 performance like crazy..
                              One thing is Tegra K1 will killed both like hell.

                              Apple 750p is the best for mobile gaming cyrrent practical useable
                              1440p is junk and too early to be standard.

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                                • Anonymous
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                                • 27 Sep 2014

                                AnonD-225316, 27 Sep 2014forget benchmark what do u want to say abt battery of Z3C ... morebut Iphone 6 kick Z3C in the ass on
                                GFX benchmark.

                                Iphone 6 is much-2 stronger than Z3C.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • sp@
                                  • 27 Sep 2014

                                  So you buy an apple and end up with a banana ?

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                                    • 27 Sep 2014

                                    AnonD-129221, 27 Sep 2014You are a product of marketing techniques instilling fear i... moreYour Android device is not as safe as Apple let alone Blackberry. If a director of Google states that Android was designed with easy of use in mind and not security, as has been reported in this forum and also in most related technical publications, and most research on security puts BB at the top of the pact, oh and yes Samsung put out urgent security upgrades in the last 6 months, as reported in this forum, oh and yes their famed KNOX does not work, and what else, oh yes my tech savy clever friends can still crack a Samsung with ease, then perhaps you dont know what you are talking about.

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                                      • 27 Sep 2014

                                      how come nobody mentioned one of the biggest drawbacks - they no longer have BLACK version?!?

                                      that's a showstopper even for moderate iPhone fans, there's only grey washed-out color available, which looks, rather, cheap.

                                      not to mention the iOS esthetics suits 3 year old rather than business oriented grown up people. Android L is generation ahead with UX.

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                                        • 27 Sep 2014

                                        With the heavier memory requirements of iOS 8, 1GB DRAM is deficient and causes more frequent Safari browser reloads on complex pages that consume all your mobile data cap. This is worse than the bend issue but doesn't get any attention.