Some people may feel extreme after reading this title, but when it comes to mobile phones, iPhones will never be absent every year. This generation of iPhone 7 Plus is a very competitive product. I was also lucky to get access to this top flagship through this powerful public beta activity. This article is about sharing the real experience of iPhone 7 Plus:

appearance

Packaging... It seems to be Apple's style at first sight, but the front of the packaging has changed from the front of the fuselage to the back, perhaps to highlight the new color matching, new antenna partition bar design and dual cameras of this generation? As the saying goes, no design is the best design. Apple's packaging is not very cool. Simply put the phone image and logo on it.

There was a protective film on the front of the phone, but I was too excited when I got it, so I tore it first

The accessories are the same as the old ones - earphones, data cables and chargers. There seems to be no bright spot, but

Why does the headset look a little different? There is no practical and cool portable storage box, but a simple paper earphone holder. The most important thing is that the interface has also been replaced by the Lightning interface. There is a Lightning to 3.5mm adapter on the back of the headset, which can be said to be a highlight and a failure in the new accessories of the iPhone 7 (7 Plus).

Chargers can't complain anymore. 5V 1A, 5W is 5W. Anyway, third-party chargers that support Apple's fast charging are also relatively easy to buy. Users with iPad chargers (10W or 12W charger versions) can get nearly twice the charging speed directly by taking them over and connecting them. The measured maximum power is close to 10W, which is improved compared with 6s Plus, Tears were streaming down my face. what? Are you used to QC, VOOC and AFC fast charging?...... #% ￥&……￥%*%￥……

The data cable is the same as the previous one, which is still the Lightning interface. However, there are two versions of this data cable, one is relatively thick. The 7 Plus I got is a relatively thick version, which is also easy to break if I have a premonition

I got the black iPhone 7 Plus, not the bright black one that was so popular before. The front looks the same as the previous deep space gray. Both use black front panels. The glass lasts for 6 and 6 seconds, 2.5D. It feels warm and smooth. Apart from that, the edge touch of 2.5D glass is only suitable for Apple. It really feels very 2.5D, while other so-called 2.5D products are almost meaningless. However, the same front face has used three generations of mobile phones, which is really too lazy. The low screen proportion and the horse racing border are still moving.

At first glance, the iPhone 7 Plus is the same as the iPhone 6s Plus, but there is still a slight difference when you look carefully. That is, the earpiece is a little wider than before, so the film is obviously not used in the past. Here you should see the tears of many accessory manufacturers. The longer earpiece is also a functional reason, because the iPhone 7 series earpiece is also a speaker, which works with the speaker at the bottom of the body to achieve stereo sound.

The Home key has become non pressable, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Of course, when you press it down, it is totally different from the past. The feedback given by the previous keys has become the vibration simulated by the Tapic Engine. Of course, the key range is 0~

The back of the fuselage is a highlight. First of all, this one in my hand is a new color. The black fuselage is a bit more profound than the previous deep space gray, and the color value is completely different. It looks very integrated, and the sandblasting process is also very meticulous.

The camera part is undoubtedly a big highlight. The iPhone 7 Plus is catching up with the trend and uses dual cameras. Its dual cameras are different from those of its competitors. It uses a standard camera to work with a telephoto lens. The specific experience will be described below.

Due to the addition of dual cameras, the aperture of the main camera is as high as f/1.8, and the camera is equipped with optical anti shake, so the camera cannot avoid obvious protrusions, and the shape looks quite exaggerated.

As the protrusion is too obvious, it needs careful protection. The edge of this camera has fallen off paint.

The left side of the fuselage is still the iPhone's iconic mute key, while the lower side is the volume key. Although such a design is rarely seen in other brands, Apple's mute key can't go back when you are used to it.

The right side of the body is the power key and card slot. The iPhone has insisted on a single nanoSIM for a long time, and the Bank of China has not added a dual card design.

The changes at the bottom of the fuselage are relatively large, that is:

This generation of iPhone has canceled the 3.5mm interface!! This generation of iPhone has canceled the 3.5mm interface!!

This generation of iPhone has canceled the 3.5mm interface!! This generation of iPhone has canceled the 3.5mm interface!!

It's not enough to tell important things three times... It's really hard to accept the practice of telling the truth. It brings too much inconvenience, for example, it is not compatible with all kinds of earphones in the past (although there is a adapter cable, it is ugly), and mobile power cannot be used when connecting earphones. Because the 3.5mm headphone connector is removed, the microphone and speaker openings on both sides are finally completely symmetrical, which is at least visually satisfying for Virgo.

System experience

Since you are no longer familiar with the iOS system, here are some highlights of the new system on the iPhone 7 Plus.

