Well, this isn't how I imagined it to be. I was going to write my article here, but then it became 2:33 AM and things got weird and my attention span died and I ended up with with nothing but that rather cool swag gif. I shouldn't be concious now, but I want to see what this page will look like, content or not, so I'll blatantly post an article from Gizmodo.
I'd rather get this out of the way up front: the iPhone 6 is the best smartphone you can buy. In fact, it's better than that. The iPhone 6 convinced me to switch back to Apple. It feels strange to say this, but the last time I owned an iPhone, it was a 3GS. That wasn't intentional; it just sort of happened. Like many a tech journalist, I hopped onto Windows Phone to familiarize myself better with what was then a brand-new platform, then Android to check in on its rapid progress. I stuck with Google because of last year's Moto X. And in all that time there hasn't been an iPhone so compelling that I had to switch back. Until the iPhone 6. That's partly because of what Apple's done, and partly because of what everyone else hasn't. But mostly it's because the iPhone 6 is the single best smartphone you can buy.
Random picture I found. Maybe he likes iphones.
Design The short version is that the iPhone 6 is largely just a bigger iPhone 5S, and that's true in some important—and at times frustrating—ways. It also ignores some very deliberate compromises Apple had to make while sizing up. Buttons have relocated and elongated; antenna lines are more pronounced. The tweaks are subtle, but they're there. First, the similarities. This phone still looks and feels exactly like an iPhone. Someone who's been cryogenically frozen since the iPhone 5 launch could recognize the iPhone 6 as an Apple device from across a crowded room. That's a good thing! It's popular to characterize Apple's design progression as boring, but that's just a grumpy way of saying it's consistent. It would make about as much sense for the iPhone to change dramatically from year to year as it would for the Orioles to send a horse to the mound this October. Stick with what works. In practice, that means that the iPhone 6 has that same long, lean feeling, the same gently rounded corners, and the same cool (as in just shy of cold, not Fonz) coloration— unless you go gold, in which case I salute yet don't fully comprehend your independent spirit and life choices. Touch ID is right where you left it, as is your Lightning port and headphone jack and the majority of your buttons. One less welcome carryover from last year is how strikingly tall the iPhone 6 is relative to its screen size. A device with this much zip and finesse shouldn't feel this lanky; at times it's like a point guard caught in Shawn Bradley's body. The reason for this is the oversized top and bottom bezels, and the reason for those is to accommodate that thumb-sized Touch ID button. It's ultimately a fair trade, because Touch ID works like magic, and will even more so now that it can play more nicely with third-party apps. As for what's changed? A mix of necessity and whimsy. The power button, previously within fingertip's reach at the top of the iPhone 5S, has relocated to the upper right-hand side of the much taller iPhone 6. Gone are the chamfered borders of the previous generation, replaced by gently sloping glass that runs from edge to edge and makes your thumb feel like it's slaloming away on each long sideways swipe. You might find it overly bubbly; I found it more approachable than the hard stop the iPhone 5S presented. Ok that's enough.