hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s plus
have been out since September of 2015 so about five years ago and Apple no longer
sells these phones new in fact they haven't sold them new for a while and
for some people that's fairly unfortunate because of a few features
that it has but I wanted to talk about if you should pick one up today since
they're pretty reasonable as far as the price now originally these came in space
grey silver gold and rose gold and this is actually the space grey color so I
have both the 6s and 6s plus and Space Gray and these phones have been used for
years in some cases so we'll talk about that in a moment
now prices today are fairly reasonable Apple doesn't sell them refurbished but
you can get them on places such as eBay or Amazon and I was able to find them
for 100 to 300 dollars depending on storage so anywhere from 16 to 128
gigabytes and both of these iPhone 6s and 6s plus devices have 64 gigabytes of
storage now the device is held up pretty well today considering that basically
any phone with a home button on it still basically has this same overall design
all the way up to the iPhone 8 so you've got the same frame or aluminum frame
then you have your camera some models have dual cameras but the 6s does not
nor does the 6s plus and then you have aluminum with a little little antenna
lines you still have your volume buttons on the left with your vibrate or silent
switch and then on the bottom this is the last iPhone that had the
headphone jack so this is pretty relevant for quite a few people that
really want the headphone jack next to it you have your microphone then
lightning and then speaker and then you have your SIM card tray slot and your
power or sleep/wake button so in general it's a pretty standard iPhone it's what
you would expect and it actually introduced a few new things when it came
out so it was the first device to bring 3d touch so on the display not only did
they include stronger glass with this model but they brought 3d touch and now
with newer iPhone models they've actually removed that so now it's just a
press and hold where before this is actually a pressure-sensitive layer on
there the display and it made some pretty
interesting things so if I go into settings go to wallpaper we'll pick a
live wallpaper and you can press on the display using pressure to actually make
it move more so if you not just a tap and hold but I pressure can make it move
or originally that's how those worked so it was something that I think was really
nice they've kind of taken away but left the features that it brought but this
phone had it so not only did they bring that with the 6s and 6s plus but they
brought second gen touch ID so it's much faster than the other phones before it
so touch IDs nice and quick it unlocks fast and if you love the home button
it's just as fast as today's phones now there were a few more features that were
introduced with this phone as well one of them is LTE advanced and also faster
Wi-Fi and this is a big advantage over even the latest phones because this has
a Qualcomm mote a minute so for those of you that are having issues with
connectivity with cellular in particular with the iPhone 11 the iPhone 11 pro or
the iPhone 11 pro max or going back to the iPhone X these have a Qualcomm
modem in them and really had no issues with any of the connectivity or signal
reception so that's an advantage today that these have over the latest models
and then also it introduced a 12 megapixel iSight camera so we have a 12
megapixel camera that can now do 4k video starting with this phone now I
can't do 4k 60 but if I go down to camera here and go to the record video
you'll see we have 4k 30 so we have that as an option or down to 1080p 60 now
with the camera specs they're still using 12 megapixels today but they've
improved the sensor on the newer phones however the 6s and 6s plus still take
decent photos and so unless you're posting these on a large poster or
something like that I think you'll find that it's more than acceptable for
things like social media and just daily photos that you're taking you don't get
the portrait modes that you do on the newer phones but the photos in general
are just decent overall and unless you're really picky about that you could
upgrade to a newer phone or if you're super picky about that your
using a mirrorless camera or something like that instead now the forward facing
camera was also a big bump but doesn't really compare to what we have today so
for example it brought a new 5 megapixel camera with the retina flash so if I
flip this around it's a 5 megapixel camera and if you want to take a photo
and turn the flash on will force the flash on it will blink the screen to act
as a flash and so it takes photos like that so it's something that they
introduce they've carried that through to today blinking the screen very
brightly to act as a flash but the camera itself is just not super high
quality so it records 1080p and it works for most people but it's nowhere near
what we get today with the iPhone 11:11 Pro and 11 Pro max now this phone came
equipped with the a9 CPU with 2 gigabytes of RAM and while that doesn't
sound like a lot we don't have much more than that in today's phones and so this
actually handles tasks just fine scrolling is nice and fast you will get
an occasional hiccup and games will take a little bit longer to load depending on
