i
Phone 7 vs i
Phone 6: Comparing the specs
If you own an i
Phone 6 then you’re probably ready for a change. Whether you bought one two years ago when it first came out, or later on, the gadget world has moved on.
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But is the i
Phone 7 a serious enough upgrade to make it worthwhile, or are you better off waiting for next year or even switching khổng lồ Android?
With táo khuyết bumping the UK prices up significantly with this year’s mã sản phẩm (thanks Brexit), starting from £599 for the 32GB model, many will likely be thinking twice about a like-for-like upgrade. Should they be?
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Phone 7 Plus – What’s the difference?
i
Phone 7 vs i
Phone 6 – Design
We’re not judging you, but sometimes you just want something shiny and new. That’s fine. But the i
Phone 7 doesn’t look that different khổng lồ the i
Phone 6 you already own. Apple’s ditched the unsightly antenna lines on the back, but since you’ve had your phone a while now you’ve probably got used khổng lồ them.
What’s 100% new are the colours, which include a limited-availability piano black and a rather fetching ‘Black’ option. The latter replaces the Space Grey option and, my oh my, does it look fine. Is that a good reason lớn upgrade? Not on its own it’s not.
Another new element is the way táo apple has integrated the camera module in the i
Phone 7. The i
Phone 6 (and its successor, the i
Phone 6S) attracted criticism for the inelegant way it handled having a camera that didn’t quite fit its body. Apple has fully embraced that bump in the i
Phone 7. In fact, the company has accentuated it with a grand curved surround.
The home button – which most can agree was a regular point of hardware failure in older i
Phones – has been swapped for a new solid-state button with haptic feedback standing in for a physical click. Some have bemoaned the lack of tactility in the new solution, but we have gotten used to lớn the i
Phone 7’s approach rather quickly.
Besides, the solid home button contributes khổng lồ a new IP67 rating. This means the i
Phone 7 can survive immersion in water for 30 minutes down to lớn a depth of one metre. It’ll survive a drop into a puddle or two, and you could even take photos underwater. It’s dust resistant, too.
Whether you care about this probably comes down to your own personal experience. If you’ve lost a phone to lớn the drink in the past, water resistance will probably feel like a sorely needed feature. Personally, I’ve lived for years without a water-resistant phone, so it’s not something on my personal must-have list, but the clumsier members of the team have cause think it’s great.
Speaking of nice-to-have extras, Apple’s added stereo speakers to trang điểm for loss of the tai nghe jack. We didn’t find the degree of stereo separation particularly impressive, và they’re lacking in bass, but it’s a definite improvement over the i
Phone
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The main area of improvement, though, is in the loudness of the speakers. They pump out twice the volume of the i
Phone 6S.
Are louder speakers a reason lớn upgrade? Probably not, but it’s one of the several things that, in aggregate, might add up to lớn up to lớn a reason to lớn upgrade for you.
Finally, let’s khuyễn mãi giảm giá with the big one: there’s no headphone jack on the i
Phone 7. Instead, it’s encouraging headphone makers khổng lồ design models that use the Lightning port instead, or go wireless.
Now, before your head explodes in incredulity, táo bị cắn includes a new pair of Lightning Ear
Pods, and there’s also a 3.5mm-to-Lightning adaptor, so you don’t need to throw your current headphones away.
But there’s no denying that if you have a good mix of traditional headphones that you like to use in lieu of Apple’s rubbish mặc định ones, the i
Phone 7 makes things more awkward for you than the i
Phone 6.
i
Phone 7 vs i
Phone 6 – Display
The i
Phone 7 continues khổng lồ use the same IPS LCD screen giải pháp công nghệ as the i
Phone 6, rather than OLED as in Samsung’s Galaxy S7 range. It’s also the same 4.7-inch kích thước and 1334 x 750 resolution as its ancestor. But don’t let that fool you – the i
Phone 7 display is noticeably better.
Like the i
Pad Pro, the i
Phone 7 display supports the DCI-P3 colour gamut, which basically means it can display a greater number of colours. No one ever complained about richer, more realistic colours.
It’s 25% brighter with end-to-end colour management for more accurate colour reproduction. It’s also less reflective, so it’s better all-round for outdoors viewing.
