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rarely do couples ever go on more than one honeymoon and many may argue that every new iPhone brings a lot of the same but this is not one of those cases I'm hi I'm Eddie Vetter with pocket now and I've just spent 24 hours with the iPhone 7 plus brought to you by D brand pocket now's iPhone 7 coverage is brought to you by D brand to buy the best fitting skin for your phone or tablet visit D brand calm we live in a society that continuously sells the concept that bigger is better and before we begin with the that's what she said jokes let's be clear strapping the name Plus on this iPhone finally makes sense in the past the plus was just the bigger iPhone with OIS but the iPhone 7 plus is finally what I'd call a better one at least to a certain degree setting it up for the first time brings a blend of old and new we've got the same hello screen that later leads to the activation through Wi-Fi or cellular you then set up your fingerprint and then options to set up your iPhone as new or restore from iCloud I am a big fan of iCloud stores given how easily it is to get a carbon copy of your old iPhone so I follow that route then you set up Apple pay and this then switches to your new forced touch home button setup you get three taptic sensitivity options out of which I chose the second one even if none really feel as natural as pressing a button more on this in a minute then voila you're now restoring to your new home screen or should I say your old home screen the amount of time it takes to restore depends on your internet connection and the content load right about here is where I started running into a couple of hurdles over our base storage experiment see I'm restoring from an old 64 gigabyte iPhone 6s so about halfway through the restore I had to begin deleting games and old videos just to make ends meet and about everything else this is pretty much an iPhone the similarities Department you've got the same grid of icons and I even wonder why Apple only bundled one new wallpaper yeah just one new one iOS 10 does provide a bevy of new enhancements like a new control center better options to interact with notifications and other improvements we've discussed on separate videos now even though Apple touts its new retina HD display to have a wider color gamut I'm really having a hard time noticing the difference it could be given my active use of the nine point seven inch iPad pro that supports the same enhancements but this is to say that it isn't as saturated or punchy as AMOLED but it's still a great 1080p IPS LCD nonetheless and for those of you that have been asking about that force touch home button I'm having a love and hate relationship with it C on the Mac the trackpad vibrates in a way that you feel like if you're truly pressing a button and that sensation is really phenomenal here the taptic engine provides sensation more to the back of the phone into the button so while I find that natural when holding the phone you'll barely feel it on a table and that can be really confusing Apple does do a good job and having these taps be strong as to even make a sound like if you're pressing a button and it's awesome to get the feedback when you're pulling down the notification shade or pressing buttons on the screen but again so long as you're holding the phone now over a day of use what I've really enjoyed the most are these new stereo speakers they aren't really that much louder than the previous mono speakers on the iPhones of the past but the added depth of the sound is amazing and actually also feels amazing as you can actually feel the chassis of the phone vibrating the later builds on the success of the s7 edge and combine both to launch its next generation of talent killer the company claims to have reached if you've ever held an iPad pro and felt it play audio yeah that feeling pretty much extends this iPhone as well and as for the design I'm not regretting going gold one bit as this does an amazing job at deterring fingerprints I just wish that there came a time when Apple would go black on the bezels of the display for these color options as what can be more immersive for consuming content now as much as the build feels great in the hand be warned this is one very thick and heavy iPhone and that new dual camera hump is far more notorious to wobbling on the table in the previous iPhone now I'm not going to complain about that camera hump because that's the feature that makes the iPhone 7 plus better than its little brother you get the same wide-angle 12 megapixel shooter up to seven on one side and then a separate 12 megapixel telephoto lens on the other that provides some nifty optical zoom tricks and what better place to test optical zoom than bringing it to a baseball game right so far I'm very impressed with the color saturation and detail of the iPhone 7 plus far surpassing its predecessors in low-light performance and finally a worthy competitor to this year's Galaxy offerings the software enhancements built to switch between lenses is not really intuitive but the switch is extremely smooth between cameras even if while fully zoomed then you will feel a crazy lack of stabilization in the image just keep in mind that telephoto lenses an aperture of f28 so don't expect great low-light performance from it now something that I can't say I'm really happy about with the iPhone 7 plus over a day is battery life it could be that my restore process has hit the battery hard but I barely scratched the day of use yesterday and today hasn't really been any much better to make matters worse charging this thing is kind of a pain barely going from 10% to 28% in 30 minutes something really shameful when compared to the fast charging of 2016 flagships but hey to be fair this is just 24 hours of use we've got a long and extensive review period and time will tell if this phone really lives up to being a better I phone because you're actually paying extra for it we've still got a ton of 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