Owners of the Obsolete: Why My iPhone 6S Still Surprises Me in 2024 š²
While technology has leaped forward since 2015, Appleās iPhone 6S remains surprisingly competent. Iāll walk through the features that still work well, the minor frustrations, and why Iām still proud to own one.
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A few days ago, I was cleaning my room and clearing out junk in my drawers when I came across my old iPhone. Just holding it again after two years brought back so many memories.
This was my iPhone 6S, my first-ever iPhone, which I got back in 10th grade. By purchasing mindset was like that of any 15ā16-year-old teen ā I had no idea about storage or size configurations and wished to save as much of my parentsā hard-earned money as I could, so I went for the base model with 64GB of storage. I think it cost around $700 at the time. For me, it was an iPhone, and that was enough.
But it was definitely something for Apple. This was their first iPhone with 2GB of RAM and paired with the A9 Bionic Processor, which basically means it had a lot of Speeeeeeed. Isnāt that what the āSā in iPhone 6S stands for? I remember someone from Apple saying that once.