iPhone 6 rumors: All the specs and features you need to know!

Apple's annual iPhone refresh cycle points to a release date around September, at best. Although we are half a year away from its release, nothing could stop the churning rumor mill!

Screen Size
Many users are moving away from iPhones to Androids in search of a bigger screen. The 4-inch screens on current iPhones are deemed small, and Apple finally seems to be acknowledging that! Rumors point to a 4.7 or 4.8 inch display, with a Full HD resolution of 1920x1080 pixels. There are also reports on a 5.5 inch phablet (iPhone Pro?) with a 2K QHD resolution of 2272x1280 pixels.

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Internal Storage
As with the usual 16GB, 32GB and 64GB variant, there are also reports of a 128GB variant.
NOTE: The 128GB rumor has been on the rumor mill for years, but never materialized. Will we finally see it on iPhone 6?

Camera
The 8-megapixel back camera will remain. Apple are likely to improve its optics rather than increasing megapixels. There are talks of a bigger, f/1.8 aperture, up from f/2.2 in iPhone 5s.
Front camera could be improved up to a 3.2-megapixel setup. There are reports that Sony will supply Apple with the front camera, but maybe not so soon.

Processor
It will likely be an A8 20 nanometer chip with 2GB RAM. One report claims that it will integrate DRAM into the chipset, thus bringing it closer to being "system-on-a-chip" (SoC).
Accelerometer, gyroscope and compass processing will likely be dealt with a new M8 motion coprocessor.

Sapphire Crystal Displays
Apple has been using sapphire glass on its iPhone 5s, albeit only for lens cover and home button. Apple recently partnered with GT Advanced to build a plant in Arizona, reportedly to manufacture sapphire crystal. Will it make it in time for iPhone 6 remains to be seen.

Biometrics
Touch ID fingerprint scanner will be included in iPhone 6, but what else? Apple has secured a patent for facial recognition, so things could get even more interesting.

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Curved Displays
With LG and Samsung already making curved display phones, will Apple follow suit? Unlikely, in my opinion. With the iPhone business alone being larger than the whole of Microsoft, the generally conservative Apple will not take such huge risks.

Although speculation and patent filings are interesting, no concrete conclusions can be drawn just yet. Still a long wait, it seems.


Written by: Kheng Wei Ang