Ondrej Holzman I had an interesting experience in the last few weeks. Although I ordered the new iPhone 7 Plus on the first day it was possible in the Czech Republic, I still ended up waiting an incredible seven weeks for it. Not expecting such a delay, I sold the previous iPhone 6 Plus early and ended up having to resort to the old iPhone 4 for a while.
Over the course of a few weeks, I held and mainly used Apple phones from 2010, 2014 and 2016. Nothing better than such an (albeit unwanted) experiment shows you how Apple keeps pushing its flagship further and further. But I'm not talking about obvious changes at all, such as new materials, larger displays or much better cameras, but mainly about relatively small details that complete the overall user experience.
One more thing is important. It's not just iron. I was forced to use iOS 4 on the iPhone 7, which proved that the iPhone should be viewed comprehensively, as a perfect interplay of hardware and software, where one would at least not be the same without the other, or even not work at all.
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On the one hand, this connection on which Apple is based is a well-known thing, on the other hand, even this year after the introduction of the new iPhones, there were many complaints that they had stopped innovating in Cupertino, that the iPhone 7 was boring and that it needed a change. When you change your iPhone every year, it is often difficult to notice the development, but if you take a closer look, you will find that there is not so little. Maybe the news isn't so obvious, but it's definitely there.
Changing something does not necessarily mean improving something. Apple knows this very well, which is why they preferred to polish the current form to perfection in the iPhone 7. Since I was switching to a "seven" from a "six", i.e. a two-year-old model, more changes awaited me than if I had a 6S, but again, I'm not protesting in any way that even after these two years I'm buying the same phone again. At least to look at. (Plus, in matte black, it's subjectively the best-looking iPhone I've ever owned.)
It is much more important for me to buy at least as good (but rather better) user experience, even if it has been the same for a long time, than to buy something new just because it is new, different. It's down to the last detail on the iPhone 7, which I've only had for a few days, but I already know that the experience with it is noticeably better than the iPhone 6. And I know it would be better even if I had an iPhone 6S before.
The new Home button, which is no longer mechanical but vibrates against your finger so that you think it's clicking, was created by Apple for various reasons, certainly with an eye to the future, but for me it means that I don't want to hold anything else in my hand. Again, it's a subjective matter, but the new haptic Home button is very addictive, and the mechanical button from older iPhones or iPads looks outdated against it.
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In addition, I have to stay with haptics. The new iPhones, in cooperation with iOS 10, do not just serve up a response to your fingers at the main button, but also across the entire system as you move through it. Gentle vibrations when you click a button, when you reach the end of a list or when you delete a message may sound trivial, but they literally bring the iPhone to life in your hand. Again, when you pick up an older iPhone, it's as if it's dead.
It's all highly addictive and once you get used to it, you won't want anything else. Although Apple has to sell its new products by promoting even better cameras than the last one, a better display or water resistance, but for a long-time user, the just mentioned little things often make the biggest difference, with which he gets a better experience than before.
Since I had to use iOS 7 for a while, I appreciated a lot of development details even within the operating system after returning to reality, i.e. iOS 10. These are various small buttons or functions even in basic applications such as Phone or Messages, which over time came with all the big news, but often improved the user experience a lot and we already take them for granted. On the iPhone 4, I was amazed how many times some actions had to be performed back then.
The most striking demonstration of the perfect connection of hardware and software is the iPhone 7 and iOS 10 with the 3D Touch function. On the iPhone 6 I was deprived of many very handy functions, and with the arrival of the iPhone 7 I can use my phone to the maximum again. iPhone 6S owners will argue that it was nothing new for them, but with improved haptics, 3D Touch fits into the whole concept even better.
The logical evolution is the addition of a second speaker in the iPhone 7, thanks to which the "plus" iPhone in particular becomes a much better device for consuming multimedia content and playing games. On the one hand, the speakers are louder, but most importantly, videos are no longer played only from the right or left side, which spoiled the experience quite a bit.
And finally, I have one more personal note to knock on. After a few days, it looks like I'll finally be able to enjoy the coveted Touch ID technology for unlocking the phone. Because the older iPhone 6 Plus with Touch ID first generation didn't take my fingerprint rather than taking it, which was really frustrating. So far, the iPhone 7 with the improved sensor is working like clockwork, which is great for both the user experience and security.
Apple could well have decided not to put relative details such as a new Home button, a second speaker or improved haptics into the iPhone 7, but instead to plant the existing guts in a different case, perhaps from ceramics, will mainly change the exterior and will be hot on the shelves thanks to it novelty. It would have received perhaps more celebratory reactions, but I take all ten for a truly better user experience than tinsel, which mainly tries to look good.
Thank you for the article, I completely agree with everything.
I agree! i went from 6 to 7 and wouldn't want to go back. Even if the responses were not very favorable, I personally see it as a step forward. Touch ID works in the blink of an eye and everything is faster and easier to my satisfaction. But the truth is that you have to get used to it for a while.
The design of the six series is appalling, the screen to body ratio is terrible, the resolution of the display in the smaller versions is below average, the battery life is low, the absence of Qi charging, fast charging, (incomplete support for BT, NFC, lack of AptX) these are quite important things in which Apple lags behind behind the competition in connection with the highest profitability on the market, i.e. from the customer's point of view, you are throwing as much money as possible down the toilet for average hardware (exception SoC).
The iPhone 7 Plus Matte Black is the only one that looks at least a little good (except for the screen to body ratio), only after three years they were able to make the antenna covers in the same color as the body of the device.
you know, androids shouldn't come here to annoy intelligent people, but I understand that you couldn't help but contribute to this kind of crap that doesn't interest anyone :)
I have a better screen-2-body ratio, for example, with my Samsung S6, well, but my colleagues from Samsung forgot about touch rejection, so the phone constantly opens applications, dials numbers... Despite all the described disadvantages, Apple is far ahead of the competition-sw, the interconnectedness of everything , services, quality of apps and design. The more expensive purchase price is slightly improved by the higher residual value of items that are 3 or more years old.
I have a phone that at the time of the iPhone 6S had the best screen to body ratio on the market (today it has long been surpassed) and I don't experience any problems with touch refection.
