Should I buy the new iPhone or not? This is a question every autumn presumably million potential buyers - and probably most have never been as insecure as this year. The new features - and perhaps disappointed expectations - are now well known. But how useful are the new features in everyday use and how disruptive the beginning criticized shortcomings? Answers after two weeks of continuous testing.
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One of the biggest frustrations for many Apple fans was that the iPhone 7 - contrary to the previous two-year cycle - has no fundamentally new design. The dimensions of the two new iPhones correspond almost exactly to those of the previous devices - however, the new slimmed something: The iPhone 7 is five grams, the iPhone 7 Plus four grams lighter than the respective previous model - in everyday life makes no difference. As with the iPhone 6s Apple uses a particularly resistant aluminum 7000 alloy - problems with bent iPhones like the iPhone-6-Bendgate, it should therefore not be here. The phone feels accustomed to stable and high quality.
After all, the antenna lines, in previous devices on the back, now moved to the edge devices and thus are much more discreet. On the whole, the iPhone looks 7 its two predecessors iPhone 6s and iPhone 6, at least from the front confusingly similar. Who wants to show you all that he has the latest equipment, should choose the color "Black" or "Black Diamond" - both of which are new and quite chic, but the latter has a fingerprint and scratch magnet.
Long since overdue plunge
The competition, as Sony and Samsung, has led the way for a long time - now attracts Apple by: The new iPhones are waterproof! According to IP67 standard, although only for 30 minutes in a water depth of a meter - but against sudden downpours or the fall helps all the sink or in the toilet. A big plus for the new iPhone! helped When sealing that the home button is now no real knob more, but a sensor surface. Although nothing moves when you press, makes a special jerky unit Taptic engine, that it is still so feels like a button - more pressure on a real button in the iPhone 6s almost fashioned after two weeks. Also coincides with the mechanical home button off one of the biggest failures sources - a good decision.
Intrinsic values - Lots of power, lots of storage
The performance of the new A10-Fusion chips act extravagantly: Measurements of power it outclassed not only its predecessor chips, but also the entire competition - faster currently anticipates distance not a smartphone. But already the iPhone 6s was extremely fast. In direct comparison, you can see the speed advantage of the iPhone 7 Although, at present, there is likely to succeed but only a few, to exhaust their iPhone 6s. With the iPhone 6, however, the works already rather, such as graphically intense games. Just for comparison: The launch of an iPhone 6 with iOS 10 lasted about 50 seconds in the test. The iPhone 7 contrast, does not even half as long. The power is thus primarily an investment in a fast smartphone future.
but is even more important, another development: For great deals or contract extensions usually the iPhone is sold with the smallest memory size. As so many have already likely to have in the past angered about the extremely tight 16 gigabytes - which of them are actually only just over 12 gigabytes available. With music, photos and a few games apps are up sooner than I thought. Immediately the smallest iPhone offers 32 gigabytes of memory - a real asset.
New camera - from one make two
A key innovation is the camera of iPhone 7 and especially from iPhone 7 Plus. Especially in the foreground of course stood by the double camera in the latter. In addition to the 12-megapixel wide-angle camera Apple has a second built here with "tele" lens. This allows a true, optical zoom twofold. That may not sound like a lot - but who willingly photographed with his smartphone, this option will not want to miss. A digital zoom up to 10 times magnification, there are also, at the expense of image quality.
In addition, both cameras also offer the opportunity to take portraits with shallow depth of field and to simulate this at least. We know the effect of SLR cameras, if at a portrait of the face is sharp, but the background is blurred. To start two weeks before the option was not yet available, now they can be tested, but in the public beta version of iOS 10.1. This works for faces very well and evaluates Portrait recordings noticeably on. For objects with dark edges, the automatic works is not yet completely free of errors - until the official launch could be still resolved.
The new display is a real expert
How good is the new camera with its larger color gamut, one sees however only really good on displays that show the larger color space also. The LCD screen of the new iPhone does. Apple simply speaks of a display "with a large color gamut". For photo and graphics professionals, this means that the new iPhone display not only the sRGB, but also to DCI-P3 color space support - and indicating the respective contents properly with the color profile. According to the display of professionals displaymate.com it is the farbtreuste smartphone display that they have ever measured.
No headphone jack - phantom pain or real loss?
A great outcry went through the ranks of the tech press, as was confirmed that Apple buried the beloved 3.5mm headphone jack. Only one Lightning cable - which is the connection of the charging cable for the iPhone 5 - can still be put directly into the iPhone.
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