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iPhone 6S first impression

iPhone 6S looks absolutely like iPhone 6. Difference is in letter S an the phone back.

S letter on iPhone 6S

And color of camera lens. It seems like kind of optical filter added to 6S.

iPhone 6S with iPhone 6 cameras

Touch ID 2. Sensor looks outside exactly like previous model, but work about twice faster.
Apple Touch Id 2

Photo have better resolution (12MP). Video have better resolution (4K). SLO-MO have the same 240 fps at 720p.

New feature Live photo is quite interesting. In addition to photo iPhone store couple of seconds of video. Video is up to 15 fps, with 1440×1080 resolution. Can be imported on PC as a .mov file with same name as photo. Video MPEG4 AVC/1440×1080@Variable(upto15fps) Audio PCM/44/16/mono.

iPhone 6S live photo

Live_Photo_Motion_Example

3D Touch is also nice. It is actually an another dimension of the user interface. Interface of 6S now react on how hard you push. It may be simple context menu or preview/open depend on force of a touch.

mail_3dtouch

Bunchmark results

iphone 6 iPhone 6S %
Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz 55 Mbit/s 90 Mbit/s 163%
3D Mark 1.3.1 17346 27839 160%
sunspider 1.0.2 356 ms 224 ms 159%
Geekbench 3 1619 2545 157%
Passmark 1.1.0 5824 8027 137%
AnTuTu 5.2.0 46815 59234 126%

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