iPhone 6s: Touch 3D, 4K and 40 euros more expensive

iPhone 6s: Touch 3D, 4K and 40 euros more expensive,

Apple introduced its iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Behind appearances, the US has made ​​a real innovation with 3D Touch. In the US, it offers subscription-based iPhone! 

"The new iPhone may seem familiar but we changed everything inside. "This is how Tim Cook introduced the new range of smartphones from Apple at its meeting of 9 September. These new products respond on behalf of 6s for the iPhone version of 4.7 inches, and More iPhone 6s for the variant of 5.5 inches, a size inaugurated a year ago mainly to attract Chinese consumers. Before presenting New to the range 6s, Apple CEO has engaged in a session of self-satisfecit, a usual practice in these appointments. Result: the iPhone (all models), saw sales increase by 35% in one year, against 10% for the rest of the smartphone industry. Better, China, shipments jumped 75%. Now, this country is more important to Apple than the United States. Once these contextual elements presented, Tim Cook has come to new.

Touch 3D interface renews :

This is the great novelty of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus: a new technology for interaction with the touch screen offering two pressure levels. Based on Apple Taptic Engine Watch, Apple offers two new gestures. A short, "Peek", 10 ms, and a longer, "Pop", of 50 ms. This technology takes place in the Retina display between the glass slab and capacitive sensors and pressure Taptic Engine. The use will tell whether this innovation is relevant. But given the demonstrations conducted during the conference, it could actually changing 3D Touch uses the new Multitouch gestures introduced by the last few years. This kind of technology embodies the very advanced integration between software and hardware so dear to Apple. Indeed, it is this that helps to have a "user experience" smooth and enjoyable. So 3D Touch - supported by iOS 9 - should introduce a new way to use his smartphone. It may even be that it facilitates multitasking, sometimes become tiring on this kind of device. How? For Peek and Pop allow you to preview all kinds of content without having to open them. The first is used to preview an example email, with light pressure. The second, to open it with firm pressure.

Concretely, 3D Touch adds a layer to iOS. Press the camera icon and open a bubble with more rapid actions like taking a selfie. For the telephone icon, the bubble provides the latest contacts called. With Facebook, it is even possible to share their location. In fact, the range of possibilities offered by this layer will depend on the ability of developers to seize the API.

Console performance?

In terms of hardware, Apple has, as expected, boosted the performance of its new iPhone by equipping each with a chip (system-on-chip) A9 64bit, supported a motion coprocessor M9 - it serves to manage the processing of data captured by the accelerometer, gyroscope, compass and other barometer. According to the manufacturer, this new heart boosted performance by 70% compared to the processor chip A8 iPhone 6, and graphics performance by 90% ... "worthy of a console," brags Apple. The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus also improves their connectivity with support for LTE band 23 and a speed "twice as fast". Understand: compatible with the theoretical maximum downlink speed of 300 Mb / s enabled by LTE Advanced, a technology still little present in France.

Apple falls for the 12MP and 4K:

Apple succumbs to the increasing resolution of its optical sensors, whether in iSight rear, which increased from 8 to 12MP, or FaceTime HD camera on the front, which climbs - finally - of 1.2 to 5 megapixel. For rear sensor, the US said it had adopted a new image signal processor, its advanced pixel technology Pixels Focus, a local tone mapping and improved optical image stabilization. In the field of video, it was expected: the range 6s can now shoot in 4K (3840 × 2160 pixels). Apple nonetheless introduced another novelty: Live Photos. Its principle: you activate a yellow button "Live" at the top of the interface to the camera and take pictures as usual. Except that the iPhone performs taken short video views. Then, when you view your shots, you just press a little harder on the screen to animate the photo. Some will see a kind of animated GIF HD justifying a bit more 3D Touch. To avoid that this format remains confined to one Apple ecosystem, Tim Cook announced that it could be shared on Facebook. Otherwise, it can also animate the home page of the iPhone. For the front sensor, the resolution uphill finally takes the measure of the practice of self-portrait, so even it is accompanied by a kind of flash. Finally, a "Retina Flash". Retina because it's the screen that flash to charge office tripling its brightness - compared to normal - when triggered.

New colors: pink gold :

The new colors of the iPhone, "rose gold" had fueled the rumor in recent weeks and confirmed. It has also been the first video presentation. This color echoes that opened on the Watch shows, which now has a version in pink aluminum. Something to be perfectly fitting.

Materials side, Apple now employs aluminum "7000 Series" for iPhone case. This is the "same as that used in aluminum aerospace", boasts the manufacturer, adding that the alloy is "the strongest ever used an iPhone". Mocked everywhere on the Internet for his fragile iPhone 6 Plus that could twist, Apple would want to relive this bad publicity stunt. But who says bad words aluminum shell scattering. Apple has solved a problem with plastic strips for antennae. And the pink model as on walleye, these bands are white and are therefore highly visible. A design element rather ungainly could disappear in the future: in June, Apple filed a patent for a composite material with the look very close to the metal. To be continued.

The price takes off from 40 to 50 euros :

Update: after verification, it appears that the fee schedule has indeed evolved ... upward. It will cost 749 euros and iPhone 6s entry or the model with 16 GB of storage: it is 40 euros more than the iPhone 6 of equivalent capacity. Even inflation for the 64 GB version, which went from 819 euros to 859 euros, and the high-end 128GB, whose rating flirts with thousand euros to 969 euros. For the iPhone More 6s, higher even tariff of 50 euros! Count 859 euros to give you the 16GB while the previous model was charged 809 euros, 969 euros for the 64GB against 919 euros before. And finally 1079 euros for 1019 against 128 GB for the old model: it is as much as the iPad Pro 128GB.