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iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Preliminary Results The GPU improvements are enormous, and while we don't have enough data to determine whether the iPhone 6s retains the same sustained GPU performance that we saw in the iPhone 6, the peak performance figures are impressive to say the least. The SSD-like storage solution is also a major surprise, and likely to be overlooked as its effects are often hard to distinguish without direct comparison. Battery life does regress in a single test, but I suspect in real-world situations with less of a focus on the display battery life will either be equal or favor the iPhone 6s, so it will be interesting to see if Apple’s battery life estimates remain as accurate as they traditionally have been.
This is a fascinating “preliminary” review of the iPhone 6s, and a few things really stand out: - Apple switched to using a new type of storage that is similar to an SSD, including using something similar to a PCI Express controller. If you remember my SSD column the other day, I had mentioned how much faster that type of controller is, and these tests show a huge increase in performance. They are not only way ahead of prior iPhone models, but really far ahead of the rest of the smartphone market.
- The new CPU really is insanely fast, and all of Apple’s talk about their new processor having desktop PC performance is actually pretty accurate. On a few tests, the iPhone 6s is in the same ballpark as the Surface Pro 3, which uses a full Intel processor and is designed to be a laptop replacement.
- The battery life under standardized testing is roughly the same as the prior year. In my experience, the Plus has a lot better battery life than the smaller iPhone, so if you’re on the fence about getting the bigger model, it’s a big selling point.
Overall we’ve been loving the new iPhone 6s here at HTG HQ, and it’s definitely worth an upgrade. | |
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Today's Tech Term
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| Packet Switching is the process of breaking data down into suitably-sized “pieces or blocks” for fast and efficient transmission to their final destination where they are recompiled back into their original form. | |
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| It's easy to add email accounts, such as iCloud, Google, Yahoo, or Outlook.com, to an iOS device. However, what if you have a self-hosted email account with a custom domain? No worries. That's just as easy. | |
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| Lampooned in the South Park episode "Freemium Isn't Free", games like Simpsons: Tapped Out were put on blast for actively and knowingly creating Skinner box scenarios wherein players could play a game for "free", only to find that their ability to level up or add new items was locked under a paywall for in-game currencies. | |
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| ImageMagick is a suite of command-line utilities for modifying and working with images. ImageMagick can quickly perform operations on an image from a terminal, perform batch processing of many images, or be integrated into a bash script. | |
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| The user protections in Windows 10 are quite aggressive which, for the most part, is a good thing that protects people from malicious software. Every now and then, however, it’s a wee bit too aggressive and gets in the way of your actual work. Read on as we show you how to circumvent the “This app has been blocked for your protection” error in Windows 10. | |
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| The new iPhone 6S is out and with it all the hub-bub that usually accompanies a new iPhone release, but there is one standout feature that we want to talk about today that is well worth the hype: 3D Touch. | |
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| These days, it seems like pretty much everyone you know has got a mobile phone tucked away somewhere on their person. This also means that everyone is paying massive telecom companies a monthly premium for the chance to use it… but what if you could own a phone complete with all the same features, but no activated plan? As long as you’re near a local Wi-Fi connection, iPhones and Androids can perform all the same tricks as they usually do, except at a fraction of the cost of what your monthly bill comes out to. | |
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| New to the Linux command-line? Confused by all of the other advanced text editors? How-To Geek’s got your back with this tutorial to Nano, a simple text-editor that's very newbie-friendly. | |
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