hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the iPhone 7 it's been out
for a little over two years now and it was introduced with two new colors black
and jet black this is the jet black color and I want to talk about how its
held up if it's worth buying today and just do a couple quick comparisons with
say an iPhone X just to see how its performance is now you can see this is a
black color and this is Space Gray so it is a darker black I really like the
color but it's a fingerprint magnet I just cleaned this off and again you can
see this just from touching it it's got fingerprints all over it again now this
one's been protected in a case the entire time and this one did introduced
a little bit new design new cameras and we'll talk about that in a moment but
this doesn't have a scratch on it and that's because it's been in an Apple
silicone case the entire time and it's held up well I don't know if it was this
case or another one this is what it's currently in but this one is held up
really well and has been used since new now on the bottom where you have to plug
it in there's no scratches nothing like that nothing on the outside and it's
also been protected with a screen protector the entire time so this one is
held up exceptionally well in fact it looks brand new and feels brand new
there's not a dent on it it's never been dropped and it's it's really nice so the
battery in this seems to be doing okay now this will probably get you through a
day unless you're a heavy user but if you go into settings and we go down to
battery and then we go to battery health we're down to 92% and this one is
plugged in every night all night and then use throughout the day now this one
is not used heavily but it is used if I go over the last ten days you'll see
it's only used for well about an hour too and that's mainly for social media
and things like that it's used by one of my kids actually now but it was used
prior heavily so it just depends on the time it's being used and who it's being
used by but you'll see the usage is not that great but it's held up pretty well
just in general now you may have a little bit less battery life after two
years Apple says it's good after two years to have 80% or more so it's doing
pretty well there now this one introduced a couple new things one was
an opted optical image lized camera it was a new sensor and a
new f1 point eight aperture and on the iPhone 7 plus it was a dual lens system
where it had a zoom lens as well so this one is really nice it also introduced 4k
video on this and it does a great job with photos and it's still pretty fast
today so if we go into the camera see here's the camera we'll bring in these
phones here and the shutter is gonna be nice and fast it's got live photos and
then again that video you can record in 4k if you'd like and it's a really great
video camera and it's stabilized so if you want to walk with it's not going to
be jittery go back in here and it's it's just not going to be jittery the video
is going to look really good and nice and fast to use you don't have to wait
for it you'll see that video turned out it's just nice and crisp video so it
does a great job for that in fact it's it's up there with the newer cameras
except it doesn't do 60p so it's pretty good that way you also get your
forward-facing camera 7 megapixels that's still used today in the most
recent phones so we have 7 megapixel film cameras in the front facing camera
of even the iPhone X in newer so no issues there we just don't have an emoji
or emoji and then also this display is a 4.7 inch display so this has 326 pixels
per inch the same pixel density as the iPhone XR and this one is 1334 by 750
now the display looks nice and vibrant it was the first to introduce the P 3
wide color gamut so this one has a really vibrant display you still can't
watch HDR videos though if you're on youtube you just don't have that ability
to do that and it still looks good today for an LCD display off access it looks
pretty good you have no issues there and it's nice and vibrate if I turn it up
all the way you'll see it goes super bright it's nice it looks good in
sunlight and it's nice the other thing that's also introduced was dual speakers
so this has the modern dual speaker system where you have one speaker out
one of these microphone and then it uses the earpiece as a speaker as well now
some of these failed earlier on and had be replaced my seven-plus had to be
replaced but when you're watching a video it's really great to just have
stereo sound it does not sound as good as a modern film such as the iPhone X
the XR that XS the XS Max any of those phones are gonna sound a little
bit better but this one does sound pretty good also the speed of this is
great it's not slow at all in fact apples silicon is so far ahead at this
point the a10 fusion processor inside here isn't slow at all so let me just
open a quick game here let me open it on the iPhone X as well so I've got this
set up here let's open Minecraft on both you'll see
I'm already in let me close this out and we'll try it again so we'll open
minecraft on both I'll wait for it to load we'll hit play and usually when we
create a new world here it takes a little bit of time will it create and
let's see what it does this is what takes the longest and if this is nice
and quick you'll be good to go and you'll see right now we actually beat
the iPhone X so most people are not going to notice anything slower in fact
this was so fast it never really seemed to lag especially with iOS 12 on here
the scrolling is super smooth if we go into the library here you'll see
everything's just nice and smooth and because the display is smaller it's even
smoother than some of the plus phones so you're not gonna get any hiccups or
anything there especially if your battery is still good now this one also
got rid of the physical button so this button here on the home button is still
touch ID but it doesn't click so it's more durable it feels like it clicks and
you've got reach ability if you double tap it but don't click it and it feels
like it's clicking but it's not so it works really well that way and I think
it works well as far as keeping it from having to be replaced like it did in
some previous versions it also is more water resistant than its previous
generation phones so you shouldn't have any issues there this was the first
where they really kind of took keeping it dust resistance
water-resistant and more fixable in mine this was probably the first iteration
where they just started to make it more repairable and actually more durable so
this is a great phone to get and if you want to buy one they start at four forty
nine with 32 gigabytes of storage and then 549 with 128 gigabytes of storage
so literally for half the price of an iPhone X or XS you can get a pretty
fast phone that will work great for most situations if you want an iPhone and of
course you've got iMessage and all of those things if you use the Apple
ecosystem so I think it's a great phone and if you're coming from something like
an iPhone se I think you'll like the larger display it will feel right at
home and it'll last you at least a couple years especially if you're
getting one now if you're inheriting one you'll be able to play all the modern
games no problems whatsoever and it works really well you also get the
measure app so if we go into the measure app you can use AR to measure so you get
the augmented reality and that works really well also I use it all the time
to measure distances on my iPhone XS max works well on this one as well so
hopefully that gives you an idea of whether or not you should pick one up
now I don't think you can get this color anymore the jet black isn't really
available unless you find one used but you can get black and the other colors
as well so let me know what you think about it though in the comments below if
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watching oh and the wallpapers in the description below as always this is Aaron
I'll see you next time