Apple iPhone 6

FACT: Every time you take your iphone out of your pocket, you will either drop it or will be asked to hand it over, so someone can try bending it. And you’ll also find yourself spending way too much time explaining people why it can’t be done. True, you could look around, call people uninformed lemmings still hanging on to the clutches and the coat tails of cheaper devices running an open-source platform who can’t stop smiling just because they’ve found a chink in the armour of the iPhone 6. But you’d be wrong. This isn’t it's only weakness, there are few more.

iPhone 6 heats up, it does hang and in the time we used it, it crashed running basic apps such as whatsapp, email and a phone call together. So, the question is – should you still buy it? The answer is, without a shadow of a doubt, a big – YES.

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The iPhone 6, for the lack of other analogies, is the Lamborghini of phones – it only seats two, has just about no suspension, but drive down the road in one and everyone will look, some might even drool. Even the ones who have the Nexus 5, which they claim has had the same features as the iphone 6 for two years (and they are right, in fact the Nexus has 2 GB RAM as opposed to 1 on the apple). Apple has spent most of last year poaching people not from tech brands but from luxury brands, clearing its intentions for making devices which might not be the most cutting edge tech, but they definitely are the most aspirational.

That said, the iPhone 6 will feel like a massive leap in size for iPhone users, but those used to HTC and Samsung phones the size is nothing special. The colours and the resolution have been significantly upgraded, so you no longer have to give longing glances at the android phone of the person next to you buffering the same video. Plus the battery has been upgraded too, which means you’ll spend less time looking for a power outlet and begging for a charger everywhere you go. Imagine what you’d be able to accomplish with the time saved. Write a book maybe. A short one. Children’s novel.

So, why should you be buying an iphone 6? For one, you get a touch that’s second to none – the camera even though its still 8 MP comes with a brand new sensor that focuses very quickly – even if you are moving the phone, which means there will be a significant improvement in the quality of pictures you take with it over the 5S. If you fancy yourself as an amateur photographer, you can toy around with the controls like Exposure Lock etc,. A useful feature called Cinematic Stabilisation means shooting video, while riding shotgun in a BMW M4 around the F1 track won't be shaky, even though you are being thrown around corners.

To compliment iOS8, Apple has bunged in a faster processor (A8) with one express aim – making the iphone faster when it comes to multi-tasking. That said, in the one week or so that FHM had its hand on the iPhone 6, it did self-reboot on at least one occasion and on at least a couple of occasions hung juggling 3-4 apps like whatsapp, email, map and making a phone call. But that can happen to every phone right?

Additionally the new processor also comes with a brand new M8 motion-co processor which can track your steps, altitude etc – again these are features which existed even in the previous generation of the Google Nexus. But even then, the iPhone 6 remains one of the most sought after piece of kit for this year. If you can afford one, you should definitely get it, but make sure you get a cover too – the phone camera lens just out just a tad bit, plus you can most definitely use the extra grip that the cover will provide.

From the December 2014 issue of FHM India.