![]() I charged the iPhone 7 Plus up to 100 percent, set it to 50 percent brightness and 50 percent volume, and played movies I’d previously downloaded from the iTunes Store to the Videos app until the iPhone reached 50 percent. IFixit’s teardown, and with savings in iOS 10, it can go a very long time. But the iPhone 7 Plus has a huge battery, 2900mAh (11.1 watt-hours) according to I have a terrible time getting an iPhone to last all day, especially considering my usage is heaviest in the afternoon and evening. Manual let advanced shooters have more control, and can even export images in RAW. Glenn dove deep into this phenomenon, but I’m happy to let the Camera app make those decisions since all I want is a good photo. It turns out that the Camera app will use the wide-angle lens and apply 2x digital zoom in some situations, if that would produce a better result (less noisy or shaky, or lit better) than using the telephoto lens. You might assume that shooting at 1x uses the wide-angle lens, while switching to 2x will use the telephoto lens, and going above 2x will use digital zoom. The iPhone 7 Plus’s Camera app also has a button above the shutter that toggles between a 1x and 2x view, or can be adjusted to any zoom level from 1x to 10x. The results were impressive (here’s a sneak peek), but again since this feature is in beta, Portrait mode’s performance doesn’t factor into the score of this review. We’ll be posting separately the results of an experiment we did using the iPhone 7 Plus for a fashion shoot with a model, indoors and outdoors. Potrait mode is still in beta and didn’t affect the iPhone 7 Plus’s score. It works better outdoors-inside, the photos can get noisy if you don’t have plenty of light. A little label pops up on the screen to say “Depth Effect” so you know you’ve got it, and you’ll get a warning if there isn’t enough light. When you enable the mode, the view switches to the zoomed-in, 56mm-equivalent, 6.6mm “telephoto” lens, and the camera will attempt to detect your subject, and then if the lighting conditions are right, you’ll see a live preview that keeps your subject sharp while blurring the background with a lovely bokeh effect. But the biggest factor in choosing the 7 Plus over the iPhone 7 is the camera, and Portrait mode sells that better than anything.Īs with the rest of the Camera app’s modes, Portrait aims to make things simple for the user. Since this mode is still in beta (both the feature itself, and iOS 10.1, are in beta as of this writing), I didn’t factor it into the review score. The new Portrait mode coming to iOS 10.1 is a great example of what the iPhone 7 Plus’s exclusive two-lens camera system can do. (The telephoto lens has a f/2.8 aperture.) Low-light photos are so much better than they used to be, since the Camera app can combine data from both lenses, the optical image stabilization helps keep things steady, and the wide-angle lens’s f/1.8 aperture lets in a lot more light than the f/2.2 lens in the iPhone 6s. No camera can keep a wiggly kid in focus, but this very amateur snapshot has nice colors and not-too-terrible noise for being lit by a single lamp way across the room. The iPhone 7 Plus gives me really great photos. I just want to point and shoot and wind up with a great photo. I have never owned an SLR, and while I have a basic understanding of things like aperture, shutter speed, and focal length, I’m always going to want the camera to do the work for me. Everything is fast on the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, from running powerful image editors likeĪdobe Lightroom, to beautifully shaded games likeĬSR Racing 2, to just installing a slew of updates from the App Store. According to Geekbench 4, the 2.34GHz A10 Fusion in the new iPhones can even outperform my 2013 MacBook Air in the single-core test. Since they both have the A10 Fusion chip, both the iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 7 clocked similar scores in Geekbench 4’s CPU tests, with a slight edge for the 7 Plus. After stretching out with a 5.5-inch screen, I was afraid the iPhone 7 and iPhone SE would seem like kids’ toys, but while the SE felt a little cramped by comparison, the iPhone 7 didn’t feel tiny compared to the 7 Plus. I like the smaller size when I’m carrying my iPhone, but when I’m actually using it, the iPhone 7 Plus is just too sweet. But now I’m slightly regretting going with the iPhone 7 over the iPhone 7 Plus. I haven’t used a 5.5-inch iPhone on a regular basis before this one, and before the iPhone 7 launch I was very happy with the 4-inch iPhone SE. The jet black color picks up fingerprints, but it’s so pretty I don’t even care.
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