The iPhone 7 Plus is pre installed with iOS 10. By the deadline, the latest version of iOS 10.1.1 had arrived, but I prefer to upgrade directly to the latest beta version (iOS 10.2 beta 3 has arrived). After all, you can experience the latest system features, and there is no instability in using several versions.

If you are an old iPhone user, iOS 10 will not be unfamiliar with you. Generally, the layout is very similar to that of the past, but there are some small operational changes, and of course, the functions will be more abundant. I believe that old users will be easy to get started. The sliding unlocking that has been insisted on for many years has disappeared. Instead, the screen is lit through the action sensor, and then the home key is pressed to unlock. If the user is accustomed to sliding unlocking without a password, he may feel that the whole action is awkward. If the user is accustomed to using fingerprint to unlock, this action will not cause any trouble, To unlock, just press the home button slightly.

Although there is no major improvement in the function of the pull-up bar, its design style is quite different.

In addition, due to the change of the home key of the iPhone 7 Plus, if we use the power key to light up the screen, we need to press the home key to unlock. In addition, in the auxiliary functions, we also add that we can unlock directly through TouchID (that is, when the screen is lit, we can unlock directly through fingerprint identification without pressing). At this time, the Tapic Engine does not work, and the whole process is silent.

In terms of interface functions, iOS 10 has added more interactive and display functions. For example, in the unlocking interface, sliding right will pop up the plug-in bar, where you can view the schedule, weather, microblog, etc. The plug-ins here can also be edited by yourself, adapting to many third-party applications.

The notice bar also uses a card like display similar to the plug-in bar, which looks uniform in style and clear in organization.

The album has been redesigned and added with a "memory" bar, which will automatically perform intelligent classification and management.

The clock interface has undergone bold color adjustment. At night, it will automatically switch to a black background, adding the function of sleeping, which can be understood as an enhanced alarm clock.

IOS users may have been troubled by harassed calls for a long time, but iOS 10 has opened the corresponding api, which can provide a number library and block calls in the corresponding number library through third-party applications such as Touch Phone, Tencent Mobile Manager, etc. This is a good news for the majority of iPhone users, although this function has become commonplace for domestic Android phone users.

Our old friend Siri has also been strengthened this time. It is more closely integrated with third-party applications. For example, we shout to it that we want to take a taxi to XXX, and it will give us some currently applicable third-party applications to choose from. After years of development, it is finally not just a vase or the object of our flirtation, and has played a certain role in practical applications. But then again, who will shout some strange commands to their mobile phones in ordinary application scenarios

performance

Every year, the iPhone is constantly breaking its own performance records, and this year is no exception, The iPhone 7 Plus brings us a new A10 Fusion processor, which is a four core processor with the most cores in Apple's history (the three core A8X has appeared on the iPad Air 2). However, this time, the working mode is different, 2+2, and the four cores cannot work at the same time, When we use it in daily life, we usually only use two large cores (code name: Hurricane), while the other two small cores may only be used when they are in standby or under some low load. Apple says that this is more power saving, which is completely different from the way that the Snapdragon 820 (821) is always open all four cores. Although this is a pseudo quad core, the performance of the large core Hurricane (the core is up to 2.3GHz) is too strong, so this time the Android camp is far behind. Even in the face of the newly launched A73 of Kirin 960, A10 Fusion is still the king of single core performance. In terms of graphics performance, although the Snapdragon 820 (821) has been the number one mobile phone GPU for a long time, this time the emergence of A10 Fusion successfully pulled Qualcomm off. Apple has equipped the new processor with a six core PowerVR graphics processor. Although the specific model is unknown, its performance is really very strong, and it has steadily won the title of king of graphics performance.

In terms of the actual performance score, it may seem boring, but according to the convention, we should show our strength. The only thing we can say is: Who else?

According to the evaluation of Anthare, it is not surprising that Apple has reached 170000 yuan or 180000 yuan when Android phones are trying to compete for 160000 yuan.

Geekbench 4， It is also very powerful, and just when the Android flagship is approaching the single core performance of A9, A10 Fusion has made a great leap in CPU performance, which makes people wonder about Apple's strong strength in this regard. What is more shocking is the multi-core performance. Apple, which only has dual cores, is close to the Android flagship SoC with eight cores and ten cores in multi-core performance. On the one hand, it shows the hegemony of A10 Fusion's single core performance, and on the other hand, it shows the high efficiency of its multi-core.