Even S6 or S7 users don't have this problem.
I don't have an android smartphone that keeps dialing numbers or opening apps.
With a higher residual value of morally and physically worn old iPhones, it is not at all famous. Rather, I consider TouchDisease, when iPhones of the 6 series die shortly after the warranty, to be a fundamental problem.
Today, a new iPhone 7 Plus in a reasonable 128GB capacity costs 27 thousand, in three years you will sell it for barely twelve thousand, in relation to wear and tear, maybe even less.
You will thus lose at least 15 on the iPhone, i.e. 5 per year down.
The new S7 Edge costs from 16 today, in three years you can easily sell it for 6. You therefore lose a maximum of 3333 CZK per year on it.
Paradoxically, quality Chinese phones like OnePlus do hold their value even better than Samsung.
Despite all the described advantages and the overwhelming number of disadvantages, Apple is light years far behind the competition in sw, the interconnectedness of all Google things, the cross-platform ecosystem, services, the quality of apps and design.
I still can't send a reply through local censorship, at least as a picture, when I already wrote to you and took the trouble: http://i.imgur.com/qa3ef0s.jpg
hmm... there's no point in responding to the bullshit you described, you obviously don't know/don't want to objectively assess it and I don't want to be convinced, as far as keeping the price is concerned, the price of my iPhone drops by approx. 100e every year, so now I will sell the iPhone 6 plus 64GB for 550e, but of course it depends on whether the phone is in 100% condition and also at what price you bought it. for me, as I write, it is -100e per year
Objectively, the iPhone is the worst value for money phone on the market. I really wouldn't buy a line with TouchDisease 6 for a penny. The quality of the iPhone is indeed worse than that of the price-comparable competition, but they don't explode...
Objectively the worst stereo speakers of all smartphones…
objectively, the iPhone is the best in terms of price and quality or of what brings you a useful value, but you obviously never had it, as I wrote above, you don't know/don't want to borrow it. you know, it's obvious that you also have an opinion on it because you either don't have one, or it's simply because you've never had one, in order to REALLY know how to compare it objectively with other phones, you'd have to have it for a while, and especially I'm dreaming learn to do and use its potential, the same with android and the same with wm. how can you objectively nominate it for the worst price/performance ratio? when you never had one? therefore because you read the tech. parameters and he has only 4 or in reale 2 cores and competition 8? the fact that I only have 2 or 3gb ram and competition 8? or that it only has 6 core graphics while the competition has 16? yes, on paper, these are wonderful parameters in which even low-end Android surpasses it, it's a pity that in reality, for example, in benchmark tests, the iPhone is the most powerful, that it is the most stable, etc... but of course it's not so important when on paper it has worse components... and arguments like do you have all the free applications on android that fulfill the purpose, or even that they are of better quality? please don't be laughed at. the app store has the same number of applications as in google play, and you can also find all apps in free form on ios, but you will also find more paid applications because we generally know that ios users are willing to pay extra for quality. The fact that I can find an alternative to the app you use is great, but if it's not enough for me and I want the thing to be of better quality, I'll pay extra, and unfortunately sometimes it's not even possible on Android. so the fact that you have all the apps for free on Android is bullshit, because even on iOS you can have everything for free if you are undemanding and want to make compromises...
I was looking for an alternative, for example, to the two perfect applications Infuse and Airvideo, so Mr. Wise, please find me a capable alternative for Android, because I ran both app stories that are on Android and I couldn't find anything capable anywhere (specifically streaming via ftp via the Internet) . You know, the problem is that you probably won't find such an application capable of this even for money, let alone for free. and that's just a video application, but as soon as you're looking for something more sophisticated, that's a problem. There are a lot of free applications on both Android and iOS, and a lot of paid ones, but most of them are garbage that are not worth the money or free. the problem with android is that even if you sometimes find an alternative with it, it doesn't work as it should, or it's not stable, etc. and we're only talking about this thing... I could tell you examples until tomorrow, but as I wrote, I don't want those switch and it's not worth the lost time. well, I recommend that you try a normal iPhone (or one of the new ones) for at least a month and learn to really use its potential, then the same with the flagship Android and only then try to compare them, because now you have no idea what kind of crap you're writing here... but then when you get over it, I'd love to chat with you again and we'll discuss it. because I have friends who know how to compare it and have an android and sometimes we have a chat and compare it or something and I'm not saying that android is bad in everything, on the contrary it's even better than the iphone in some things, but definitely not in the crap you write here...
I have an iPhone 6S Plus for work, it was even ordered as a benefit by our rector prof. Lily of the valley, I wouldn't give my own money for it, I'm not that stupid, so much for the ratio of price and useful value, there is no worse device than the iPhone on the market, that's an objectively proven fact and there's no need to argue about it, you can think something else, you can be right just hard.
Somehow, after a few months, I am able to compare it with my personal phone, which, although it cost less than half, is in fact better in everything than my work iPhone 6S Plus (or at least in everything important to me, i.e. photo quality, significantly better DAC, battery life battery and QHD panel, the bonus is faster speed than iOS).
The iPhone has an objectively worse camera than competing flagships, a longer charging time, almost the shortest battery life of all flagships, noticeably worse resolution compared to QHD panels... etc., it can't do NFC (only for payment) and on top of that, there are 2 million payment points in the US Apple Pay vs 30 million US payment locations with android, I travel a lot around the world for conferences and this is a pretty important parameter.
The iPhone is no longer even stylish due to the terrible screen to body ratio... it has nothing to offer a more demanding user... a simple device for simple and undemanding users.
Add the stability, quite often I encounter the fact that the installation of apps from the AppStore fails, I constantly have to restart when I want to install a new app. Objectively, there are studies on SM, an article was recently published, the entire scientific study is available for download, and iOS9.3 has 60% worse app crash and stability than Samsung's TouchWiz (in my opinion, TW is the worst add-on ever).
Be sure to listen to music from the new DTEK60 and compare it to the tinny and below-average sound emanating from the iPhone 7 Plus, and you'll immediately agree. Or compare displays directly side by side...
