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Apple This time he went about it differently than ever before and instead of a completely new model he decided to make iPhone 6s to perfection, and so after three years we are looking at the same, albeit completely different phone with a bitten apple in the logo and we are all wondering whether it is worth selling our current phones and running to the store for the new seven. Not only that, but you will learn much more in the following lines and I believe that you will find answers to all your questions about the new iPhone here. Just to clarify, I will add that we will mainly focus on the news that iPhone 7 offers and not the things that iPhones have had for years. Review iPhone 7 Plus is here, so sit back and enjoy reading.

To start a new iPhone looked at gradually, we must of course start with the packaging. Apple now offers a completely black version of the dark model, which looks very similar to the one we had the opportunity to see at iPhone 3Gs. Of course, we find the phone, documents, a pair of stickers with apples and also headphones. They are the same as in previous years, with the only difference that instead of 3,5 mm at the end jack konewhich you will find Lightning port. The headphones play exactly the same as those with a classic koneand no miracles happen to them.

This time there is one more novelty in the package, which Apple started packaging in boxes with iPhone 7 to iPhone 7 Plus. This is a 3,5mm adapter jack konewhich on Lightning konewhich. The adapter is relatively short, small and fits so tightly on the headphones that it becomes part of them. Honestly, whoever complained about the missing cableonewhich is idiot an intelligent person whom I understand and understand that an extra 3 cm of cable will change his life beyond recognition. You only need to take this reduction, put it on your headphones and everything plays as before, and I really can't say that anything would interfere or bother me.

And then there's the adapter. It didn't bother me two years ago, it didn't bother me last year, but this year I really want a proper charger so I can iPhone charge faster. Unfortunately Apple adds about seven years to iPhone I still use the same charger and honestly it's starting to annoy me.

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Design: same but much nicer!
From the first sight of you, he will iPhone 7 to appear much more elegant, even though almost nothing has changed. However, what has changed has managed to bring the design iPhone 6 to perfection, so the new product looks really great. If you reach for variaIn Black or Jet Black, you can hardly see the antennas at a normal glance and the phone looks solid. In addition, the black color is matte and looks exclusive, not like someone sticking matte carbon foil on a Fabia 1.2, but truly exclusive. The buttons, which do not have a molding around them in the chassis, also look much better and the bottom symmetrical side is simply luxurious.

I honestly understand that some people may be bothered by the same design for the third year, but this time it is not the same, but perfect. In other words, it was created in such a way that Apple took the design iPhone 6 and brought it to perfection. A completely new design might look better, but when it already had Apple hugely successful models 6 and 6s, then it became clear to him that he simply liked the design of these phones and if he fine-tuned it, then it would be a better way than inventing something completely new that might not appeal.

When placed next to each other iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 and you will examine them in detail, you have to admit that the new seven is simply successful in terms of design and Apple in my opinion, it has nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to design. The phone has a more solid, luxurious feel and I have to say that the Black version in particular is really well designed.

Of course, everyone is interested in how Jet Black is doing and I have to say that if you have to choose between Jet Black and Black, then don't hesitate and take the Black. This version looks paradoxically better than the brand new Jet Black and you won't scratch it as easily. With Jet Black, your fingernails are enough to scratch the phone and if you plan to carry it in your pocket with change or keys, then after a few hours it will be so scratched that you won't like it anymore. Moreover, overall, the Jet Black version seems cheaper to me than variaBlack.

Touch ID, which you will love
Aby Apple could make the phone waterproof, he had to takechat button Home Button or if you want Touch ID as a physical button and replace it with something that simply won't let water flow through. The Force Feedback technology with a haptic motor, which has been proven for a few years, is nowonec has proven to be the best choice and so the phone offers a button Touch IDwhich from that on iPhone You can't tell the 6s apart by sight, but instead of it physically moving, the haptic motor creates the impression of the button moving.

If you are using Apple Watch or MacBook, then you will like the button after the first touch. If you have never encountered haptic feedback in your life, then you will need three touches to get it. You will immediately find that this gadget is faster, more comfortable and more accurate than a classic physical button and responds absolutely perfectly.

