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Five features of the new Apple iPhone 7

Five features of the new Apple iPhone 7

The new devices will start shipping out internationally from September 16. They will be available in India from October 7. iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be available in silver, gold, rose gold and the new black finish

 

The new iPhone 7 will cost the same as the 6s, at $649. But in a welcome move, it will now ship with a base of 32GB. Other versions are 128GB and 256GB. Here are some of the new upgrades.

 

1) The iPhone 7 will not have a headphone jack. The 3.5 mm Jack has been standard in devices for decades now, and it has been long rumoured that Apple would get rid of it to make more room inside the slim devices. Those rumours have now been confirmed. 

 

Five features of the new Apple iPhone 7

 

Earphones will now connect to the Lightning connector port earlier only used for charging and data transfer. And of course, existing headsets, a.k.a all of them in the world, can be utilised via an adapter. 

 

Apple has given consumers a small mercy though - the earphone adapter will be shipped with the new phone. 

 

The new wireless earphones are named Apple AirPods and are claimed to run for five hours on one charge. The new AirPods - including charging case - will be available for $159 in the US beginning in late October. 

 

2) The new phone will feature stereo speakers for the first time. Apple phones have decent speakers, but there are famously only one of them. So far, the grill in the bottom of the phones has been full sized for the mic and aesthetics. But that space will now have a second speaker. 

 

Five features of the new Apple iPhone 7

 

3) The Home button on the phones has been upgraded from the earlier button-click assembly into a force sensitive button. They had used similar technology - the Taptic Feedback Engine - in the trackpad of Macbook released last year. 


4) Camera updates: Apple has upgraded the image signal processor, added image stabilisation and a larger aperture sensor. All of these are expected to improve picture quality, add depth to the pictures and most importantly - consume less battery. Apple claims the camera is 60% percent faster than its predecessor. 

 

IPhone 7 Plus features the same 12-megapixel wide angle camera as iPhone 7 and adds a 12-megapixel telephoto camera that together offer optical zoom at two times and up to 10 times digital zoom for photos. 

 

Five features of the new Apple iPhone 7

 

5) The new phone is water resistant to an extent and comes with 'longer battery life'. The new 64-bit chip, named the A10 Fusion, is claimed to run 40% percent faster than the 6s and also consumes far less power than the old ones.  

 

Five features of the new Apple iPhone 7

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