Originally Posted by
robroy90
While I haven't personally confirmed this to be gospel, I am told that there is only one SKU for the 6 and one for the 6+ so they should be carrier agnostic.
https://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/
Looks like there's two(ish) models (down from three on the 5/5s/5c). There's much more overlap in frequencies now, and AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile all use the same model now. The ATT/VZW/TMO version is missing just a few bands that the non-North-American (and Sprint) phones have:
Code:
38 (TD 2600)
39 (TD 1900)
40 (TD 2300)
41 (TD 2500)
All other bands are covered by the ATT/VZW/TMO. I haven't seen those particular frequency bands mentioned in my searches of all of the countries I've visited in the last few years, so I think it's pretty much now a world phone. (ETA: Upon further Googling, those bands are used by some carriers in China, Taiwan, and Japan.) (ETA again: I missed
this helpful post earlier, which touches on these four bands--that poster claims they're used in a few other countries, too.)
The GSM and CDMA models appear to have different SKUs, which may represent a difference in the 2G/3G radios on the devices (the CDMA ones likely have both CDMA and GSM radios), but at least the LTE bands are now unified between them.
Originally Posted by
Need
I think there was a test posted that using the iPad charger, the iPhone 6 was drawing 10W instead of 5W. Drawing twice the current would make it charge 2x faster.... unless of course the excess power turns into heat and then you phone would just blow up LOL.
My wife charge her iPhone 5s with her iPad charger all the time, but we didn't measure if it was charging faster...
While I haven't done any scientific testing, anecdotally, my iPhone 5 seems to charge quite a bit faster when I use a 1.5A+ charger. I've bought several off of Amazon (for much cheaper than the Apple ones) and have been quite satisfied with their performance.