The Good<\/strong> The iPhone 6 delivers a spacious, crisp 4.7-inch screen, improved wireless speeds, better camera autofocus, and bumped-up storage capacities to 128GB at the top end. iOS remains a top-notch mobile operating system with an excellent app selection, and Apple Pay is a smooth, secure payment system.<\/span><\/p>\n The Bad<\/strong> Battery life isn’t much better than last year’s iPhone 5S. An even larger screen could have been squeezed into the same housing.<\/p>\n The Bottom Line<\/strong> The iPhone 6 is an exceptional phone in nearly every way except its average battery life: it’s thin and fast with a spacious screen and the smoothest payment system we’ve seen. It’s the best overall phone of 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n For years, Android phones have shipped with displays in expansive, 5-inch-ish sizes, but Apple had insisted on the necessity of a small screen for one-handed operation. The iPhone 5S<\/a>, while powerful, hit a wall in viewing room: its 4-inch screen was among the smallest on the market, and, frankly, I found it limiting.<\/p>\n Apple now has two larger iPhones: one big, the other even bigger. The iPhone 6 sports a 4.7-inch screen, while the iPhone 6 Plus<\/a> goes full “phablet” with a 5.5-inch display. Compared to earlier iPhones, both of the new models boast thinner bodies, ship with faster A8 processors, slightly improved cameras, speedier Wi-Fi and LTE cellular data, better voice quality if you’re using voice-over-LTE, and — except in the entry-level models — more onboard storage. And like all current iPhones, these are running iOS 8.1<\/a>; it’s a far less revolutionary update than iOS 7<\/a> was, but it adds some nice improvements and customization options, including notification widgets, replaceable keyboards, a new Health app<\/a> and Apple Pay<\/a>.<\/p>\n iPhones have always had phenomenal displays, both in terms of brightness and color quality. AfterCNET’s display testing<\/a>, we found the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus screens to be better than previous iPhones, narrowly. Grayscale and contrast levels are better, while color accuracy remains about the same. We still found OLED displays<\/a> like those on the Samsung Galaxy S5 had more vivid contrast and slightly richer, if less accurate, color.<\/p>\n But the bottom line is, the iPhone 6’s 4.7-inch IPS display<\/a> looks excellent: vivid, rich, and bigger than before. But not that much bigger. The display’s 1,344×750-pixel resolution is higher than the iPhone 5\/5C\/5S’ 1,136×640, but it has the same 326ppi pixel density<\/a>. It’s a good step up, and a big help for nearly anything you’d use your phone’s screen for.<\/p>\n A grid of six-by-four apps now fits on each page plus the four in the dock below, for 28 total; on the 5’s 4-inch display, it’s 24. There are more pixels horizontally and vertically, unlike the merely vertical lengthening of the iPhone 5. That also means the aspect ratio is the same (16×9), and videos and Web pages scale similarly.<\/p>\n The Good The iPhone 6 delivers a spacious, crisp 4.7-inch screen, improved wireless speeds, better camera autofocus, and bumped-up storage capacities to 128GB at the top end. iOS remains a top-notch mobile operating system with an excellent app selection, and Apple Pay is a smooth, secure payment system. 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<\/a><\/p>\nThe screen<\/h3>\n