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– via Gizmodo
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus aren’t just bigger and better than ever, they’ve also got some subtle internal upgrades. I’m not talking processors; the new iPhones are the first Apple handsets to ship with 802.11ac Wi-Fi, and that gives them a hell of a speed boost.
802.11ac has already poked its head out in Androids and Windows Phones like the Galaxys S5 and Note 3, the HTC One, and the Nokia Lumia Icon, but this is the first time iPhoners will get a taste of the delicious speed. 5GHz 802.11ac Wi-Fi connections can suck up data more than twice as fast as the old 802.11n, and it shows here as the iPhone 6 Plus gets a more than 2x Wi-Fi speed improvement over its older brother, and that translates to smoother web-surfin’ and video-loadin’ on your own home network.
The catch, of course, is that you have to have a router that can support this flavor of Wi-Fi too, and if you haven’t updated your router in the past few years, you aren’t going to benefit until you do. But if you needed something to give you a shove, maybe it’s time. [iClarified]
– via The Verge
Billboards can be big and unwieldy things. Sometimes big things need to bend a little to fit into the limited space of our puny little planet. And sometimes the thing that’s being advertised is so perfectly in sync with the billboard’s shape as to require no further explanation.
The massive advert for the iPhone 6 above is purportedly from Berlin — a place where Samsung also maintains a big presence — while the promotional poster below comes from a store in the Netherlands. We can’t yet verify the legitimacy of either image, but that’s really beside the point. Either they’re delightfully grand examples of self-sabotage or incredibly witty visual satire. Both work for us.
Update 1:15PM ET, October 1st: Our thanks to Verge reader Tom in Berlin who went to check out the crooked billboard and confirmed its unfortunate (for Apple) shape. The Dutch signage has also been confirmed to be real, as part of a KPN in-store demo area
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– via Tech Crunch
Apple has responded to the various reports of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus bending, saying that it’s “extremely rare,” and that in fact, only nine people out of all the customers that bought devices thus far have complained. That would presumably mean nine out of the well over 10 million that have sold thus far.
Apple noted to TechCrunch that under normal use, the problem rarely occurs, which is in contrast to the demonstration videos hitting YouTube showing users deliberately trying to deform their devices in extremely artificial circumstances. Since the first reports had emerged, mostly in forum posts on Apple enthusiast sites, others including Wired contributor Mat Honan have also come forward noting that their devices had warped somewhat.
Apple also added that the newest iPhones are built with “steel/titanium inserts” to “reinforce stress locations,” and that they use “the strongest glass in the industry” in order to prevent any problems like those described. In addition to the use of high-quality materials, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus also underwent ample testing to ensure they can endure bending, sitting, torsion and other kinds of stress, even over prolonged periods, throughout their design and development.
– via The Verge
Apple’s newest iPhones are on sale, which means it’s time — once again — for iFixit to tear them to pieces. It’s not doing this in malice, but to determine how good (or bad) a job Apple’s done at letting people repair them, as well as to note changes in how the company puts its devices together.
As was to be expected, the larger iPhone — the iPhone 6 Plus — brings with it a far larger battery; 2,915 mAh to be precise, or close to twice the one found in last year’s iPhone 5S. Per the markings on Apple’s A8 chip,iFixit surmises that Apple ended up putting in 1GB of RAM this time, something the company doesn’t advertise, but that makes a marked difference in the amount of data apps or browser tabs can keep open at once. Some were hoping for more. Other findings include a change in location for the vibration motor just to the right of the battery, an LTE modem from Qualcomm, NFC chip from NXP, and flash memory from SK Hynix. The phase-detection autofocus camera is labeled “DNL432 70566F MKLAB.”
GETTING THE BATTERY OUT OF THE 6 IS NOT EASY
Along with the 6 Plus, iExperts (hosted on iFixit) are also doing a teardown of the smaller iPhone 6, which required mangling the smaller 1,810 mAh battery to get it detached. A more complete teardown of the phone is coming later.
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus go on sale today after being introduced by Apple last week. The phones are the largest Apple’s ever made, and likely set to be the company’s best-selling. At the beginning of this week, Apple said that preorders in the first 24 hours topped 4 million, though the company did not go into specifics about which one was the better seller.
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