Review iPhone 6: Get your very own Free iPhone 6

The smaller iPhone 6 breaks away from the 4-inch screen of models past and into larger territory, though at 4.7 inches, the iPhone 6 is still smallish by today's criteria. A refreshed Retina display - Apple's calling it Retina HD - retains its 326ppi density with a 1,334x750-pixel resolution. It's the iPhone 6 Plus that has the higher pixel density of its 1080p HD display.

The iPhone 6's better-than-720p display on a 4.7-inch phone is almost right. It's when you get to 5 inches and more eminent that we more often than not start seeing 1080p HD and above. The iPhone 6's A8 processor is the second 64-bit chipset that Apple's made, and it boasts 50 percent faster graphics and a 25 percent faster CPU, which should produce the phone more power-effective.

We'll finally be able to test out these titles, of course. Think of that co-processor in the old iPhone? Well, the M8 co-processor gets some new sensor tricks that bring it on par with some existing phones, so you'll get elevation and air-pressure readouts, and distance estimates. This is all-important for the iPhone fitness apps.

Apple never gives battery specifics in mAh, but the iPhone 6 is rated to last up to 10 hours over 3G and 4G LTE, and up to 11 hours on WI-Fi and video. There's Wi-Fi calling at long last, and Voice over LTE (aka VoLTE). Speaking of LTE, new specs allow for a theoretically zenith of 150Mbps downloads. Support for the Wi-Fi 802.11 AC standard means you're looking at Wi-Fi speeds three times faster than those in the iPhone 5S.