Apple iPhone 7 vs 7 Plus: Unboxing & Review (All Colors) By DetroitBORG

What's up guys, Mike here, the Detroit Borg, and today we finally get a look at the iPhone, 7 and 7 plus I'm, going to compare them in this video to see what exactly you might want to pick up. So the seven and seven plus dimensionally are identical to the 6s and 6s plus, but we get a tweaked design and a host of new features from waterproofing for the first time, all new cameras on the front and back a brighter display with a wider color gamut. In addition, two stereo speakers, which is great to finally have on an iPhone. We also get better battery life thanks partly to the new a10 CPU, which is more powerful but more efficient as well. They've also made some other controversial changes such as eliminating the headphone jack and the home button is no longer a physical button. Instead, it vibrates when you press it, we also get a new design which comes with two brand-new colors black and jet-black.

We're going to take a look at both of them in this video. Now, once again, the iPhone is available in three capacities, but this time they've doubled them. For the same price, as they were last year, 30 to 128 gigs and for the first time 256 gigs. Now, if you want a jet-black model, you'll have to spring for 128, gigs or better in order to get it so get into. The unboxing Apple has redesigned the packaging for this generation, so we do have the colors front and center on each cover.

But of course, if you get the jet black version, you're going to get a very distinctive black box to go with it, so it's a bit different from the rest of them. So of course, I have one of each color to show off, so we can take a look at them side-by-side. So let's get started with the iPhone 7. Now the plastic surrounding the packaging is now much easier to take off. They actually give you a tab to pull it off.

So previously you actually had to cut the plastic off. So they've made this a little simpler. So next up we can go ahead and lift the lid, and the first thing you see here won't be the phone, it's actually the paperwork. So this is a little packet that pulls up and once you get that out of the way you can see, the phone inside will find some paperwork, including a Quick-start guide, which is a bit different from we've seen in previous generations, so explain some features here. We also have the regulatory and warranty information in addition to Apple stickers, which are now on this clear plastic sheet and unfortunately, all these stickers are still white, so they're not color, matched to the phone so getting to the phone itself.

It does have a little plastic tab along the bottom, so we can use this to pull it out of the box, so it's wrapped in plastic to keep it nice and protected, and we can go ahead and peel this off. Of course, that's the last time this phone is going to be this clean. Looking, especially with these black colors. Now that's up, let's get to the accessories which have been redesigned for this generation of iPhone. First up, we have something that hasn't changed and that is five watt power adapter, which comes with every iPhone 7.

Next up we have the new Lightning connected ear pods, so we don't get the wireless air pods in the iPhone 7, that's a separate accessory that you have to purchase, but you do get wired headphones. That connect directly to the Lightning connector. Also included here is the adapter for traditional analog headphones. So you do get that with every iPhone 7 purchase. So at least you have an adapter in order to use your old headphones and, lastly, at the bottom of the box, we get our lightning cable so get into the unboxing of the iPhone, 7, plus, obviously identical to the iPhone 7.

Just scaled up to size, so I have to do is remove that plastic. Sleeve pop open, the lid and inside first thing, you'll see is the paperwork setting that aside, we'll find the phone just below it wrapped in plastic, which comes off very easily. Of course, I have the gold version in this case, as well as a silver version in terms of the accessories they're, also identical they're, just more widely spaced for the bigger box. So when it comes to set up It's pretty familiar for any iPhone there's a few differences here, but for the most part it's the same as the iPhone 6s. So we can go ahead and set up our touch.

I'd sensor, Apple Pay and Siri voice recognition, which can be done wirelessly as you could, with the iPhone 6s. But new here is the new home button. So you get an explanation of how the home button works, and you can actually customize the intensity of the tactic click that replicates the home button press. So you can go with very light, medium or high intensity. Now, personal I prefer the medium because the higher intensity one feels a little like the screen is clicking at the bottom, while the medium intensity feels just about right in terms of the design.

Apple describes this as refined, and I think that's a good way of putting it. It looks a lot like the previous generation has the same dimensions, but does have some welcome tweaks here, and one of them is the antenna design. So they've been able to integrate the antennas into the casing of the phone, which means we have smaller antenna stripes along the top and bottom I think this is a big improvement visually now. If you get one of the dark black colors, you can see that the lines are virtually invisible. So you have a very minimal look much more stealthy than before with Space Gray and of course, if you get the other colors they're whiter, so they contrast more sharply.

The other change here is the camera. Design is now much more integrated into the body of the chassis, so it looks a little stronger and I think looks a lot better at the bottom and of course, things have changed quite a bit here, so the headphone jack is removed, and instead we have this very symmetrical design. So it looks like we have sterile speakers, but in reality we have one loudspeaker and microphones on the other side. Apple just wants that symmetrical design, so it looks more attractive, but once again they pay a lot of attention to detail right down to the speaker. Grilles matching the color of the phone.

So when it comes to the other buttons they're in the same place as they were before on the right side, we'll find our thumb reachable power button and on the left side we'll find our vine controls up and down now they did make a slight tweak to the iPhone 7 volume key. So god has that recession from the iPhone 6s. Now it's a much simpler, look, also found on the right side. Is our NATO SIM tray and there's a difference here, because we have a water-resistant design. The SIM tray also has a gasket built into it.

