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Apple iPhone 6S features, specs, price and more

WASHINGTON: As American technological giant Apple is eyeing to launch its flagship smartphone Apple iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, let’s have a quick view of the expected device.

Apple’s only recently made its first foray into phablets and the iPhone 6 Plus made for a seriously impressive first stab… that said, there’s certainly room for improvement.

Given that Apple only tends to refresh its hardware designs every other year we expect the iPhone 7/ 6S Plus (both names could be used) will look a lot like last year’s model, but we’re hoping for big changes under the hood.

The rumours once again favouring September to be expected arrival of the device while a report recons that Apple is planning to launch three new iPhone this year.

So far the majority of rumors refer to the iPhone 7 rather than the iPhone 7 Plus, but going by 2014’s phones they’re likely to be very similar devices once you get beyond the screen size.

A new processor is all but guaranteed and it’s likely to be an A9 chip, which is said to be 15% smaller, 20% more powerful and 35% more power efficient than the Apple A8 processor. It could also be boosted to 2GB of RAM and of course it’s bound to run iOS 9.

The camera could get a big upgrade to something approaching DSLR quality, though that possibility is being disputed in some quarters.

At upwards of £619/$749/AU$1,149 the iPhone 6 Plus is anything but cheap. That’s to be expected in some ways. We’ve got used to paying a premium for Apple products and this is Apple’s biggest phone yet, so of course it’s going to be pricey.

Apple’s new iPhone is also expected to have a better and bigger battery than its predecessor.

Without a microSD card slot (which we’ll never see on an iPhone) 16GB of storage is a truly tiny amount, especially with a good chunk of it being eaten up by the operating system.

Many games now stretch into multiple gigabytes and if you’re thinking of fitting your movie or music library on the phone you can think again with that little storage, so we want Apple to up the minimum size to 32GB and preferably charge less of a premium for the jump to each successive size.

Despite just having an 8MP sensor the iPhone 6 Plus has one of the top cameras around, but like so many smartphone snappers it suffers in lowlight compared to the LG G4 and Samsung Galaxy S6, so we’d like to see some improvements there on the iPhone 6S Plus.

The last thing Apple needs is another bendgate on its hands, so making the iPhone 6S Plus stronger seems like a no-brainer.

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