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• http://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Apple-iPhone-6-and-6-Plus-review-Bigger-and-better.-Apple-set-gold-standard-for-smartphone-image-quality
• http://connect.dpreview.com/post/8962178673/dxomark-mobile-report-apple-iphone-6

The iPhone 6 Plus iSight camera chip is housed in a camera module measuring 10.6 mm x 9.3 mm x 5.6 mm thick. Fabricated by Sony, the iSight camera chip is a stacked (Exmor RS), back-illuminated CMOS image sensor (CIS) featuring 1.5 µm generation pixels (introduced for the iPhone 5s). The die size is 4.8 mm x 6.1 mm (29.3 mm2). The phase pixel pairs have all been implemented in the green channel and cover the majority of the active pixel array. Our exploratory analysis of the iSight camera module and chip is still in progress and we plan to publish Device Essentials and Basic Package Analysis reports in the coming weeks.

While we expected the new version of the FaceTime cameras to get a bump in resolution from 1.2 MP to 2 MP, they’ve in fact stayed at 1.2 MP for both the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.

http://www.chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/resources/blog/inside-the-iphone-6-and-iphone-6-plus-part-3/

http://connect.dpreview.com/post/6303555427/apple-iphone-6-plus-camera-review

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Reports claimed recently that some 128GB iPhone 6 Plus users have their devices shut off without warning when downloading apps, with some users stating the phone has issues when more than 700 apps are installed. Triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash memory and controllers are being identified as the cause of the crashes.