- Hey, what's up guys, Keaton here.
So, I have my holiday pants on,
and I need to say I'm sorry.
So I filmed this video about a month and half ago
with my friend Julian,
and basically, when I went to check back the audio,
it sounded like a hairdryer.
I kid you not.
It was so bad, I just...
I don't know what to tell you guys.
So I was able to work some magic on a few of the clips
and actually fix the audio, and they're in this video,
but today I'm going to be giving you guys
the other iPhone 6s Plus review,
and just cover some of the stuff that I haven't seen
in other reviews, and just overall
tell you if you should buy one or not.
So one thing I really love on the new 6s and 6s Plus
is touch i.d.
It is so freaking fast, it is such a big upgrade,
I mean, do you like it?
- I love it.
I mean, I tried to do it side by side with my 6,
and it was completely night and day.
Sometimes the 6 wouldn't even work.
- He has a 6 Plus, by the way,
he just sometimes regresses his with my woes.
- (laughs) - But...
- When people said it was too fast, I didn't believe them,
and I tried it, and it legit can be too fast.
Like, I will tap the 'home' button to see the time
or my notifications, and it'll unlock, so...
- Like, do you ever see your home screen, like I never--
or, your lock screen? Like, I--
- If I want to, I hit the side button, 'cause I know--
- Yeah.
- It's a risk that it's just gonna unlock,
like it is lightening fast.
- Now when Julian and I filmed this review,
3-D touch wasn't available on all the apps we really liked.
It was on obviously all the Apple apps,
and the regular Twitter app and Instagram app,
but for the most part, like, my home screen,
it was really left out.
So now that I'm filming this a few days to December,
3-D touch is all over my home screen.
It is on a lot more of the apps that I really like,
and maybe it's a good thing that
the hairdryer came into play?
But if you don't know what the 3-D touch is,
basically if you press hard on an application,
you're greeted with a list of actions you can do.
So if you press hard on the camera app,
you can take a selfie quickly: boom.
And if you do it like on Snapchat, for example,
you can add some friends or chat with friends,
and it's just kind of a quicker way to do stuff.
At first, I didn't like this, Julian didn't like this,
but when you force yourself to use this,
and kind of just are like,
"Ugh, fine, I gotta press hard to tweet,"
or something like that.
It makes a lot of sense,
and it just speeds up, like, how you do things.
Honestly, it's crazy, I know I'm talking crazytalk here.
but I just felt a lot more efficient with it,
and one of my favorite apps, Tweetbot,
which is like the Twitter app I use,
and if you're not following me on Twitter--
Boom: @keaton.
Go follow me, I am super cool over there.
But they just added 3-D touch, and now I can quickly Tweet,
send out some stuff, hit post,
boom, I'm all set to go,
and I am just really excited to see what this leads to,
'cause I mean, like, this is kind of a game-changer
on the 6s Plus.
- Camera is a huge improvement on the 6s Plus.
I really feel like it looks a lot sharper,
the camera, it works quicker.
You can take videos quicker, and obviously
4k is a nice bonus.
- Mmhm.
So, you can only get optical image stabilization,
which is a big deal, 'cause, you know,
you're taking video and you're walking around,
it's gonna look shaky if you're on a 6s,
but if you're on a 6s Plus,
you have optical image stabilization,
and that's kinda where you're covered.
So that's just something to take note of.
But I think the camera is a huge difference,
it's like, you can actually see it in the photos,
and like, I just like feel good sharing these photos.
And, the front-facing camera, dude,like--
- Yep.
- You're big into SnapChat, like, you're big into SnapChat,
- No, for sure, I think they realized that a lot of people
- Yeah - Use the front camera
all the time, for selfies, for whatever,
and they just, they upped it, and now it looks
a lot better, it does not look shitty even in low light.
- Agreed.
4k on here is pretty cool, it's nice to have some new,
futuristic tech on the phone.
I just think, for the camera as a whole,
like, I'm really happy with the front and the back.
Another thing we really liked on the 6s Plus
was the battery life.
So it's actually a smaller battery in the 6 Plus,
and the 6s has a smaller battery than the 6,
but surprisingly, you get better battery life.
So, super cool there.
But I was actually not able to get through
a full day's worth of use, I had to charge it at least once,
and I was charging it around like one p.m.
And it's really because I use my phone way too often:
I'm crazy active on SnapChat,
add me if you're not, you can just scan the code,
I take a lot of photos, I'm tweeting,
I'm always watching videos.
I am a heavy user, I get that.
But if you're someone who doesn't have a problem like me,
you're totally gonna be totally all good,
you'll get through a full day's worth
of use, no problem.
And so I kind of took it to the extreme,
what I did is I ended up strapping a battery pack
to my iPhone 6s Plus
and I never really have to go sit down at wall or
really charge my phone because I always have it on the go.
I'm doing a challenge with it right now,
you're going to see the video in like a week or so,
but for the most part,
I have like a week's worth of battery life,
and I think that's like, the best on any phone.
I need some water, I need to hydrate my life.
I need to hydrate my soul.
Now this part here isn't one of those things I saw
a huge difference in,
but Julian saw a massive difference,
and this was actually one of his favorite features,
and that's the speed of the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus.
So on both the 6s and 6s Plus,
there's an extra gigabyte of RAM.
So, what does this really mean?
