iPhone 7 Review: 4 Months Later! By Marques Brownlee

Hey, what's up guys I'm cabby HD here- and this is the newest iPhone it's a couple of months later, and this is the review so believe it or not. This phone is about four months old already, which means a lot of you considering buying. One have already made up your mind on that, but you definitely learn a lot from using a phone for a longer period of time for months, isn't even that long, it's just longer than I, usually take your view things, but for me at least you know with four months. You know this is the honeymoon period is over. It's not brand new and shiny anymore got your fingerprints on you got your scratches on it. You've used it every day, and you really get to know at best.

So, first and foremost, even though this is the iPhone 7, even though this is supposed to be the bigger step forward in the ticktock of Apple releases, 6 6 s 7 7 s, this is still definitely a very familiar and very incremental upgrade to the previous iPhone. Again, it's a familiar iPhone same rectangle with the rounded corners for the design. Same big forehead and chin with the home button, same seamless, unibody, metal, industrial design, again and same scrolling pages of icons for iOS, so at its core. It's super easy to get used to, especially when you're coming from another iPhone, just to pick up an iPhone 7. But that being said, there are plenty of little things and plenty of refinements that all add up to make a much better phone than you had last year.

So on the outside, the improvements are more minor. You know a little design tweak from last year the antenna bands are gone, and the back looks a little cleaner, but it's definitely still an iPhone. There's, no mistaking that. So if you want to mess with the design a little more, you can maybe put a skin on it like I showed in my daily driver video. But this design, as still as it may seem, is iconic and very familiar.

So we still have some of the biggest bezels in any smartphone. That is a bit annoying when you have the white bezels, but that's so you can still have this home button for at least one more year and speaking of the home button. It's now not a physical button anymore, but it's more of like a force touch trackpad. It doesn't actually move it's just a still piece of glass, but it's pressure-sensitive. So when you press it, it works and the tactic motor makes a click, and it makes it feel like you're, pressing a button and it's really convincing I'd say it's really easy to get used to it used to be weird when you're like pushing on a table- and you know it doesn't really work with gloves, but I'm- a hundred percent used to it now, I'm, actually totally cool with this home button.

I should also mention I. Think touch. I'd is at the holy grail, where it's like a no-brainer, whether you should use it or not. You set it up once right when you get your phone, and it's faster and more secure than typing in a password every single time, so I like touch ID a lot anyway. Aside from just the home button, this is the second generation of the iPhone with 3d touch, but I don't really use it.

That much I mean it's definitely built into more apps and there are shortcuts on the home screens and even in the apps themselves, but yeah I, just don't really use it. That much one thing I do have to say, though, is something the iPhone doesn't get enough. Credit for the iPhone has the best vibration motor in any smartphone period, and I'm talking about the tactic engine like this phone literally feels like it's tapping you on the wrist or in your pocket or in your hand, when you get a notification, it's awesome, so I love the tactic engine. It's perfect and Apple clearly knows this because they're using it in way more parts of iOS animations. Now so, like the notification shade bouncing off the bottom of the screen, that type of thing or control center bouncing up or really just any bouncing anywhere in iOS, it always clicks.

So the phone feels like it's bouncing anyway. One of the biggest changes on the outside is its now officially a waterproof phone. So the iPhone 7 is ip67 rated, which means you don't have to worry about, dropping it in or near water anymore, and you can just take underwater photos and videos if you want. Basically, the phone should survive water exposure now, but other than that you know, the displays on the iPhone 7 are still pretty good. You know nothing crazy or amazing.

It still has great color reproduction, but the one thing that's killing me: it's not just me. It's tons of people, obviously about the outside of the phone, is the lack of a headphone jack. Basically, Apple is clearly aiming for an entirely port 'less Wireless iPhone in their future. So in that process, they're, removing the headphone jack and starting to push wireless audio super aggressive. Yes, super forward-thinking, yes, super a pain in the ass.

