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yes I purchased an iPhone 7 I know a lot of you are wondering Greg you've just purchased an iPhone SC why the heck did you do that now I have two phones I don't know what I'm going to do with this one I think I'm gonna give it to my mom for Christmas or something hope she doesn't watch this video I wanted to try out the newest and best from Apple this is the Apple experiment after all I know I've gone over the 30 day thing that's why I'm just calling these videos Apple experiment I figured I should try out the newest and greatest no this isn't the iPhone 7 plus so I don't have the the dual camera array or the large screen with a slightly higher pixel density or anything like that but I am getting once a flagship phone basically from Apple and I'm gonna give you my raw impressions right now let's discuss build quality first do I like the new design that's a trick question because it's not actually a new design in fact Apple has been recycling this style of iPhone for the past two or three generations now and back back to the iPhone 6 I put these next to each other you wouldn't really notice much of a difference apart from the fact that the antenna bands wrap around the phone instead of through the phone the camera protrudes just a bit more and has a slightly larger opening the flash looks a tiny bit different the home button is not a physical button anymore I don't know if you knew that they didn't really advertise this very much on Apple's website they were pretty discreet about it actually when I first picked up this phone I don't know how many explain this to you because what you're just watching you're not holding it actually doing it but when you push the home button an iPhone 7 or an iPhone 7 plus get ready for a surprise it's not actually a button in fact when you push whatever this is is little indentation I guess on the on the glass what happens is there's a little motor back there and it just vibrates it just moves and gives the feeling of a push in fact when you click the button even the click itself is fake because if you turn the phone off and try to push the home button in nothing's going to happen is gonna feel like it's a jammed button like you're pushing anywhere else on the glass but when you push it with the phone on you hear a slight little click I don't know if you're probably not gonna hear it when I do it but this little click right here okay that sounds 100% mechanical right that's actually fake all of it hears I guess the way that I can prove that to you so I'm going to cover up the speaker and I'm gonna click the button again and you tell me if you hear anything that was me clicking thumb off thumb on I'm basically covering up the speaker that's projecting the sound out from the phone but you can hear it when I'm covering it so yeah this is all fake down here it's that's all artificial it's very weird I don't mind it it's a different feeling it makes you it feels like I'm pushing the entire bottom end of the phone into the phone if that makes sense like the entire screen is just kind of going like that when I push it it is different it's a lot different from the very mechanical feeling of a physical home button like the iPhone 5 s 6 and the 6s so that's something that kind of caught me off guard I think it's cool I don't I don't know if it's going to stick around but it's something to get used to to say the least let's on to camera quality next that was actually a big reason why I was interested in trying out the new iPhone I knew that not much had changed in terms of just how fluid the operating system was any of that will get to the performance here in a sec as for the camera you're looking at a 12 megapixel f1 pointed aperture with optical image stabilization that's something I loved on my note 4 when I was an Android user and as you can see these clips right here just my brother and I walking down the sidewalk I'm actually walking while I'm filming but you can't really tell that I am that's optical image stabilization folks it looks very very smooth it's not choppy or you know very I guess cut up it looks very fluid you can definitely tell the difference between those that have it and those that don't and I'm glad Apple has made this one a staple in terms of picture quality 12 megapixels that F 1.8 aperture means you're going to get some stunning images especially in low-light situations it just means that your your cameras going to take in a lot more light which will aid in those low-light shots you won't see as much of that blurry kind of fuzziness that you get in in low-light situations that's something that that wider aperture will definitely help you out with as for the front-facing camera we're looking at 7 megapixels I just have the specs up here I don't know these by heart f 2.2 aperture which is still pretty good that's I mean some modern phones today still use an F 2.2 aperture on their rear facing camera so we're looking at excellent quality for the front basic camera you're seeing an example right there and then 1080p at 30fps 720p at 240 FPS so even slow-mo with the front-facing camera I actually didn't know that I'm gonna try that out now on to speaker quality just because they remove the headphone jack which we'll get to as well that doesn't mean they replaced it with a second speaker this is still just a microphone and over here you have your speaker on the bottom great Apple quality as usual and then on top here we have a second speaker that's something new so you're actually getting a stereo effect as a result of the second speaker it's not as I guess clear and just crisp sounding as the bottom speaker but nonetheless it is there and if you're just watching something like a YouTube video or I don't know listening some comedy show or whatever and you don't want to have your phone out like this and have to turn up your volume you can literally just put it up to your ear and listen to it like this I found this is actually pretty cool it looks like you're talking on the phone even though you might actually just be I don't know listening to some music video or something like that as or performance apart from the camera which we just discussed the appellate infusion one of the most powerful mobile grade CPUs available packed into the Apple iPhone 7 but what does that mean not much actually in fact because iOS is such a lightweight operating system to begin with compared to something like