I succumbed to upgrading to iOS 8 on my IPhone 4s and my battery life immediately went into the toilet. I turned off every open app, every notification, everything, but couldn’t get more than a couple hours of life. And making a call would immediately kill it. So I bought a new 6, which was probably their plan all along.”
Same thing happened to me. My 4S would not hold a charge. I do not like the form factor of the 6, so Apple lost me to a Droid mini which is a smaller size like the 4s.
I believe that Jobs resisted the biggy phones and when he was gone they injected their own ideas about size into the product. I have an iPad mini so I do not want some gigantico tablet-like phone to carry around.
I think the iPhone5 was the perfect compromise between size and one handed function... I have a 6, not a 6 plus, and it is a fabulous piece of hardware, but one handed use is not nearly as comfortable or effective as the 5.
IN terms of comfort in the hand the original iPhone design was by far the most comfortable, the original iPhone/3/3gs designs were by far the most comfortable in the hand.
The larger screen is nice in the 6, but one handed operation is not nearly as nice. I personally can’t imagine the 6+, but like it or not the market is demanding these silly huge beasts.
There are rumors that they will be releasing a new phone that shares the same footprint as the 5 next year with updated specs... to fill in the lower end, that the 5C did.. not sure if its true or not, but if you like one handed operation, I would certainly consider it. As I said the 5 form factor was the perfect compromise to add size, and still allow comfortable 1 hand use.