It’s that time of year again — love bugs are invading every square inch of our city, you can’t go anywhere without hearing someone say “pumpkin spice” and you’re almost guaranteed to see someone wearing an infinity scarf on campus, despite it still being 900 degrees outside.
Oh, also, Apple just unveiled and launched their (not-so) brand new installment of the iPhone, non-sequentially dubbed the iPhone 6. I think we’re actually on like number 11 or something by now but they keep adding letters and mathematical variants, along with a couple centimeters with each inevitable release.
I think first and foremost I should state, on the record, that I am by no means Mac-minded. I’m actually fairly critical of Apple, if we’re being honest. I’ve had just about every type of phone imaginable: Blackberry, Samsung Galaxy and even 3 variations of the T-Mobile Sidekick. You name it; I’ve had it and very likely broken it, which resulted in an early contract termination with my cell phone carrier.
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Sadly, I’m not a tech genius. I’m not majoring in engineering or like, some type of technological science. I can only discuss the advancements as I see them from a layman’s perspective. I can talk about the superficial elements and the stuff that most of us, techies aside, will care about.
I should also state that this isn’t going to be a compare and contrast article between the iPhone 6/6+ and whatever hideous concoction Samsung has pumped out in the last 90 years, because you can find those comparisons on your Reddit feed or whatever it’s called.
What I’ll say is that the new iPhone is sleek. Apple has reverted back to basics. The world marveled when Apple announced the first ever iPhone. It changed everything. The curvy aluminum design, which Apple quickly dropped and replaced with that atrocious glossy white and black plastic for the next two generations, has made a much-appreciated comeback for the new generation.
Smoothly finished and soft to the touch, the iPhone 6 feels flimsy at times. I think the light airiness of the new models, coupled with the nagging fear of dropping your phone that every iPhone owner has engrained in their mind, makes the phone feel more delicate than it actually is. Both the 6 and the 6 Plus are now layered with Corning Gorilla Glass 3, rather than the admittedly scratch-resistant but incredibly shatter-prone sapphire (what we tech noobs referred to simply as “glass”) screens.
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Basically, the new iPhone is more durable than ever before, but don’t let that fool you — I still frantically called every store with an electronics department within a 30-mile radius asking if they have any LifeProof cases for the newest models in stock.
The camera, which obnoxiously protrudes about a centimeter off the once-flush finish of previous models, is actually pretty amazing. In my opinion and based on my own experiences, iPhones have always had some pretty awesome cameras. Again, I’m not some National Geographic photographer who knows everything, or really anything, about cameras, but my pictures look nice and so do other people’s.
That being said, they look even better when taken with the new iPhone. Zooming in used to result in distorted, cheap and grainy shots, it now is almost as if you were that close to whatever you zoomed in on, making creeper bus pictures of the super cute guy sitting five rows ahead of you clearer than ever.
Our days of frantically shouting “Does anyone have an iPhone charger?!” are over. The battery life has noticeably improved, as it should. Older model iPhones, and basically iPhones in general, are seemingly known for their shitty battery life but that appears to no longer be the case as I sat on mine for quite literally four hours straight after I took it out of the box, web browsing, downloading apps, storing numbers and just fucking around with all of the new features iOS 8 offers, and my battery only went down by about 15 percent.
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Speaking of iOS 8, the new operating system flows so smoothly on the new models, it’s basically seamless. Almost unnoticeable advancements make for comfortable browsing that is still noticeably better. While iOS 8 is available on older models, it’s obviously optimized for the reported hyper speed of the iPhone 6.
The iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus are undeniably the greatest iPhones yet, but shouldn’t that be the case anyway? Each one that follows should be greater than it’s predecessor, considering the quantum leaps in technological advancement we take within the span of a year.
We always come to expect the next new thing is going to be the next big thing, quite literally in the iPhone 6’s case.
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