After several months of rumors, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are here in the flesh! Apple announced both devices two days ago at its launch event in San Francisco.
If you always wanted water resistance and better battery life on your iPhone, you're going to like this. If you wanted a headphone jack, you wouldn't.
The iPhone 7 comes with a bunch of upgrades -- some of which iPhone users have wanted for a while.
The home button of the new iPhone 7 and 7 plus is in a solid-state that doesn't click like previous iPhones.
As I mentioned in a previous post, the iPhone 7 comes in a new color however it is called Jet black not Space Black as earlier speculated, Apple's new glossy black color iPhone, looks beautiful.
Here are the most important things you need to know about the iPhone 7:
Although Apple keeps the camera at 12-megapixel, the increased aperture (now f1.8) lens lets in 50 percent more light through the six-element lens. That's better for all photos, and also improves low-light photography.
Optical image stabilization (OIS), is also important here. Last year's iPhone 6S Plus was the only phone to have it. This time Apple blesses the both the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus with OIS, which produces crisper images even if your hands shake a bit while you're taking it.
Finally, the iPhone 7 and 7 plus comes with a new quad-LED flash (up from a dual-LED flash) will make the flash brighter. The iPhone 7 still supports Live Photos (a 3-second video clip) and thanks to iOS 10, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus support RAW image.
Final Words: Though the iPhone 7 and 7 plus feels a lot like the 6S (and the 6). But the improvements to its battery, faster performance, water resistance and camera makes a lot of difference.
If you always wanted water resistance and better battery life on your iPhone, you're going to like this. If you wanted a headphone jack, you wouldn't.
The iPhone 7 comes with a bunch of upgrades -- some of which iPhone users have wanted for a while.
The home button of the new iPhone 7 and 7 plus is in a solid-state that doesn't click like previous iPhones.
As I mentioned in a previous post, the iPhone 7 comes in a new color however it is called Jet black not Space Black as earlier speculated, Apple's new glossy black color iPhone, looks beautiful.
Here are the most important things you need to know about the iPhone 7:
- Size and Feel: The iPhone 7 feels pretty much the same as last year's iPhone 6S, with the same 4.7-inch screen. Apple says the "HD Retina display" on the iPhone 7 is 25 percent brighter than the iPhone 6S. It includes the pressure-sensitive 3D Touch layer.
- Static home button: The home button is now in solid state, which means you can't physically press or click it in.
It is pressure-sensitive, including "taptic feedback", which means that apps can give you three levels of pressure and haptic feedback, like a light or strong buzz. A lot of iPhone users will find this hard to get used to. - Water-resistant: Yes, the iPhone 7 and 7 plus will be water-resistant (IP67), like the Samsung S7(IP68).
- No headphone jack: Yea, It's really gone.
Instead, Apple's new EarPods headphones will connect through the Lightning port; you also get an adaptor in the box that let's you use your 3.5mm headphones with the lightning port.
- Better camera: The iPhone 7 keeps the 12-megapixel camera, but has a larger aperture and Optical Image Stabilization that keeps images steadier. As earlier rumored, The iPhone 7 Plus gets a second lens on the back.
- Better Front Camera: The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus has a 7-megapixel front-facing camera which is an improvement from the iPhone 6S 5 megapixels, and it includes auto-image stabilization.
- Stereo speakers: A second speaker has been added to the iPhone 7 to give you stereo speakers. There's now one speaker at the bottom and one at the top.
- Longer battery life: The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus comes with greater battery capacity for longer battery life. Apple estimates 12 hours of LTE browsing for the iPhone 7 and 14 hours for the iPhone 7 plus. Apple never tells us what the actual battery capacity is.
- Faster processor: The iPhone 7 comes with a new A10 Fusion chip which is a 64-bit quad-core processor which Apple claims is 40 percent faster than last year's A9 processor. Two cores are high-performance, the other two are "high efficiency," meaning they'll conserve battery while handling tasks.
- Better Graphics: The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus comes with deeper visual graphics, especially with gaming. (Did I mention that Super Mario is coming to the iPhone?!?!)
- More storage!: The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus comes in 32GB, 128GB, 256GB variants, giving you more space for your files.
- Colors: The iPhone 7 and 7 plus comes in glossy jet black, matte black, gold, silver, rose gold colors (P.S jet black is only available in 128GB and 256GB models.)
- iPhone 7 Prices:You can preorder both the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus this Friday, September 9, and phones will be available September 16. (iOS 10 becomes available on September 13 for everyone else who's ready to upgrade).
Model Size US UK AU iPhone 7 32GB $649 £599 AU$1,079 128GB $749 £699 AU$1,229 256GB $849 £799 AU$1,379 iPhone 7 Plus 32GB $769 £719 AU$1,269 128GB $869 £819 AU$1,419 256GB $969 £919 AU$1,569
Although Apple keeps the camera at 12-megapixel, the increased aperture (now f1.8) lens lets in 50 percent more light through the six-element lens. That's better for all photos, and also improves low-light photography.
Optical image stabilization (OIS), is also important here. Last year's iPhone 6S Plus was the only phone to have it. This time Apple blesses the both the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus with OIS, which produces crisper images even if your hands shake a bit while you're taking it.
Finally, the iPhone 7 and 7 plus comes with a new quad-LED flash (up from a dual-LED flash) will make the flash brighter. The iPhone 7 still supports Live Photos (a 3-second video clip) and thanks to iOS 10, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus support RAW image.
Final Words: Though the iPhone 7 and 7 plus feels a lot like the 6S (and the 6). But the improvements to its battery, faster performance, water resistance and camera makes a lot of difference.
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