Apple traditionally produces biannual iPhone is fully updated design, and in between there is a change of components without affecting the appearance and ergonomics of the device. Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus just apply to interim turnover – and outwardly indistinguishable from smartphones, which were presented last fall.
iPhone 6 in good time we devote as much as possible a detailed review, but this time, will have to confine concise characteristic – as long as we did not have enough time to properly rasprobovat novelty in practice, and details about the components of a smartphone at this stage not much is known, as we would like. So today we will briefly go over the specifications iPhone 6s and present the results of performance tests. Fortunately there is a lot to see.
⇡ # Appearance
It is difficult to see, do not put your iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s next to each other, but the body of the latter on 0.2 mm thick. In addition, the smartphone potyazhelel on ’14 Behind these changes almost single-handedly responsible new touch sensitivity display (more on this below). Apple also announced that iPhone 6s body and iPhone 6s Plus is made of aluminum alloy 7000-series alloy, instead of 6003, which is used in the iPhone 6. 7000 th aluminum are commonly used in the automotive, aero and space transport because of its high strength, but rarely – in consumer devices, for the reason that the strong metal harder milling and welding.
So Apple has responded to complaints that have previously been received from some iPhone buyers 6 Plus, slanting body accidentally. Some have tried to repeat this trick and iPhone 6s Plus, but it turned out that the novelty is almost impossible to permanently bend the effort of one man. For the iPhone with a screen of 4.7 inches due to a smaller area of the body is not as severe a problem, but still nice that Apple has laid into the extra margin of safety.
In addition, experience shows that the iPhone 6s has a significant degree of waterproofing. However, this does not mean that your phone can safely swim, because Apple has not officially announced this feature.
The rest of the iPhone 6s seemingly no different from the iPhone 6. Package – all the same: Headphones Ear Pods, Lightning cable length of 1 m (not pictured) and the AC adapter power of 5 watts. For faster charging your phone, you can use a 12-watt adapter from the iPad.
⇡ # 3D Touch and Taptic Engine
This is the most significant user innovation in iPhone 6s. The same function previously appeared in Apple Watch and “MacBook” on the basis of Intel Broadwell called Force Touch. The difference in the names in this case reflects the technological differences. In total, 3D Touch more accurately senses the force of pressing, so the screen does not need to press too hard to get the second and the third click.
In the built-in iOS applications 9, which was originally installed on the iPhone 6s, additional degree clicking apply everywhere. The most common feature – a context menu, caused by the second click. However, “strong” click is not quite correct to call the second, because the force is determined by the absolute, not relative to the first not click. Thus, if you make a strong single click, a context menu will open immediately.
With the new iPhone Apple Watch shared another property – tactile feedback, which is felt as a slight bump or push. This mechanism (Taptic Engine) does not replace, but rather complements the standard vibration motor. By the way, at the same time in the iPhone 6s updated biometric sensor in the “home button” why he became a fire faster. However, we can not say that the sensor in the iPhone 6 satisfactory in this respect.
⇡ # Updated Camera
iPhone 6 is equipped with a rear and front camera with a resolution of 8 and 1.2 megapixels. The iPhone 6s specification cameras increased to 12 and 5 megapixels respectively, so that the smartphone can now record video in 4K resolution at 30 frames / s (and the video in slow-mo is now recorded not only in 720p with a frequency of 240 frames / sec, but in co 1080p 120 frames / s). To reduce noise CMOS-sensor with such a compact package of pixels used deep isolation trenches in a silicon substrate (deep trench isolation) and modified filters (modified color filter array).
iPhone 6s supports a new function Live Photos: with pictures the camera takes a short piece of video (with audio) that you can then call in the normal application Photo. Optical image stabilization still remains the prerogative of the iPhone c prefix Plus.
⇡ # SoC, RAM, ROM
iPhone 6s got the latest system-on-chip Apple A9, which is a quarter in a row chip developed in the walls of Apple. No details about the structure of CPU and GPU is not known, except only that the central processor – dual-core, and its clock speed under load reaches 1.8 GHz. However, if you rely on to Apple to increase CPU performance by 70% compared with that of Apple A8 composed iPhone 6, the increase in frequency does not explain all of it: A8 running at frequencies up to 1.4 GHz.
