iPhone XS Max vs iPhone 6S Plus: Worth the Upgrade? (2021) By Technomentary

Hey guys technology with the video for you guys in today's video we're going to be reviewing the iPhone 10s max or the XS max, with the iPhone 6s plus in this comparison, video we're going to take a look at the hardware, the software, the overall performance of both of these phone on iOS 14 in 2021, whether you're deciding between either the devices or looking to upgrade from one to another. In this video, we're going to break everything down. So you guys know what everything you need to know between these two devices, but before we go ahead and get started with today's review video, if you guys are new to our channel, we do a lot of tech, news, reviews and giveaways so make sure to hit that subscribe button. Also, if you guys are in the market for a newer phone at a discounted price, makes sure you guys check out the link in the description section. So let's go ahead and dive into today's video first thing. First, is the release date of both of these phones? These phones were released about three years apart.

The iPhone 6s plus here, as you can see, came out in september 2015 around apple's annual release date and three years later in 2018 apple released the iPhone 10s max in this video we're going to call the max and the plus what happened with iPhone, 10s and max is that apple renamed, his plus size, with a bigger size phone. What used to be known as the six plus seven plus eight plus became the max's on the iPhone 10s max 11 pro max and 12 11 and 12 pro max, so Apple can rename that. So that's one thing you want to know and about these two phones we'll go ahead and start taking a look at back of these phones. That's where you can probably start seeing the differences, because a lot has changed within three years between these devices. Of course.

The first thing you notice between these two devices is the build of it. The iPhone max here has both front and back all glass versus the 6s plus. Here, as you can see its aluminum body here, and it has that shinier bezel all to it in the Apple logo. Here but of course, the other thing you notice is the 6s which distinguishes from the six plus, so the 6s plus is actually a different model. A lot of people there's a confusion around these two devices and then, if we talk about the storage device on these two phones, a lot has changed as well, and that's where the price point kind of factors and as well the iPhone 6s plus at the base 16 gig model you paid around 749 when it was released in 2015, whereas the max here in 2018, you paid 10.99 for the 64 gig model. So of course the storage has increased almost four times, but the price you pay almost starting price comparison of the original price, you're, paying almost 400 400 and a half more than you would on these devices.

And if you look at the comparison of the back of these two phones, you'll notice, of course, we'll talk a little more in the camera section, but the dual 12 megapixel camera on the max versus just that single one on the plus here and of course, other things to notice is, of course you have. The logo here there's that writing that's not gone completely from the iPhone max here and if we take a look at the body overall, you'll notice. The one noticeable difference is the six, the last lineup that apple had the 3.5 millimeter jack when they moved away to using the thunder port for both charging and your headphone jack as well, which a lot of people kind of didn't like because the fact that you need an additional dongle if you're looking to charge your phone and use your headphones at the same time. So that was kind of an annoyance, but Apple has done with it, and it's no longer any of the models. Besides that you'll notice that the max here has a shinier bezel here compared to just that solid, a silver bezel here on the phone and that's all around the build, is pretty unique in terms of how apple has done away with the aluminum body to all glass here, and you'll notice, same thing around here again by the jackpot in speaker on the 10 ounce, mag, there's a lot more going on, where there's only a couple on this side.

Here so more, of course, speaker means more stereo grade that has better speaker for your max version and to talk about the other aspect of these two phones that we really need to discuss is here is the build and of both of these phones and, as you can see here, of course, a big difference between these two phones is its body the size in terms of the screen resolution, the iPhone max here has almost it was very similar in terms of their height and weight. A lot of things. The max doesn't weigh a little more a little over a 7.3 ounce compared to the 6s plus here, which weighs just a little over six ounces, a little heavier on between these two devices that you, you notice right off the bat. Of course that's because of the build having that glass back and such makes it much heavier than the other phone, and we want to talk about the display between it. As we mentioned the display, although the body are very similar in size, but the display real estate that you get on the max is around 6.5 diagonal. All screen OLED display compared to the plus here, which is a 5.5 widescreen lcd with IPS technology, and with that OLED display, you get a lot of differences. For example, the resolution on the max is 2668 by 1242 pixel at 458, compared to 1920 by 1080 at 401 on the plus here.

