The iPhone 5s represents Apple's second
largest departure in terms of design since the iPhone 4, and ushers in
an era of rounded aesthetics. Equipped with a 4.7-inch display, the
iPhone 6 is also much larger than its predecessor, the iPhone 5s, but
Apple has managed to trim some extra fat in order to make the new iPhone
even thinner, at 0.27 in (6.9 mm).
The innards of the iPhone 6, too, went through improvements. The
home-grown dual-core A8 processor is the third consecutive Apple chip to
be custom-designed, and offers performance improvements of up to 25%
and 50% in the of CPU and GPU departments respectively. The 8-megapixel,
1/3” iSight camera also received several upgrades, mostly on the
software side, and now offers faster, phase detection auto focus, plus
support for super-smooth 720p clips at the industry-leading 240 frames
per second.