New Home I actually like the Button button and honestly I don't see it as a necessary evil that had to be Apple to use so that it can iPhone boast of being waterproof, but as a great gadget that makes it iPhone a little further away than ever before. Touch ID It responds instantly and the whole button feels great overall.

Apple in addition iOS 10 offers the option in the settings Home Button, where you can choose from three different settings for response to pressing Home button buttons, so you can choose from a true simulation of a physical button to a response very similar to just placing your finger on it Touch IDIt is also interesting that the haptic motor will trigger a response, for example, when you slide out the Control Center and its bar hits the top of the display.

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The sound surrounds and transforms you iPhone in the perfect gaming console!
The sound of the new iPhone is the biggest news and surprise for me, even though it hasn't been talked about much. The iPhone 7 not only offers much better sound quality with twice the volume compared to its predecessor, but for the first time in history it is also availableoneTruly stereo! When you turn the phone to landscape and play a game, listen to music or watch a movie, the sounds are truly stereo, from the bottom and classic speakers.

Games have a completely different dimension, and the same applies to watching movies. For music, the sound is understandably better, but honestly, anyone over the age of thirteen would rather use headphones or an external speaker than listen to music from an iPhone, no matter what model it is. This innovation affects the gaming experience the most, especially with the larger iPhone, where the speakers are further apart and you perceive the left and right channels much more intensely than with the smaller version, but even with that it is simply noticeable.

If you play Real Racing 3 or AG for example Drive, you will find out after a few seconds that iPhone now offers sound that not only matches, but surpasses all handheld consoles and the gaming experience is on a completely different level. The same applies to watching movies, which will be appreciated especially by children who do not have their own TV in their room and want to watch something of their own on the iPhone. Even so, they will have quality sound available and honestly, if we are not talking about music, but about movies or games, you no longer need external speakers. The volume is so loud that even if you are in the next room, you can disturb someone.

The sound quality is perfect for games and movies and is completely adequate for what it is used for. iPhone in these areas. If you take iPhone 7 Plus, then you really have a full-fledged handheld game console in your hands, which lacks nothing at all. The quality is also noticeable in speakerphone calls and if you have a meeting room of about 10-12 people, then you can make a conference call without having to use any speaker, which will surely please everyone managera.

However, everything also has one flaw, and it's quite interesting. That Apple could offer twice the volume compared to iPhone 6s, had to equip the XNUMX with completely new speakers, but they have one negative feature when playing loud sounds, such as the engine sound in Real Racing or gunfire and so on. The speakers transmit vibrations to your fingers. This is a rather unpleasant thing, which of course you can get used to, but it amazes me that Apple this feature has not been discovered and tuned to perfection. Vibrations are simply unpleasant and iPhone You don't know anything like that on the 6s. Moreover, not only the top of the phone vibrates, but also the bottom, so you canoneThere are slight vibrations in the tips of the fingers in both hands.

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Vibrant colors even underwater and maximal performance
Apple Apple is now offering water resistance for its iPhone, as well as a brighter display with better colors. Let's look at water resistance first. It officially offers iPhone 7 to iPhone 7 Plus has an IP68 rating, which means that the phone can survive being submerged in 1 meter of water for 30 minutes. There are hundreds of videos online showing how the phone can withstand being submerged in water for up to XNUMX minutes. iPhonePeople do incredible things underwater and survive them all without any problems. ProThe problem is, if he doesn't survive, Apple it will not take into account defects caused by water and will not accept the claim, which it states in the claim order in the phone packaging and also on its website.

I personally tried showering my phone with water and submerging it under water, but it still feels strange. Of course, the phone survived, but if it didn't, that's your problem. So if you want to avoid any inconvenience, you should iPhone 7 use it so that you maximal got wet and take its water resistance as an advantage in case you accidentally spill a glass of water on it. However, you should not risk anything more. The phone can withstand it and can handle some snorkeling and the like, but if it happens that it can't handle it, you are simply out of luck. Water resistance is still a great feature and I expect it from a phone in 2016 as a matter of course. In short, it gives you a sense of security that if you get wet 99,9% of the time, nothing will happen nestyes, but you'd better forget about diving, even though it probably wouldn't do anything either nesthello.

