iPhone
comes out of a 'bygone era', reviewers hail bigger handset
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[September 17, 2014]
(Reuters) - Bigger is better and
Apple Inc <AAPL.O> has finally realized that and given iPhone users a
product that may be low on novelty but high on improvements, reviewers
wrote.
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Most reviewers say that the iPhone 6 is the best smartphone
available or "ever made", while the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus has been
described as a "phablet" that will give competition to Samsung
Electronics Co Ltd's <005930.KS> Galaxy S line of 'big' Android
phones.
"I think it's a terrific phone. In my view, it's the best smartphone
on the market, when you combine its hardware, all-new operating
system, and the Apple ecosystem whose doors it opens," Walt Mossberg
wrote of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 in the tech blog Re/code.
(http://on.recode.net/1yelaOv)
Geoffrey Fowler, who reviewed the phones for the Wall Street
Journal, said Apple has "successfully addressed its size
deficiency." (http://on.wsj.com/1u5kdBG)
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Mossberg said the increase in the screen size is a "catch-up"
feature. But it is seen as a welcome change by Fowler, who said the
iPhone "felt stuck in a bygone era called 2012" before the launch of
the bigger phones.
New York Times reviewer Molly Wood appreciated the new "thinner,
flatter and more rounded shapes" of both the phones. But she pointed
out that the sleek look comes at the cost of the phones feeling
"slippery". (http://nyti.ms/1woWs9r)
The improvements made to the operating system - the iOS 8 software,
and that to the camera were given a thumbs up by reviewers across
the board. However, most believed that Apple could have done more to
enhance the battery life of the phones.
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Joshua Topolski, who reviewed the phones for Bloomberg, said they
were faster than their predecessors.
"Apple will tell you that these are the fastest mobile devices it's
ever made, and it wouldn't be lying. These phones scream," Topolski
wrote. (http://buswk.co/1u5n4uq)
The new iPhone 6 goes on sale on Sept. 19 in the United States.
(Reporting by Arnab Sen in Bangalore; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier)
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