Iphone 7 plus jet black review năm 2024
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As with the iPhone 7, the pressure-sensitive Touch ID sensor takes a little getting used to but once it becomes the norm, it feels strange using a previous, button version. It doesn’t add much to the phone, and the haptic feedback is so subtle it’s not a game changer. Show
There is also no noticeable speed difference between the Touch ID sensor recognising our fingerprint compared to the 6S, which was a marked improvement on the 6, and iOS 10 has sped this up for older models anyway. Software Apple's iPhone 7, and 7 Plus, ship with iOS 10 installed and it really gives the battery a boost having an OS designed to run as efficiently as possible with the hardware. To look at, iOS 10 wasn't as drastic a change as iOS 7 was, but Apple did say the latest software was its 'biggest update' in its history and iOS 10 does come with features Apple fans have been calling for, for years. Others bring the software more in line with Android. Photos and the keyboard, for example, have been made more intuitive thanks to machine learning. This means that iOS 10 can now recognise faces in photos and group them together. Elsewhere, it provides more accurate typing suggestions that learn from the user's behaviour. iOS may be restrictive in terms of tweaks that can be made as well as the access it grants to non-Apple software and systems, but it is still the most simple operating system to use and by stripping out some of the options, it makes it feel much more natural than some versions of Android. Other notable features in iOS 10 include the ability to delete Apple's default apps – meaning Stocks, iBooks, iCloud don't have to clog up space, redesigned Apple News and Apple Music apps, larger emoji, smart messages and a bedtime alarm. Explore all of the new features in iOS 10. Cameras We’ve previously preferred the smaller 4.7-inch iPhones; they felt like a significant size increase when we moved from the 4-inch 5S and took some getting used to. However, we’re now ready to step up again with the iPhone 7 Plus to take advantage of its extra features, namely the dual camera. The camera bump is still extremely unsightly but the photos the phone takes are great – on the whole, at least. The smaller of the two new models has the same 12MP sensor on the rear but it has an aperture of f/1.8 and a new six-element lens. Apple has also added optical image stabilisation to the iPhone 7, along with body detection, a Quad-LED True Tone flash, and wide colour capture. The front-facing camera has gone from a 5MP to 7MP, and also comes with body detection, wide colour capture and auto-image stabilisation. Elsewhere, it has Retina Flash, the front-facing camera records in 1080p, while the rear can handle 4K. On the rear is a dual, 12 MP camera with apertures of f/1.8, f/2.8, optical image stabilisation, phase detection autofocus, two times optical zoom and quad-LED, dual tone. On the front is a 7MP, f/2.2, face detection and HDR. The largest in Apple’s smartphone range has always felt like it played second fiddle to the darling of the Apple’s eye, the regular iPhone. Two years since the launch of the iPhone 6 Plus, however, the iPhone 7 Plus (find here) has a new dual camera, longer battery life and more power, which make it feel like Apple’s paying it a bit more attention. Remember 2014?The back of the iPhone 7 Plus is plain with plastic edges now that the antenna bands skirt its edges. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian Like with the iPhone 7, one place where Apple hasn’t made a lot of changes is to the design. Side-by-side with either the iPhone 6 Plus or iPhone 6S Plus, you’d be hard pressed to tell them apart. There’s no headphone socket in the bottom, of course, and the antenna lines are a little less obvious, at least on the black version, but there’s still an ugly camera lump on the back, and that is even larger now. The back also looks a bit plainer and somehow cheaper with the top and bottom plastic edges created by the antenna bands. The industrial design of the smartphone is now two years old, and it shows. The 5.5in 1080p screen is arguably the best LCD ever fitted to an iPhone - crisp, bright and colourful - but it has the same large bezels either side that the original iPhone 6 Plus had from 2014. In two years things have moved on. The iPhone 7 Plus is now a very large device despite the screen being one of the smallest for a phablet. Compared to rivals with the same 5.5in screen the iPhone 7 Plus is 77.9mm wide, which is 3.2mm wider than the OnePlus 3 and 5.3mm wider than the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which has a larger 5.7in screen, is still 4mm narrower than the iPhone. Why does width matter? The wider the device the harder it is to hold with one hand. No matter how much you might consider a phablet a two-hand device, at some point you will have to use it with one hand and that’s when people tend to drop their smartphones. At 77.9mm wide, with smooth rounded sides that feel nice but are slippery to try and grip, the iPhone 7 Plus is simply too wide for me to manage with a – not abnormal – hand span of 23cm. That was the case for almost all phablets two years ago, but in 2016 you can have both a 5.5in or larger screen and make it manageable with one hand. I’ve lost count the number of times I’ve almost dropped the iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S Plus and now the iPhone 7 Plus, when the same can’t be said of its modern competitors. The sim tray now has a small rubber gasket, which is one of only a few visible signs that the iPhone 7 Plus is waterproof. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian The iPhone 7 Plus, like its smaller sibling, is now waterproof to IP67 standards: 1m deep in fresh water for up to 30 minutes. It means that while going swimming with the iPhone 7 isn’t recommended, it will survive a drop into the washing up bowl or down the toilet.