which game it is if you're playing something like Minecraft or fortnight
they'll open just fine minecraft for example we'll wait for it
to load it's it's plenty fast as long as you don't mind waiting a few seconds for
it to load here and then you can play it just fine so we'll hit play will it
create new create new world and create and you'll see this takes a second to
create the world it's not terrible it's not super fast but it's definitely
usable and once it's created you're good to go so you'll see it's zipping right
along now and it takes a few seconds and once we're in frame rates are actually
pretty good so we're into Minecraft everything's drawn out in the background
and then it's fully playable at this point so we really have no issues with
Minecraft or fortnight or pub G or whatever you're playing on your iPhone
this will handle that still today now well the 6s and 6s plus still have the
headphone jack there are a few things that it doesn't have compared to today's
phones so for example no stereo sound no dual camera even on the larger phones
and it also doesn't have oled display or face ID or an emoji erm
emoji or any of those things but the displays themselves are still quite nice
on the iPhone 6s we have a 4.7 inch display 750 by 1334
pixels with 326 pixels per inch so basically around the same density as
today's iPhone XR and iPhone 11 when it comes to the iPhone 6s plus we have a
5.5 inch display and these are both LCD displays 1080 by 1920 or 1080p with 401
pixels per inch and still like I said with 3d touch so overall they're pretty
nice displays now they will not go as bright as some of the other displays out
there but next to maybe the latest iPhone let me show you that if I bring
in my iPhone 11 Pro Max and we turn the display brightness all the way up the
iPhone 11 Pro max definitely goes a little bit brighter it's easier to see
outside but in general most people are not going to have an issue with it so
let me turn this back down so that you can see it better viewing angles are
good and just in general most people will have no issues with this display
whatsoever now battery life is going to be a huge
concern on these phones now if you have a new battery there's no issue but this
phone actually has quite an old battery these both have the original batteries
in them and you can check how well they're doing by going to your settings
and then battery health and this is the physical degradation of the battery over
time and the iPhone 6s has been in use basically up until last week and is at
89% it was plugged in every night to charge and it's holding up very well and
I would not expect a ton of battery life maybe three hours of screen on time for
if you're lucky with the 6s plus we have a little bit bigger battery the battery
is 2,750 milliamp hours and maybe you're going to get four hours of screen on
time depending on how you're using it it's
going to vary greatly now most of the time I could still get through a full
day with this when it came out but for the most part it's nowhere near what an
iPhone 11pro maxes for example and the battery
capacity on the 6s plus is 85% so as that battery capacity goes down over
time you'll want to replace the battery from Apple for about 50 dollars and that
will bring that battery health right back up to 100% and you'll get the full
battery life out of it so if you're having that issue you can just keep
plugging it in but the phone will actually tell you when you need to
replace it so if it says peak performance capability you're good to go
otherwise you're gonna want to replace that to get all of that full life back
out of it so the question is should you pick up an iPhone 6s or a 6s plus today
or later on depending on when you're watching this video and the answer to
that question depends on a couple things the first thing is your budget of course
so you can pick one of these up like I said anywhere from around a hundred
three hundred dollars and the other thing is if you appreciate the headphone
jack that's something I still miss you get better audio quality out of it
because you don't have to deal with lower bit rates of Bluetooth if you're
picky about those things that's going to matter to you also if you have a cracked
screen it's much cheaper to replace and repair an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus today
than it is a newer iPhone 11 for example so if you have one of the older ones
it's kind of less worry and it's easy to get cheap replacement parts it doesn't
have I P 67 or 68 water sealing or anything like that so it's easy to work
on because there's no gaskets around here or anything like that so if your
budget conscious and you appreciate the headphone jack then yes absolutely pick
one up now as far as future support is concerned with iOS 14 and beyond there
are some pretty good sources that say iOS 14 will be supported on Io
I phoned 6s and 6s plus along with it's sort of sister phone the iPhone se they
has the same processor but we won't know that for sure until June of 2020 or
September when it's finally released but right now it looks like Apple maybe
including it but if they do what they've done in the past
iOS 13 will be the last version on here so sort of a little risk to take but if
you don't care about any of that then go ahead and pick one up now that's it for
the iPhone 6s and 6s plus let me know your thoughts about
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