So that's a big difference. The other distance that you might not notice right away between it is the contrast ratio. Thanks to that OLED, you get almost a million to one contrast: ratio where, on the 6s plus you get 1300 to 1 contrast ratio. Things, like truth shown, is not available on the iPhone plus. Here till true tone is a unique feature on starting with the iPhone 8 and up and above you'll notice in the display center.

Is this feature that is true tone that allows the phone to automatically adjust the lighting of the display based on the ambient surrounding conditions and such which is not available. Unfortunately, on the iPhone 6s plus here that we have, as you see it's not there, so that's a very noticeable difference. You'll notice between these two device in their display aspect, and let's talk about the hardware in terms of what you can expect in this chip between these two phones, so the iPhone plus here has the a9 versus the max, which has you a 12 bionic chip and that's a big improvement because of three years three generation of chip, differences between it, uh, something you notice, along with that the a12 bionic chick there's. Also, this second generation of neural engine, which is not found on the plus here. This helps it if you're doing a lot of multitasking heavy graphic gaming and just using your phone constantly to render a lot more going on and being able to just do anything on the fly.

Of course, both of the phones are pretty much running, iOS 14, which we'll talk a little more between this device and then the last aspect of hardware, where we want to talk about is the build that we talked about. Is the water resistivity. Unfortunately, on the six as plus the phone is not water resistant at all. So if it's, if there's water, that gets in it or if you take it for a dive, it will become water damage and effectively a defective on the plus. Here, though, you have IP ip68 rating that you're able to take the phone for almost two meters at 30 minutes.

So, but the one thing you do want to keep in mind is that any phone that you take for display, for example, this one that you have because it's all body glass if a glass is on the back or anywhere strip or the front screen it can easily compromise that so does it really make a difference between being waterproof or not? Honestly, it depends on how you secure your phone and if you keep the success in a waterproof case, you might be able to take it for a dive similar to the max, but probably not recommend it. And let's talk about the next other feature we talked about, is sort of face ID versus the touch ID that's available on the iPhone on six plus, which used to be the older version way to unlock your phone. As you know, as face ID was introduced here in 2021, you know it could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how you look at it, because you don't have that fingerprint anymore. If you have some kind of covering on your face and such face ID pretty much becomes useless. You're going to have to enter your password each time when the fingerprint here saw of that problem and Apple was rumored to possibly bring back on screen fingerprint touch later in the next release of iPhone 13 or even the iPhone 14, we'll see, might have both options, which could really help the phone.

And let's go talk about the other aspect. We want to talk about battery. It's really important to talk about the battery of these two phones, because these two phones have some bigger size battery on the iPhone. The iPhone max here has almost a 3200 my battery computer and the iPhone 6s plus here has around 2750 my battery, so big huge battery. But what does that mean really in terms of for a regular user? Well, to tell you this: if you're, using the iPhone max you and or the iPhone 6s, if you're a light to medium user, most likely both of the phones will get you throughout the whole day, without really any issue at all.

That's a light to medium user. If you're a little heavier constantly using your phone, you probably will get. Maybe three fourths of the day before you need a charge on a full charge and the other one thing we want to talk about is video playback, that's important when you're comparing battery health of these two phones and the capacity of the battery you get out of it. Well, the thing you want to remember is that the iPhone max here gives you 15 hours versus the 6s plus, which gives you 14 hours, so 15 versus 14, although almost, almost five four five hundred my bigger because of that OLED, it consumes up a lot more power on the iPhone max here that we have compared to the lcd and that's why you don't really see a huge difference when you compare video playback, it's only one-hour difference, thanks. Uh, you know kind of the reason why OLED it gives you that crystal clear or display it takes a toll on the battery and hunts.

Why e the max version needs a bigger battery to supply that power, and, let's talk about the other thing we want to talk about is the camera quality between these two phones, as we saw a difference between these two camera, is that you have dual versus a single 12 megapixel camera, and that makes a lot of difference in terms of what you can expect out of it. First, let's talk about the map at the plus here that we have what kind of camera capacity does the plus have. So if we look at the camera here on the iPhone 6s plus, you notice that it doesn't have some cool features like the iPhone max here, for example, the photo both of them does take photo pretty good quality photo, we would say, but it's missing on the plus is the portrait mode which allows you to really get that studio, grade photography and makes you feel like you're, almost a photographer in some ways, but that's not available on the plus here. The other thing we want to talk about is the actual video recording capability between these two phones. So the iPhone max here almost has the same capacity as some of the new it's from with the newer phones.

