This is the first iPhone for 9 months. In the last 9 months I have used android as my main smartphone platform as choice. I hated my 5S for its pathetic battery life. A trip to London and at 10% by 9am. Also the screen felt too small or cramped.

So here I am with the 6 Plus. First thoughts. Its a whopper. Huge. Tall. In fact it sticks out of my work shirt front pocket by about 2cm. The LG G3 was protruding about 1cm. Next thoughts. iOS is so different to android. I tried to swipe the 6 screen on. I have also double tapped the screen. I am having to get used to using Touch ID and the home button. This is the first thing you do to access your phone and you’re instantly reminded just how good Touch ID is implemented. And then you go thru the process of setting up a few core apps and services. This is a slow process as I use 2 step authentication for absolutely everything.

Next, was the sync to iTunes on my mac. This takes a while as my music, apps, videos, books, photos and more all get transferred across. iTunes is great for this sort of thing. Except, the order of my photo events are not in alphabetical order. This is annoying. During the first sync, the iPhone crashed. iTunes on my mac crashed as well.

Apps. These look weird where they have just been enlarged to fit the 5.5 inch screen. Twitter is a good example of an app done well. I hope it does not take long for all these apps to get updated, but it seems odd that android apps probably are designed better for larger screens at the moment.

The biggest delight of the iPhone 6 is the audio quality. It is an OMG moment. Absolutely marvellous sound quality and really rocking my headphones.

Suddenly I find iMessage, FaceTime and other Apple services all becoming useful as many family and friends have an iPhone.

But I am not enamoured by this phone as much as I would have hoped. Apps crash, apps looks zoomed too much and there are so many bugs. But it is early days!