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IT'S OFFICIAL: This is the iPhone 6S

Apple unveiled two new iPhones at its media event Wednesday: the iPhone 6S, and the iPhone 6S Plus.

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Let's dive into the iPhone 6S.

  • It looks identical to last year's iPhone 6, but it's made of stronger 7000 series aluminum.
  • It's available in the same three colors as the iPhone 6 — gold, silver, and space grey — as well as a new color: rose gold.
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  • There's a new way to interact with the iPhone. It's called 3D Touch — not called Force Touch, which is what it's called on the Apple Watch and MacBook.
  • 3D Touch gives you shortcuts to the actions you do frequently, but you can also use it from the home screen. If you lightly touch something you can "peek" at it — like a specific email from within the Mail app. If you push down further you can "pop" it out into the full application. 3D Touch allows you to dip into applications without leaving what you're doing.
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You can click and hold onto a flight number from an email to "peek" into the flight information. Apple
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You can also use 3D touch from your homescreen to activate certain features within your applications without entering them. Apple
  • In Instagram, for instance, you can use 3D Touch "peek" at people's photos without visiting their profile — and "peeking" at a video lets you play it automatically.
  • The iPhone 6S comes with a unique taptic engine that can vibrate in shorter, more distinct feedback events.
  • The iPhone 6S is built with an A9 chip, Apple's 3rd generation 64-bit chip that has new transistor architecture that's optimized for real-world use. Compared to the A8 chip, it's 70% faster at CPU tasks and 90% faster at graphics tasks.
  • The cameras are much better in the new iPhones. The iPhone 6S features a 12-megapixel rear-facing camera for high-quality stills, but it also takes detailed videos. You can finally film 4K video on the iPhone 6S.
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Apple's SVP of marketing Phil Schiller shows off the 12-megapixel sensor in the iPhone 6S. Apple
  • The iPhone 6S also features a 5-megapixel front-facing camera for high-quality FaceTime images.
  • The coolest new camera feature is called Live Photos. Basically it's a new default setting for your camera app that lets you watch 3-second clips of any still picture you take — kind of like moving images in "Back to the Future" or the "Harry Potter" movies. You can make Live Photos into your wallpaper on the iPhone or Apple Watch.

Here's a roundup of all the other important information about the iPhone 6S:

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