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Apple’s improvements mean that the i
Phone 7 renders things lượt thích skin tones much better than the i
Phone 6, which makes it better for viewing Netflix videos on the go. It’s the best example of an IPS LCD we’ve seen.
In the i
Phone 6’s favour, it has a slightly cooler tone to it that manifests itself in whites, which we prefer khổng lồ the slightly pinkish tone of the i
Phone 7. But that’s purely a matter of preference, and most people won’t even notice.
i
Phone 7 vs i
Phone 6 – Performance
Every year brings performance improvements, but it’s hard lớn understand them in isolation. For example, the new táo apple A10 Fusion chip has four cores that consists of two high-performance cores that run twice as fast as the i
Phone 6; và this is paired with two high-efficiency cores. These run at just one fifth of the power nguồn of the high-performance counterparts.
But this is fairly meaningless, especially if you don’t use demanding apps such as video editors & games. Bởi vì you need a 1/2 faster phone to check your email? Probably not.
More interesting is the RAM – OK, bear with me here. The i
Phone 6 only has 1GB of RAM, whereas the i
Phone 7 has 2GB. This means more stuff is held in memory, which is faster than reloading it all over again. For example, more RAM means your favourite apps will more often mở cửa in the state you left them, rather than restarting.
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OS 10 – What’s new?
It’s particularly useful when website browsing with lots of tabs. More RAM means more tabs can stay xuất hiện in the background, rather than reloading when you mở cửa them. It’s a small thing, but something you’ll notice if you make the switch.
All in all, the i
Phone 7 is significantly faster than the i
Phone 6, but this will manifest itself as a slight (but noticeable) increase in all-round snappiness if you make the upgrade. The phone will unlock quicker, the camera will boot up và snap quicker, and you’ll be able khổng lồ switch between open apps quicker.
If you play loads of games or hate it when tabs reload, such an nâng cấp makes a whole lot of sense. But the main performance advantage is in future-proofing – the i
Phone 6 is probably right at the end of that period where it feels genuinely swift, whereas the i
Phone 7 will almost certainly run i
OS 11 and i
OS 12 (and their attendant apps) very well indeed.
i
Phone 7 vs i
Phone 6 – Software
As we’ve just hinted at, the i
Phone 6 runs exactly the same i
OS 10 operating system as the i
Phone 7. This degree of consistency & future-proofing is one of the perks of i
Phone ownership.
There is a bit of a split with i
OS 10, though, when it comes to 3d Touch.
Apple has utilised the touch-sensitive giải pháp công nghệ it introduced in the i
Phone 6S much better in its latest sản phẩm điện thoại operating system. While we wouldn’t say there’s a two-tier approach here, i
OS 10 is definitely more usable on the i
Phone 7 than it is on the i
Phone 6.
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Phone 7 colours
For example, you can preview emails and messages on the lock screen simply by pressing firmly on the notification. You can also jump to lớn additional options by pressing hard on app and Control Centre icons. Going back lớn the i
Phone 6 after the i
Phone 7 feels a little strange, like something’s missing.
i
Phone 7 vs i
Phone 6 – Camera
If you take lots of photos then the i
Phone 7 will be a good tăng cấp with its 12-megapixel camera and 6-element lens construction. You’ll also find optical image stabilisation (OIS) & a larger f/1.8 aperture lens.
This compares favourably with the i
Phone 6’s 8-megapixel camera, lack of OIS, và f/2.2 lens.
All of which means that photos taken with the i
Phone 7 are brighter, sharper, steadier, and more colourful. It’s a significantly better performer in low light, too – even before you have taken into tài khoản the improved True Tone flash system, which utilises double the number of bulbs of the i
Phone 6 camera.
True, the i
Phone 7 lacks the second 12-megapixel telephoto lens of the i
Phone 7 Plus, which enables a degree of optical zoom. But that second camera is generally inferior to lớn the first, so we don’t think you’re missing out on all that much in terms of quality.
