Chances are you already own the iPhone 5 or 5S and you are contemplating whether or not to buy a brand new iPhone 6. If you’re still on the fence, let’s first think about what is the main reason you might want to buy the iPhone 6.
As you may have already known the iPhone has been stubbornly on the smaller side of the mobile world for almost all it’s life. Only being at 3.5 inches and 4 inches in the past seven years, it’s only now, eight years after the original introduction of the iPhone when Apple has pushed the display to 4.7 inches on the iPhone 6 and a whopping 5.5 inch on the iPhone 6 Plus. Comparing the front of the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 6 doesn’t seem to bad, but it makes a huge difference when you turn the display on. While it may have the same pixel-per-inch, everything just seems a little nicer on the larger display, plus you can display more content, have more room to type and that 4.7 inch size of an iPhone feels just great in the hand, and it’s almost a sweet spot for phones these days.
On the iPhone 5S things are pretty small on its 4 inch display, but it definitely was a one handed iPhone and a lot of people still use it for this reason alone. Design wise the iPhone 6 and 5S look like to completely different products. The difference between the squared off edges of the iPhone 5S and the rounded aluminum edges on the iPhone 6 make radical differences. Gone are the chamfered edges and the hybrid mix of glass and the aluminum of the iPhone 6, and just a tiny bit of plastic for the antenna band. Even the buttons have been changed dramatically, made longer, thinner and more clicky.
Now let’s go into the specs. The iPhone 5S comes in 4.7 inches tall, 2.31 inches wide and 7.6 millimeters thick, it only weighs 3.95 oz and is equipped with a 1,500 mAh battery. The iPhone 6 comes in 5.4 inches tall, 2.64 inches wide and 6.9 millimeters thick and it weighs slightly more at 4.55 oz since it’s equipped with a larger battery at 1800 mAh. Processor wise the 5S comes with a dual-core A7 processor clocked at 1.3 Ghz with 1 GB of RAM while the new iPhone 6 comes with a dual-core A8 processor clocked at 1.4 Ghz with the same amount of RAM, plus NFC is now available on the iPhone 6.
If we look at the displays the iPhone 5S has a 4 inch Retina display of 1,136 x 640 pixel resolution, the iPhone 6 has a 4.7 inch Retina display with 1,334 x 750 pixel resolution, both of these have the exact same amount of pixel per inch at 326. The display on the iPhone 6 feels much more dialed in, the colors are more vibrant, more accurate, black are nice and dark while white looks almost pure white. Compared to the iPhone 5S the 6 has the better set-up display.
These are the differences between the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 6. If you ask me the design and the display are all enough for me to upgrade. Maybe it’s a bigger iPhone, but this is the one what i been waiting for. So that’s been a brief comparison between the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 5S. Make sure to leave your comments below.