iPhone 6 Details

iPhone 6 Details and Features

iPhone 6 Release Date

Guessing Apple's release dates is a complete and utter nightmare, with practically every prediction wrong. It's clear, given that the iPhone 5S was released in September, that we're not going to see the iPhone 6 until 2014 now.

Apple usually has products on sale for a year, but the iPhone 6 feels like a different proposition to us. Rather than a replacement for an existing iPhone, it's more of an addition to the line-up. We kind of see it replication what Samsung has with the full-size Galaxy S4 and the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini, with the exception that Apple's small phone, the 5S, is still really powerful.

Tim Cook has hinted at new products coming soon autumn launch in a call with investors. "Our teams are hard at work on some amazing new hardware, software, and services that we can't wait to introduce this fall and throughout 2014," Cook said.

Relative speaking, It seems fair that we can expect the handset soon, particularly as Apple's Canadian ARM has apparently already leaked the iPhone 6. If we had to pushed on a date, Apple enough distance from the iPhone 5S and give it a chance to take the limelight away from Samsung, which will be looking to release it's Galaxy S5 handset around the same time.

iPhone 6 Screen

It's pretty safe to assume that the iPhone 6 is going to have a larger screen size than the existing iPhone 6. Most of the  rumors are that the iPhone 6 will have a 4.8inch screen (4.5inch and 5inch screen sizes to the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the HTC One. At the screen size, Apple could then move to a Full HD (1,920x1,080) resolution or even go beyond.

While Apple has not previously made a large-screen phone, upping the screen size for the iPhone 6 makes a lot of sense. It means it can compete with the large-screen phones from other manufacturers and keep the iPhone 5S as a smaller alternative, giving iPhone users more choice.

Even Apple may be considering the screen technology with a sharp IGZO(Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide) . This new technology allows for screens that use less power and are considerably thinner. Rumours certainly picked up when the sharp IGZO technology was demonstrated at CES 2013.

iPhone 6 Gaze Detection

A bigger screen requires more power, so any technology that can increase battery life has to be good. For the iPhone 6 Apple could be about to revisit gaze detection technology, where the phone can tell if you're looking at the screen or not. If you were to look away, the phone could pause a video playing and turn the screen off. Patently Apple has a dug up the full information on how the technology is likely to work.

Given that Samsung has similar technology in its Galaxy S4 smartphone, we'd say there's a high chance that Apple will follow suit and implement it's own version.

iPhone 6 iOS 7

We already have iOS 7, so it makes sense that the operating system will be used for the iPhone 6. It's possible, given that iPhone 5S has features specific to it, that the OS will be updated to introduce new features with the new handset. For example, it could enable NFC is Apple decides that it wants the technology to use for mobile payments: we wouldn't bet on it, though, as it seems steadfastly against it.

iOS 7 was released with the iPhone 5S, but a tweaked version could come to the iPhone 6.

iPhone 6 Camera

For the iPhone 5S Apple upped the physical size of it's 8-Mp sensor, meaning that each pixel gets more light. In addition, it upgraded the lens from an f/2.4 model to an f/2.2 model,increasing low-light performance again. Combined with the A7SoC, the camera has a couple af neat modes, including a 10fps burst mode that goes on until the phone's memory is full, and a 120fps slow-motion mode.

It would make sense if Apple was to use this sensor in the iPhone 6, although , given it's a bigger phone, with more room inside for components, it could well up the pixel count, with a 12- or 13-megapxel on the cards.

iPhone 6 storage

In terms of storage, 64GB has been the top model for a couple of years, and continues to be so  for the iPhone 5S. we're not expecting this to change for the iPhone 6, although we know that the Apple can make a 128GB model, thanks to the recent launch of a 128GB iPad 4.

The new model doubled the maximum capacity of the previous high-end iPad(64GB). This update was said to be about increasing the variety of users for the tablet, with Apple starting that more storage was good for large files for useful amount of storage for photos and videos.

iPhone 6 Touch ID

Touch ID, the fingerprint reader, was the one of the big talking points for the iPhone 5S. Recent rumours suggest that Touch ID will also come to the iPad 5 and iPad Mini 2, so we'd really expect it on the iPhone 6.

Touch ID works brilliant and encourages people to be more secure, as using it requires a passcode to be set. At the moment, Touch ID can only be used to unlock the iPhone and to  authorise iTunes and app store payments, but it would make sense for Apple to be thinking about new applications for the technology. We can easily see a future where banking apps, for example, are authenticated through the phone.

For the technology really to be taken seriously, we'd expect to see it in as many mobile devices as possible, which obviously includes the iPhone6. The only real question is, will we see touch ID open up any new features? If Apple was to include a NFC chip, then Touch ID could be used to authenticate payments. We're not necessarily expecting NFC, though, as Apple has so far been dead set against including it.

iPhone 6 Price

Apple typically releases it's new models at the same price as the old ones. If that holds out, then, and assuming that the 16GB model is dropped, we'd expect the 32GB model to cost $800, the 64GB for $899 and the 128GB model for $1199. However, if the company continues to sell the iPhone 5S, we could be in for some new pricing, with the iPhone 6 a premium model that sits above it, in which case all bets are off and we have no idea how much it will be.

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