Finally, don’t forget that the i
Phone 7’s front-facing camera is a decent improvement over the i
Phone 6. While the i
Phone 6 has a 1.2-megapixel Face
Time camera, the i
Phone 7 has a 7-megapixel sensor with tự động image stabilisation for superior selfies. It also supports the clever flash feature introduced on the i
Phone 6S, which uses the screen as a flash when taking selfies, but it’s now 1/2 brighter.
i
Phone 7 vs i
Phone 6 – Battery life & storage
Apple claimed you’ll get two extra hours from the i
Phone 7’s battery over an i
Phone 6S, which already had better battery performance than the i
Phone 6. But our own use begs lớn differ.
It might be larger at 1960 m
Ah versus 1810 m
Ah, but we still frequently failed to lớn get through a full day of moderate to lớn heavy usage with the i
Phone 7. The i
Phone 6, when brand new, could typically be stretched out until bed time.
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Of course, those upgrading from an i
Phone 6 will be using diminished units that no longer hold a charge as well as when new, so an upgrade lớn the i
Phone 7 will likely still be an improvement. But we were expecting much more of táo bị cắn in this regard – particularly with that new, energy-efficient A10 Fusion CPU.
On a more positive note, apple has done away with the 16GB base mã sản phẩm option in the i
Phone 7. Storage now starts at 32GB và jumps all the way up to lớn 128GB và 256GB. The i
Phone 6 was only available in 16GB, 64GB và 128GB versions, so you get a lot more space for your stuff.
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Phone 6 deals
i
Phone 7 vs i
Phone 6 – Verdict
It’s obvious khổng lồ anyone that new phones aren’t as exciting as they used lớn be. If you’re looking at your i
Phone 6 và thinking it’s still pretty handy, that’s because it is. It was a great phone two years ago & it’s still a good one now.
Whether you should upgrade or not will depend on what you care most about. If you’re a relatively light user, you won’t benefit much from the performance improvements & you may as well stick with what you have.
What’s more, anyone who uses their phones heavily will need khổng lồ think twice about buying a new i
Phone that will struggle khổng lồ get you through anything approaching full day. Own and use a prized pair of premium headphones? That experience isn’t going lớn be as good with the i
Phone 7, either.
Anyone who loves taking photos, however, should definitely consider upgrading. It adds some great new features and takes noticeably better photos in all conditions.
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What are all the differences between the i
Phone 6, i
Phone 6s, & i
Phone 7? Which is best?
Please lưu ý that táo apple has discontinued the i
Phone 6, i
Phone 6s, & i
Phone 7. This Q&A has been updated with the latest configurations, i
OS compatibility details, and more. It can be quite useful for anyone buying or selling any of these models on the used market.
There are a whopping twenty four different i
Phone 6/i
Phone 6 Plus, i
Phone 6s/i
Phone 6s Plus, & i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus models. As always, Everyi
Phone.com has documented all of them in detail. However, this Q&A primarily addresses collective differences for the sake of simplicity.
Phone 6)
As these three lines nội dung the same general shape & size, it would be easy to mistake any of them for one another even with a fairly detailed inspection.
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Phone 6s Plus, i
Phone 6 Plus - Back)
However, there are many important differences between the i
Phone 6, i
Phone 6s, & i
Phone 7 that are not obvious & that are well worth review as a result.
External Design và Functionality Differences
Although there are tiny differences in weight, the i
Phone 6/i
Phone 6 Plus, i
Phone 6s/i
Phone 6s Plus, và i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus all tóm tắt thin all aluminum designs with softly rounded sides.
The i
Phone 6s/i
Phone 6s Plus & i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus models use aerospace-grade 7000 series aluminum, which is more durable and less bendable than the aluminum used in the earlier i
Phone 6/i
Phone 6 Plus, though. The i
Phone 6s/i
Phone 6s Plus adds ion-strenghtened glass & an unadvertised rubber gasket for improved water resistance & the i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus are splash, water, và dust-resistant khổng lồ the IP67 standard (as well as pack ion-strengthened glass), but still are not waterproof.
All have a Lightning connector, but the i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus models have dual (stereo) speakers instead of one but lack the traditional bottom-mounted headphone jack that the other models have. They have much more subtle rear antenna lines, too. All three lines have a "Touch ID" fingerprint sensor, but the i
Phone 6s/i
Phone 6s Plus is faster than its predecessor and the i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus has a taptic-engine powered solid state "clickless" home button rather than a physical trang chủ button lượt thích the others.
