{"id":34,"date":"2014-12-28T16:46:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T16:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic.bdaia.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2015-03-05T12:28:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T12:28:19","slug":"iphone-6-sets-the-smartphone-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic.bdaia.com\/tech\/smartphones\/iphone-6-sets-the-smartphone-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 6 sets the smartphone bar"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Good smartphone<\/strong> The iPhone 6 delivers a spacious, crisp 4.7-inch screen, improved wireless speeds, better camera autofocus, and bumped-up storage capacities to 128GB at the top end. iOS remains a top-notch mobile operating system with an excellent app selection, and Apple Pay is a smooth, secure payment system.<\/span><\/p>\n The Bad<\/strong> Battery life isn’t much better than last year’s iPhone 5S. An even larger screen could have been squeezed into the same housing.<\/p>\n The Bottom Line<\/strong> The iPhone 6 is an exceptional phone in nearly every way except its average battery life: it’s thin and fast with a spacious screen and the smoothest payment system we’ve seen. It’s the best overall phone of 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n For years, Android phones have shipped with displays in expansive, 5-inch-ish sizes, but Apple had insisted on the necessity of a small screen for one-handed operation. The iPhone 5S<\/a>, while powerful, hit a wall in viewing room: its 4-inch screen was among the smallest on the market, and, frankly, I found it limiting.<\/p>\n Apple now has two larger iPhones: one big, the other even bigger. The iPhone 6 sports a 4.7-inch screen, while the iPhone 6 Plus<\/a> goes full “phablet” with a 5.5-inch display. Compared to earlier iPhones, both of the new models boast thinner bodies, ship with faster A8 processors, slightly improved cameras, speedier Wi-Fi and LTE cellular data, better voice quality if you’re using voice-over-LTE, and — except in the entry-level models — more onboard storage. And like all current iPhones, these are running iOS 8.1<\/a>; it’s a far less revolutionary update than iOS 7<\/a> was, but it adds some nice improvements and customization options, including notification widgets, replaceable keyboards, a new Health app<\/a> and Apple Pay<\/a>.<\/p>\n