Also, yes, I mean I. Think it's I'm, probably going to make a whole video on the whole wireless phone thing. Maybe let me know if you'd want that in the comment section now, the camera on the iPhone 7 is new -. You can see the different housing there's new sensor and new glass, and you might remember, from the smartphone Awards. This camera is already one of the best.

It takes great photos and great 4k videos, I think it might get the title of best. Low-Light photo camera back. It was kind of close to Samsung, but the image processing from Apple has always been excellent. Autofocus is also extremely fast and daytime photos. Look pretty damn good too, but it's by far the best video camera in any smartphone I'll tell you that right now, I'll link below the video I shot entirely on this camera, but seriously the 4k video from the sensor with the optical image stabilization and the big wide open aperture.

Honestly, sometimes you can't tell the difference from like a real, dedicated mirrorless cameras' footage it's that good, get a little depth of field going, I mean it's awesome. Everything's there now the iPhone 7 plus has a second camera lens, as you already saw in my daily driver video one regular camera same as the smaller phone and one telephoto lens at twice the focal length for that two times, optical zoom, and it's fascinating. The way it works, but I think it turned out to be one of Apple's coolest products of 2016 last year. Basically, when you're all the way zoomed out you're, not just getting data from the main camera, as you would expect, but it's also actually intelligently using some imagery stitching in from the telephoto camera as well to make it a little sharper and a little more detailed in the center of the frame. Now sometimes it uses lots of that data, sometimes none at all like if you accidentally cover the telephoto lens with your finger, for example, it doesn't use anything from it, but when you start to zoom in a bit, it continuously intelligently analyzes how much of the information to stitch in, and then you can actually see it completely switch over cameras when you get to 2 X zoom, it's subtle, but the tiny changing exposure is there.

You can see it and from what I've seen it actively does this switching during video recording to so dual cameras is pretty awesome, and it works really. Well, you can only get it obviously on the bigger iPhone, which is why I guess a lot of people don't get to play with it, but through software updates stuff, like portrait mode, is getting better every day and it's so basically, if you're into photography or videography, the iPhone 7 plus, is the again now on the inside. Basically, all you need to know that's changed is the chip. The a10 fusion ship is fantastic in this phone, and I'm pretty comfortable calling this the most responsive phone ever like this is something Apple does really well, since they control both all the hardware and all the software. So no phone is as smooth and as one-to-one responsive to the touch of your finger as a fresh iPhone, I'd say the Google Pixel comes closest right now and then maybe the 1 plus 3t right after that and generally stock Android phones.

But the smoothness and high frame rates of animations are the most consistent on the iPhone 7 and that's something I really like, and it's something you'll appreciate like every single day. You're using the phone overall performance is awesome through multitasking in everyday use and gaming and navigation and all kinds of stuff and the battery life to go with. That is also about the same as last year, which is to say pretty good, but not great. So the iPhone 7 has an okay battery and decent standby time, while the bigger iPhone 7, plus that I'd recommend has pretty good battery with excellent standby time. Also fun.

Fact. This year, Apple made the iPhone the same dimensions and included a bigger battery, instead of making it smaller with the same sized battery Thank You, Apple keep doing that. Please I really don't need it to be thinner, but that is pretty much what's good, with the new iPhone lots of little upsides lots of little improvements with the hardware on the outside and on the inside. My biggest complaints would be that they went with lightning over USB type-c again, although I would totally expect them to keep doing that and that they went with no headphone jack instead of a headphone jack. Obviously, I can't tell you how many Ever drivers have offered me.

The aux, cable and I have to turn down the jams, so at the end of the day, iPhone 7 has a lot, that's new with it, but obviously it's still a very familiar incremental upgrade just like previous iPhones have been, and that's kind of the point. That's why people keep getting iPhones. That's not a bad thing. That's a great reason to buy this phone again, especially if you're coming from your previous gen, but I think that this year, you're going to see a lot more big improvements with the 10th generation iPhone or the iPhone 7s, or the iPhone X. Whatever they end up, calling it that's the one I'm most excited for until then that's been it.

Thank you for watching. I thought you guys in the next one peace.

Source : Marques Brownlee