Performance GPU, is expected to increase by 90%.
All of this suggests that Apple has packed in A9 more transistors than it was in the A8. The study showed Chipworks, chips for iPhone 6s produced simultaneously by two contractors – TSMC (services which Apple applied for the production of A8) and, after a year’s break, Samsung. Each manufacturer uses its own version of the technical process FinFET (three-dimensional transistors with gate): 14 nm, and the Samsung 16 nm – at TSMC. Accordingly, the different areas of crystals – 96 mm 2 and 104 mm 2 , but in any case the chip is larger compared to the A8, which is made on the process technology of 20 nm TSMC and has an area of 89 mm 2 . But there is a difference in clock speeds and power consumption between the versions of Apple A9 made by Samsung and TSMC – it’s a big question, which is not yet possible to answer.
Another source of increased productivity iPhone 6s – RAM is twice the amount of (2 GB) compared to that of the iPhone 6 (1 GB) and another type: LPDDR4 instead LPDDR3.
Options ROM as it is not sad, not changed since the iPhone 6. Apple still has not replaced base model with Flash-memory of 16 GB with something more decent. But there is an unexpected fact: apparently, in the iPhone 6s use the same controller NAND Flash-memory, as in the 12-inch MacBook, which uses the PCIe bus and protocol NVMe.
⇡ # Communications
Apple has replaced the modem Qualcomm MDM9625M, applies to the iPhone 6, more modern Qualcomm MDM9635M. With support for the latest LTE Cat.6 provides double the bandwidth (up to 300 Mbit / s). In Russia, to seize this opportunity is can only subscribers of “Megaphone”. More good news on the part of the mobile: iPhone 6s available in two versions, differing only by the presence or absence of frequency Band 30. Actual Russians Band 7, Band 20 and Band 38 are supported by both models.
Bandwidth WiFi IEEE 802.11ac standard has increased c 433 Mbit / s in the iPhone 6 to 866 Mbit / s in the iPhone 6s.
| Apple iPhone 6 | Apple iPhone 6s | |
|---|---|---|
| Display | 4,7 inches 1334 × 750, IPS | 4,7-inch, 1334 × 750, IPS |
| Touch Screen | Capacitive | Capacitive |
| air gap | Do | Do |
| oleophobic coating | Do | Do |
| A polarizing filter | Do | Do |
| CPU | Apple A8: dual core Apple Typhoon (ARMv8 A32 / A64); frequency of 1.4 GHz; process technology to 20 nm; Coprocessor Apple M8 (NXP LPC 1800): a single core ARM Cortex-M3 (ARMv7-M) | Apple A9: dual core Apple Twister rate 1.8 GHz; process technology FinFET 14/16 nm; integrated coprocessor Apple M9 |
| GPU | Imagination Technologies PowerVR GX6650 | ND |
| RAM | 1GB LPDDR3 | 2 GB LPDDR4 |
| ROM | 16/64/128 GB | 16/64/128 GB |
| Connectors | 1 × Lightning 1 × headset jack 3.5 mm 1 × Nano-SIM | 1 × Lightning > 1 × headset jack 3.5 mm 1 × Nano-SIM |
| Cellular | External Modem Qualcomm MDM9625M, transceiver Qualcomm WTR1625L: 2G: GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz 3G: DC-HSPA + (84 Mbit / s) 850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz 4G: LTE Cat. 4 (150 Mbit / s), support for Russian frequency in all versions of Nano-SIM | External Modem Qualcomm MDM9635, transceiver Qualcomm WTR3925: 2G: GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800 / 1900 MHz 3G: DC-HSPA + (84 Mbit / s) 850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz 4G: LTE Cat. 6 (300 Mbit / s), support for Russian frequency in all versions of Nano-SIM |
| Wi-Fi > | iEEE 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac, 2,4 / 5GHz | iEEE 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac, 2 , 4/5 GHz |
| Bluetooth | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| Infrared | No | No |
| Navigation | GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS | GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS |
| Sensors | The ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, accelerometer / gyroscope, magnetometer (digital compass), a barometer, a fingerprint sensor | The ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, accelerometer / gyroscope, magnetometer (digital compass ), a barometer, a fingerprint sensor |
