The 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus is Apple’s latest and perhaps strangest addition to its range of tablets and smartphones. Not only is the screen considerably larger than the 4.7-inch iPhone 6, the device comes with a few other perks like improved battery life and better camera performance.
I’ve spent the last two weeks using the iPhone 6 Plus as my primary smartphone, and coming from an iPhone 5 (read our review), it has certainly left an impression. We’ll be giving two 64GB iPhone 6 Plus units away to two lucky readers – find out how at the end of the review.
A larger iPhone has been on many request lists for a while now, and while there will always be a contingent happy with the 4-inch panel introduced with the iPhone 5, a lot of people have been holding out for this moment. The iPhone 6 Plus comes with a 5.5-inch IPS panel running at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. It has a pixel density of 401 pixels-per-inch, and it’s the first “full HD” iPhone ever.
Comparably, the iPhone 6’s smaller panel only reaches 1334 x 750 pixels at 326 ppi – though both screens are comparable in terms of overall quality. The panel has seen a vast improvement in contrast ratio department, skyrocketing to 1300:1 on the iPhone 6 Plus, which compares nicely with 1400:1 and 800:1 on the iPhone 6 and 5s respectively.
Inside is a brand new “desktop-class” 64-bit A8 chip, which is 25 percent faster than the A7 seen in the iPhone 5s and 1GB of RAM (no change there). There’s also support for faster LTE, Voice over LTE and Wi-Fi calling – provided your carrier supports it. Apple has chosen to get rid of the 32GB capacity option and go with 16, 64 and 128 GB variants starting at $649.
Like the 6 and 5s before it, the iPhone 6 Plus comes with a fingerprint scanner and motion co-processor, capable of tracking movement data. It also has a smorgasbord of sensors including a brand new barometer for detecting air pressure, which measures changes in altitude.
Apple has equipped the iPhone 6 Plus with a new 8 megapixel iSight camera with improved focusing mechanisms and optical image stabilisation, which compensates for sudden movement. The true-tone flash is back from the iPhone 5s, and video recording gets an upgrade in the form of cinematic stabilisation and slow-motion video at 240 frames-per-second.
The iPhone 6 Plus comes with iOS 8 out of the box, Apple’s latest revision of the smartphone OS that debuted in 2007. The OS is simple to use, well-equipped and comes pre-installed with a selection of premium Apple apps (which you can remove) including iMovie, GarageBand and the iWork suite. If you buy a 16 GB iPhone 6 Plus, you’ll have to download these (free) from the App Store instead.
All of this comes in a slim, aluminium package of no more than 7.1 mm thick weighing 172 grams. That compares with 6.9 mm/129 grams for an iPhone 6 and 7.6 mm/112 grams for and iPhone 5s.
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