So that's a new feature. If you look very closely, although you can't tell by looking at it, the home buttons have also been redesigned, and they're solid-state this time. So there is no physical click, but instead of a mechanical click, the tactic engine replicates a click at the bottom of the phone. It feels exactly like a click. It doesn't feel like a vibration, but it's not quite as localized as I was expecting to it actually feels like the bottom of the phone is clicking, not just the button itself.

We also get stereo speakers for the first time on an iPhone 7, so we have one loudspeaker at the bottom and the earpiece now acts as a loudspeaker as well, so that delivers twice the volume of the previous iPhone 6s and 6s plus. This also gives us a much wider dynamic range and the phone is smart enough to know whether you're holding it in portrait or landscape orientation and re orientates, the stereo speakers for optimal audio quality. So let's go ahead and take a listen to what it sounds like compared to the iPhone 6s. About a year ago, Apple launched the product called the iPhone lightning dock, and when the iPhone 6s came out, they launched them in aluminum versions, with colors that match the iPhones well, with the iPhone 7 they've had to add a new color, and that is black. So this is designed to accompany the new black color, along with a new jet black color.

That's coming with the iPhone 7. Another big deal here is that this is the first iPhone to get an ip67 certification, which means it's dust and water resistant in terms of water resistance. This means you can submerge the phone in 1 meter of water for up to 30 minutes, so don't take it swimming, but this will do a much better job, protecting your phone in those accidents or, if you're out in the rain. So when it comes to the displays once again, they're the same size and resolution as the 6s and 6s plus. So we have a 4.7 inch and a 5.5-inch screen. The 4.7 inch comes in the resolution at 7 fifteen by 1334 good for 326 PPI, while the seven plus has a full 1080p display good for 401 pixels per inch. So that's definitely the sharper display here.

Both of them are once again LCD IPS panels with dual domain pixels, which delivers fantastic off access, viewing, which also gives us very deep and dark contrast with bright vivid colors. Now speaking of brightness, both displays are 25 percent brighter than the previous model. The display is also pick up the same cinema p3 spec of some of their Mac models, which means we have a much wider, color gamut available for this phone now. This is great because it can also display the wider color gamut of the new camera system. Now, comparing the iPhone 7 to the 6s displays side-by-side.

The thing that jumps out right away to me is that the seven looks a lot warmer than the success. The 6s has a much cooler color temperature, but the iPhone 7 definitely has a wider color gamut, so looks a lot more vibrant than the iPhone 6s, but in terms of brightness at first glance, I don't really see the difference here, but there's definitely a big difference. In color, we also get an all new seven megapixel FaceTime HD camera, which has an F 2.2 aperture. It can finally record in 1080p HD video, if you remember from the previous generation that was a 5 megapixel sensor that could only record in 720p video. So this is a welcome improvement.

This also has other features like auto image stabilization as well as deep trench, isolation for great low-light performance that also combines with a retina HD flash to illuminate your shots. So when it comes to the cameras, obviously there's a difference between the iPhone, 7 and 7 plus, but they all have the same main camera, a 12 megapixel sensor, which is all new with optical image stabilization. This also has a much wider F 1.8 aperture, jumping from the 2.2 aperture from the previous model. We also get larger pixels on those sensors for better low-light sensitivity, but when it comes to the iPhone 7 plus, it gets a second 12 megapixel sensor, but this time with an F 2.8 aperture. So this is used for telephoto images, so this allows you to zoom in optically on images.

We're going take a look at that in the software now I. Do think it's worth noting that, although we have software stabilization on this lens, it does not have optical image. Stabilization, like the main wide-angle lens. Also, next to the camera, is one of the microphones in addition to our new LED flash. This is a quad LED flash with dual tone, and this is 50% brighter and shoots 50% farther now in terms of using optical zoom on the iPhone 7, plus, it's actually very simple.

It's built into the camera app, so basically you get this little controller that allows you to quickly jump between 1x and 2x optical zoom alternately. You can also tap and hold and then swipe across in order to zoom in and out. This also includes software zoom or digital cropping. So basically you can zoom in and out all the way up to 10x when you're taking the photograph. You can also do this in video, but you're limited to 6 X instead of 10 in terms of photo quality.

Both cameras are basically identical until you're, using the optical zoom on the 7 plus, so they're, delivering very similar results with optical image. Stabilization now, in terms of bright daylight conditions, again we're using a 12 megapixel sensor, so we're not going to see increased sharpness, but we're definitely seeing increased color and better exposure because we have a wider aperture with an F 1.8 lens, which means we're getting a lot more light into the camera and the pixels on the sensors themselves are larger, which means there's better sensitivity, so you're seeing a lot crisper detail, even if we're not seeing higher resolution. The other great detail about this camera is that we have a shallow depth of field thanks to the F 1.8 aperture. So that means you can get those blurred background shots with a focus on your subject and because we have those focus pixels built into the sensor. That means the camera is able to focus very quickly and smoothly on your shot without having to spend too much time figuring out which point you want to focus on.