In terms of graphics performance, it is also Apple's strong point. The six core GPU of A10 Fusion can only be described as brutal, significantly surpassing the Snapdragon 821. Let's think again that the actual resolution of the iPhone 7 Plus is only slightly higher than 1080P (the actual rendering resolution is 2208x1242, for the purpose of facilitating application development), which is significantly lower than the 2K level of Android flagship, combined with excellent targeted optimization, It's no wonder that the gaming experience of iPhone is so much more than that of Android. However, this huge gap in graphics performance may not be recovered until the Snapdragon 835 and Exynos 8895 in the first half of 2017. However, there is also a problem here. The score of Tyrannosaurus Rex on the screen is much lower than that off the screen. The reason is unknown.

Disk performance is also a strong point of iPhone (why is it a strong point from head to toe? I can't help but be so confident). Because NVME flash memory is used, it is still more powerful than UFS 2.0 on Android. Now high-end PCs also use NVME solid state disk, so you can imagine how powerful it is. Here we use an old scoring application to test its storage performance. It may not be accurate due to compatibility problems, but we just need to understand that it is very powerful.

Another huge improvement is that the iPhone 7 Plus uses 3G memory, which is second only to the iPad Pro 12.9 inches (4G) in iOS devices. Compared with the 2G memory of the iPhone 7, it seems to have cut corners. In terms of application and resolution pressure, it should not be the reason for adding 1G memory, Personally, I guess it may take up a large amount of memory when working with dual cameras. Also due to the iOS principle, the larger memory of the iPhone 7 Plus does not show any advantages. Maybe it will show its "superiority" after the new systems such as iOS 11 and iOS 12 come out.

In terms of games, it is hard for iOS to test the number of frames. According to the hardware performance of the iPhone 7 Plus, theoretically, no game can defeat it, except for some ultimate negative optimization. As far as the games I play at ordinary times are concerned, this flagship machine performs very well with high fluency and acceptable calorific value. It is necessary to be fluent. If there is a game that makes the iPhone 7 Plus card, few mobile phones can run smoothly.

photograph

When it comes to photography, the iPhone's performance can only be described as "stable". With good analysis, standard white balance and color performance, high film rate and response speed, the iPhone has worked together to create a set of highly comprehensive photography system. While last year's iPhone 6s Plus was "hanged" by various Android flagship patterns, Apple has obviously made great efforts in this generation, adding optical anti shake directly to iPhone 7, which keeps the main imaging quality of iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus completely consistent; The iPhone 7 Plus is a direct hit - dual cameras. First, let's review the camera parameters of the iPhone 7 Plus: the main camera is a backlight sensor from Sony, with 12 million pixels, a sensor area of 1/3 inch, and a unit pixel size of 1.22 μ m. These parameters are the same as those of the iPhone 6s series, but this time it directly increases the aperture from f/2.2 to f/1.8. In addition, a 12 million pixel, f/2.8 aperture secondary camera was added. Just looking at this parameter, we can see that Apple has made a "big move" this time.

When it comes to taking photos of the iPhone 7 Plus, there are two parts. One is the imaging quality of the main camera. Needless to say, Apple has always been a quality assurance. This time, Apple has installed the same sensor as the iPhone 6s Plus for the iPhone 7 Plus, and the aperture is larger, so it is conceivable that the dark light imaging will be better. The secondary camera of the iPhone 7 Plus is different from the general dual camera scheme, which is a highly practical approach. Apple has added a telephoto camera to the iPhone 7 Plus, which can be used to achieve optical focusing (note that it is not zoom, because it is only 1X zoom to 2X zoom, and the process in the middle is still digital zoom), This is a function that some users will often use. After all, for many people, it is more important to talk about shooting first than to pursue good shooting.

First, let's take a look at the scene of normal photography. The performance of the iPhone 7 Plus under normal light is undoubtedly excellent.

Here we use the Galaxy S7 edge, which is recognized as an excellent photographer, as a contrast, we can see that both have not too many thorns to pick when imaging in daylight, but there are still some differences in color orientation, and the S7 edge is warmer.

It can be said that the level of detail comparison between the two is very close, and the iPhone 7 Plus is even better.

The iPhone 7 Plus sample is slightly cold in the color of this group, which may appear too realistic for the real object, making people feel bad.

On the other hand, S7 edge is obviously more radical in terms of exposure, and the overall color is warm. For such a delicious dessert, the color tone is obviously more pleasing.

The sample of iPhone 7 Plus is fully exposed. The overall color is bright, and it looks energetic.

Back at S7 edge, Samsung seems more realistic in this scene, and the vein of leaves is clearer, but the exposure is slightly insufficient.

In terms of dim light imaging, compared with the S7 edge, which has a larger aperture and bottom, the iPhone 7 Plus will be slightly less exposed in poor light, which is not absolutely good or bad. The orientation of each brand will be different. For example, LG's flagship machine likes to shoot at night as bright as in the day. The iPhone has always been more "real" in style, so there will be no high exposure. Apple's training habit is to lower the ISO and use a longer shutter to achieve excellent picture details. For this group of indoor dark scenes, the ISO is still at 400, and the shutter is at 1/4 second.

