The iPhone "scandal" you should ignore
If you've heard chatter over the last several days that some of Apple's new iPhone 6s handsets have lower battery life than others, rest assured that yours is perfectly capable of handling anything you're likely to throw at it.
Apple sources the processors that run the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus from two different manufacturers, Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., or TSMC. Last week, reports started circulating online that when run through heavy usage tests, phones with the Samsung chip -- which is slightly smaller -- ran out of battery almost two hours sooner.
But, as CNET senior editor Jeff Bakalar explained to CBS News in the video above, those tests don't reflect realistic use scenarios and therefore aren't a valid measure of how the difference between the two chips is likely to impact performance or battery life. In fact, the way people typically use their phones -- for texting, Facebook, photos, apps, games, what have you -- there's really no functional difference.
Apple called the results misleading and confirmed there's nothing to fret over.
"Our testing and customer data show the actual battery life of the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, even taking into account variable component differences, vary within just 2 to 3 percent of each other," a company spokesman said in a statement.