By now you’ve heard extensively about iPhone 7 ‘s loss of the standard 3.5 mm port for a Lightning jack. But we thought we’d give you a quick debrief on the rest of the updates hitting the seventh generation iPhone.
All The iPhone 7 Updates Besides The Lightning Jack
Apple’s entire reasoning for nixing the 3.5 mm jack was to work on providing a slimmer, lighter model. Voila, a thinner, lighter model.
The audio jack has been replaced by another speaker so now you have two!
In addition, one of the biggest improvements is the camera because obviously the popularity over the selfie isn’t going anywhere any time soon. The iPhone 7 will upgrade to a 12 megapixel camera while the 7 Plus will upgrade to a dual 12 megapixel camera with one side flexing a 28 mm wide-angle lens and the second a 56 mm lens.
I’m extremely excited about Portrait mode which allows you to take photos that’ll create a bokeh-like background. FYI, that’s when you have a beautiful blurry background and a super in-focus subject.
The new iPhone’s will also be IP67 water resistant to compete with the likes of Samsung Galaxy S7 (cue Lil Wayne pouring champagne over his phone for an entire one-minute here).
Moreover, less hardware inside the phone means more room for other amazing and necessary updates, like those affecting life. We are now talking iPhone 7 reaching 12 hours of LTE use and the 7 Plus an expected 14 hours.
A faster processor (64-bit, quad-core processor)Â is also embedded into the new phones which should speed them up about 40x as much.
Storage sizes will increase to include capacities 32GB, 128GB, and 256GB.
And finally many more colors to choose from with silver, gold, rose gold, and the addition of matte black. The 32GB iPhone 7 will retail at $649 and the 7 Plus at $769 and increase by $100 respectively with a jump in data storage. Anyone interested in upgrading can pre-order a phone now at Apple.com for availability on September 16.
