iPhone 7 & 7 Plus - Courageously Boring
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,889 words · ~9 min read
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the world was shocked when the iPhone 7
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and 7 plus burst onto the scene completely devoid of nonproprietary
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ports with only a single lightning connector that is to say the parts of
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the world who have completely ignored anything that Apple's done in the last
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couple of years they were shocked anyway
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I've spent my usual few weeks with the latest I shiny and I am ready to talk
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about the experience
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Intel skull Canyon knck features a sixth generation core i7 quad core processor
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and Thunderbolt 3 learn more at the link
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in the video description the iPhone 6s won my 2015
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phone of the Year award for its shocking performance and it would appear as
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though the iPhone 7 is gunning for the same prize it rocks Apple's stunning A10
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Fusion a quadcore design that borrows at least conceptually from the big little
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chips that have been commonplace on Android phones for years in both qualcom
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Snapdragon and Samsung's exos processors
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it features two high performance cores about 40% faster than the A9 if Apple's
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to be believed and two low performance cores that consume only about a fifth of
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the power of the high perf ones and it seems to be working wonderfully the
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iPhone 7 installs apps as quickly as I can download the last one and managed
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with only a moderately larger 1960 mAh
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battery to completely address my ongoing
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complaint about Apple's devices that they have wonderful standby power then
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they drain so fast you can watch your battery bar burn if you have the
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audacity to use GPS to go any further than the corner store as for the rest of
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the specs there's more good news I iPhone users finally get more RAM at 3
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gigs if they get the bigger 7 plus the
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earphone speaker doubles as a serviceable stereo speaker now yay Apple
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used the headphone Jacks space to add a barometer which is neat I guess and you
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can get up to 256 gigs now of regrettably
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non-expandable storage with the 16 gig
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model having finally been asked to make way for 32 gigs on the base model of the
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traditional colors or 64 gigs on the new
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jet black color which I guess is a clever scheme to raise asps by
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convincing status Seekers to buy a higher tier than the base if they want
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their friends to even be able to tell that they have the new one since the
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seven looks externally so similar to its
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predecessor on the subject of other things similar the screen hasn't changed
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much either wide color gamut is a welcome and forward-looking upgrade but
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Apple has stuck with 1080p on the iPhone
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7 plus and 750p on its little brother
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but I support this and even though they
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put the lock and volume directly opposing each other which is a frequent
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gripe of mine they got the tactile feel
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perfect I almost never accidentally pressed one while reaching for the other
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some of the other physical changes though I'm a little more hesitant to
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endorse let's do the solid state home button first I really like this move it
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feels as clicky or subtle as you want
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and like the 2015 MacBook I often forgot
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that it didn't move it will only wear out if the upgraded taptic engine inside
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the phone dies and it improves the Seven's resistance to water and dust the
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only thing missing here is a software update to allow its pressure sensor to
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operate without skin to button contact I
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haven't needed gloves yet this year but as we Canadians say winter is coming
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next up is the IP67 water and dust
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resistance I'm surprised this took so long given that water and Falls account
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for 95% of iPhone deaths but I absolutely
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love this move and customer happiness aside More Alive iPhones is great for
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Apple's trade-in program and refurbished device business business selling a
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product for a margin even a little bit of margin a second time is just plain
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good business leading us to number three
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the removal of the headphone jack I said
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in my Odyssey sign review which you can check out here that if they removed it I
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better be getting something significant in return and honestly especially with
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the waterproofing I think they pulled it off and besides what I've discovered
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from talking to other seven and seven plus owners and trying to keep my own
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mind open is that even my general
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objection to carrying around a stupid adapter put me in a smaller minority of
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general consumers than I previously thought I think my badminton buddy Jason
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put it best when I asked him about it eh I haven't really noticed I use my jbirds
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for everything anyway great wireless bluetooth
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headphones like senheiser pxc 550s are
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everywhere and the little retention doodad like Motorola includes with the
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Droid Z would easily address the issue of losing the included adapter for audio
