My initial review on the iPhone 6 Plus

[doom102938]

Now let us begin with the disclaimer, this review is entirely in my own opinion, and if I have offended you in anyway with this review, I apologize in advanced. I'm going to be as honest as I can.

Design and build quality
Let us begin with the design and colour. The phone on first look appears sleek and in the Space Grey colour I chose, the screen appears a like a large slab of polished onyx. The finishing is flawless and the materials used feel premium.

The filler material used for the antenna gaps are different in colour for the different colour iPhones(White for the Gold, light grey for the Silver and darker grey for the Space Grey.) The antenna gaps itself is quite a polarising design feature. I didn't like how the white filler material looks on the gold iPhone and on the space grey, it is the least obvious. I would have preferred if the back of the phone was one seamless piece of aluminium, however they did it for better reception, so it is what it is.

The power and volume buttons feel great to press. The power button also has been repositioned to the right of the phone. This is especially important as the iPhone 6 plus is extremely long, quite a bit longer even compared to the Note 3 which has a 5.7 inch display and if the power button is placed at the old location, only people with massive hands would be able to use it one handed.

The finishing of the aluminium back has made it extremely slippery especially if your hands are dry as many of you have seen from the first iPhone 6 dropped video.

Display
The display is beautiful especially the Space Grey iPhone have the black bezel. The edges of the screen are rounded off and feels nice to touch. However this means that the display glass is protruding quite a bit and therefore more vulnerable in an accident.

The display is brighter than the note 3 by an appreciable difference. This is probably also due to the fact that my note 3 is a year old and the screen has some degradation. The iPhone's display at the dimmest setting is also dimmer than the Note 3 and therefore for people like me who like to read eBooks before sleeping, is a great feature.

The screen appears to be quite accurate in terms of colour and has a similar white point as compared to the iPad 3 with retina display.

Software
This topic has been covered by review websites that are better than I am. However I'd like to point out a couple of observations.

In the standard versus the zoomed mode, I can feel that the either the input lag is very minutely lesser or the frame rates is very slightly higher in the standard mode. Hopefully this would be ironed out in the next update.

Literally all the apps that are not made by Apple have yet to be updated to take advantage of the iPhone 6 plus screen and therefore the scaler in the iPhone basically upresolution the entire screen to make it fit. It isn't perfect, however it is much better than Window's 8 scaling where all the words turn into a mushy mess at 150% scaling onwards.

Camera
The camera on the iPhone is vastly improved in nearly every aspect. Now, before you say that "But the Note 4 has a higher resolution camera". Resolution isn't the only factor that affects your photo taking experience and results. You can have a 1000MP sensor but if your lens isn't able to resolve that kind of resolution, it is useless. Good DSLR lenses are only able to resolve maybe 35 mega pixels on a full frame sensor(36mmX24mm). I highly doubt that the tiny lens in any phone will be able to resolve even a fraction of that.

Lower pixel density for a given sensor size will mean that each pixel has the ability to capture more light, which in turn will result in a clearer and less noisy picture at night. OIS is a great feature that will help with longer exposure.

All in all, I think that the camera in the iPhone 6 Plus is more than enough camera for 95% of the people out there.

Conclusion
It is an awesome phone, especially if you've always like the iPhone or have an Apple ecosystem. The size can be an issue for some, especially those who like naked phones. The phone also wouldn't fit in some pockets, made worse by that fact that most of us will put the phone in a case.

I hope this review was enjoyable for you to read as it was for me to type. Cheers and good night!

 

[toyomi]

Liked...... ups....

 

[hornbox]

Totally unprofessional review. Waste of bandwidth sheep dog. Sorry i mean isheep

 

[kEvinErd]

So is the iPhone's display brighter or dimmer than the Note 3......?

 

[muddle]

Totally unprofessional review. Waste of bandwidth sheep dog. Sorry i mean isheep

Dude, this is written by a genuine owner. Not some prosumer hardware editor. Besides, there's a disclaimer in the opening sentence.

To ts, it is nice to hear from owner's perspective. Thanks.

 

[muddle]

So is the iPhone's display brighter or dimmer than the Note 3......?

I believe what ts meant is under bright light, the screen will turn brighter than note 3. In a dim environment, it is dimmer than note 3.

 

[doom102938]

I believe what ts meant is under bright light, the screen will turn brighter than note 3. In a dim environment, it is dimmer than note 3.

Yes, that is what I meant, thank you.

Dude, this is written by a genuine owner. Not some prosumer hardware editor. Besides, there's a disclaimer in the opening sentence.

To ts, it is nice to hear from owner's perspective. Thanks.

Thank you very much, kind sir. I'm glad you enjoyed the review.

So is the iPhone's display brighter or dimmer than the Note 3......?

Haha, sorry making you confused. I mean that the iphone display at brightest is brighter than note 3 at brightest. And at lowest setting, the iphone is dimmer than the note 3.

Totally unprofessional review. Waste of bandwidth sheep dog. Sorry i mean isheep

Any constructive criticism on how to improve my writing style is welcomed!

Liked...... ups....

Thanks!

 

[ck47.me]

Totally unprofessional review. Waste of bandwidth sheep dog. Sorry i mean isheep

bro, you're in wrong room.. do not try to trigger a war..

 

[nauhchop]

Yes, that is what I meant, thank you.


Thank you very much, kind sir.


Haha, sorry making you confused. I mean that the iphone display at brightest is brighter than note 3 at brightest. And at lowest setting, the iphone is dimmer than the note 3.


Any constructive criticism on how to improve my writing style is welcomed!


Thanks!

Sorry to say this, but are you educated in our schools in singapore?
Your English used in your review is poorly structured. Though you tried to use language such as "degradation", "appreciable difference", "minutely lesser", "so it is what it is" but its totally wrong and i did have a hard time trying to comprehend what you are trying to talk about.