I still think you don't know how to use it, and apparently that's the case despite the fact that you have it as a work phone. as far as payments are concerned... payments are basically made on all NFC terminals, which, by the way, are almost everywhere in the Czech Republic. you don't need anything extra and if you don't download the device via the reader, the support will be exactly the same as regards payments via nfc, I recommend studying something about it. However, it is not supported in our country if there is an agreement with the banks, but if you go abroad, you could also arrange it abroad so that you can use the payments one way or another, the problem with this is the cooperation between the local banks and Apple, not because that payments would not work as such. so I don't know if you have a jailbreak on your iPhone, but I didn't have a problem with stability (if I don't take into account the developer beta version)
and as for the music, I'm sorry, but I'll put up with it and I won't listen to it from a rattle, whether it's an iPhone or a child... I listen to it through the JBL Everest Elite 700 and no phone, even on the head of a character, can't achieve such quality. for me, a stereo is a feature for games or some video, but otherwise I don't really care if there is a speaker. always use silent mode anyway and only select, otherwise I personally could do without it. but it's possible that competing phones have better stereos, I'm not arguing, but in my opinion it's a completely unimportant thing. if you picked up at least something more useful than me nvm dual sim, but stereo in mobile...
That you still react to him at all! I haven't seen such rants for a long time, they are objective as little as how often the gentleman uses the word objective!
Yes, I think so too, objectively the iPhone 7 is one of the worst flagships and subjectively (apart from the screen to body ratio, the missing jack and the lousy camera) it is quite a nice and snappy phone.
I quite like the iPhone 7 Plus in Matte Black, thanks to the colored antennas that blend in with the body of the phone. Again, I'm a little afraid to update because the 6s are dying across the board due to TouchDisease. 6S can face it in a year (I'll get rid of it in the meantime) and 7 I don't know what to expect, so far everyone only deals with the yellow glue under the display, that's probably the worst of the defects that accompany the new model. If you don't know if you will get a shunt with a yellow display or not, then I don't want to invest a lot of my money and I won't be entitled to the service until six months from now, the only way before that is if a grant is issued and I could enter a request for technical equipment for solution team.
Then there is the long-term experience, when I always had S models, 3GS, 4S, now 6S... models without S were always worth the money).( ...compare 6 Plus vs 6S Plus...TouchDisease, 1GB RAM, 3 years old 8MPix camera sensor ... and if it's the same with the iPhone 7, then it's definitely not worth buying it and it will be smarter to wait for the introduction of the new model next year ... the other thing is that if I were to choose a new phone now, for 16 thousand there is the S7 Edge, which is in all respects better than the iPhone 7 Plus, Samsung has a better QHD display with better gamut, brightness and resolution, HiRes 24bit DAC, longer battery life, Qi wireless charging, IP68, more powerful SoC, the best camera of any price-comparable phone… that phone is light years away first against the iPhone 7, I had the opportunity to play with it for a short time and I was delighted with it. Then there is the OnePlus3, which is more similar in equipment to the iPhone 7 Plus (only FullHD display, but again AMOLED) and costs only 10900,- regardless of the that they have now introduced a new update with the Snapdragon 821, which is currently the most powerful SoC on the planet and with a new improved camera. So one wonders if it makes sense to spend 27 for the only conceivable option with a FullHD panel and 128GB of memory, when Apple will probably present something much better next year. The dreaded iPhone 7 will significantly drop in price at that point... or don't limit yourself and buy something better like the S7 Edge and save money, because I'm afraid that even the iPhone that Tim Cook will introduce the year after next will not be nearly as good as this year's S7 Edge.
You fool who doesn't understand it and doesn't even know it :D "next" year it will be 7s, those intelligent people who always had S versions :D
Not even the analysts at KGI know this yet, as Apple has announced the transition to a three-year cycle of changing the iPhone product line.
well, it doesn't matter what it's called, but yes, next year should be revolutionary, at least Jager is right about that, on the other hand, I don't know what it's going to be called, but I assume and I kind of hope that it will be " only" iphones and no 8 or 7s, just like ipads and macbooks because giving numbers for each newer model is stupid. one way or another, the new samsung S will surely follow it :D
you're right :) my mistake :) that guy is really off :) I'm still kind of hoping that these sites are visited by at least averagely intelligent people and not just crazy droid haters, but then again I just hoped in vain :) maybe next time
I agree with most things. just btw, I knew I would have to wait for the new iPhone, unlike the author, I ordered the plus jet black version and I still haven't received it, I guess I'll be happy when I receive it by the end of the month? but I'm still looking forward to the newer model, especially the new button and portrait mode?. btw, maybe I came up with a way to use Apple Pay with min. costs that should be functional (because I blocked boon after the new one and it's not functional and payments via Russian cards are quite expensive. I'll see how I can solve it, if I figure something out I'll write it in a comment under the article on lsa regarding those payments via boon, that is, if it if anyone was interested, check the comments later (sorry for mentioning a competitor's website?)
Otherwise, thumbs up for the author, I would like more articles like this. ideal, why is iphone better than droid or mac vs win. I know there's a lot of it, but some current, nice summary would be useful, I know it all, but I often don't want to explain to people why this and why this, so I'd just give them a link to your article :)
Excellent article… More like this :)
I also have an iPhone 6 and the article attracted me quite a bit :) But the absence of a 3.5 jack is a big minus for me, which will probably discourage me from buying :(
I recommend buying Beats X with it and it solves the problem. possibly some more expensive alternatives to BT headphones. Anyone who has tried solid BT headphones will not return to the cable (own experience)
every Apple user who is characterized by perfectionism and 0 tolerance for compromise must say that the absence of a 3.5 jack does not bother me in the new iPhone. if I want to listen to music, I go for live reproduction. anything else is below my level
? it's still possible, but at the moment I prefer high-quality sound from the JBL Everest Elite 700, which are just perfect, how can I hear it? He decided that I don't like the slightly more raised bass in my headphones, and the speakers are really nuts for me, even if I have to sacrifice a bit of the clean interpretation and the absence of features like active noise and noise cancellation, but I still don't have any headphones perfectly, and we all have other preferences. Of course, going to a concert is fine, but I don't go that often? in any case, the quality with BT does not decrease in any way compared to the cable, today it is on the same level, I have tried it, so as I wrote above about the cables, I would not even make a mistake :)
and anyway, a large display is useless, I go to the cinema for the premiere of the film, the photos are generally printed in an album made of leopard or at least crocodile skin, and if I need to make a call, I tell the assistant and she will arrange it, how much time have I passed and burned calories meri personal trainer, …
iphone and iwatch, in my opinion, these are unnecessary devices that can only be used for slack
of course it's clear that you probably didn't own one, and if you did, you never learned to work with it? but that's (unfortunately) a common thing...most people I know either can't work with iOS as such almost at all, or they only know partially and can't use that potential. as for apple watch (not iwatch), they are more expensive, but they do their job excellently, and now I don't even mean measuring calories and so on. but the fact that when they are set up well, they are an invaluable powerful tool that makes a busy day easier, I recommend watching something like this video where Petr quite well presents a similar opinion that I have about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWYIqyANRew
Strange, when the live reproduction is often of worse quality than the studio recording. For the next one, you probably go to half playback, and last but not least, it can be said that the stupidity you wrote probably only applies in cases where by live music you mean the Prague State Opera.
