Friday, September 19, 2014

9/19/14: iPhone 6: WORTH IT OR NOT?

Today, Apple released the iPhone 6 (for people ages 5 and up and made by people ages 5 and up), bigger and thinner than any other model before.

But the real question is if it's actually worth the buy.

Let's first take a look at what's news and what's good:

Increased Battery Life
This one explains itself.

Improved Camera
Even better pictures with a new sensor that ensures better focus on the moments
you want to capture.

Improved Camera for Video
Okay, so pictures are pictures, but it seems like more people are switching to video, mostly because videos are easier to share and more efficient in what you're trying to share. Apple recognized this and allowed options like shooting at 60 fps on 1080p, 240fps (slow-motion basically), and included with iOS 8, the time-lapse mode. Time-lapse seems cool but you have to shoot something for a long amount of time for it to work properly, and that wastes space and time and power. Although, there's increased battery life.

iOS 8
This gets into an all new thing, the newest operating system update that can do things such as allowing you to modify your group chats, including naming, muting, and leaving, which, oh praise the Lord, we've needed for a long time, because group chats are more annoying than listening to "Darude-Sandstorm" for ten hours. Also, the new time-lapse mode in Camera, which you should've read through already, as well as more photo-editing tools to change around brightness and colors, more cropping options, and a shot timer. Last but not least, improved Siri. Not that I use her that much anyway.

Now let's see what's not as good:

Overpriced
As always, nothing new there.

Two Models (and the Bigger and Thinner Design)
Dear Apple, just make one model! We don't need two! Just because 0.8 inches taller (iPhone 6 Plus) and 0.2 inches thinner (iPhone 6) doesn't really make a difference. In fact, it makes it worse. More struggles to fit it in your pocket, more struggles just to hold the dang thing, everything about the design! It's unnecessary.

U2
I don't even...

Health (iOS 8)
I'm totally going to use this...not.

QuickType (iOS 8)
It's like AutoCorrect AutoCorrected!

Recent Contacts (iOS 8)
Annoying; that's all I got to say.

So is the iPhone 6 (and/or the iPhone 6 Plus, ugh) worth it or not? Just a thinner and bigger iPhone with a new operating system that basically isn't any different? Improvements that not many will bother with but still overpriced? Well, seeing the lines at Apple stores, some people like it.

What're your thoughts?

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