I had the pleasure, or perhaps the torture, of seeing the new iPhone 6 and iPhone Plus and trying them out.  I say torture, because they are not available for sale as yet unlocked, which means you cannot buy them in another country and then bring them back to South Africa, because at the moment they are only sold on contracts overseas.  The iPhone Plus is already out of stock in America and still, a few weeks after it being sold out, there are long queues in any Apple store to buy the iPhone 6.  Some upgrades are marginally better than others, or look marginally better, but this is one of those “eat your heart out and die of jealousy” types of upgrades.  The new iPhone really is a creature of beauty, it feels better, it looks better and that is not just the bigger screen – the whole look of the phone is slimmer and just makes the current model, sadly, look terribly outdated.  

The iPhone Plus is a lot bigger, and probably better for people like me, who don’t need to pull out my phone in a nightclub and take somebody’s number and are struggling with small font.  Obviously there are so many middle-aged people who want the larger phone that it has sold out.  I understand they will be arriving in South Africa in December but once again that is probably on a contract basis initially and it may be some time before one can buy an unlocked version.  I am planning to get the iPhone Plus, but my wife preferred the iPhone 6 itself, saying that the Plus was a little bit too big, but either way, they are Apple’s fastest selling product in history, and when you see it, you will understand why – it is by far the most impressive iPhone ever.  I must say in terms of the applications I really enjoyed the time lapse video which creates a very interesting effect and of course the images are sharper, and all the usual improvements that have been made, but to me the big story here is that the phone itself is without doubt the best iPhone ever made.