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They must have needed a bigger battery to drive the faster A9 and the always on coprocessor. (M something?)

by jfoutz 11y ago

masklinn 11y ago
The dimensions are almost exactly the same as the current gen 6/6+, the only big difference is weight which is a good 10% higher according to the tech spec pages[0][1] iPhone 6: 5.44" x 2.64" x 0.27"; 4.55 ounces iPhone 6S: 5.44" x 2.64" x 0.28"; 5.05 ounces iPhone 6+: 6.22" x 3.06" x 0.28"; 6.07 ounces iPhone 6S+: 6.23" x 3.07" x 0.29"; 6.77 ounces [0] http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/specs/ http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/specs/ [1] http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/ http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/
- jfoutz 11y ago
  I completely misunderstood this graphic: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/0342.jpg https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/0342.jp... It looks like 6+ and 6s are the same size, with 6s+ being huge.
  - masklinn 11y ago
    They're not to scale, the 6 and 6S are the same size (there's a fraction of a millimetre difference), so are the 6+ and 6S+. I have no idea what they did with that slide, I guess somebody didn't want to overshadow the new phones and thought extra color was not sufficient.
  - artursapek 11y ago
    The increase in size in that photo is dramatized by the vanishing point.
- graeme 11y ago
  Interesting. Do you know why it's heavier? I'd have to hold one to be sure, but I really like how light the 6 is. I'm not sure I'd like a heavier phone - the 6's specs are already great.
  - masklinn 11y ago
    No idea, my guess would be the force touch gizmos, the trackpads tack on a fair bit of hardware[0] though I've no idea how much it weighs and in the "disassembly" pics the feedback thingy ("taptic engine") seemed fairly large and mostly metallic: http://live.arstechnica.com/give-us-a-hint-apples-september-9-event/images/DSC00147.JPG http://live.arstechnica.com/give-us-a-hint-apples-september-... (that's the big gray block in front of the battery, you can read "taptic" on the far side of the picture) The different aluminium alloy might be a few % heavier, but it wouldn't increase the whole phone's weight by 10% (replacing aluminium by steel might) [0] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Retina+Macbook+2015+Teardown/39841#s89855 https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Retina+Macbook+2015+Teardown...

They must have needed a bigger battery to drive the faster A9 and the always on coprocessor. (M something?)

by jfoutz 11y ago

They must have needed a bigger battery to drive the faster A9 and the always on coprocessor. (M something?)

The dimensions are almost exactly the same as the current gen 6/6+, the only big difference is weight which is a good 10% higher according to the tech spec pages[0][1] iPhone 6: 5.44" x 2.64" x 0.27"; 4.55 ounces iPhone 6S: 5.44" x 2.64" x 0.28"; 5.05 ounces iPhone 6+: 6.22" x 3.06" x 0.28"; 6.07 ounces iPhone 6S+: 6.23" x 3.07" x 0.29"; 6.77 ounces [0] http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/specs/ http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/specs/ [1] http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/ http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/

jfoutz 11y ago
I completely misunderstood this graphic: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/0342.jpg https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/0342.jp... It looks like 6+ and 6s are the same size, with 6s+ being huge.
- masklinn 11y ago
  They're not to scale, the 6 and 6S are the same size (there's a fraction of a millimetre difference), so are the 6+ and 6S+. I have no idea what they did with that slide, I guess somebody didn't want to overshadow the new phones and thought extra color was not sufficient.
- artursapek 11y ago
  The increase in size in that photo is dramatized by the vanishing point.
graeme 11y ago
Interesting. Do you know why it's heavier? I'd have to hold one to be sure, but I really like how light the 6 is. I'm not sure I'd like a heavier phone - the 6's specs are already great.
- masklinn 11y ago
  No idea, my guess would be the force touch gizmos, the trackpads tack on a fair bit of hardware[0] though I've no idea how much it weighs and in the "disassembly" pics the feedback thingy ("taptic engine") seemed fairly large and mostly metallic: http://live.arstechnica.com/give-us-a-hint-apples-september-9-event/images/DSC00147.JPG http://live.arstechnica.com/give-us-a-hint-apples-september-... (that's the big gray block in front of the battery, you can read "taptic" on the far side of the picture) The different aluminium alloy might be a few % heavier, but it wouldn't increase the whole phone's weight by 10% (replacing aluminium by steel might) [0] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Retina+Macbook+2015+Teardown/39841#s89855 https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Retina+Macbook+2015+Teardown...