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Count me as one of the sheeple, who is likely to be one of the 13-to-15 million buyers (as predicted by Foursquare) of the new iPhone 6S. I am going for the 6S plus and thinking about space gray to match my Macbook 12 in the same hue. I took the launch of the newer models as an opportunity to take a look at the technical progress (as measured by Geekbench 3 Performance Benchmark) made by Apple and the iPhone.

The company has been cramming more and more graphics capabilities, memory and oomphier processors in the iPhones. The latest iPhone 6s+ for example, has 70 percent more CPU performance, 90% improvement in GPU and the new A9 system on a chip features the M9 motion coprocessor. In other words, the company is continuing to pack a lot into this svelte device.

Given, how much I use my iPhone for photography, I also chartered the progress of iPhone’s camera & photo-taking abilities. Here are two charts that tell iPhone’s story — and when you are done, remember what design legend Charles Eames once said, “The details are not the details. They make the design.” Apple is the master of unseen details.

iPhone_Camera

iPhone_Performance

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