I'll probably start giving advice on listening to CDs in the o2 arena, what you say makes sense
(that you want to steal today's troll of the day medal from me, jagere?)
I think he won't succeed :)
Mr. Brady of Canada blew your medal.
so maybe it's not so much about the quality of listening as about the atmosphere as such. After all, everyone who has been to a proper concert knows this, it is clear that the studio quality is on a different level than at a concert, but you go to a concert for slightly different reasons, I think :)
Well, bluetooth headphones are fine. But I connect my iPhone in the car, for example, and I won't buy a new car because of it :). And to have heaps of reductions everywhere. In addition, in the car, when I drive according to the navigation, I often charge the iPhone, because the navigation would soon kill it.
well, it's hard to comment on that, it really depends on how old your car is. mine is quite old and I have a single-din car radio there that I bought (http://autoradia.heureka.sk/pioneer-mvh-x560bt/) for about 90e at the time, which is a very reasonable amount, and it solved all the problems. I have pretty good music in the car (this radio pulls it without problems even with a reserve, which I didn't understand, but it solved the need for an amplifier) and I also have a USB there that I have probably never used? I'm not sure, but I suspect it has an aux too? ? but most of all it has BT and I will tell you that it is a comfort that you just want to have once you try it out. For me, it looks like I'm running outside with headphones, when I suddenly get into the car and start the iPhone, it automatically switches to the hifi in the car (I don't have to set anything, switch, just what I was listening to in the headphones goes in the car) when I go from the car to I press the combi button once on the headphones and the mobile phone switches to headphones, I press it a second time and I play songs again (after turning off the car radio, the music automatically pauses). the fact that you sometimes have to charge on a long journey, I understand that you still need a charger for that, but what I can definitely recommend is the perfect holder for a mobile phone/tablet (unfortunately, I couldn't find the name of a copy of it sold on the sk/cz market, its price was around 5-25€, so if I add at least a link to the video of the original CaseCo core 30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jbgNPD_-60&feature=youtu.be (btw, its imitation that is sold here is of the same quality, I have one original and 4x this imitation, it was also sold in iStores for quite a long time, but unfortunately it seems to have been withdrawn from the offer) in any case, this with the BT car radio connection is an incredible luxury in comfort and I definitely recommend it. It is clear that the cable will be necessary for long distances, but it is unnecessary for short distances and that is when people will appreciate it the most. E.g. I drive around the city almost all the time with Waze in order to have an overview of traffic jams and policemen, so I use it every day, and since the package contains 2 rings, I guess, for two devices, and I put the holders on all 3 cars that I use, and also e.g. .. our father's, so we both use it a lot (in case of interest, it will be necessary to search e-shops, or eureka, it will definitely be there somewhere, I just don't remember its name)
I wouldn't recommend Beats to anyone, I went to listen to the entire current offer on the HiReS player with 32-bit DAC and HighPerformance Amplifier OPA, even according to Bina the best middle class among pocket players, and you can't listen to anything from the Beats series, everything is a shunt. Bose QC35 play well, BeoPlay H7 are also decent, only BeoPlay H8 from wireless ones, I was delighted with those, I listened via BT4.0 AptX (no old SBC that can do iOS).
Gee, with this ignorance of AptX, Apple is also pretty good at me :-/
I have a new Sennheiser PXC-550 travel – bt headphones, I play very well.. touch control through the earcups, although less noise reduction than the Bose QC35, but better space, who of course wants the bass to swallow all the details, should buy Beats..: o)) for younger people used to rap or hip-hop, or admiring stylish football players with Baets on their ears, this is probably a better choice...:o))
I don't agree with that. it's still true that beats have a more pronounced bass, on the other hand, all the frequencies are there and I play well, only the bass is more pronounced, so yes, it's more for something like rap (hip-hop is a lifestyle, not music) or rock. one way or another, I tried the newer beats and they play well even when the bass is more pronounced, but I personally don't mind. the fact that there was only bass and distorted sound was a problem only with the first generation of beats, and they have already (fortunately) learned from it. btw, as I wrote before, I want to switch from jbl everest elite 700 to beats x... so I recommend that you go and try out beats in person, e.g. with yours, and you'll find that it's not as bad as you write...
Beats and "play fair"? Can you tell us another story? Beats are perhaps the worst headphones on the market, the production price is around $18, and they play noticeably worse than the Koss Porta Pro, which is also characterized by a more pronounced bass component.
The Marley Positive Vibrations also play much better.
Even the much cheaper Wireless Marshall Major II. they will also play the top line of Beats Studio in an overview. Compared to Bose, noise canceling is worth the money.
I agree with the author on everything (even though I went to pick up the 7Plus jetBlack at iStyle already on October 5.10).
I use both the 7 Plus and the 4S and the "ordinary" 6 on a daily basis. All the features brought by the XNUMX are incredibly addictive, especially this one:
"The new iPhones, in cooperation with iOS 10, not only serve you a response to the main button, but also across the entire system as you move through it."
I acknowledge and appreciate this technical matter every day. iP6 and 4S feel like dead phones in my hands.
