iPhone 6s And iPhone 6s Plus: Apple's "Hey Siri" Event Highlight

Apple announced on September 9 their new products to be released at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California. Their new products are -iPhone 6s, and 6s plus, iPad Pro, Fourth Generation Apple TV and new Apple Watch bands. Together with these new products they are also introducing the new 'Hey Siri' feature, which supposedly has the always on feature even if the iPhone isn't plugged in.

The new upgrades for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus physically would be the stronger ion-strengthened glass and a bit thicker Series 7000 aluminum. They also added the Rose Gold color to their series and the3D Touch which the users could "peek and poop" on the screen to access shortcuts from text messages to calendar and alarms.

It also upgraded to 64 but Apple A9 chip which gives 70% CPU performance and 90% faster graphics compare to the A8 chip of the previous iPhone 6 series, also with improved 12 mpm rear iSight camera with 4k video recording and 5 mp front camera, with the optical image stabilization only available to the iPhone 6s plus. Prices would start at $199 and $299 for iPhone 6s and 6s plus respectively with a 2 year contract to date, but for those who would pay for cash it would be $649 and $749.

On the other hand, for the Fourth Generation Apple TV and iPad Pro, it mostly upgrades on the interfaces and design, but Apple TV added Siri integration to be at command and bring up content, and a redesigned glass remote with user interface to swipe through content as if using an iPhone, complete with Bluetooth 4.0, an IR transmitter, accelerometer among a number of things, with a battery life that could last for months.

With the iPad Pro's most noted improvement was a resolution of 5.6 million megapixels, or 2732x2048 at 264 PPI to be specific, more than any iOS device to date yet with a better screen which has both fingerprint resistant and oleophobic and anti-reflective coatings. It would also feature a 4 speaker audio system, an 8 mp iSight camera, Touch ID and Smart and Lightning connectors

The Apple TV won't be available until the end of October at the price of $149 (32GB) and $199 (64GB) while the iPad Pro will be released on November. For the Wi-Fi only models prices would start at $799 (32GB) and $949 (128GB) while the Wi-Fi + LTE (128GB) would be for sale at $1,079.

All those would be available in Silver, Space Gray and Gold. Added accessories for this would be the Apple Pencil, a stylus which can detect position, force and tilt which would be retailed at $99, while a Microsoft Surface Smart Keyboard which already has a Smart Cover and would also automatically connect to the iPad Pro will be available for $169.

The New iPhone 6s and 6s Plus series will be launch on September 16.

Join the Discussion

Recommended Stories

Real Time Analytics