Another innovation is the new display, which offers 25% higher brightness than iPhone 6s and it also has a wider color gamut, which means it can render colors from more shades and shade better. The display is truly perfect, but it may be too pleasing for some, if you know what I mean. Apple for the display already reaches the very limit of when the brightness is still naturally bright and the colors are as they should be, and when the colors are already neon and the display is unnecessarily bright. I believe that in some situations you will say that the colors are indeed too neon, but in the vast majority of views, you will like the display of the new iPhone. I personally find the colors too neon sometimes, but it's a matter of taste and habit.

iPhone 7 offers a new processor Apple A10 Fusion and the associated M10 coprocessor. Apple can boast twice the speed and three times the performanceonem graphics chip compared to iPhone 6. In practice, this means that applications like Real Racing 3 and similar demanding things start up really quickly. You will appreciate the performance especially in applications, the system itself runs just as fast as in iPhone 6s and the only exception is multitasking, where you will feel that it goes even faster than it could iPhone 6s. The speed is truly impressive and you basically don't have to wait for anything in applications, not only when launching them, but especially when switching from the menu to the game itself, when races or individual missions and levels load immediately after pressing the play button. So if you like the performance of an older iPhone 6s, or 6 limited, then you will now be satisfied, because you would have been faster nestThey started pressing the screen.

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3D touch, 450Mb/s and longer endurance
The new model offers a significantly larger haptic motor compared to its predecessor, which now occupies almost the entire bottom of the phone. The haptic motor is related to the 3D Touch function, which is detected by the display, but the motor is responsible for the response. It is now, compared to iPhone 6s much more pronounced and you feel like your finger is actually digging into the display, similar to the one on the Touch IDIf you like this feeling, for example, Apple WatchIn iPhone 7 you will enjoy it to the fullest.

For the model iPhone However, the 7 Plus makes a difference whether you use 3D touch at the top or bottom of the screen, and it is noticeable whether the icon or element you are pressing on is at the bottom or at the very top. There is only one motor in the phone and it is located at the bottom of the phone, which makes the sensations during 3D touch depend on how close you are to the motor when using this function. This detail, together with the unpleasant vibrations of the phone when using the speakers, makes me wonder if the engineers really made a mistake somewhere. I would have overlooked it elsewhere, but here we are Applol, by the way Applu who always had everything perfect and now I'm supposed to have a different feel for one of the newest features in phones depending on where on the screen I use it? Seriously?

The new product also offers one new feature in the area of ​​mobile connectivity, namely support for 4G LTE Adv.anced networks, which I unfortunately did not have the opportunity to test. In the center of Bratislava I used the same SIM card from Telekom with 4G LTE on iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 Plus and the speed was essentially identical, even when measured using speedtest. What is interesting, however, is the fact that even though Speedtest did not reveal any difference in speed, page loading, or rather their rendering, was on iPhone 7 noticeably faster. With 4G LTE AdvancYou won't be able to walk much in the Czech Republic either, where this coverage is only available in very few places. If you live there, then you may be pleased with the higher speed, if not, then this news may not interest you much. However, you will still enjoy one interesting feature, and that is the support for calls via Wi-Fi or LTE, thanks to which the calls are really noticeably better quality, but the phone will only use this connection if the classic GSM signal is bad.

iPhone The 7 also offers longer battery life, both on the Plus and regular models. Plus varianta offers an hour longer battery life during active use, while the classic model has up to two hours longer battery life compared to iPhone 6s. The difference is noticeable and it is true that even the extra hour of active use is noticeable in classic use. However, I can't help but be reminded of fast charging, a feature that everyone would expect from a phone in 2016.

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Camera
At first glance, the biggest innovation of the new iPhone 7, and especially the Plus model we reviewed, is the camera. Apple for the first time in history, it put a camera with two lenses in its Plus model. The main reason why we find a pair of lenses in the new iPhone is the possibility of double optical zoom and up to ten times digital zoom. As for the digital zoom, forget about it because it's just as useless as any other digital zoom in the world. However, the 1,8x zoom works great and really zooms in on the photographed scene. As soon as you use the optical zoom, the aperture drops from ƒ/2,8 to ƒ/XNUMX, but in good weather this does not matter in any significant way. However, once it's dark, the XNUMXx zoom is hard to use.