| The main camera | 8 megapixel (3264×2448), the matrix Sony’s reverse-illuminated 1 / 3.0-inch autofocus, dual LED flash | 12 megapixels (4032×3024) autofocus, dual LED flash |
| The front camera | 1,2 megapixel (1280×960) matrix on the back-illuminated | 5 megapixel (2592×1944) |
| Power | Fixed battery 6,91 Vt⋅ch (1810 mA⋅ch 3.82 in) | Fixed battery 6,55 W ⋅ch (1715 mA⋅ch, 3.8 V) |
| Overall dimensions | 138,1 × 67,0 × 6,9 | 138,3 × 67,1 × 7,1 |
| Mass, g | 129 | 143 |
| protection from water and dust | No | Yes (unofficially) |
| The operating system | iOS 9 | iOS 9 |
| The official price | $ 549/649 | $ 649/749/849 |
⇡ # Testing: Performance
Test participants
- Apple iPhone 5;
- Apple iPhone 5s;
- Apple iPhone 6;
- Apple iPhone 6s.
Of the two pure CPU benchmarks – SunSpider and Google Octane 2.0, which focus on speed in the processing of JavaScript, – the first to appreciate the difference between the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6 less than between the iPhone 6 and iPhone 5s. The gap between Google Octane iPhone 6s and precursor enormous. The same can be said about the results in graphic benchmark 3DMark and GFXBench. Comprehensive test AnTuTu, biasing as the CPU, and GPU, of all the tests most agree with SunSpider.
AnTuTu Benchmark 5
SunSpider 1.0. 2
Google Octane 2.0
GFX Bench 3.1 (T-Rex HD)
3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited
⇡ # Testing: Display
The screen iPhone 6s became much brighter than in the “six” and only slightly inferior to this index screen our sample iPhone 5s. Contrast is fantastic – over 1500: 1.
The color temperature is somewhat overstated in comparison with the standard 6500 K – just like iPhone 6. The color gamut is slightly inferior to the sRGB standard in the range of red tones.
⇡ # Testing: Camera
We did not have enough time to check the camera iPhone 6s in a different situation, but on the frame, at least it can be argued that the image of a 12-megapixel matrix does not become less clear. Yet it is hard to say whether this is attributable to the advantages of the sensor or a more aggressive program “sharpening”, the use of which generate light and dark halos on the borders of contrasting areas. In addition, there iPhone 6s produced generally more contrast image with more saturated colors – it is pleasing to the eye, but it is far from realism: in fact it was a cloudy day without a single ray of sunshine.
Conclusions ⇡ #
Although the output iPhone 6s and not become such an outstanding event, as a way out of “six” a year ago, it’s still a major update than the iPhone 4s or 5s in due time. Processors gadgets are still in a phase of rapid growth, when each update process technology is a sharp jump in speed. CPU, running at higher frequencies (not to mention the possibility of optimizing the architecture), coupled with the obvious larger GPU allow iPhone 6s reach the standard set by the previous generation iPad, and even surpass it – and all this in a more severe restrictions on power consumption and heat. Add to this the new camera, the long-awaited doubling of RAM and a suddenly serious modernization ROM smartphone.
It’s nice that, in addition to this purely quantitative improvement functions, update the iPhone’s “phase s» this time brought and less tangible ( in the truest sense) innovations like 3D Touch and Taptic Engine. This can be treated arbitrarily skeptical, but in practice “enhanced” click instantly becomes a habit and is very convenient to replace the long depression, which he has never been in iOS. In conclusion, we note a strong alloy housing, and (relative) waterproof shell iPhone. It is not that these things are of paramount importance, but (so far as smart phones are sometimes drowned, and on the part of the strength to the iPhone 6 have special claim) because of the latest addition to iPhone 6s looks totally finished product that sets the bar for potential competitors, as well as for Future iPhone 7.
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