Review: Apple iPhone 6S

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla 

The iPhone story for 2015 is remarkable in that it is an ‘S’ year, which usually means incremental changes with no obvious physical difference from last year’s model, but Apple’s given the iPhone 6S a complete structural and functional makeover.

The iPhone story is one of constant and steady improvement with various leapfrog innovations along the way. Let's count some of them. Multi-touch, mobile apps, app store, voice assistants, finger-print sensors, video calling, mobile payments are just some of the features that were propelled into the mainstream. Let's see what the iPhone 6S has to offer

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iPhone 6S goes on sale in 36 more countries today and 6 more tommorow

Apple's iPhone 6S is hitting 36 more countries today and 6 more countries tommorow as supply speeds up to meet demand for the latest iPhones.

Countries included in the phase two rollout are Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Maldives, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan.

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Scotiabank becomes the first bank in Canada to offer a mobile wallet for credit and debit cards on both Android and BlackBerry devices

Any Scotiabank customer with one of the many eligible Android or BlackBerry smartphones from Rogers, Bell, Virgin Mobile, TELUS or Koodo Mobile will have the freedom to simply tap their mobile phone to pay for debit and credit purchases at all Interac Flash† or Visa payWave enabled terminals. In addition, customers will continue to be able to store and use their SCENE loyalty card to earn and redeem SCENE points at Cineplex Entertainment®^ theatres and a growing number of SCENE partners.

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Meet the Light L16 camera with 16 lenses and unlimited depth of field

The Light Story from light on Vimeo.

There have been some exciting innovations in cameras these past few years and also some certifiable flops (remember Lytro?), the Light L16 camera looks to be the next new thing in cameras.

If it looks strange, that's because it has 16 lense and apertures, why? Because each of these takes a picture simultaneously then using sophisticated computational imaging techniques, it fuses them together to create a single image with up to 52 megapixel resolution. That's a lot of detail, depth and precision that could beat a large-megapixel camera, at least in theory. The

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