Display Differences
All three lines have a multitouch "Retina HD" display & the same dimensions, resolutions, px density, and contrast ratio as well as dual tên miền pixels, but each line is better unique and more capable than its predecessor.
The display unique and functionality is different between models accordingly:
i Phone 6/6+ | i Phone 6s/6s+ | i Phone 7/7+ | |
Dimensions: | 4.7/5.4" | 4.7/5.4" | 4.7/5.4" |
Resolution: | 1334x7501920x1080 | 1334x7501920x1080 | 1334x7501920x1080 |
Pixel Density: | 326 ppi401 ppi | 326 ppi401 ppi | 326 ppi401 ppi |
Contrast Ratio: | 1400:11300:1 | 1400:11300:1 | 1400:11300:1 |
Wide Color: | No | No | DCI-P3 |
3D Touch: | No | Yes | Yes |
Tapic Sensor: | No | Yes | Yes |
Touch ID: | 1st Gen | 2nd Gen | Solid State |
Ion-X Glass: | No | Yes | Yes |
Perhaps most notably, the i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus provides a "wide color" gamut (DCI-P3) and enhanced brightness that in detailed testing, the respected Display
Mate found lớn be "visually indistinguishable from perfect."
Housing color Differences
For the i
Phone 6s/i
Phone 6s Plus và i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus lines, apple added new màu sắc options lớn stoke demand.
Specifically, the màu sắc options for the i
Phone 6, i
Phone 6s, & i
Phone 7 include:
i Phone 6/6+ | i Phone 6s/6s+ | i Phone 7/7+ |
White Front/Silver Back | White Front/Silver Back | White Front/Silver Back |
White Front/Gold Back | White Front/Gold Back | White Front/Gold Back |
Black Front/Space Gray Back | White Front/Rose Gold Back | White Front/Rose Gold Back |
Black Front/Space Gray Back | Black Front/Matte black Back | |
Black Front/Glossy đen Back | ||
White Front/Matte Red Back* |
Note that táo bị cắn dở warns the glossy "Jet Black" màu sắc option for the i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus is particularly vulnerable lớn "micro-abrasions" và is not a good choice for those who are picky about damaging the finish.
*From March 21, 2017 until September 12, 2017, táo apple sold a (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition i
Phone 7 & i
Phone 7 Plus. It has a trắng front and a matte red back.
Camera Differences
The i
Phone 6/i
Phone 6 Plus, i
Phone 6s/i
Phone 6s Plus, và i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus all have dual cameras, but there are notable chất lượng differences between them.
Face
Time Cameras
Each front-facing "Face
Time" camera is better than its predecessor:
i Phone 6/6+ | i Phone 6s/6s+ | i Phone 7/7+ | |
Megapixels: | 1.2 MP | 5 MP | 7 MP |
Aperture: | f/2.4 | f/2.2 | f/2.2 |
Video: | 720p | 720p | 1080p |
Most notably, the front-facing camera in the i
Phone 6s/i
Phone 6s Plus and i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus models have larger sensors and wider aperture values (smaller f stop), which allows for more light. The i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus shoots 1080p video, also.
i
Sight Cameras
The rear-mounted cameras, which apple formerly called "i
Sight" but dropped this branding with the i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus, have even less in common:
i Phone 6/6+ | i Phone 6s/6s+ | i Phone 7/7+ | |
Megapixels: | 8 MP | 12 MP | 12 MP x2* |
Aperture: | f/2.2 | f/2.2 | f/1.8/f/2.8* |
Pixel Size: | 1.5µm | 1.22µm | 1.22µm |
LED Flash: | Dual | True Tone | Quad True Tone |
Lens: | Yes | Five-Element | Six-Element |
Zoom: | 3x | 5x | 5x & 2x/10x* |
Video: | 1080p | 4K | 4K |
Slo-Mo: | No | Yes | Yes |
Focus Pixels: | No | Yes | Yes |
AIS: | Yes | Yes | Yes |
OIS (Photos): | No | No/Yes | Yes |
OIS (Videos): | No | No/Yes | Yes |
* The i
Phone 7 Plus models, and only the i
Phone 7 Plus models, have dual rear cameras. There are two rear 12 megapixel cameras, one wide-angle with a f/1.8 aperture và another telephoto with a f/2.8 aperture. By combining an image from both cameras, it emulates a 2x optical zoom as well as a 10x digital zoom.
