the world was shocked when the iPhone 7
and 7 plus burst onto the scene completely devoid of nonproprietary
ports with only a single lightning connector that is to say the parts of
the world who have completely ignored anything that Apple's done in the last
couple of years they were shocked anyway
I've spent my usual few weeks with the latest I shiny and I am ready to talk
about the experience
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in the video description the iPhone 6s won my 2015
phone of the Year award for its shocking performance and it would appear as
though the iPhone 7 is gunning for the same prize it rocks Apple's stunning A10
Fusion a quadcore design that borrows at least conceptually from the big little
chips that have been commonplace on Android phones for years in both qualcom
Snapdragon and Samsung's exos processors
it features two high performance cores about 40% faster than the A9 if Apple's
to be believed and two low performance cores that consume only about a fifth of
the power of the high perf ones and it seems to be working wonderfully the
iPhone 7 installs apps as quickly as I can download the last one and managed
with only a moderately larger 1960 mAh
battery to completely address my ongoing
complaint about Apple's devices that they have wonderful standby power then
they drain so fast you can watch your battery bar burn if you have the
audacity to use GPS to go any further than the corner store as for the rest of
the specs there's more good news I iPhone users finally get more RAM at 3
gigs if they get the bigger 7 plus the
earphone speaker doubles as a serviceable stereo speaker now yay Apple
used the headphone Jacks space to add a barometer which is neat I guess and you
can get up to 256 gigs now of regrettably
non-expandable storage with the 16 gig
model having finally been asked to make way for 32 gigs on the base model of the
traditional colors or 64 gigs on the new
jet black color which I guess is a clever scheme to raise asps by
convincing status Seekers to buy a higher tier than the base if they want
their friends to even be able to tell that they have the new one since the
seven looks externally so similar to its
predecessor on the subject of other things similar the screen hasn't changed
much either wide color gamut is a welcome and forward-looking upgrade but
Apple has stuck with 1080p on the iPhone
7 plus and 750p on its little brother
but I support this and even though they
put the lock and volume directly opposing each other which is a frequent
gripe of mine they got the tactile feel
perfect I almost never accidentally pressed one while reaching for the other
some of the other physical changes though I'm a little more hesitant to
endorse let's do the solid state home button first I really like this move it
feels as clicky or subtle as you want
and like the 2015 MacBook I often forgot
that it didn't move it will only wear out if the upgraded taptic engine inside
the phone dies and it improves the Seven's resistance to water and dust the
only thing missing here is a software update to allow its pressure sensor to
operate without skin to button contact I
haven't needed gloves yet this year but as we Canadians say winter is coming
next up is the IP67 water and dust
resistance I'm surprised this took so long given that water and Falls account
for 95% of iPhone deaths but I absolutely
love this move and customer happiness aside More Alive iPhones is great for
Apple's trade-in program and refurbished device business business selling a
product for a margin even a little bit of margin a second time is just plain
good business leading us to number three
the removal of the headphone jack I said
in my Odyssey sign review which you can check out here that if they removed it I
better be getting something significant in return and honestly especially with
the waterproofing I think they pulled it off and besides what I've discovered
from talking to other seven and seven plus owners and trying to keep my own
mind open is that even my general
objection to carrying around a stupid adapter put me in a smaller minority of
general consumers than I previously thought I think my badminton buddy Jason
put it best when I asked him about it eh I haven't really noticed I use my jbirds
for everything anyway great wireless bluetooth
headphones like senheiser pxc 550s are
everywhere and the little retention doodad like Motorola includes with the
Droid Z would easily address the issue of losing the included adapter for audio
file IMS which Won't Go Wireless anytime soon meaning that my only real remaining
issue is charging and listening to podcasts while I sleep at the same time
a $15 problem or 25 if I want one that
also adds volume and track control on to the camera it's simply put
amazing and I even spent most of my time with the single sensor 7 as opposed to
the Dual sensor plus it doesn't have Oodles of more megapixel or whatever but
Apple's color science and auto white balance deliver a much more true- to
lifee image on Full Auto than I thought was possible and through thirdparty apps
you can capture Raw photos which is almost like an extra bonus at that point
low light performance is on point the selfie cam was upgraded and even the app
launch time is amongst the best that I've seen though Auto Wake screen and
swipe to the side is still a touch slower than a gesture or a physical
button that I can press without looking at the device in some
situations with that said I have much bigger complaints about iOS 10 software
wise there is some good stuff I'm not sure exactly when it happened but Apple
Maps has a great UI now Siri still works
better for me than Okay Google I don't use a ton of widgets but it's swell to
have the option and force touch continues to improve with notification
interactions combined with being able to respond within the notification itself
being my favorite use for it but there are also some glaring emissions and some
Polish deficiencies dictating while writing an email allows the cursor to
scroll under where the keyboard would be making it impossible to see what you're
saying I still find the swipe back gesture very inconsistent one-handed
operation in general feels bolted on and clunky rather than like a fundamental
part of iOS's design I'm baffled that the Google Now clone today view thing on
the left of the home screen doesn't have a working back button when you click on
a suggested article I don't get the organization of the settings menu
sometimes the dial pad and phone controls still aren't on the same screen
adding unnecessary button presses I really missed Samsung's excellent
magical White pous powered spam and caller ID database I hate how I still
can't control the cursor precisely on first touch if I have steady hands
please let me turn off the auto guidance here Android's management of multiple
volume sliders is much better since it actually allows the ringtone to be
adjusted while listening to music for example and finally and perhaps most
importantly where the is T9 dialing
Apple some of us know a lot of people and this is is an unassailably better
way to call in frequently used contacts that doesn't interfere with any of the
other ways that people can also use it just add
it but this is the company that took years to add copy paste
so bottom line time the iPhone 7 is not
a revolutionary product and I could go on for a while longer with all of my
complaints about its accompanying operating system but I'm sure we're all bored of that but what it is is a
continuation of Apple's onward March towards Hardware Perfection and the A10
processor at its heart gives a lot of
credibility to the analysts who believe that Apple will eventually replace the
Intel processors in their thin and light designs with their own but that's
besides the point do I recommend the iPhone 7 and the 7 plus well as long as
you have big enough hands for the plus and as long as you don't mind making a
pile of useless apps to reach the ones that you care about
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