We also have 4k video recording, but this is something you have to turn on under settings. You can't do it from within the app which is kind of strange, so you have to go to settings, photos and camera and turn on 4k, video recording so with 4k video recording with optical and software stabilization, hand-held video looks extremely smooth and, of course, we benefit from the wider aperture that lets more light in the better sensor and the wider color gamut. So 4k video definitely looks a lot better on this phone than it did with the previous generation, and the other great thing here is that we can quickly switch between the wide-angle and telephoto lens, while recording video. You can even use the software zoom to smoothly zoom in and out on your shot. Now, this camera is particularly well suited to low-light conditions, so in extreme low-light conditions you definitely see brighter shots, especially if you compare this to the iPhone 6s plus.

So it's not dramatic, but you can see that it is brighter with better detail. So it's not as murky or muddy as the 6s plus was, but it's got about the same amount of processing, so it can be a little soft, but again you're, seeing a little more detail. Speaking, it's a better camera for a low-light, but it's not dramatically different. Now when it comes to using the brighter LED flash, it doesn't necessarily make the shot brighter, but it definitely gives you much more detail previously. The camera had to expose the shot longer with the weaker flash, so you can see a lot more noise.

In this case, the iPhone 7 seems to do a better job with the exposure level. The iPhone 7 is also launching with a new a10 fusion processor, which is a quad-core 64-bit processor, now they're calling this fusion, because it combines two high-powered cores with two low powered high efficiency cores. So those high efficiency cores use one fifth of power and our design to power low-end tasks. So you don't waste too much power that improves battery life. While we have these two other cores, which are high performance course, which deliver 40% better performance than the a9 chip, we also get a new six core GPU, which is 50% faster, also using two thirds of the power of the a9.

Now, as always, there is a slight speed difference between the seven and seven plus, because the seven plus clocks, the CPU a bit higher, but there's also another big difference, and that is RAM. So there are two gigs of ram on the seven three gigs of ram on the seven plus you get a lot more room to work with on the seven plus over the seven regardless. If you take a look at our geek combined scores and compare them to the previous generation, you can see a huge gain here, so this makes a very powerful phone, even more powerful. So when it comes to battery life, in addition to more efficient processors, we also have larger batteries built into both devices. So Apple estimates that most users should see one to two hours of additional battery life over the 6s iPhone 7 does add a few features to iOS 10, that's not available on the iPhone 6s.

So, for example, if you want to adjust the intensity of the vibration or click of the home button, there is a section for that under settings and under general, and you'll see the home button, and this basically allows you to pick a different intensity if you want. So, if you don't set this up correctly, when you set up the phone at least it's there under settings, also unique to the iPhone 7 is a section under sound and haptic. So that's just sounds on the iPhone 6s, but if you go to the bottom of that list, you'll see system haptics and that's because we get haptic feedback in some areas of the system on the iPhone 7 versus the iPhone 6s. So, for example, when you toggle this switch on and off, you actually get a tactic feedback, as you do so now. As always, the iPhone 7 plus once again has a unique software experience compared to the standard iPhone 7.

That's because we have landscape view for many apps actually includes the home screen. So that's able to take better advantage of this larger, higher resolution display. These films are also launching with iOS 10 and I did a very extensive look at iOS 10 in a previous video which I'll leave linked in the description below. If you want to check that out. So when it comes to these new black colors they're much darker than the Space Gray that they're replacing their much more opaque, so it's going to be interesting to see how they aged over time, but the matte black seems to be quite durable.

Now the big standout here is jet black, so jet black has this near-perfect gloss finish. It actually looks like one piece of glass. It's very reflective. Furthermore, it's also prone to scratches, in fact, Apple warns that this is more prone to scratches. So you may want to put a case on this unless you want the weathered look, but when it's brand new, it looks like one piece of glass: in fact, it seamlessly bonds to the glass on the front for this unique design.

So it definitely stands out. It makes the phone look like something completely different from you've. Seen up to this point, the only problem with these dark black colors is that they show a lot of fingerprints, certainly much more than Space Gray. So you may want to put a kiss on these unless you want to spend a lot of time, cleaning them so ultimately, in the end, the iPhone 7 really is a very polished product. It finally adds many of the features I think it's been lacking for a long time, such as waterproofing in particular.

We also get fantastic cameras on both models. High-end processing power that makes the system extremely smooth and powerful and excellent battery life that gets even better with this generation. Of course, this may not be perfect for everybody because it lacks a headphone jack and some people want a sharper display than the one offered on the iPhone, especially the 4.7 inch iPhone 7, which definitely isn't as sharp as most flagship smartphones priced at this level, but in the end, I think this is a significant upgrade from the iPhone 6s and 6s plus it's definitely worth considering as a replacement. Alright guys hope you enjoyed this look at the iPhone, 7 and 7 plus I do have the Apple watches and some iPhone 7 accessories coming up so stay tuned for that, and if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up to. Let me know, and I'll see you again in the next one.

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