Basically, on the new phones, if you open up the Instagram
app, you're working really hard on the photo,
you've got all the filters, the lighting added,
it's going to get a ton of likes,
and you switch out of the app and go to respond to a text
message, for example, and then go back to Instagram,
your photo's gonna be there.
All the changes that you wanted on there
are still gonna be there,
it's like you never really left it.
Now, this was not a thing on the old 6 and 6 Plus,
if you left the app and went to another app,
to save memory, it would actually close out that application
and you'd lose your hard work.
So that's one of the things I saw a huge difference in
on the new 6s Plus, and he did, too,
but other than that, I didn't really notice
that big of a difference.
That was just me, he saw a huge difference when he was
switching between apps, when he was swiping,
when he was just opening apps.
I thought, you know, a lot of that stuff was kinda the same,
that's just me.
But those are just kinda two different perspectives
on what the 's' means in the '6s Plus.'
Now for some stuff we didn't like.
It had to be the software.
Me and Julian both hate the software on the new iPhones,
and we just think it's really stale,
there's not much they've done to iOS, I'd say,
outside of iOS 7, which was on the 5s,
if you guys own that.
So I've actually jailbroken my personal 6s Plus gear,
this is an iPhone 6,
and I made some changes to my phone,
since you can do that with jailbreaking,
where the spotlight, it doesn't show up.
And that's just really because I think spotlight is stupid.
Now, on this 6 here, I have spotlight enabled.
So one of the things they added was a screen to the left
for stuff you can do, apparently?
Like, I don't even really get it.
And just some other stuff for software,
I just think iOS is really stale.
I've yet to see the cool "wow-ing" features.
Yeah, 3-D touch is awesome,
yeah, some of the cool hardware stuff is nice,
but other than that, like, what makes this different?
But yeah, I'm just kinda feeling like "eh",
like, yeah, I use an iPhone with boring software.
I think we can all agree on this,
even if, like, you don't even like the iPhone:
16 gigabyte phones should just not be a thing.
We're at a point in time where like,
4K videos started to become a thing,
we're taking a lot of photos,
you know, the cool parts of each phone are
taking up more storage, and like,
Apple, I know you want the money and stuff,
but give us a 32 gigabyte as a minimum,
that's what I used to do.
- If I'm buying a phone for like my mom--
- Yeah! - or something,
- I would feel bad
getting a 16 gig!
And I'm not gonna get her a 64 gig!
- She ain't that special!
- So it's like, gimme an option!
Yeah, so give me a better option.
I feel like it's just - Yeah.
- Apple getting lazy.
- That one feature alone, 'cause like,
before, you got... oh no, you have the 6,
so that was already implemented,
but like before, I would just get the 32 gig
and be all happy, but now, like
they're making me like...
I just bought the 128 gigabyte.
- I feel like-- - I've never done that.
- If they come out with the iPhone 7 and it still offers
the 16 gig, there is no excuse for that.
- Yeah. - That should not--
- Apple, if you're watching, iPhone 7, 32 gig minimum.
- Apple watches your videos, I see them comment like
like every time. - (laughs)
I'm gonna come find you if it's 16 gig. I'm gonna find you.
And just one other thing on the iPhone that I hate
and that Julian just cannot stand,
is live photos.
So Apple made a really big deal about live photos
and basically, what a live photo is
is you just enable it up here.
So when you take a picture, it takes an extra
second and a half from the beginning
before you took the picture
and after you've taken the picture.
So essentially, you have a mini video.
And this just really ruins the point,
especially if you have the 16 gigabyte iPhone,
which is still a thing.
It just takes up a lot more storage but like, I don't really
get it.
And the worst thing is, you can't even export it as a GIF!
I said that right.
Apparently it's not "jif"?
Let me know in the comments how you say it.
- It's not a picture, it's not a GIF, it's not a video...
- I think you meant to say "jif."
- Oh, don't even start with that.
- If you could export it as a GIF, that'd be really cool.
Like, that's kinda just it.
I don't find it useful; if I wanna take a video,
I'll take a video.
I just think it's one of the dumbest features
on the new iPhone.
Like... what were you thinking?
So in the end, would Julian and myself recommend
the iPhone 6s Plus?
Yes! A lot of the good stuff outweighs a lot of
the bad stuff, such as the camera.
It is so noticeable and so awesome.
The improved battery life is, I mean, it's there.
You can tell it's there,
unless you're a power-user like me, which...
I know I have a problem.
And then 3-D touch has a lot of potential
and I really like it and so does Julian.
Now, some of the bad stuff, the 16 gig model,
I don't know why that was even an idea.
You have to spend a minimum of
three hundred ninety-nine dollars just to get
a real amount of storage on this phone,
which isn't cool.
And then live photos and... other stuff.
Just... what?
But setting that aside, I think it's a good phone,
and Julian feels the same.
Thanks so much for watching this video!
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He does some of the best vlogs on YouTube
and like, I really like his vlogs.
- Thanks, man, I appreciate that.
- And follow him on SnapChat too,
he kills it on SnapChat.
And you have the new iPhone so--
- Yes. I like to draw on SnapChat, too,
it's fun. - It looks real good.
And follow me on SnapChat and Twitter as well.
Thanks again, guys, and I'll see you next time!
Peace out, Girl Scout.
- Oh my God, "peace out--
- Girl Scout" - Peace out, Girl Scout!
That's how you gotta do it!