The S7 edge is much bolder. The ISO is directly placed at 1250. However, due to the heavy hand of the jpg smearing algorithm, the noise under such a high ISO is less than that of Apple, and the appearance will be better. It can be seen that The iPhone 7 Plus has a lot of trouble in dark light, and there will be a lot of noise, but it has made great progress compared with the previous generation.

The dual camera of the iPhone 7 Plus is mainly reflected in the "zoom" (in fact, it is not really zoom...), or we should understand that the iPhone 7 Plus has two fixed focus lenses. The main camera is a normal focal section, and the secondary camera is a telephoto, which can shoot distant objects. The specific magnification is 2 times. This function is believed to be popular with most users, and it can also be more convenient for...... Stealing.

Here is a brief demonstration of what the concept of 2x is. Let's take a picture with the main camera first. It can be seen that the lens is still relatively wide and there are many buildings taken.

Switch to the 2X mode, and you can see that the theme of the whole picture is only the two buildings in the center, playing a double magnification effect. PS: In fact, we made a mistake here, that is, when we click 2X mode in dim light, it is actually digital zoom, and the secondary camera does not work at this time. This is just for the convenience of demonstrating the meaning of double magnification.

You may also find that why don't I just use digital zoom? In fact, this problem really exists. In practical applications, the 2X digital zoom of the main camera is even better than that of the secondary camera, which is really an embarrassing problem.

So I think that the double cameras that Apple has been promoting so hard this time are actually quite gimmicky. Compared with zoom, the virtual mode may look more cool. The virtual mode is to use dual cameras to achieve the depth of field effect. Similar methods have been seen in the dual camera schemes of other brands, but the same thing, made by Apple, is particularly tall. In terms of the actual effect, the iPhone 7 Plus does have its own set of transitions between the theme and the background, and the actual effect is really good. The following is the sample:

The first photo was taken normally. It can be seen that although the f/1.8 aperture also makes the new iPhone bring a stronger illusion effect than before, it still looks almost funny, and it is still clear outside the focus.

After using the latest "portrait mode" in iOS 10.1 (in other words, the portrait mode, in fact, is the depth of field effect), the out of focus is magically "turned off", and the overall effect is obvious. However, maybe the algorithm is still aimed at the portrait, so the edge of the backpack shot here is still a bit stiff. However, this effect is enough for us to scare many friends on social media, and it is really good to use. As with the secondary camera 2X mode, the opening of the portrait mode is also subject to conditions. The light cannot be too dark, and the object to be photographed must be within 2.5 meters. It seems that the threshold for starting the secondary camera of the iPhone 7 Plus is relatively high.

Other and summary

As mentioned earlier, the iPhone 7 Plus is still only equipped with a 5V 1A charging head, but we can improve the charging speed by using the iPad or other third-party chargers (which need to support Apple's standard). The measured maximum power rate can be close to 10W. The figure shows that 65% of the battery starts to charge, which is obviously much higher than the original poor 1A. The measured high power charger can be fully charged in less than 2 and a half hours.

In terms of endurance, the iPhone 7 Plus is equipped with a 2900mAh battery. With the new processor, it has actually done a good job in terms of power saving. 72% of the power is still available after three hours of high-intensity testing. Compared with the previous two generations of "Plus" models, the endurance performance has improved to a certain extent, and there is no problem in using the iPhone 7 Plus with normal intensity for one day.

From this experience, the iPhone 7 Plus is worthy of the title of "Machine King" in 2016, and its performance is very balanced in all aspects. Personally, I prefer the new processor, 3G memory and new large aperture lens. These improvements can bring direct experience improvement. Of course, as the appearance association, the new color scheme also makes the iPhone 7 Plus show its unique personality. The black iPhone 7 Plus is also recommended here. The new color scheme brings higher recognition. At the same time, the sandblasting process used in black also makes it more durable than bright black. It is really suitable for a color scheme that is worth buying. However, there are still some regrets. The racehorse frame is still there, and the body contour and front panel that have remained unchanged for thousands of years are still there. The whole machine is poorly controlled in a 5.5 inch screen phone. In addition, there are too many limitations in the use of dual cameras, and the 3.5mm missing brings only inconvenience. According to Apple's habits, the iPhone 7s Plus in 2017 may still be in this shape. Maybe we can only expect the iPhone 8 Plus This is the end of the trial sharing of iPhone 7 Plus. Welcome to leave more messages and communicate with me~

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