Android moving from say an iPhone 6s or as I did my case an iPhone se to the iPhone 7 isn't going to blow your mind you're not going to see those huge performance gains like you did between something like a galaxy s3 and a galaxy s6 it's just the differences aren't there and it's because while the iPhone 6s was already super super fast and upgrading for the sake of the performance benefits the iPhone 7 offers would be kind of crazy in my opinion sure the Geekbench scores say otherwise but like I said going back to the operating system there wasn't really much lag to begin with in the iPhone 6s even as far back as maybe the iPhone 5s I would argue that's where you would start to see the performance gains taper off and in that case I would recommend an iPhone 7 now I'm not running 10.1 apparently it's supposed to be a huge performance boost for the iPhone 7 there is a bit of a delay when I close apps sometimes when I transition in the multitasking window things get a little delayed but that was instantaneous I don't know what I'm talking about but ten point one's supposed to fix a few of those minor issues it's already blazing fast the differences between the iPhone se and the iPhone 7 or the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 7 are marginal and in my book do not justify the $600 price tag of leaf iPhone 7 unless you plan on trading in your iPhone 6s or se or whatever for that $300 trade in thing that Best Buy and a few others are doing all of links to those I guess deals in the video description if you're interested now let's talk about what's not included in the iPhone 7 and that's a headphone jack set a problem for you it's likely a problem for you it's probably why you're watching this video you want to know what I have to say about it it kind of shied me away from the iPhone 7 in the first place I'll admit that's why I didn't wait for this to be released when I started the Apple experiment I said well there's no way I'm gonna want a phone that doesn't have a headphone jack that's super weird but Apple actually remedied the situation in and while in my case I don't know if it will be in your case obviously if you plan on charging your phone and listening to headphones at the same time this can be an issue but they did include a lightning cable to three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack converter so you can use pretty much any standard headset that you already had that you were in fear of not being able to use as a result of not having a standard headphone jack but then on top of that they also include a just a typical Apple headset that plugs directly into the Lightning port so you have two different solutions there obviously like I said if you want to charge your phone at the same time it's going to be a problem you have to buy some kind of adapter and pretty sure Apple sells that adapter I'll link it in this video's description but it hasn't been a deal breaker for me I don't feel like I want to go take back the phone because it doesn't have a headphone jack so I think they did a good job it in most cases I can't speak for everyone obviously everyone has different tastes different opinions but in my case I don't feel inclined to return this I don't feel disappointed that one's not there because I mean even if I wanted to listen to music with my old headset that otherwise wouldn't be compatible with a phone I can just use the adapter and I can't think of really any case where I'd want to listen to something with a headset and charge my phone at the same time unless I was like binge watching Netflix or something so friend of mine said that was an issue for him but I would say in most cases you're going to be okay without having the headphone jack yeah shocker I'd ever thought I would say that but now that I have the phone and I've got to play around with it for a while I'm not disappointed that it's not there who knows maybe it will be a thing maybe so to wrap this up do I regret purchasing this now keep in mind for the entire Apple experiment everything that I have obtained from Apple has been out of my own pockets so I've been purchasing basically everything at Best Buy the guys over Best Buy I'm sure loved me by now I've spent over two-and-a-half grand at Best Buy the past month or so but after tax this phone came out to about $700 it's a 32 gigabyte version for Verizon it's unlocked I didn't buy it with a contract or anything like that I don't do contracts so I'm a little regretful about my purchase just a little bit in terms of just overall feel how the phone feels how fluid it is what I can do with it it's no different than my iPhone se straight up and if you don't have an iPhone Seb have something like an iPhone success it's basically the same thing the iPhone se is just as powerful if not a little bit more powerful than the 6s because the screen on the SD is a bit smaller so you know less processing power required to keep the screen running by the way battery life is OK my iPhone s these battery life is better I suppose I do regret purchasing this but I'm not going to return it I'm going to keep using it keep testing it keep experimenting with it make it make a few more videos I guess and keep talking to you guys about it it's just a different side of things I know a lot of you are not accustomed to I know that a lot of you don't agree with Apple and their way of doing things that's actually why I started the experiment in the first place so I mean at least appreciate that fact right like I'm willing to spend money for the sake of all of you so I guess at least reinforce your negative views of Apple if you have negative views and then maybe get those who aren't as negative towards Apple a bit more excited about the future of Apple because I think that the iPhone age whatever they call it probably iPhone 8 is supposed to be a really big deal so that's it I purchased an iPhone 7 for $700 and I regret my decision a lot of you were probably saying surprise surprise Greg you should have seen that coming but hey for the sake of science and experimentation right this is the Apple experiment after all if you appreciate this video be sure to give it a thumbs up give it a thumbs down if you feel the complete opposite or if you hate everything about life be sure to click Subscribe and if you have any stay tuned for more content like this and a few PC builds including walter white version 2.0 this is science studio thanks for learning with us you