Another thing I have to highlight is the gamut of the display. Then I get scared when I see a photo on a "normal" monitor or a cheaper phone (but even on the iPhone 6, the photo is not so "live").
The stereo speakers are a big and welcome plus, I don't reach for the iPad mini that often anymore when I want to play a video.
So far, I have come up with only one minus..charging. The Seven Plusko is charged in two hours with the included adapter. That's just a lot these days =( and sic during my normal working day I end up with about 20-25% of the battery, when I'm on the road and I've been using navigation since the morning, I'm taking photos and videos, I'm already looking for an outlet around four in the afternoon and faster charging would come really fit.
My iPhone 6S Plus also has the haptics of the Force Touch display across the entire system, although not with the home button, but the differences are so small that the 7 Plus will probably be the first iPhone I miss. Same screen resolution, 1GB RAM extra, but I'll probably get by with the iPhone 8 without it, as 2GB is fine for now, waterproofing is only for splashing water, so no win either.. and dual camera.. if it had a higher resolution or at least a camera it handled 4K video at 60fps, but that's all the same as the 6S Plus.. so why change? Stereo speakers? I stream videos at home and at work in Apple TV 4 or in Beats Studio Wireless.. So maybe it will break me something else, but for me it's a disappointment so far. The only thing I really like about the 7 is the glossy Jet Black finish, is it really cool???
Unfortunately, I cannot agree with the author. I was switching from an iPhone 6 that I had had repaired after falling to the ground. Unfortunately, the repair was not of "quality" and I did not complain about the repair, that's why I sold it. So for about 2 months I was forced to use the Iphone 5s that I have in backup. On the contrary, I used it better than the iPhone 6. Yes, the system is a bit slower, but the phone is great in terms of size. It doesn't weigh me down at all in my pants pocket, which I can't say about the iPhone 6 and later (which likes to fall out of my shorts when I'm sitting on a chair). It's solid so I don't have to worry about it bending like an IP6 (it happened to me). Now I use Iphone 7 in 128GB version. It didn't impress me with anything compared to the IP6, I hardly use 3D touch, the fixed Home button is ok, but sometimes when I press it with a finger other than my thumb, it doesn't do the desired action (I press very gently). I'm not thrilled with the camera either, I don't really like the photos, even though I shoot in lossless format, but in automatic mode (I'm not an expert). Basically, I didn't want the iPhone 7, I thought I'd wait for the 8s. The only plus for me is that it is waterproof, at least I don't have to worry if my child spills water on it. The speakers play better, but I'm used to having the ringtone set to "full". ... usually I and others around me are startled when my phone starts to scream.
It can be said that I am not even happy with the phone, it brought almost nothing new to me, why would I really want to buy the phone. I almost considered trying the Samsung Galaxy S7. I bought an Alcatel Idol 4 as a trial to see how it works with the latest Android, but several times over the course of a few days, apps crashed, in the car the phone paired but didn't show contacts that were on gmail and not on the phone, etc. And last but not least, I have an Apple watch, tablet and laptop, so I have everything beautifully paired, so I can't really change (my wife and the rest of the family basically also use Apple, so I'm connected in different ways) :)
To summarize... I think that whoever has at least an iPhone 6 can wait for at least an iPhone 8 :) I don't deny that the iPhone 7 does not have minor innovations, but they are really only minor.
so of course it's a matter of opinion, it's fine to have a different view on the matter, I just think it's a bit strange to bet on the fact that the ringing volume is high? because it can always be reduced? as for the difference, apart from the "trifles" as was written in the article, the difference between 6 and 7 is not really that noticeable. that's more reading between 6 plus and 7 plus. I personally have a problem with the frame, because the Plus has a large resolution and a frame like 6k, and this is unfortunately hard to read when switching between applications, otherwise I don't even have such reservations. As for the home button, I don't have much experience with it yet, because I was only able to touch it in the store because my iPhone still hasn't arrived? but from what I have tried, compared, for me personally it is already great at first try + as far as comfort is concerned, but that is also a matter of opinion as you write. but if there are enough conflicting reactions from the new home button, there is a chance that the next iPhone generation will somehow fix it so that everyone is satisfied :)
but I'm not complaining about the volume as such, I'm just used to putting it on full blast and not worrying about it. Of course, I already set it to minimum. When I tried the home button in the store, I couldn't even open the phone :) Sometimes, when I just want to tap it a little, I do it so gently that it just doesn't do the desired action ... that couldn't happen with a click home button, there I am he just knew I had to squeeze him.
In general, the iPhone 7 is not a step back, but not a very big step forward either. A bit of a waste of money. As I already wrote, you know, if I had a repaired iPhone 6 according to my wishes, I wouldn't change it.
The thing that bothered me the most about the repair was that when I touched the display, the protective glass pressed on the digitizer and made such maps... something like when you push on the display of a calculator :) In the upper left corner, the display was poorly seated, so after pressing it slightly he snapped and there was a gap through which the light shone in the night. The home button was a little difficult at first, before it came out ... it just stuttered a little, and finally after the repair, when my battery got below 40%, the phone turned off because it needed the charger. When I connected it, it immediately jumped up and showed that it was not discharged. I had the entire front of the phone changed, as well as the back, so I think that the battery or some connector was damaged during disassembly. I complained about the phone and it was returned to me a month later that everything is fine and there are no defects. So I showed it in front of the sales people that I wasn't making it up for them to see. They say I should get an expert/expert report and then I can sue them. That the technician wrote to them that everything is fine and so they won't do anything about it. I bought the phone and had it repaired at a fairly well-known shop, and this is how it turned out. Repair over CZK 7000. What's more, the insurance company covered almost all of it for me.
best phone ever. symbiosis of hw and sw, stuck android with a disgusting design, let me buy fat cameras that have 5 diopters. for people who want comfort, style and timelessness, there is an iPhone.
so it slowed down again :) we have these phones and we know where it has its downsides...
