Plus adjectives from the Latin plus meaning more positive a surplus or gain for three generations apple has released a plus version of its iconic iPhone and this one lives up to its name better than ever I’m Michael Fisher and this is the new iPhone you should buy if you’ve got the hands for it think of this video as a companion to my iphone 7 review which I encourage you to watch as it covers a lot of stuff I won’t be touching on here like the new taptic engine the water and dust resistance and the death of the headphone jack at its core the seven-plus is just a 7 on steroids but the thing is the pluses improvements are in the most critical aspects of a smartphone experience display battery and camera first let’s take the display which is almost an inch larger on the diagonal and also steps up the pixel density by 23% on the one hand this shines a big bright light on one of my biggest complaints about the iPhone it doesn’t let you run multiple apps side by side like we see on the iPad or Android phones that said some apps do include split view which lets you be a little more productive and there’s more functionality in landscape mode on the keyboard ugly though it is bigger is just better and it’s kind of tedious to list all the ways that’s true so let’s all agree that it is more significant to me is battery life and while the iPhone 7 is fine in this department the plus is very good you might have wondered why a minute ago I didn’t mention Apple’s refusal to go with a higher display resolution after all this phone’s principal competition has a panel that’s 30% sharper and much brighter well the staying put at only Full HD and packing in a bigger battery resulted in an iPhone that’s very hard to run dry I spent most of my days listening to at least an hour of radio streamed over Bluetooth with about 2 hours of wireless hotspot serving a connected tablet or laptop and three to four hours of the battery killing social email and browsing cocktail starting at a full charge around 8 a.m.This phone routinely lasts me through midnight in fact for the past few days I’ve been using this device with the display timeout disabled I’ll sometimes just put it down and forget about it so it just glows and wastes battery and it still lasts forever that’s more than I can say for the iPhone 7 or almost any other smartphone the most significant bump for this year’s plus is the one that holds the cameras previous pluses brought added
features but this year the guts inside the optics hump are doubled to separate sensors each with its own lens the standard camera is the same as on the iPhone 7 12 megapixels with oh is a large aperture and a 28 millimeter lens the other camera is also 12 megapixels but trades aperture size for a 56 millimeter lens Apple calls it a telephoto camera but whatever the terminology it’s really useful when you zoom in using most smartphones including the iPhone 7 all you’re doing is cropping the capture area which makes the photo look like hot garbage with this new camera and lens though the seven-plus lets you go up to 2x magnification without cropping the image and you don’t need to be shooting a concert or a skyscraper to benefit from the convenience sometimes it’s just easier to frame a shot with zoom right in the viewfinder I’m not going to say this camera is perfect as always low light brings out lots of noise as I mentioned in the iphone 7 review I still prefer the galaxy s7 camera to this one but I used this device for a lot of shots in my Chevy Volt review and for miscellaneous photos on other mr.Mobile projects and I have yet to hear a single complaint and when the pho depth of field effects come out of beta the plus will have yet another arrow in its camera quiver I don’t generally run beta software but I’m or has a great preview of this feature which I’ll link in the description I’ll shut up for a second so you can draw your own conclusions based on some more sample footage finally many of you have asked me about the dreaded hiss and yep I hear it push the iPhone to its limit for a while with a graphics heavy game then take it into a sound booth and put it up to a microphone with the gain maxed out and you hear this if you didn’t hear anything congratulations you probably won’t be bothered by the hiss which by the way is most probably a harmless phenomenon called coil whine that you sometimes also hear from wall chargers if it bugs you you can try swapping it out at an Apple store but just keep in mind the company hasn’t officially acknowledged the issue so your success may come down to who takes your appointment at the Genius Bar look I get it big phones aren’t for everyone personally the iPhone 7 – is almost the perfect size for me because I like phones I can easily use with one hand comparatively the plus is a monster and I think it’s bigger than it needs to be other companies can build svelte or
waterproof smartphones with screens as big or bigger so if design ambition is top of your list you do have options elsewhere but if the top of your list is having the new iPhone and you want the absolute best iPhone well the plus is your pick I realize this is a predictable conclusion because after all that’s what the plus was built to be but hey sometimes companies achieve what they set out to in my view the iPhone 7 plus is the iPhone most likely to keep you happiest the longest even if it takes your wallet a little longer to recover for a deeper dive on the latest iphone check out mr.mobiles iphone 7 review and remember to subscribe on YouTube for more mobile tech videos just like this one until next time thanks for watching and stay mobile my friends .
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