It also has stereo speakers, which are louder than last year’s but do not provide good stereo separation. The bottom speaker is just as easy to block too. Specifications
A good day of batteryThe bottom of the phone only has a single Lightning socket. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian The iPhone 7 Plus has Apple’s new A10 Fusion processor, which, like most processors used in Android smartphones, has four processing cores split into two pairs. One is a high-performance pair of cores the other is a pair of energy efficient cores.
The iPhone 7 Plus feels as snappy as the iPhone 7. It has more RAM, but the difference isn’t noticeable. It feels a little bit faster than the iPhone 6S Plus in day-to-day activities, and significantly faster with some tasks such as photo processing in Prisma. Using it as my primary device with three hours of app usage and browsing, hundreds of emails and push notifications, a couple of photos, five hours of music over Bluetooth headphones and the odd game of Jetpack Joyride during my one hour and 20-minute train commute to and from work, it lasted an average of just under 27 hours between charges, meaning it made it to around 10.30am the next day. It dropped about 5% in eight hours overnight with do not disturb mode active. That kind of battery life means that you can be confident it will get you home after a night out. You will have to charge it each night, but unless you’re shooting 4K videos all the time, not during the day. Which is a good thing, because fully charging the iPhone 7 Plus takes ages. It’s one of the slowest charging smartphones available. From zero to 100% takes over three hours 20 minutes, when most of the competition gets it done in close to an hour. Charging overnight is recommended as topping up in the day takes a significant amount of time connected to the charger. iOS 10Widgets are now core to the iOS experience. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian The iPhone 7 Plus runs the same version of iOS 10 as the iPhone 7 and last year’s iPhone 6S models. Improvements on iOS 9 include rich notifications, quick replies and widgets.
Like the iPhone 6 Plus and 6S Plus before it, Apple modifies a few things within iOS 10 for the iPhone 7 Plus. The icons on the home screen, the notification shade and the Control Centre rotate with the screen, making it easier to use in landscape. Productivity apps such as Mail and Calendar also have split-screen views for landscape, and while some are useful, others feel cramped and not a good use of screen space. Touch ID, Home ‘button’ and Taptic engineThe home button is no longer a button, just a pressure sensitive pad. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian The Touch ID fingerprint scanner under the home button is the same as that fitted to the iPhone 6S Plus and iPhone 7. It is fast and accurate, although not quite the best in the industry. The home button is no longer a physical button, however. It’s been replaced by a pressure sensitive pad. Pushing it activates the taptic engine, giving a little vibration that feels like the whole bottom half of the phone depresses like a big mouse button. Some will love it, some will hate it; I quite like it. The taptic engine is one of the best features of the iPhone. With short sharp clicks, taps and vibrations for notifications and general feedback, it is genuinely the best thing Apple has created in years. Dual CameraThe dual camera sticks out of the back with what look like robot’s eyes in certain lighting conditions. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian Apple has jumped on the dual-camera bandwagon, following LG and Huawei. Apple’s approach is similar to LG’s: one camera has a standard wide-angle f/1.8 lens the same as fitted to the iPhone 7, the other has a slower f/2.8 lens with an effective two-times magnification compared to the standard lens. It gives the iPhone a 2x optical zoom and up to 10x digital zoom, which is a mixed bag. Images captured with the standard camera, which has optical image stabilisation, are crisp, detailed and colourful, even in low-light conditions. They are the same as those captured by the iPhone 7 and are a big step up in quality and performance in my testing compared to the iPhone 6S Plus. For comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 Edge and Note 7 have cameras with f/1.7 lenses. The secondary camera on the back magnifies the image by two times. