Tom, as I wrote I compared the keyboards in landscape mode.
Chuck, you have a dilemma if you're looking to upgrade, no doubt. I'm not wedded to Apple. I don't use any Apple computers. Skype and Viber work just fine, so Facetime is not irreplaceable. Most other apps have android comparable apps. As such, I can easily switch over.
For years I look at it like this. I wanted my cell phone to be small. I looked at a cell phone as a phone first, everything else second. (I have computers at home and in my office... I don't necessarily need a computer always on my person.) I wanted something that I could easily, comfortably, put in my pants pockets.
With the advent of smart phones that ability vanished. I find the iPhone5 too big for my pockets. There's only one bulge I care for in my pants pockets
, so I use a belt clip holder which I have rotated to hold the phone in a landscape position; when seated portrait position results in the phone digging into my stomach and/or my leg, but in landscape position I don't feel it at all unless it vibrates.
I cannot understand how one could find the 6 or 6+ pocketable, unless one is not referring to one's pants. Jacket pocket? Sure. Pants? No way. Having said that, my wife came up with an interesting theory: she said since it is the younger generations that are the trendsetters in fashion, she opined clothing manufactures will see the trend in phablets and come out with pants aimed at those generations which will comfortably accommodate those phablets.
That's the way I used to look at it: phone first, everything else second. So if I'm considering going up in size to a phablet, the first thing it better give me is a bigger, easier to use keyboard. If it doesn't, the device is a nonstarter. I don't care if the operating system is improved, faster, more powerful, or the screen is brighter, higher rez or easier to read. If it is a phablet, it must necessarily have a bigger, more typo proof keyboard. Neither the 6 nor the 6+ have that. So, as I posted before, I will pass on the iPhone *upgrades*.