pple's new iPhone specs get updated for the same price
Update: Our ongoing iPhone 6S review puts Apple's new phone to the early test. Read that and about all its features below.
iPhone 6S is how Apple intends to spell success this year, even though the phone's design doesn't look all that different and it isn't really called the iPhone 7 after all.
With the new iPhone, it's what's on the inside that counts, as a teacher resembling Apple CEO Tim Cook may have once told you. The same applies to the updated nearly identical iPhone 6S Plus, too.
The most important iPhone 6S news is that you're in for a significant specs upgrade, with a faster performing phone, a novel 3D Touch screen and a much superior 12MP camera.
iPhone 6S release date
Apple's press conference at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco acted as the new iPhone launch date, but it isn't on sale just yet.
The official iPhone 6S release date is Friday, September 25 in a dozen countries, including the US, UK and Australia. You can order it before then however, starting Saturday, September 12.
iPhone 6S pre-orders begin at just after midnight in California at 12:01am PDT, and that means it'll be 3:01am EDT and 8:01am BST. Set your alarm or reminder via Siri before this weekend.
Long lines are expected in front of Apple Stores worldwide in advance of September 25, so the iPhone 6S release will be unlike the subdued Apple Watchlaunch. Pre-orders are still strongly encouraged.
iPhone 6S price
Apple answered all of the new iPhone rumors during its live event this week, including the all-important question: how much does iPhone 6S cost?
"Any iPhone you want is pretty affordable," according to Apple, which of course means it's going to be just as expensive. Apple never uses soft adjectives like "pretty" when words like "definitely" and "unquestionably" exist. It's thoroughly unapologetic about that.
The iPhone 6S price starts at $649 in the US, £539 in the UK and AU$1,079 in Australia. That's the same price as last year's iPhone 6 in the US and UK. It'll be $199 in the US on a two-year contract.
That's for the entry-level configuration, which again starts at a paltry 16GB. The iPhone 6S in a more accommodating 64GB is $749 (£619, AU$1,229) and 128GB is ($849, £699, AU$1,379). Once again, there's no 32GB iPhone when almost every Android this year began with that storage size.
There's no price change, but a revision is being made to the how US consumers go about buying the new iPhone. Instead of "starting at $199," it'll cost around $22 to $30 a month from most carriers. Apple had to pivot to also mention monthly device payment plans being offered by Verizon, AT&T, Sprint T-Mobile and others.
Apple also introduced an "iPhone Upgrade Program" of its own that starts at $32 a month, includes a new unlocked iPhone every year for $0 and throws in its AppleCare+ protection. You end up spending $384 on the phone over 12 months and trade-in the working iPhone for the next one.
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