In a detailed review, Dx
OMark found significant improvements in the i
Phone 7 camera compared lớn its predecessors.
Identification Differences
It is easy khổng lồ mistake any of the i
Phone 6/i
Phone 6 Plus, i
Phone 6s/i
Phone 6s Plus, or i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus models for one another when they are not side-by-side.
Many of the devices can be identified by model Number, which is listed on the back of each phone in tiny type, but not all of the i
Phone 6/i
Phone 6 Plus models can be individually identified in this way.
Nevertheless, for the purpose of this Q&A, it is sufficient to note that the following model numbers refer lớn these devices:
i Phone Model | Model Numbers |
i Phone 6 | A1549, A1586, A1589 |
i Phone 6 Plus | A1522, A1524, A1593 |
i Phone 6s | A1633, A1688, A1700, A1691 |
i Phone 6s Plus | A1634, A1687, A1699, A1690 |
i Phone 7 | A1660, A1778, A1779, A1780 |
i Phone 7 Plus | A1661, A1784, A1785, A1786 |
These devices also can be spotted uniquely by other identifiers.
Specifically, Everyi
Phone.com"s Ultimate i
Lookup feature can precisely identify these i
Phone models by Order Number (referred to as "Model" within the i
OS "Settings" app under General > About), và their Serial Numbers, as well.
Battery Life Differences
The i
Phone 6 & i
Phone 6s models have the same battery life as vì chưng the larger i
Phone 6 Plus and i
Phone 6s Plus models, but the battery life is a bit different for the subsequent i
Phone 7 and i
Phone 7 Plus models:
i Phone 6/6+ | i Phone 6s/6s+ | i Phone 7/7+ | |
Talk Time (3G): | 14/24 Hours | 14/24 Hours | 14/21 Hours |
Internet (3G): | 10/12 Hours | 10/12 Hours | 12/13 Hours |
Internet (4G/LTE): | 10/12 Hours | 10/12 Hours | 12/13 Hours |
Internet (Wi-Fi): | 11/12 Hours | 11/12 Hours | 14/15 Hours |
Video Playback: | 11/14 Hours | 11/14 Hours | 13/14 Hours |
Audio Playback: | 50/80 Hours | 50/80 Hours | 40/60 Hours |
As you can see, battery life is better for the larger "Plus" models, as they have physically larger batteries, but it also is worth noting that the newer i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus models have better battery life in some tasks, but inferior battery life in others.
Wireless Connectivity & Data Differences
In basic terms, each line of i
Phone models tư vấn more advanced wireless connectivity than their predecessors. All of these devices tư vấn 802.11a/b/g/n/ac with MIMO, GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), & UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz), as well as LTE/4G connectivity but support for specific bands varies. The i
Phone 7 and i
Phone 7 Plus models supports the fastest version of LTE Advanced which is as fast as 450 Mbps.
For details, if desired, refer to these separate Q&As:
When they were first shipped, the i
Phone 6 and i
Phone 6 Plus models supported công nghệ bluetooth 4.0, but with i
OS 9 installed, táo khuyết upgraded the công nghệ bluetooth không dây capability in these models to bluetooth không dây 4.2. However, on the i
Phone 6 & i
Phone 6 Plus, công nghệ bluetooth không dây 4.2 only supports improved privacy rather than increased speed. The newer i
Phone 6s/i
Phone 6s Plus & i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus models fully support Bluetooth 4.2.
Internal Differences
The i
Phone 6/i
Phone 6 Plus, i
Phone 6s/i
Phone 6s Plus, và i
Phone 7/i
Phone 7 Plus models have much different architectures:
i Phone 6/6+ | i Phone 6s/6s+ | i * The i † táo khuyết re-introduced 32 GB variants of the i The Japan-specific i i The i Regardless of the version of the operating system installed when the device first shipped, all three lines support i The i The i The i The i Finally, the i It is not possible lớn install a version of the i i These differences as well as other details and US pricing information is summarized below:
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