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pocket now's iPhone 7 coverage is brought to you by D brand to buy the best fitting skin for your phone or tablet please visit D brand calm the one-year upgrade is increasingly becoming a tricky recommendation for any manufacturer Apple has introduced some novel features not found before on previous iPhones but is that enough to motivate you to part with your cash here are four reasons for upgrading from an iPhone 6s to the iPhone 7 and 3 arguments against first up a little housekeeping you can pause the video here to see which specs have been improved moving from the 6s to the 7 now what's hot water resistance having a proper rating of ip67 definitely delivers some peace of mind for folks who might be inclined to drop their phones into some sort of body of water stereo speakers as an evolved primate living on this planet it's statistically likely that you listen to the world around you through some balance of having two ears providing two speakers on the iPhone 7 should better satisfy that stereo listening experience the improved camera okay so in daylight the differences aren't earth-shattering but the wider aperture and hardware image stabilization on the iPhone 7 certainly helps deliver better photos and videos over last year's iPhone 6s especially in lower light situations you want the one with more jeebies we're all very happy to see the 16 gigabyte iPhone is finally dead but even folks who opted to buy an iPhone with more storage those additional storage tears deliver a lot more bang for your buck so what's not hot headphone audio sure the speaker's got better but Apple's courageous move to eliminate the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack results in a cumbersome set of solutions out of the box the ear pods and headphone adapter deliver ever so slightly lower audio quality and it's up to the consumer to keep track of this fiddly little thing plus the ear pods in the box no longer work with anything else other than iPhones and iPads sorry macbook users to improve the convenience or the audio quality requires the user to buy additional expensive accessories on top of the purchase price of one of the most expensive phones of the year that battery life sure the battery got bigger but so did the phone's horsepower and almost all of our testing the iPhone 7 fell slightly behind the iPhone 6s and our 6s has a one year old battery we're not expecting this year's smaller iPhone to be remembered as a battery champ a disease will call the sameness and why increase the CPU core count when so much of this phone is the same as last year's same overall dimensions and design as the iPhone 6 same screen resolution same RAM even updating to iOS 10 last year's iPhone 6s doesn't feel that far behind for performance while Apple is the most successful company on the planet in converting geeky tech stuff into lifestyle accessories even with new black color options this year the iPhone 7 just doesn't feel like the fashion Vanguard this brand once represented let's wrap this up there you have it folks four reasons for and three reasons against the one year upgrade do you think the iPhone 7 brings it up to the table for Apple fans to consider flipping their iPhone 6s hit the more info icon in the upper corner to vote in our viewer poll pocket now's iPhone coverage is brought to you by D brand check out D brand calm to customize your iPhone with a real-time preview D brand skins are designed to add grip texture and kill those jet-black iPhone fingerprints they ship worldwide and iPhone skins start at under ten bucks if you're interested links are in the description below as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for our full iPhone 7 coverage including our iPhone 7 plus real camera review so you can see what those dual cameras can really do for pocket now i'm juan carlos bag now some gadget guy on twitter and instagram and i will catch you all on the next comparison oh my