To plagiarise our own introduction to this review, the new iPhones are Apple's finest achievement as a smartphone maker, elegantly proving less really can be so much more in a cramped room of clones. But it comes at a price.

iPhone 6 and 6 Plus: Beautiful design; excellent performance; iOS 8 increases flexibility; unmatched industrial design; best rear-facing cameras on the market iPhone 6 Plus only: Optical image stabilisation; large and Full HD screen makes a big difference

iPhone 6 and 6 Plus: Expensive iPhone 6 Plus only: Identical GPU means higher-resolution 3D games may run at lower frame rates than iPhone 6

Good phone

Non

5s had one year now, the iPhone 6 plus applicable tlfn is really great sometimes get hurt in the hand; ( Everything else exactly the same as other models battery life is definitely better than 5s Changed my mind a little but hope I will get used to it soon to a large mobile

Apple has finally set its foot in the phablet market this year with the iPhone 6 Plus. It took Apple about four years to understand that people do like big screens, no matter how awkward they are to handle with one hand. The iPhone 6 Plus is Apple’s biggest leap since the iPhone 4.

But using a smartphone with a huge screen, like the iPhone 6 Plus, forces you to constantly consider the size of your hands.

Beautiful display; Terrific camera; Great battery life

Probably needs a case; iOS can be glitchy; Apps need to be updated to take better advantage of the display; Seriously; what is this paste icon on the landscape keyboard

This year, Apple has launched almost -- but not quite -- identical handsets apart from the screen size. We've already evaluated Apple's new 4.7-inch iPhone 6 , and now it's the turn of the larger 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus.

Elegant slimline chassis with 5.5-inch screen; Solid build quality; Performance boost over iPhone 5s; Good battery life; Optical image stabilisation on iSight camera

Some users will find the large screen hard to navigate; Expensive; No storage expansion; No NFC-enabled Apple Pay support outside the US

That Apple makes superlative smartphones is nothing new; the Cupertino-based company has set the gold standard for mobile design ever since it debuted the iPhone in 2007. But in the iPhone 6 Plus, Apple is walking a path it's never trodden before.

This is the most capable iPhone ever made; It blew away the competition in our benchmark tests, its battery lasts forever, and its camera sets a new standard for excellence

Thanks to a thick bezel; the phone is bigger than other devices with comparable; 5.5-inch screens.

In the end, the iPhone 6 Plus is exactly what we imagined it would be – an oversized iPhone. And while Apple did little to take advantage of that extra space, it made up for it in other areas, like the speaker quality, battery life, and even performance.

 Fantastic build quality and in-hand feel; Above average camera performance;  Third-party support in iOS is refreshing;  Incredible battery life that should carry most into a second day;  iPhone app/accessory ecosystem still the strongest of all platforms

 iOS 8 comes with bugs and missing promised features;  Call quality took a backseat this year;  The slick build might prompt users to always use a case

It's no easy task reviewing an iPhone. Apple isn't like other phone makers and doesn't create and launch several smartphone models throughout the year. Instead, once per annum, Apple announces the new devices that it's going to sell for the entire next 12 months. That's it.

It's January of 2012 and I'm in Las Vegas to cover the annual Consumer Electronics Show. I'm stuck in traffic with a colleague of mine when our taxi driver points to an advertisement for a new smartphone and asks if we know anything about it.

Beautiful, bright and color-accurate HD display; A8 SoC performs on par or faster than competing chips; Improvements to the camera hardware and battery life; Finally makes iOS an option for anyone interested in a phablet; Thin body and the tapered edges of the front panel glass look stunning

Protruding camera lens takes away from the overall design; Few iOS apps are optimized for the new form factor (though this will change over time); Price -- Apple added a new 'premium' tier to the iPhone lineup