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file IMS which Won't Go Wireless anytime soon meaning that my only real remaining
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issue is charging and listening to podcasts while I sleep at the same time
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a $15 problem or 25 if I want one that
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also adds volume and track control on to the camera it's simply put
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amazing and I even spent most of my time with the single sensor 7 as opposed to
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the Dual sensor plus it doesn't have Oodles of more megapixel or whatever but
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Apple's color science and auto white balance deliver a much more true- to
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lifee image on Full Auto than I thought was possible and through thirdparty apps
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you can capture Raw photos which is almost like an extra bonus at that point
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low light performance is on point the selfie cam was upgraded and even the app
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launch time is amongst the best that I've seen though Auto Wake screen and
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swipe to the side is still a touch slower than a gesture or a physical
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button that I can press without looking at the device in some
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situations with that said I have much bigger complaints about iOS 10 software
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wise there is some good stuff I'm not sure exactly when it happened but Apple
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Maps has a great UI now Siri still works
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better for me than Okay Google I don't use a ton of widgets but it's swell to
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have the option and force touch continues to improve with notification
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interactions combined with being able to respond within the notification itself
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being my favorite use for it but there are also some glaring emissions and some
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Polish deficiencies dictating while writing an email allows the cursor to
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scroll under where the keyboard would be making it impossible to see what you're
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saying I still find the swipe back gesture very inconsistent one-handed
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operation in general feels bolted on and clunky rather than like a fundamental
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part of iOS's design I'm baffled that the Google Now clone today view thing on
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the left of the home screen doesn't have a working back button when you click on
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a suggested article I don't get the organization of the settings menu
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sometimes the dial pad and phone controls still aren't on the same screen
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adding unnecessary button presses I really missed Samsung's excellent
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magical White pous powered spam and caller ID database I hate how I still
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can't control the cursor precisely on first touch if I have steady hands
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please let me turn off the auto guidance here Android's management of multiple
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volume sliders is much better since it actually allows the ringtone to be
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adjusted while listening to music for example and finally and perhaps most
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importantly where the is T9 dialing
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Apple some of us know a lot of people and this is is an unassailably better
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way to call in frequently used contacts that doesn't interfere with any of the
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other ways that people can also use it just add
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it but this is the company that took years to add copy paste
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so bottom line time the iPhone 7 is not
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a revolutionary product and I could go on for a while longer with all of my
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complaints about its accompanying operating system but I'm sure we're all bored of that but what it is is a
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continuation of Apple's onward March towards Hardware Perfection and the A10
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processor at its heart gives a lot of
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credibility to the analysts who believe that Apple will eventually replace the
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Intel processors in their thin and light designs with their own but that's
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besides the point do I recommend the iPhone 7 and the 7 plus well as long as
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you have big enough hands for the plus and as long as you don't mind making a
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pile of useless apps to reach the ones that you care about
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then yeah I guess I do dbrand is your
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Source For The Wicked vinyl skins you saw on our iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus in
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fact the marble one on the iPhone 7 managed to sell one of my friends on a
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dbrand skin pretty much immediately that's one of their newer Styles they've
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got a wide variety of different colors of genuine 3M vinyl skins and they all
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feature unrivaled Precision thanks to the way they are cut their configurator
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is great too because it allows you to view and pick out exactly what you want
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for your device and preview what it's going to look like in your hand whether
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you want something tasteful or whether you want something totally gudy and
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tacky you will know exactly what's going to arrive and there's no excuses which
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isn't to say though that their customer service robots aren't great and easy to
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deal with if you ever do have a problem dbrand Skins are affordable they're
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available for a wide variety of devices including phones tablets laptops game
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consoles and game control controllers and they ship worldwide at the link in
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the video description all right thanks for
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join now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to
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watch next well hey if you're you're a phone person and you watch this video so
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maybe you are you can check out the video where I water cooled a bunch of
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high-end phones a while ago I don't remember when it was but there's a link
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there you can look at the date under the video if you felt like it