However, 2x zoom is something that won't help you much in the end, and in the years since we've known that zoom is something that's simply not used on smartphones, we've been shooting without it and honestly, it's never really bothered anyone in any significant way. As for the zoom, which is the most advertised gadget, I personally think that it is not worth buying a larger model for.

Unfortunately, I did not test the second feature, which is portrait mode, since it is not officially available yet, as it is part of iOS 10.1 and the very first one is available so far betaversion, where it is not yet fully tuned. So we did not want to evaluate something that the phone currently cannot do and that is not yet available in the full version. Portrait mode can blur the background and, conversely, focus on the object in front to create a truly interesting photo, which is currently only possible with an SLR camera. As soon as this feature is available, we will definitely take a look at it.

Apple However, it has a camera API available to developers, so it's only a matter of time before clever developers find ways to use the dual cameras. For example, it has already made it into App Store an application that can take interesting 3D photos thanks to its dual camera. But I'm sure the developers will come up with some other great features.

As far as classic photography is concerned, it is obvious that it has iPhone in connection with the new display, more pleasant colors, but I deliberately do not say better quality, because they are simply more pleasant. It depends on taste. For some, the colors in the photos will be too artificial, for others, on the contrary, they will be praised. However, quite frankly, there is no significant difference other than the colors, which is more related to the display than the camera compared to iPhone I don't notice the 6s. Optical stabilization is a great feature and you will definitely appreciate it, but the quality of the photos seems very similar to what it can handle. iPhone 6s.

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As for the photos taken at dusk, they are noticeably better and the quality has really improved, but it's still not what I would have imagined and we'll probably have to wait until Friday for full-fledged photography on gloomy autumn evenings. ProHowever, I don't see the problem with the iPhone's camera as much as the lack of settings. If you take pictures with the most expensive SLR camera in the world on automatic mode, the photos won't be perfect either. ProThe problem is that we can't set the time, speed, and ISO.

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However, where the real difference lies is in the front-facing FaceTime camera. It not only has a seven-megapixel sensor, compared to the five-megapixel sensor of the previous generation, but also the most important one for FaceTime calls – theoneIt is full HD! The difference in the front camera is really huge and you will notice it not only in photos, but especially when calling, even on the phone screen, not to mention when you are calling someone who is looking at you, for example, on an iMac. The difference in the front camera is huge and I would never say that the difference between Full HD and HD in the FaceTime camera can be that big. However, at first glance you will find that this is Applu simply succeeded and you will notice that the difference with the FaceTime cameras is much greater than with the rear camera.

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Summary
I'm under no illusion that this is a review iPhone The 7 Plus is the one to go for for the person who wants to get one. But honestly, I have to say that if you want a new iPhone and you have iPhone 6s or 6, then sell it and for those few crowns extra you will have a new phone again. If you have an older model, then you have to replace it anyway, because the one you have in your pocket is slowly losing its performance. So the novelty is basically for everyone who already has one iPhone has, almost a clear choice.

New iPhone It doesn't offer anything revolutionary, but apart from one thing that really disappoints me, which is fast charging, it offers everything a phone should have these days. You have a quality display, a camera, new quality sound, a fingerprint sensor and, last but not least, water resistance. All of this together makes the iPhone 7 a phone for 2017, but definitely not a phone for 2020. Apple in short, he kind of offered everything that was expected of him and, frankly, what he had to. If the novelty did not receive these features, it would already be obsolete today.

Unfortunately, we didn't see any groundbreaking revolution, but that is true for all current phones, and so in short Apple, like others, must wait for the moment when some new technology will appear again, which it will be able to deploy. Until then, it will simply improve what we already know some Friday and add gadgets like 3D touch, optical zoom or haptic button. These are all great news, but somehow evolutionary and not revolutionary.

Don't take it badly, iPhone 7 will definitely not disappoint you and what the six could do, the seven can do perfectly now and this is a great one for fans AppIt's definitely the best phone on the market, but in short, if you're expecting something that will wrap itself around your finger and you'll use this gadget day after day, then it's simply missing and we have to wait for it. minialmost to the next model. The seven doesn't contain anything you could show your friend and he's kind of sitting on his ass about it.

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