Apple iPhone 6 Plus

Apple caved to market pressure and created a phablet. This may sound as blasphemy but it's not the first time Cupertino is seen reacting to rivals getting too confident, too aggressive - too close for comfort. The first iPad mini had to respond back in its time to the rise of the compact Android tablets. That was different though - and not in a way perhaps that Apple will like.

The iPad mini was very much in a league of its own, by virtue of its screen size and aspect ratio. The phablet, on the other hand, is dragged into a tougher game away from home. For the first time, Apple is playing by someone else's rules. They're in it to win though. Second year in a row, users will be choosing from a pair, but this time it's a pair that doesn't have a straightforward first choice this time around. It's an iPhone and a bigger - better? - version of it.

The iPhone 6 Plus marks the biggest leap in iPhones since the iPhone 4 and will have implications for the iPads as well. With a large 5.5" screen to straddle the difference between the iPhone and the iPad Air.

• 5.5-inch (diagonal) Retina HD display with 1920x1080 resolution
• A8 chip with M8 motion coprocessor
• 8-megapixel iSight camera with Focus Pixels, True Tone flash and optical image stabilisation
• 1080p HD video recording at 60 fps and slo-mo video recording at 240 fps
• FaceTime HD camera
• Touch ID fingerprint sensor
• 4G LTE1 and 802.11ac Wi-Fi
• iOS 8 and iCloud
• Available in gold, silver or space grey

  

Overall Specification

Talk TimeUp to 24 hours on 3G

Standby TimeUp to 16 days (384 hours)

Dimensions158.1 x 77.8 x 7.1mm

Weight172 grams

Screen Size5.5-inch (diagonal) Retina display. 1920x1080-pixel resolution at 401 ppi

Internal Phone Memory16GB, 64GB or 128GB

Email CapabilityYes

Business RecommendedYes

Operating SystemiOS 8

Entertainment

Camera Back Camera: 8 megapixels

Front Camera: 1.2 MP photos (1280x960)

720p HD video recording

Video CaptureFull 1080p HD video recording (30 fps or 60 fps)

NFCYes

Media PlayerYes

FM RadioNo

Connectivity

Data ConnectivityUMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz); LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 13, 17, 19, 20, 25)

Band TypeQuad

Bluetooth4.0

Stereo BluetoothYes

Wi-FiWi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n; 802.11n on 2.4GHz and 5GHz)

GPSGPS and GLONASS

3GYes

4GYes

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