The iPhone 6S and iPhone
6S Plus (stylized as iPhone 6s and iPhone
6s Plus) are smartphones designed by Apple Inc. The devices are part of theiPhone series and were announced on September 9,
2015, at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco by Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook.
The iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus jointly serve as successors to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus of 2014.[13]
The iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S
Plus are the performance versions over their respective predecessors, featuring
improved hardware specifications, including 3D Touch, a force-sensitive touchscreen;
upgraded rear-facing and front-facing cameras; a faster processor; a new
chassis made of a stronger 7000 series aluminium alloy;[14] second-generation fingerprint recognition Touch ID;
improved LTE and Wi-Fi connectivity; and a new rose gold
finish in addition to the space gray, silver, and gold finishes found on the
previous models, while maintaining an identical design. The devices ship with iOS 9 preinstalled.
As of September 28, 2015,
13 million iPhone 6S and 6S Plus models have been sold, setting a new
first-weekend sales record, up from the 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
units sold the previous year.[15]
As an S-model iPhone
developing on the previous iPhone 6, reviews noted the limited number of
changes. However, reviews generally concluded that the phone was improved on
its predecessor, although some noted a lack of improvement in battery life. The Verge described the 6S, in particular the
Plus model, as "right now the best phone on the market...There just aren't
other companies that can roll out a feature like 3D Touch and make it work in a
way that suggests the creation of entirely new interface paradigms, and every
other phone maker needs to figure out exactly why Apple's cameras are so
consistent before they can really compete." It, like several other
reviews, described selling a 16GB model as 'ridiculous' and a poor choice for
consumers, especially given the large picture file sizes.[30] The Guardiancommented that the phone "has the potential to be the
best smaller smartphone on the market, but its short battery life is deeply
frustrating" and described the camera as "not leagues ahead of the
competition anymore."[31] The Register praised performance, noting that "we’re
now using phones with the performance of current PCs," but described force
touch as "just a glorified vibrator" and "no good...it's not
binary...and you still don’t know quite what’s going to happen until you try."[32]AnandTech awarded the iPhone 6s and 6s+ its second ever
Editor's Choice Gold Award for a phone based largely on the phone's performance
and the addition of 3D Touch.[33] An additional topic noted by journalists around
the same time has been the better rate of security updates on iPhones compared
to Android phones, with 90 percent of Android phones running insecure and
outdated versions
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