On Wednesday, Apple lifted the wraps off the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in San Francisco, giving rest to all the speculations around the tech giant’s newest release. The official India release date is October 7 and price in India starts at ₹60,000 for the iPhone 7, with no word yet on India price of other models. These are the new features unveiled in iPhone 7
- The company has done away the previous 16-GB model and has introduced a 32GB entry-level variant. Apple has also doubled the storage variant on other models, with 128GB and 256GB models now rounding up the lineup.
- The latest models have done away with the antenna lines at the back, and they will be available in two new colours: (matte) black, jet (glossy) black, in addition to gold, silver, and rose gold, which were present earlier. There has been divided opinion over people in the social media with some liking the new ‘gloss’ finish and some criticising it.
- The home button has been reworked with and the new button is now solid-state and force-sensitive as it uses Taptic vibrations instead of a physical click, just like the trackpad on the latest MacBook and MacBook Pro models. As speculated, Apple has also added IP67 water and dust resistance, a first for the iPhone series.
- The display is brighter with a wider colour gamut and improved colour management. The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are powered by a new A10 Fusion 64-bit quad core chip and is more power efficient.
- Stereo speakers are introduced which are twice as loud as their predecessors.
- As expected, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus did leave out the headphone jack. Apple will use the Lightning port for audio. Each new iPhone model will come with bundled Lightning EarPods, and a Lightning-to-3.5mm audio adapter, so you can use your old headphones.
- Apple also introduced new AirPods for wireless audio experience, which will not be bundled with the iPhone models. They pair easily with Apple devices, thanks to the W1 chip inside new Apple devices that’s used for wireless communication.
- There are camera improvements, with the iPhone 7 getting optical image stabilisation (OIS) feature and a new 6-element f/1.8 aperture lens with 12-megapixel sensor and quad-LED with True Tone Flash has been introduced. A new 7-megapixel front camera is included as well. The newest iPhone models come with a new image processing engine, which, Apple claims, delivers better, faster pictures.
- And yes, the widely rumoured dual rear camera setup – one 56mm telephoto lens and the other wide-angle lens has been incorporated into the latest model.
- The new iPhone models comes with a 25 percent brighter display with a wider colour gamut and improved colour management. The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are powered by a new A10 Fusion 64-bit quad core chip, which is 40 percent faster than the A9, and more power efficient, which means the new models have the “best battery life ever” on an iPhone.A
