A Quick Summary About What's New About the New iPhone

Apple event that was supposed to debut the new "7" took place hours ago and a lot was said the fact that the event went on for about two hours. As I had promised, I was making quick updates with images on the Facebook Page.

A number of new accessories were unveiled like the new Apple Watch Series 2, a new Watch in collaboration with Nike called the Apple Watch Nike+ intended for sporty people, the first ever wireless from Apple called the EarPods, which are essentially normal Apple earpods without wire code and a double-tap gesture added to them to summon Siri, and the usual EarPods themselves only this time connect to iPhone via lightening port (exactly the port where you charge your iPhone from).

All that being said the focus of the event was the new iPhones as expected and of course everyone is interested to know what is really new about them. We may have a few new things about them and I mention them quickly below:

Two New Phone Models

Earlier there were rumors that suggested three different iPhones to be unveiled but at event it was confirmed there are only two phones and that is the 4.7-inch iPhone 7 and 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus all with the usual IPS display technology with Apple's Retina HD Technology supposed to  give a sharper and brighter screen but most likely not as sharp as an OLED Panel from the likes of Samsung. Many expected an OLED panel in these two model but well, maybe next yeah.

Design and Color

The previous iPhone 6 generation have those 2 network line at the back, and the new iPhones still have them though pushed to the further top and bottom and slimmed down almost pushed inside the case, they are barely visible. The back of the phones look flat.

The two new models come in five different colors: Rose Gold, Gold, Silver, Black and Jet Black. The Black and Jet Black were highlighted the most in the event.

Home Button

As earlier believed, the home button is no longer a physical button but more of a pressure sensitive non-clickable flat surface that of course looks like a button. It uses the same 3D technology in the previous iPhone screens to determine how much pressure applied on the button and therefore works like a physical button. It's implementation this time round can also used through-out the phone system and third-party app developers will be able to configure it to do any task they wish within their apps

Camera

The iPhone 7 comes with one single bigger camera module at the back with sightly improved optics and an f1.8 aperture that essentially allows in more light into the module for brighter shots in low light conditions. Do take note that the low the number, the bigger the aperture and the more the light allowed to  enter into the modules.

The iPhone 7 Plus on the other hand has two camera modules at the back and obviously take better shots than the iPhone 7. The two sensor are meant to give you better and more optical zoom to an image you need to take especially if it's far away yet keep it sharp, vibrant and add a DSLR effect to it to put it in plain focus.

No Headphones Jack

The traditional 3.5mm headphone jack to place old Apple earpods is gone. The new earpods come with a lightening connector and can be connected to the new  iPhones via lightening port, same place you charge your iPhone from. Not many desired this approach but to let users of old earpods put them to purpose with the new phones, Apple introduced a lightening port adapter with a 3.5mm port at the end to allow users with 3.5mm earpods connect to the new phones.

Apple also tossed in the new wireless "AirPods" that seamlessly pair with any Apple product be it and iPhone, iPod, iPad or MacBook.

Dust and Water Resistant

Well, we could say the previous iPhone 6s and 6s Plus had this incorporated but now it's official in the new phones. They're officially IP67 certified meaning their dust and water resistant. This simply means you should never worry about them dropping in water or under rain. They are water resistant up to 50 meters deep and that's a bold statement and improvement Apple made.

Better Stereo Speakers

Yes the speaker on the bottom is still one and downward facing but Apple has gone ahead and put another stereo speaker at the top where the earpiece lives. The new iPhones have two stereo speakers now. This is a good upgrade as far as audio is concerned and no doubt the output is expected to be better.

New Processor

The new iPhones use Apple's latest chip called the A10 Fusion. This is a 4-core chip that's believed to be the most powerful in a smartphone. 2 cores for  simple tasks and 2 more for heavier tasks. And as far as benchmarks show, this is a true beast of a mobile processor and I wouldn't argue about it's performance. Benchmarks reveal  the iPhone 7 processor out performs all previous generation iPhones including the latest iPad Pro that has 4GB of RAM

Storage Space

The new iPhones only come in storage configuration of 32GB, 128GB and the newest and biggest 256GB.

Pricing

The iPhone 7 starts at $649 which is roughly the same price as the last iPhone 6s Plus and the iPhone 7 Plus starts and $769 and will be available next week.

Other accessories like the Apple AirPods cost $169, new lightening EarPods at $29 and Apple Watch Series 2 at $369

What do you think of the new iPhones? Are they a major upgrade or not? Any thing more you need to know or want to leave a suggestion and further explanation? Leave it in the comment section.