Well, the iPhone 6,7, 8 and 5 are really design gems. Especially the Plus version is really disgusting. Huge bezels, tiny display. Next to that, Samsungs are like from another world. But there's no point in lingering with you. You think of everyone as a sock or a greasy XNUMX-dioptre. You'll probably be one of those designed metrosexual Čobolák, of whom there are thousands of people rolling around our schools, because you don't have any decent college at home in Čobolstan. Then you're making a fool of yourself here.
iPhone 6, 7, 8? so does it have to do with college? So you're a real intellectual with a university degree when you talk about an iPhone that doesn't even exist yet :D hats off
Well, when I rarely travel in public transport and notice the people around me, those with prescription glasses usually have an iPhone in their hands.
In contrast, Samsung S7 mostly have thick boxes like me, which are generally more comfortable people, the more fat, the more comfort, therefore more user-friendly Samsung.
Young, slim and pretty girls are holding usually older Huawei P8 in their hands, which is probably the first Huawei that surpassed the iPhone 6S in all respects and was still at a more reasonable price.
Especially younger generations than me are all with wired headphones on their ears, here I see another noticeable fail of Jony Ive.
you have a strange view of things as I see it, but yes, if you think that what most people have is the best, are you really crazy? according to this logic, going to work is also the best thing there is, since 98% of people go there? even if businessmen etc. would probably disagree with you, but of course if you want to "fit in" with your type in society, I understand that, but it doesn't reflect anything about the fact that it is more comfortable there, only that the group is stupid or expensive ...and also the argument that younger years have wired headphones? sorry, I also know x people who have headphones from Kaufland for €5 and how do they know that? only about the fact that they don't know how to appreciate quality, or they don't have headphones, or they don't have money for proper headphones, and not that BT is not the future... I never wanted to be like the others, or I wanted it when I was in elementary school, I wanted to win and use vinamp, etc., but when I finally got it, I found out very quickly that it was a mistake and what most people have is far from the best, just the most widespread and often the cheapest... but that's a different way of looking at things. one way or another, if your subjective opinion is that the other one is better, then ok, keep it, no one is forcing you to have and use an iphone if you don't know how to appreciate it, but stop pushing your wrong opinions into the heads of others. I especially don't understand that you're having fun, why do you go to the apple site, why don't you go write your rants on the droid site? I know there are a lot of them, a lot of people there will agree with you, etc., so why do you have to hate a ton? do you also go to the Tesla and Bentley websites and write so brashly what crap they are because you have a felicia? I think not, so why here?
Such an iPhone may be something exceptional in your Slovakia, but here in the West it is an ordinary shard that every other child has in elementary school, a complete massovka. :)
But in less developed markets and banana republics, even an ordinary iPhone can have the stamp of an exclusive estate. The more to the east, the poorer and less developed the population, which is at a lower level of development, and the higher the stamp of exclusivity even for such ordinary goods as the iPhone.
You've shown yourself to be intelligent.
You better answer why you keep coming here?!
cabala, you are a terrible udder.
Well, I have to agree with you and add to the question about Jager.
Why do you keep coming to this site to hate?
Personally, I certainly wouldn't enjoy reading the crap I'm writing here if I had a Samsung.
By the way, I disagree with the article, especially with its title. Apple has been going down for at least 4 years.
The ONLY reason I have an iPhone is because it doesn't hack. I hope someone catches up with them soon so that they finally have to start doing something... The last enthusiasm I experienced was with 4S and iOS6
(I absolutely do not agree with the article, I do not understand what kind of celebratory pomposity this is)
The iPhone 4S was the last hiend smartphone from Apple, probably thanks to the fact that its development was still under the direction of Steve Jobs.
4$ had the best display on the market, fast and stable iOS6, beautiful design and, above all, an affordable price...
Compare the 4S with today's iPhone range...everything is mid-end, most of the parameters are average, the competition managed to overtake the iPhone in absolutely everything, even the iPhone camera today belongs only to the middle class.
If you put the S7 Edge with the curved QHD AMOLED and the 7 Plus next to each other, Samsung, although I don't necessarily think that brand is far ahead of the iPhone, I'm even afraid that Apple will not have a chance to catch up in the next two to three years, certainly not under the leadership Cook.
Every time I read the sentence that Samsung is far ahead of another manufacturer, the following comparison comes to mind: Janko has a bigger bird, a shaver, beautifully shaped balls, a huge belly, simply a catalog version. But Janko is always panicking because he doesn't know how to complain. But on the other hand, Jozo, with a small, crooked and overgrown beetroot, is...be head to head, everywhere he goes, because he knows that even if the head is not a tip, the head gave him the gift of knowing how to use it 100%. So much for Samsung vs. everyone else :-)
So now take that guy and go out into the world and take photos with him, even if only photos, and you'll find that the iPhone just can't keep up, just lower the lighting conditions and the Samsung will show you if it's above or below the minimum in this one thing. All the gadgets in the system will make you shake your head. We've had iPhones for years, but that doesn't mean we don't see what's going on around us or don't hold other things in our hands for a while. Today, buying a top Samsung phone is a logical choice. There are thousands of things that the Samsung is better at, and the Apple, if it didn't sit on the sidelines, would have it even faster. I absolutely agree with what you guys wrote, the 4S was something that at that time was miles away from the competition, today with the 7mic we don't even talk about distances. The 4S with the 6 software was and is still a great fast phone, and if it wasn't impossible to keep the 6 there, I believe that many people would still be running around the world with that phone.
I absolutely agree. And I always remember when I try to take a quick photo of something on the 5SE... slide to the side, ask for a passcode, cancel and again, the camera starts up in 5 seconds, hooray - what I wanted to take a photo of is not there. I want to write an iMessage, but hit the box framed with options to write "I don't see" in different fonts and with a gay icon.. a lot of things in one/two presses, it's gone - a complete disparity of the product.. one has two windows, the second pencil, the third force touch ( 3D?) etc. I don't see how it would have worked under Jobs, but Cook blew it all up
What? The woman has a 5SE and slide to the side on the lock screen = instant photo without a password... The photo on the 5SE takes solid photos, there is no better photo on the market in a phone with a 4″ display.
If you're cursing Apple, at least don't talk.