If you wish to venture into review writing, you need to read more on what others have written. You can be concise but you also need to back up with numbers. Not figures you think about. Eg, "for 95% of the people out there". Question will be where u get this 95%?

I tried to correct some parts and actually bold it, but after the 1st paragraph, i just gave up. The sentencing and structuring made it very hard for me to understand after reading.

Maybe others would find it easy to read.

 

[liquidy]

Sorry to say this, but are you educated in our schools in singapore?
Your English used in your review is poorly structured. Though you tried to use language such as "degradation", "appreciable difference", "minutely lesser", "so it is what it is" but its totally wrong and i did have a hard time trying to comprehend what you are trying to talk about.

If you wish to venture into review writing, you need to read more on what others have written. You can be concise but you also need to back up with numbers. Not figures you think about. Eg, "for 95% of the people out there". Question will be where u get this 95%?

I tried to correct some parts and actually bold it, but after the 1st paragraph, i just gave up. The sentencing and structuring made it very hard for me to understand after reading.

Maybe others would find it easy to read.

Lol. TS still needs to be given the credits he deserves for doing this review. To most of us here, I believe that TS did just fine.
Btw, to me, I feel that being able to understand and comprehend different "levels" of English standard makes you better than others who are only able to comprehend "high" level of English standard.

 

[thegiantmarshmallow]

Sorry to say this, but are you educated in our schools in singapore?
Your English used in your review is poorly structured. Though you tried to use language such as "degradation", "appreciable difference", "minutely lesser", "so it is what it is" but its totally wrong and i did have a hard time trying to comprehend what you are trying to talk about.

If you wish to venture into review writing, you need to read more on what others have written. You can be concise but you also need to back up with numbers. Not figures you think about. Eg, "for 95% of the people out there". Question will be where u get this 95%?

I tried to correct some parts and actually bold it, but after the 1st paragraph, i just gave up. The sentencing and structuring made it very hard for me to understand after reading.

Maybe others would find it easy to read.

Sorry for asking this, but are you educated in schools in Singapore?
The English used in your review is poorly structured. You tried to use language such as "degradation", "appreciable difference", "minutely lesser", and "so it is what it is" but they are used incorrectly and I had a hard time trying to comprehend what you are trying to talk about.

If you wish to venture into review writing, you need to read more on what others have written. You can be concise but you also need to back up your review with numbers instead of arbitrary figures (e.g. "for 95% of the people out there"; how did you derive this figure of 95%?).

I tried to correct some parts and highlight errors in bold, but I just gave up after the 1st paragraph. The sentence structure made it very hard for me to understand what you have written.

Maybe others would find it easy to read.

 

[nauhchop]

Lol. TS still needs to be given the credits he deserves for doing this review. To most of us here, I believe that TS did just fine.
Btw, to me, I feel that being able to understand and comprehend different "levels" of English standard makes you better than others who are only able to comprehend "high" level of English standard.

Its not high or low level of English.
Do u understand what is
1) polished onyx
2) polarizing design feature
3) filler material
4) appreciable difference
5) degradation
6) similar white point
7) upresolution
8) minutely lesser

Its only because TS wrote in one of the posts asking for constructive comments, thats why i reply. And most of the reviews i read, they actually used simpler English, easy sentence structure, understandable technical jargons which most people can understand the product being reviewed.

 

[Firestone]

Sorry for asking this, but are you educated in schools in Singapore?
The English used in your review is poorly structured. You tried to use language such as "degradation", "appreciable difference", "minutely lesser", and "so it is what it is" but they are used incorrectly and I had a hard time trying to comprehend what you are trying to talk about.

If you wish to venture into review writing, you need to read more on what others have written. You can be concise but you also need to back up your review with numbers instead of arbitrary figures (e.g. "for 95% of the people out there". How did you derive this figure of 95%?).

I tried to correct some parts and highlight errors in bold, but I just gave up after the 1st paragraph. The sentence structure made it very hard for me to understand what you have written.

Maybe others would find it easy to read.

Though you tried to use language such as ...

In this case, Although and Though = possible, as it's under conjunction.
So nothing is wrong with it

 

[thegiantmarshmallow]

Though you tried to use language such as ...

In this case, Although and Though = possible, as it's under conjunction.
So nothing is wrong with it

“Although/though” and “but” are conjunctions connecting opposing clauses, so they shouldn’t be used together.

 

[Toxicblackout]

Nice review, I didn't think any of it was very hard to understand.

 

[Firestone]

Personally, I think that as a forum review, it's actually not bad =]

But I find that, there's not a lot of content inside the review. It seems more like a few points here and there, and a lot of fillers in between to make up word counts

I for one, would have been interested in the take of the user's experience
E.g. compared to his old phone (model), whether there is a substantial difference in experience

 

[Firestone]

“Although/though” and “but” are conjunctions connecting opposing clauses, so they shouldn’t be used together.

can be done. it's under disjunctive conjunction

 

[nauhchop]

Anyway, TS has pm me and i referred him to
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus review: bigger and better, but with stiffer competition
Engadget's review.

Yes, Engadget hires professionals to write, but if we look at many reviews, they wrote it very simple for people to understand. Like some technical jargons, they would explain what it is about. And because they have reviewed many, they are able to do a direct comparison which TS may not have the luxury to do so. But a good thing would be quality of pictures and comparison of pictures since camera was mentioned. Also battery life deserves some space here.

 

[Sen]

Any camera sample shots would be nice.

 

[eventidephoenix]

Any camera sample shots would be nice.

my personal feel is that the cameras haven't really improved much, but they weren't that shabby to begin with. A very modest improvement imo.

Will post more shots when I can, but here's one of my lazy cat