Five key things to expect from the iPhone 6s launch

The market is abuzz with various speculations about the yet-to-be-launched Apple iPhone 6s —its features, designs and price. According to an article of Mashable, the iPhone 6s is going to be launched on September 9, 2015, at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.

Apple Inc is understood to be signalling big announcements from this event. Thanks to a plethora of leaks and well-sourced rumours — many from renowned Apple blogger Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac — Wednesday’s event should help Apple cap off a massive 2015.

Here are 5 most trending buzz around the Apple iPhone 6s

1. New event place

According to Mashable, the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium is the new venue for Apple. Historically, the company has held iPhone events at Moscone West or at its campus in Cupertino. The auditorium has a capacity of 7,000 people.

Typically, the company launches its products at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, which holds 757 attendees. The Flint Center, where Apple held its 2014 event, holds up to 2,405 people. Upping the capacity to 7,000 people implies Apple has something extra planned.

2. Better camera with 4K video

The iPhone has had an 8-megapixel camera for the past few years. And although the camera gets better each year — and megapixel counts are often inflated — it’s time for something new.

We could expect the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus to have 12-megapixel cameras. These new cameras can reportedly record videos in up to 4K. Of course, a rear-facing camera is only part of the story. Increasingly, more people take photos with the front camera. Thanks, to the selfie fad of the current generation.

Apple’s FaceTime camera is now rumoured to get a bump up to 5 megapixels. That’s a big increase over the anaemic 1.2-megapixel FaceTime camera on the current phones.

3. Faster processor

What is likely to be different is what’s on the inside. In addition to a new A9 chip that will offer big increases in speed and graphics, we could also expect Apple to quietly increase the RAM in the iPhone from 1GB to 2GB. The company might even add an extra core to the processor, as it did with the iPad Air 2.

4. Bendgate be damned

In addition to beefier processors, the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus are expected to use Aluminum 7000, which will make the phone virtually immune to bending (forget the ‘Bendgate’ of yore). There are some trade-offs to using the zinc-fortified super-strong aluminum — for one, it is expensive — but the durability benefits outweigh all of that.

5. Force Touch

The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus will almost certainly include Force Touch, the technology Apple uses on the Apple Watch and the trackpad on the MacBook and MacBook Pro.

This has been rumored since March. The idea behind Force Touch is that the glass knows how hard you are pressing against it, and based on that pressure it shows you different things.