As you can guess, I'm not talking, that's why I'm writing this. I lash out at Apple not because it's trendy, but because certain things and solutions, as a loyal long-term user, just annoy me. Of course, given the inertia - and last but not least, the inability of the competition, I'll still sort it out. Or show the boarding pass from Wallet, before it was one slide and that's it, now it's a slide, don't open the camera, tap on a much smaller "show pass"...
You write a slide to the side, a request for a passcode, you wait 5 seconds for a photo. I picked up a 5S phone from 2013 on the latest version of iOS10, with a passcode set. Slide to the side-second-photo. In the case of repeating the whole process, the whole action is instantaneous, it doesn't even take a second. And it's a 3 year old phone, the SE is like lightning.
There is no question about the passcode anywhere, because you can take photos without a passcode, only when entering photos other than the ones you have taken, a passcode is required.
Proof instead of promise...
http://www.megafileupload.com/c9go/animated.gif?download_token=f17d32c9dbbb6168c7c98e1df3400dd2fd9ead0793b635581702d0e97b60acad
:) I had a success rate of barely 20%, that's why I wrote it here. Just because "I don't have that problem" doesn't mean it doesn't exist. With the latest 10.1.1 patch it has improved significantly to 80%. But I'm glad that it works for someone seemlessly and flawlessly.
The boarding pass is one of the big problems at Jablka. Google account and Samsung 100% success when a note is made directly from my email in the calendar and an event with a warning that I have to go and to which airport. At Jablka this success rate is 20%!!! It's hard to overlook it when we have two phones in our hands.
Some appear identical to me twice (1x email, 1x wallet), others not at all. At the same time, it is certainly technologically not very complicated to compare two records. But I'm even more annoyed by the anti-Apple lengthyness and illogicality: slide to the side - one has to be careful not to start too far to the side, because it starts the camera, then there's a small View button, the person presses it, and the same information appears with the "Show pass" button, when tapping on it will show the boarding pass. And so it is with practically all notifications in iOS10.
that's right, in reality I'm standing in line, I'll prepare it in advance because it's completely pointless...
I just didn't get an apple at all for the last 5 flight tickets, tickets from Turkish, Asia, Emirates. The technicians should really look into it
iPhone 5 DOESN'T EXIST Ma'am! There are only models: 5, 5C, 5S and SE.
A nitpick
Can you tell me what was so great about the 4S? I remember very well how many people cursed that phone. Siri is only in AJ and the dual-core processor has finally arrived. At a time when the competition was already preparing 4 nuclear ones. If you read the biography of S. Jobs, you would know that he held the 4S in his hand only when he came to Apple to resign his position and hand it over to T. Cook. Since owning Apple products, I'm just finally satisfied that things work. We all know how long the competition can last after flooding the system with data and information. I also like the Samsung 7edge, but my brother just had to sell it. The curved display caused problems (it reacted when holding the phone and activated some functions unintentionally with fingers from the side). Personally, I am very glad that there is a company like Apple.
It's not about Samsung being better, it's about Apple screwing up everything they touch for the last few years.
They sell manure and laugh at us because they know we'll buy it anyway because it's not that easy to cross over.
But it will happen, and a lot of people won't come back.
I don't accept this, at the time when the 4S was released, discussions were full of comments about how the last iPhone that was worth anything was the 3GS/4 and now it's recycling. They had a small display, glass on both sides, so it's easy to break, especially since iOS6 didn't bring anything and how Droid is already ages ahead.
Strange, I don't remember any such posts in the discussions, the iPhone 4 was a clear step forward. The only downside to the Series 4 and later was that they no longer had the quality Wolfson DAC. Thanks to the dual-core SoC, the iPhone 4S had a lower battery life than the iPhone 4. Otherwise, you're probably right that Android Gingerbread was quite a bit ahead of iOS6. But if you are comparing purely iOS, version 6 was the last one that was thought out to the last detail and was intuitive, simple and user-friendly. The GUI of newer versions is really obscure. And there were quite a few changes in iOS6 compared to iOS5, so you're also wrong on that point.
After reading the article, I have to say that lately it seems to me that most users are satisfied with the nothing that Apple presents with new products and calls it innovation. As many have already written here, I was also boiled from the iPhone 4S for the last time, since then nothing. I still have to say that I enjoyed the iPhone 5 a lot and I didn't want to give it up, but as far as the iPhone 6,6, 7S and 7 are concerned, it's miserable. I recently bought an iPhone 3,5 and I have to say that I always laughed at the discussions about the lack of a 7mm jack etc., but now I understand. The horrible dongle that comes with it is terrible and it looks really funny when I connect it to the aux in the car. Why other manufacturers can make a waterproof phone and keep all the ports that were there until now. The only thing to be happy about is that Touch ID is always faster and faster, but that's really not enough. I recently had the SXNUMX Edge in my hand and the display is so beautiful that I wanted to cry. I used to hate the brand because it was really poor, but the latest models show that Samsung, unlike Apple, is improving model by model. What Samsung will probably never surpass Apple in is the stability and security of the iPhone, where everything works perfectly. Otherwise, it's really tiring to read the defenses of Apple users that if there's no port, it's an innovation :D. Nowadays, if a new iPhone came out tomorrow with just a new color and chassis, everyone would say how great and innovative it is, and that's sad
The iPhone still remains a mobile phone that is bought by people who either don't understand mobiles at all, or for whom it is more important to have "style", but at the cost of wasted money that could have been used for a much better device.
Unfortunately, the iPhone has nothing to offer a person who is not manipulated by marketing. It is a product for its loyal fans, new customers are hard to win due to its appearance, the length of the innovation cycle and the disproportionate price. iPhone 7 is something like Eva and Vašek. They also sing only for their loyal ones, they don't attract new listeners, and even the loyal ones gradually decrease...
The iPhone is a polished fart that Apple can sell well. iPhone today and those that were under Jobs are completely different worlds matching only in name, otherwise the entire earlier philosophy of the iPhone is misunderstood and Jobs took it right to the grave.
A glossary of Cook's marketing fallacies for normal people:
courage = greed;
successful evolution = trampling in place;
beauty flaw = spitting in the consumer's face;
high-end camera = average lower-mid-range camera;
IP67 waterproof = may get a little wet without warranty;
great display features and colors = still good but outdated display with 2010 resolution;
stereo speakers = two speakers not producing a stereo effect;
design ***** = black rectangle with protruding camera optics.