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian The other 2x camera, however, doesn’t perform nearly as well. In good outdoor lighting you can get some great shots. Poor outdoor lighting they’re not quite as good as the standard camera, but still decent. The problem comes when you’re shooting in average indoor lighting conditions, where the 2x camera falls down. It doesn’t have optical image stabilisation and isn’t anywhere near as good at letting light in, meaning images are often grainy and lacking in detail. To the user, however, the two cameras are essentially one. The iPhone 7 Plus’s software blends the two images together from the two cameras, so you can slide your finger and zoom in fluid increments all the way to 10x magnification. It’s a shame, then, that Apple hasn’t chosen to offer a light information boosting system like Huawei’s on the P9 Plus, which uses the other camera to increase the amount of light information available, and therefore the detail and brightness of images taken in poor lighting conditions. The 2x magnification proved more useful than I was expecting, but the digital zoom is still not worth using, particularly at its extremes – it’s simply artificially spreading the pixels out without adding new information, and the resulting photos look awful. The 7-megapixel selfie camera is one of the best in the business, creating detail rich and colour accurate photos even under difficult artificial lightning conditions. Where do I stick my headphone jack?No headphone port means it’s Lightning, Bluetooth or bust. A set of Lightning EarPods and a Lightning to 3.5mm headphone socket adapter are included in the box. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian There is no headphone socket and that’s not exactly great. How much that bothers you will depend on how much you listen to music on your smartphone. A set of Lightning EarPods are included in the box, which are terrible and can’t be plugged into anything else other than an iPhone or iPad. A £9 3.5mm Lightning adapter is also included, but I’ve already lost one in the two weeks since the iPhone 7 was released. The biggest problem is that you can’t charge your phone and listen to music at the same time without some sort of ungainly adapter. Bluetooth headphones are an option worth exploring, but they are another thing to charge and another significant expense. ObservationsThe bezels around the sides of the screen are very large compared to the competition. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian
PriceThe iPhone 7 Plus costs £719 for 32GB (buy here), £819 for 128GB (buy here) or £919 for 256GB in rose gold, gold, silver, black or jet black (buy here). For comparison, the 5.5in Galaxy S7 Edge costs £639, the 5.7in Google Nexus 6P costs £449, the 5.5in OnePlus 3 costs £329 and last year’s iPhone 6S Plus cost £619 but now £599 (128GB is £699). Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7, which has suffered issues with its battery, costs £700 with 64GB of storage and a microSD card slot, which makes the iPhone 7 Plus more expensive than any of its top-end rivals. VerdictThe iPhone 7 Plus will tick a lot of boxes for many iPhone buyers. It lasts a day per charge, it has dual cameras on the back, it has a larger screen and has most of the good things about the iPhone 7 including IP67 waterproofing. But it’s not a great phablet compared to the competition. A two-year old design in a space that has had rampant innovation in device form, if not features, means phones with 5.5in displays no longer have to be hulking, high-priced monsters. The perfect iPhone would have the battery life and camera of the 7 Plus in the body of the iPhone 7, but that’s not what’s on offer. It’s a compromise that you don’t actually have to make any more. Pros: a day’s battery life, good dual camera and selfie camera, waterproof, taptic engine, good fingerprint scanner, Cons: bulky, difficult to hold with one hand, no headphone socket, cannot unlock the phone with gloves or within an armband case, expensive, no removable battery, no memory expansion, can’t charge and listen to cabled headphones, very slow charging The homescreen rotates on the iPhone 7 Plus. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian Other reviews
This article contains affiliate links to products. Our journalism is independent and is never written to promote these products although we may earn a small commission if a reader makes a purchase. To find discount codes for major technology and electricals retailers, visit discountcode.theguardian.com Is the iPhone 7 Plus Jet Black rare?According to a note sent to MacRumors from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the jet black iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus have a "low casing production yield rate of 60-70%." That means up to 40 percent of jet black iPhone 7 phones produced don't make the cut. Is the iPhone 7 Plus good or bad?Absence of headphone jack aside, the 7 Plus is the best iPhone you can buy, with more memory than its smaller counterpart and dual cameras that peer toward Apple's future. PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Which Colour of iPhone 7 Plus is best?What color iPhone 7 Plus are most people buying?. 45% of buyers chose color Black.. 19% of buyers chose color Rose Gold.. 13% of buyers chose color Silver.. 11% of buyers chose color Gold.. 10% of buyers chose color Jet Black.. 3% of buyers chose color Red.. How long will iPhone 7 Plus be supported?iPhone 7 was discontinued in 2019 (not 2017), and so will be supported until 2024. |