That apple is the iPhone 11 Pro max and the 12 pro max. It's able to record at 4k 60 frames per second. Unfortunately, the iPhone 6s plus does record in 4k, but goes only at 30 frames per second one of the limitation of these two phones is the camera. Of course, too. It's better than one like we mentioned here, but a lot more goes out of the camera area.

That you'll be expecting if you're getting the iPhone max over the six is besides that you also get extended dynamic range video as 30 frames per second on the max, that's not possible on the 6s plus. You also get two times the optical zoom, as you can see here, we're able to go one time and then even get into more depth by that two times is the zoom that you get out of it and talking about camera. Let's talk a little about the front-facing camera. Can you expect between these two phones? Well, the front-facing camera you're going to expect a couple of things both of the phones. It does have front-facing camera.

The max here has a 7 megapixel versus the 6s, which has a 5 megapixel, almost 2 megapixels higher on the max, and does that really make a difference? Well, in terms of face timing, you may notice that the quality between these two phones are slightly different in that area. Of course, that's one thing that you'll notice between it a couple other things that aren't on the iPhone 6s plus that's available. Because of that because of the camera on the max is that you have portrait mode, that's possible on the front-facing camera. So if you go front-facing camera you'll notice that you get portrait mode, which, of course, fortune mode is not even possible on it. Other thing: you'll notice, on the camera, that's not available on the 6s plus compared to the max.

Is you have that cinematic video stabilization at 1080 and 720 pixels? So those are really some technical aspect of it and let's finally, talk about between these two phones is the software? Software really is what makes up the phone between these two phones. Of course, both of these phone right can simply do calling texting, no doubt about it, simply just phenomenal for that the quality of calling and texting, unlike android, pretty much you know something we see just phenomenal and browsing-wise you'll notice, when you start to browse, is that the max does beat the plus because of improved hardware, when you're browsing you'll notice that right off the bat there's, no doubt that, because of bigger hardware of the chip, the max of course beats a lot of that. Both of these phones are actually running. Io's 14, if you haven't noticed, we updated to iOS 14 and one thing we're going to say about iOS 14 is, it might be the last major update the 6s plus gets that's because the 6s plus has been around for all over 5 and a half years, and that's usually, the time frame apple stops to update, so, unfortunately, iOS 15 probably won't be he supported on the 6s plus. So it's the end of life for the iPhone 6s, where the max here it still, we expected to get at least another two to three years of software updates and a lot.

It's going to happen, of course, with the software update and what the software update really means. Is that because the software updates will stop you're going to be expecting major apps to be supported, but its things are not going to start working any more like it would on. I, when iOS 15 comes out here towards the end of 2015, we'll probably make a review video in that probably won't be supported, and that's when you start seeing sort of the lag and the sluggishness that comes with it, and that's something we'll notice between these two phones. They still do phenomenal job because they can down that they have both of the same sort of app build and such you're able to do pretty much anything from using social media from watching uh video. Of course, we'll say the video of course on the OLED display it's phenomenal compared to the LCD.

It's still good, but it's nothing compared to the iPhone or max here. So between these two phones, which one would you choose if you're looking for a phone or that sort of the budget that you can afford a little extra, go with the max here, because you're going to get a couple more years out of this phone, it's running, iOS 4d. It has pretty much a lot of the similar specs compared to the 12 pro max, which is the latest for the iPhones, and things like that you're going to see on the max is that it's going to be supported for a couple more years, and you just get that futuristic. All OLED displays much bigger and the improved camera. Of course, if you're really tight on budget, the iPhone 6s, 6s plus here actually is a budget friendly phone for you, because you can get it for almost a fraction of the cost.

What you would pay for the max year, you probably get this phone for under 150, or so you are even less depending on where you guys look at that. So I will look you guys in the comm, in the description section, with the discounted link for both of these phones. So hopefully, this video was helpful. We also want to hear from you guys, if you guys, are either using of these phone or upgraded from one to another. What has your experience like leave? A comment in the comment section thanks for watching guys see you guys next time.

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