Apple officially announces the much awaited iPhone 6 Plus with a 5.5" display

The Apple iPhone 6 Plus is now official. It's built around a 5.5" IPS LCD display with an Retina HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels with 400 ppi). iOS 8 has been tweaked to take full advantage of the larger display.

The back of the iPhone 6 Plus is made of anodized aluminum and the stainless steel frame of the phone ensures its rigidity.

The user interface has been optimized to take advantage of the larger screen and offers split-screen mode in several apps like earlierleaks suggested.

The new 64-bit A8 chip that powers the Apple iPhone 6 Plus is built using the 20nm manufacturing process. Thanks to this it's more power efficient, while still offering 25% more CPU power and 50% GPU boost.

The iPhone 6 Plus supports 20 LTE bands, but only 150Mbps cat4 LTE, rather than the latest 300Mbps Cat 6. On the positive side the phablet comes with VoLTE and Wi-Fi 802.11ac, which promises 3x faster Wi-Fi compared to the iPhone 5s. Wi-Fi calling is also a new feature, which will work on T-Mobile in the US and EE in the UK.

Further on, the iPhone 6 Plus packs NFC, another first for the company. Thanks to it, you'll be able to make payments by using Apple Pay - Apple's own NFC payment system.

At the back, the iPhone 6 Plus uses a 8MP iSight camera with a True Tone dual LED flash. The pixel size is the same as on the iPhone 5s at 1.5μ and the aperture is unchanged at f/2.2. However the iPhone 6 Plus has an optical image stabilization - a first for the company.

There's also phase-detection autofocus that should improve focusing speed twice. It is enabled by the A8 chip, which also includes powerful image signal processor designed by Apple.

The Apple iPhone 6 Plus camera records 1080p video at 30 and 60fps. There's a slow-mo shooting available, too, at 240fps, but its resolution hasn't been specified.

The Apple iPhone 6 Plus will start at $299 for the 16GB version, while the 64GB and 128GB will retail for $399 and $499, respectively.

iPhone 6 Plus pre-orders commence on September 12 and shipments being a week later, on September 19.

Alleged Apple iPhone 6 specs revealed by China Mobile

Less than a day before the official announcement, the alleged specs of the Apple iPhone 6 leaked out. The information was posted online by China Mobile – the largest wireless carrier in the world.

Purportedly, iPhone 6 will feature an Apple A8 chipset with quad-core CPU and 4.7” display with the rather unimpressive resolution of 1134 x 750 pixels, covered by sapphire glass.

According to China Mobile’s sign-up page, the iPhone 6 will pack an 8MP main camera and a 2.1MP front-facing unit. The device will be available in versions with 16, 32, 64, and 128GB of built-in memory.

Physical measures of the iPhone 6 are listed to be 138mm x 67mm x 7mm. Curiously, the Chinese carrier lists the device as being water and dust resistant.

China Mobile has listed only the specs of the 4.7” iPhone 6 model. Information on the 5.5” model is not displayed.

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BlackBerry Passport specs get revealed in detail.

The technical specifications of the BlackBerry Passport got revealed in full detail. The hardware QWERTY smartphone is expected to launch at some point next month.

BlackBerry Passport features

1. Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset with 2.2GHz quad-core CPU
2. Adreno 330 GPU
3. 3GB LPDDR3 RAM. 
4. Internal Memory - 32GB, expandable via a microSD card slot.
5. Display is a 4.5” LCD unit with a 1:1 ratio and resolution of 1440 x 1440 pixels (453 dpi).
6. Corning Gorilla Glass 3.
7. 13MP f/2.0 main camera with OIS and 1080p @ 60fps video capture. 
8. A 2MP fixed-focus front-facing unit with image and video stabilization.
9. Connectivity features LTE, HSPA+, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, GLONASS, and NFC.
10. Nano-SIM card slot.
11. USB 2.0, USB 3.0, VGA, DisplayPort, and HDMI. The last three options will be available via a SlimPort adaptor.
12. 3,450mAh battery.

Measures of the BlackBerry Passport are 128 x 90.3 x 9.3mm (9.6mm at the camera unit), while its weight tips the scale at the substantial 194.4 grams.

BlackBerry Passport has already made a number of appearances. Recently, its innovative keyboard starred in a video demo.