I just have to agree. Apple is currently focused on cash and profits and not on users and their convenience. And by that I mean, for example, the new MacBook Pro, which for 50 doesn't have the best features, thanks to which Apple has always been ahead, and I already messed with it with the MacBook white 10 years ago, and by that I mean MagSafe. It is simply aimed at making the customer buy and buy. I already wanted to replace my MacBook Air from 2012, but the thought of buying a MacBook 12″ and not even being able to charge my phone from the computer, which I need almost every day, makes me go crazy. And I'm not even talking about the poor hardware that the 12" has.
When they introduced the first Macbook Air, it cost $1800 (yes macbook Air!), when they introduced the redesign of the Macbook Pro with Retina, it cost exactly the same as it does now. When they threw out other ports and other things like dvd-rom people suddenly "couldn't play dvd" either. Absolutely nothing has changed and Apple has always been like this. For the iPhone, just change the cable to a usb-c version, otherwise no problem. Of course, the transition to usb-c will not be a fairy tale, but that has never been the case with anything they threw out
I dare to disagree. I was and am a fan of Android. I always had only TOP Galaxy models. It's been 2 years since I switched to iPhones (6 and S) and I have to say that I still don't miss what I missed at the beginning (file manager, sync with dropbox via DropSync, speed dialing contacts). What I love and don't think about going back to Android is that it all works incredibly fast. Applications crash here as well, just as sometimes the system crashes, or the keyboard (SwiftKey) doesn't work, etc. Basically, for me, the basis of work is on iOS, but in Google applications. I would say that the Google apps are better on iOS than on Android.
Sometimes I pick up the old SGS4 and I have to say that it's a pain when I have to wait a few seconds for what it has to start up and that after turning it on for a long time the phone is unusable for the first hour before everything is updated. I use the capabilities of the iPhone quite a lot, including connecting to AppleWatch, Handsfree in the car, Garmin Edge on the bike, etc. I have to say, never a problem, everything works as it should and connecting to the iPad, aTV, etc. is simply excellent.
Mining money from Apple users is clear. I am also bothered by the removal of the jack, USB from the MBP, etc. I don't fundamentally notice the lower resolution of the display, or rather, it is still more than 95% of people's phones have. Design? I like Apple's design, I have nothing to complain about. The iPhone's camera is really, really TOP among competitors, you can't compare just the numbers!
http://petapixel.com/2016/09/26/iphone-7-plus-camera-review-iphone-jpeg-vs-iphone-raw-vs-sony-a7r-ii/
http://gizmodo.com/iphone-7-camera-battle-still-the-best-smartphone-for-p-1787177119
The problem is that I don't have any other option than the iPlhone, because I simply need to work with the phone. And since android is good for fun and ios for work, the choice is actually a foregone conclusion. So I personally don't deal with a bunch of nonsense and silly applications, I mainly focus on communication and the best thing is when I come home and put it on the shelf.
One technical thing, do you understand why Apple changed the AirPlay controls? It used to be possible to stream e.g. HBO GO to Apple TV and if you didn't check mirroring, you could use the iPhone for something else during the stream, it was also an advantage of 2GB of RAM compared to the iP6. But now they have completely deleted the advantage, you are watching a movie, iMessage comes and when you want to reply, it kicks you out. They really fertilized it as much as they could. Or does anyone have a trick to deal with it????
I see that a discussion has developed below about how brilliant Samsung is and how the iPhone is completely out of the question and before the collapse, etc., etc. Instead of cursing Samsung, I will give my personal experience with Samsung phones. By chance, I wanted to, and I was an Applist when I changed jobs. When I changed my job, I got such a no-name low-end smartphone from Sam.
My Android colleagues told me that you can't judge Android or Samsung by this phone, you have to have a flagship, it will kick your iPhone in the ass. Well, for a while I had an older iPhone from my employer, because I couldn't even see the Lowend's badges and time passed.
After a few years, when I started a new position, I got a new Samsung (again) - but this time I got an S6 - yes! As it turns out, this is the flagship model of 2015. Its selling price was somewhere around 18k, so it's not free either. Of course, he's still a badass! This thing not only ignores unwanted touches, so that a person can slowly control it with a conductive pen on the capacitive display, the ugliness that I call TouchWiz is done absolutely without feeling for the matter and without any forethought.
Senseless waste of space on the display, inconsistency in controls, and for a person who perceives UI and minimalism as an art form, TouchWiz is like a baseball blow to the head. In addition, it can be seen here that Samsung adopts - albeit in its own way and therefore wrongly - graphic elements from Apple. E.g. round call button - copy and save. The back button on the droid is sometimes in the app and sometimes not, of course you can use the touch hw button, but there is a fundamental ailment of the touch button, sometimes your finger slips and boom, you accidentally go back, even if you didn't want to, because there is no tactile response of the button surface , in a hurry it happens to those placacces and builds often. And there are many such mistakes. Such small things that you run out of after months of use, you simply won't notice this in the store.
If someone who has had Apple iOS for years doesn't understand these nuances, I have nothing to add.
Ps:
I recently had the S7 edge in my hands. It's a great phone in terms of appearance, but it's not that comfortable in the hand because of the edges on the sides, and as soon as you turn it on, it's bad. iOS in version 10 runs both out of the box and on the iPhone 5S and everything in it makes sense, so after versions 7,8,9, XNUMX, XNUMX it all fits together nicely, TouchWiz is a mess like when a dog and a cat cooked a cake.
The iPhone 7 is a great phone and, unlike the 6, it is also visually beautiful.
I don't like TouchWiz at all, I consider it the worst thing on Android as a platform, but if I were to judge by what you describe here, I see the main problem with the user, not with Samsung.
So be nice and don't judge.
Well, I have ordered and paid for an iPhone 7 plus since September and I still don't have it, I have already received 4 emails with delayed delivery, I think that is sad
From the official online Apple Store?
barely in Slovakia :D
Well, the man is crying here, but I'd bet his shoes that it wouldn't happen to him at the Apple Store, they always kept my deadline there. There is no Online Apple Store in Slovakia? :-O