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in a lot of ways Apple is a victim of their own success they've revolutionized industries may come to expect revolutionary products year-over-year the iPhone 7 iPhone 7 plus are not bad these are evolutionary at best of design language we saw introduced with the iPhone 6 does that even matter have they made an already good phone or phones even better we headed out to beautiful Balboa Island to help you decide whether or not the iPhone 7 and 7 plus are worth the upgrade whether or not you should skip this generation all together and maybe go to a competitor let's start to review with what's different namely the home button on the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 plus it's been completely redone at least internally utilizing Apple's taptic engine found in the force touch trackpad on the MacBook Pros upon setup you get three different options to pick which one's gonna feel the best for you and they all kind of felt the same I just pick number three because last one I tried and the first couple days of testing I did not like the way this worked I missed a physical depressing of the home button but after that first three to four days I started to enjoy the home button and beyond that I didn't have any false reads and read my fingerprint almost 100% of the time something that I certainly couldn't say it to the generation phones the design language on the iPhone 7 is very familiar to the last two generations of phone the antenna bands have been moved and I'm definitely talking about the move of the headphone jack but it looks like a very similar phone save for the new black color and a new jet black color I opted for the black essentially it's matte black and does a really nice job of not showing fingerprints for debating jet black know that when it's clean it looks absolutely gorgeous the second you put that thing in your pocket it is extremely prone to scratches and shows more fingerprints than a piano the cameras have been tweaked a little bit the camera humps are certainly more pronounced on the iPhone 7 and absolutely on the dual sensor wielding iPhone 7 plus and speaking of cameras they have definitely been changed and upped arguably that's the biggest upgrade with this generation of phones the iPhone 7 now is a 12 megapixel camera with an f1 plate aperture OAS is a nice welcome improvement even the flash has been improved it's how a quad led true tone flash the inclusion of oh yeah something at Apple absolutely needed and video looked really even while walking did a really nice job save life and the pictures that came out of it also look equally good as you'd expect pictures and normal light look great because in low light also look good even with the flash turned off the flash turned on it looked a lot better than I've seen in previous generation phones now having said that about the iPhone 7 you can't really gauge how good that picture looks because the resolution on that screen is still 1334 by 750 a resolution that has not changed in years and isn't now so far outdated by even mid-range Android phones I really try to temper myself and not get too caught up in resolution being the most important but this isn't even a 1080 screen that comes out to being able to see content on the display we just can't see that much on the iPhone 7 although I like the way the phone feels in the hand I found myself looking more towards the iPhone 7 plus because at least is that has a 1920 by 1080 screen I think that's a big knock on the iPhone they've done an incredible job cramming cutting-edge technology with the thing you look at interact with the phone is extremely last gen and saying the last gen is being very friendly and speaking of the 7 plus Apple has done a lot of stuff with that camera in fact they've doubled it you know have to 12 megapixel wide-angle and telephoto cameras line angles got an F eliminate aperture the telephoto has an F 2.8 aperture and now we've got real legit optical zoom here at 2 x digital zoom up to 10 give you a little icon on the screen you tap it and you zoom right in so any syrup exhalation you can also zoom in while you're recording it's slow motion which it does at 10 80 120 frames per second and it looks absolutely incredible coming out of the iPhone 7 plus even the iPhone 7 I really love the slow-mo video it's not surprising to say this is the best generation of cameras applet ever produced because suppose the recent generation of cameras Apple's ever produced but it's true the cameras are really nice here on the iPhone 7 I've said this before in previous reviews but I have dropped my phone in the toilet and while being incredibly gross I've also ruined a few phones I getting them wet that is no longer be the case with the iPhone 7 and 7 plus because IP 67 which means it's dust and water resistant not waterproof you can submerge in water for about 30 minutes in one meter and still be okay a little recommended we did a full video testing the water prowess of the iPhone 7 and 7 plus and it performed admirably if you get stuck in the rain you don't have to worry me definitely throw in a pool you're gonna be fine just rinse it off and you're gonna be good to go no more trying to hold a flashlight your headphone jack to see if a little piece of paper turn color see if you had water damage and age you like the natural transition to the headphone jack it ain't here it is it is gone in a very curious move by Apple replacing what used to be the headphone jack with now just a dummy speaker it doesn't do much I could rant and write about that for a while personally though it doesn't matter too much to me I mostly use Bluetooth headphones but for the kind of person likes to plug in then you're not gonna want to look at this phone the very least you're gonna want to make sure you do not lose the included dongle that's gonna come in the box other improvements that this gemphones and the processors need things are fast rocking the a10 fusion chip with 64-bit architecture and the embedded m10 in motion coprocessor these phones predictably fly apple's ever been reliant on a ram although the iPhone 7s got 2 gigs the iPhone 7 plus has 3 both feel very very fast but it still is iOS 10 and again whether you love it love it hater somewhere between it is the best version of iOS 10 for every pro of the iPhone 7 and 7 plus there's a Colin the biggest cons for me are the screens I like that Apple improve the color gamut but in all candor things don't look that different on the 7 vs 6s or even the 6th the exact same images the low resolutions becoming less and less tolerable as Apple goes year after year without changing it and again I'm not screaming that these phones need to have Q HD displays at the very least 1080 across the board is a glaring omission from Apple on the flip side of that coin the cameras are great the phones are incredibly fast and battery life seems to be improved I'm getting about an hour long and I did a previous gen phone I still can barely make it through a day on the iPhone 7 but on the plus side on the day with about 40% so the question I asked should you upgrade if you're on an iPhone six maybe you want to consider especially some of the offers carriers are giving right now fron iPhone 6s I would tip this generation out if you want anything older than i phone six absolutely upgrade you're gonna have a huge changes versus what you're using but this is by no means a must-have phone it's a nice to have phone it's a hey this camera is better than the last gen it's a cool can get wet type phone but it's by no means to camp out for two days cuz I gotta have this device and in that way I think Apple's lost a little bit of luster they still make some the best phones on the planet but they're not as wonderful and gotta have as it used to be perhaps things will change with the next gen iPhone eight we've heard crazy rumors whether or not that's come to fruition is yet to be seen but the glaring emissions on the iPhone 7 and 7 plus make it a phone that you could probably skip and still be okay so what do you guys think about the iPhone 7 iPhone 7 plus it's like this kind of review give the video a thumbs up to let us know we want to get out of the office and sort of see Southern Californian let you see it through our eyes hope you guys enjoy leave a comments down below and let us know if you like the phones we're not you upgrade or not upgraded and why until next time I'm J Ranger from TechnoBuffalo chat you guys the next one