Ab 19. September geht Apples neues iPhone 6 und iPhone 6 Plus offiziell in den Verkaufsstart; unter anderem auch in Deutschland. Die neuen Smartphones fallen vor allem durch ihre größeren Displays auf. Schluss mit 4 Zoll wie beim iPhone 5S: Das iPhone 6 nutzt 4,7 Zoll und das iPhone 6 Plus sogar 5,5 Zoll Bildschirmdiagonale.
Natürlich ist das nicht die einzige Neuheit, schnellerer A8-Prozessor, NFC für Apple Pay, flinkeres LTE und WLAN, verbesserte Kamera, dünneres und rundlicheres Gehäuse-Design. Die technischen Daten lesen sich natürlich nicht schlecht, doch wie sieht es in der Praxis aus?
Die US-Medien kommen fast durchgehend zu einem sehr positiven Fazit. Lesen Sie selbst:
- Re/code, Walt Mossberg
The iPhone 6 is a great upgrade for current iPhone owners, or for anyone, really. It manages to provide a much larger display in a phone that’s still small enough to handle easily. It’s my recommendation for the best smartphone you can buy. - Re/code, Lauren Goode
Finally, the iPhone 6 Plus doesn’t come with a stylus. Samsung’s Note phones have stylus pens, and some people really like them. But Apple is standing by Steve Jobs’s theory that the best styluses are our fingers. Stylus or not, some other jumbo phones have felt like plastic toys to me. Apple has designed a giant phone that offers a few key large-screen features without overwhelming the senses, and it has a pretty good camera, to boot. More importantly, it feels sleek, and carries the cachet of being a “big iPhone” — if that’s what you’re into. - Macworld, Jason Snell
Make no mistake: The most important new thing about the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus is their size. While their processors run faster and their cameras focus more exactingly, the real story is that these are larger phones with larger screens. That’s better for displaying photos and videos, of course, and often for just allowing more information to fit on the screen. But there’s also a cost: The smaller your hands are, the harder these phones are to handle. - The Wall Street Journal, Geoffrey Fowler
Apple doesn't get a free pass on any of these promises. But its sleek new hardware sets it up to guide iPhone 6 owners into a new chapter. Instead of looking over at Android phones and wondering what I'm missing, the iPhone once again has my full attention. - New York Times, Molly Wood
Call quality on the new phones is excellent and I found battery life on the smaller iPhone 6 to be impressive. I went almost two full days without a charge. Battery life on the iPhone 6 Plus is more like a day of constant use and not much more, but that’s not terrible on a phone that size. - Bloomberg Businessweek, Joshua Topolsky
With the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, Apple has proven that not only can it make a bigger phone, but it can make a bigger phone better than anyone else in the marketplace. Between the slick software, killer hardware, and deep integration into Apple’s amazing ecosystem, the iPhone is back in the spotlight. - CNET, Tim Stevens
The iPhone 6 Plus is not a phone for everybody. Its size is its biggest drawback and, indeed, that will likely be the deciding factor for many on whether to go with the 6 or 6 Plus. If you can live with a device of these dimensions, the additional $100, £80, or AU$130 is well worth it for the upgraded battery life alone. It's doubly worth it if you're intrigued by better performance of the camera -- or if your eyesight could benefit from extra room for larger fonts. - Mashable, Lance Ulanoff
The iPhone 6’s video capabilities are mind-bogglingly good. While the default setting for video is 1080p, 30 frames per second (fps), you can go into settings and change it to 60 fps. The resulting video has an almost hyper-real look; essentially people and objects look like you could reach out and touch them. - The Verge, Nilay Patel
There’s nothing here that competitors aren’t doing with their big phones — Samsung in particular is pushing the envelope with its S Pen stylus and multiple-app features — but the overall package is so good it’s hard to ignore. The smaller iPhone 6 feels like just the next iterative update to the iPhone, but the 6 Plus feels like something else entirely; with a few more software tweaks and some love from developers, it could really be my main computer. It’s as much iPad as iPhone. - Yahoo! Tech, David Pogue
Celebrate the iPhone’s excellence, even if you’re not in the Apple fold. And celebrate the best work of Samsung, HTC, and LG, even if you’re not part of the Android family. Because, in the end, competition is what will make your phone better this time next year, or the year after that. The perpetual refinement of ideas, and the necessity to think up new ones, will benefit you — no matter which army you march with. - TechCrunch, Darrell Etherington
The rounded edges all along the display help contribute to the near-seamless look that Apple was going for, but they also serve an ergonomic purpose. Using Apple’s swipe-back and swipe-forward gestures, which it began to use to replace back and forward button navigations in iOS 7, is much easier and more natural with the iPhone’s new front glass design, and when the device’s screen is darkened, these catch and bend light in a way that’s sure to appeal to a design fan’s eye.
Im Artikel Apple iOS 8 auf dem iPhone 5 im Test können Sie nachlesen, was das ab 17. September - voraussichtlich ab 19:00 deutscher Zeit - verfügbare neue Betriebssystem an Funktionen bietet. (TecChannel/mb)
Zusammen mit dem "alten" iPhone 5S gibt es nun drei verschiedene Bildschirmgrößen zur Auswahl.
Trotz größerem Bildschirm, beide neuen iPhones sind dünner als der Vorgänger.
Das iPhone 6 Plus ist nun fast schon ein iPad und bietet - wie dieses - einen Landscap-Modus. Kann also in allen Apps auch im Querformat benutzt werden. Die Apps im Dock landen dann allerdigs nicht am unteren Rand, sondern an der Seite.
Das neue Design mit den abgerundeten Kanten sieht schick aus. Das Gehäuse ist nach wie vor aus eloxiertem Aluminium.
Die Tasten für die Lautstärke sind größer geworden.
Das graue Modell des iPhone 6 sieht sehr edel aus. Nach wie vor gibt es die drei Farben Silber, Gold und Spacegrau.
Die Kamera im iPhone 6 hat Apple nochmals verbessert. Es gibt nun einen besseren Autofokus und im Plus-Modell einen optischen Bildstabilisator. Außerdem kann die Kamera nun Zeitlupenvideos mit bis zu 240 Bildern pro Sekunde aufnehmen.