iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus: What's unique in Apple's newly launched phones

Apple iPhoneApple CEO Tim Cook unveiled iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus as the successors to the to the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco Both are scheduled to be released on September 16 2016 with preorders beginning on September 9 2016 The phones will release by October 7 in India with the iPhone 7 costing about Rs 60000 On the other hand customers in countries like the US Australia the UK and China will be able to buy the handsets beginning September 16Features the set the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus apartFor starters both the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus come in two new colour variants Black and Jet Black the latter which is a darker shade with a highgloss finish This is along with the White Gold and Rose Gold colours Announcing the new phone Cook described the iPhone 7 as the best iPhone that we have ever createdWhat is truly fascinating is that the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be the first phones belonging to the iPhone family to be water and dust resistant As a result of this feature they arent covered under liquid damage according to the phones warrantyApple has done away with the 64GB storage capacity Instead the IPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be available in 32 128 or 256GB storage optionsThe iPhone 7 uses a touchsensitive button with haptic feedback via Apple Taptic Engine in place of the longer uses a physical home button It is also pressuresensitiveBoth iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will come with iOS 10 which introduces an update to Messages the ability for its virtual assistant Siri to do more by working with apps new ways to interact with redesigned apps Both phones will be shipped with the OS preinstalled The iOS 10 was announced at Apples WWDC 2016 keynote on June 13 2016 with release scheduled for September 13 2016 iOS also improves and adds upon user experience systemwide including 3D Touch expansion an updated lock screen and widget supportThe iPhone 7 uses the Apple A10 Fusion systemonchip which consists of two lowpower cores and two highpower cores The A10 also features a hexacore graphics chip capable of consolelevel gaming Both phones displays have increased color gamut and brightness The phones also come with stereo speakers with great sound qualityThe iPhone 7 includes a 12MP rearfacing camera with a quadLED True Tone flash its aperture was widened to f18 while the standardsize model adds optical image stabilizationmdasha feature that was previously exclusive to the Plus models The iPhone 7 Plus also includes a second 12megapixel telephoto lens which can be used to achieve 2x optical zoom and up to 10x digital zoom The frontfacing camera was also upgraded to a 7megapixel sensorA significant change in the Apple iPhone and iPhone 7 Plus is the removal of the 35mm headphone jack and was met with criticism skepticism some of which based on the fact that a digital output does not show any notable improvement in sound quality Furthermore the user wont be able to charge the iPhone 7 and listen to music simultaneously and would have to carry around an adapter for what is purely a mobile device diminishing its utilityApples vice president Phillip Schiller who announced the change was mocked extensively online for stating that removing the headphone jack took courage The Lightning to 35 mm adapter will be sold by Apple as an accessory as well as being included with the device with an MSRP of USD 9 Apple iPhone will also support AirPodsmdashwireless Bluetooth inear headphones as well as three new Beats headphone products These however wont be given with the phone and should be brought seperately All these products utilize an inhouse wireless chip known as Apple W1 which is designed to provide lowpower Bluetooth operation and integration with iOS and macOS products