hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and in September of 2016 Apple released the
iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 plus and in my hand here I have the iPhone 7 in jet
black now a lot of you may be thinking no that's an iPhone 8 but if you've
never seen the iPhone 7 in jet black it looks like it's glass but it's not
it's a continuous piece of aluminum on the outside edge all the way to the back
and has a special coating over it to show you the difference between the 7
and the 8 the iPhone 8 is an aluminum frame with glass front back the iPhone 7
does not have wireless charging and instead is just aluminum and then coated
with that now the iPhone 7 did come in a variety of colors jet black just like
this one also black which is more of a matte color along with silver gold rose
gold and then a red color later on and they all look really nice and they hold
up pretty well today but since you can't buy them new or refurbished from Apple
anymore I wanted to talk about if you should
pick one up in 2020 or later on depending on when you're watching this
video so this particular phone like I said is in jet black and I think it
holds up pretty well with today's design it's basically the same design that we
had from the six and all the way to the iPhone 8 that's still available today
and the design like I said held up well and this was the first phone to remove
the headphone jack so on the bottom there's no longer a headphone jack we
just have our lightning adapter on microphone and speaker we also had
introduced with this phone stereo speakers so they're also using the
earpiece for the phone as well as the speaker on the bottom to give you a
stereo sound when watching video we also got the new capacitive touch home button
or the leaf touch ID button that's also haptic based so it's no longer physical
and will no longer depressed but when you press it it feels like you're
pushing it because it actually has the new taptic engine so that was introduced
and that also introduced ip67 certification so it's resistant to dust
in water for about one meter up to thirty minutes so that's something that
was introduced with the seven we gained all of those things along with a
slightly better battery I'll talk about that
so if you want to pick one of these up today you can no longer buy them new or
refurbished from Apple but you can get them pretty reasonably online so on eBay
for example I was able to pick one up recently for a relative they wanted a
rose gold version or a pink version so I was able to pick one up for about two
hundred and fifty dollars with a hundred and twenty eight gigabytes of storage so
that's really reasonable if you're looking for something that's not the
latest and greatest but you want something that works well and I'll link
some of those in the description from eBay or Craigslist you can get them
refurbished from eBay very reasonable now the iPhone 7 has the a10 fusion
processor in it so if you have the 7 you'll have 2 gigabytes of ram with that
if you have the 7 plus you'll have 3 gigabytes of RAM with the large display
and the display is an LCD display it's a 4.7 inch display 750 by 13 34 pixels
with 326 pixels per inch so it's basically the same pixel density as
today's iPhone XR and iPhone 11 with LCD displays it is not an HDR display
but it looks fantastic and also if you have a 7 plus it's a 1080p display with
5.5 inches and 401 pixels per inch now one of the nice things about the iPhone
7 is it still has 3d touch so it's a pressure-sensitive layer under the
display you can push and hold or press a little bit harder into the screen and
you get that tons of touch responsiveness that's faster than
today's just haptic feedback with touch and hold so that's something that's an
advantage of this display over what we have today
now with the iPhone 7 there is an improvement over the battery life of the
previous generation 6s or 6 and that means we have a 1960 milliamp hour
battery or with the 7 plus we have a 29 hundred million power battery now along
with the a10 fusion processor we get better battery life so if we take a look
at this particular 7 we'll go down to battery the battery health on this phone
this phone has never been changed as far as the overall battery itself the
physical battery has not been changed inside this has 87 percent battery
health left so I normally say after two years Apple
says 80% is normal this is holding up almost 4 years later at 80s
7% and it's charged every night all night long and optimized battery
charging will extend that life as well but if you're down to 80 percent or your
phone is saying it's not reaching its peak performance capability you'll want
to replace the battery and to replace the battery and these at Apple is only
$49 so if you did buy the phone for around 200 with a bad battery replace it
from Apple in the back the maximum battery health capacity will go right
back up to a hundred percent and with a hundred percent you should see about
four hours of screen on time depending on your use this particular phone is not
in major use but the best time here you'll see using about 50% of the
battery was one hour and thirty nine minutes of screen on time so expect to
get three to four hours with the seven maybe four to six hours depending on how
you're using it with these seven plus so depending on what you're doing is going
to give you different battery life now as far as the cameras we still have 12
megapixel cameras just like we have in today's phones they're just not as good
as today's cameras but they're not bad we have a 12 megapixel camera with an F
1.8 aperture it's about a 28 millimeter lens on here and it will record in 4k 30
so it's still very good very capable just not as good as what we have today
the forward facing camera is pretty good it's as good as anything we have up to
about the iPhone XR but you don't get an emoji or Mom og but we have a 7
megapixel camera in the front and it will do 1080p video so it's still pretty
good it's just not as good as what we have in
the latest iPhones that can do 4k but it holds up well it works well for FaceTime
calls and if you just want to mess around with the camera it works great
for that now as far as the speakers on the phone they're nice and loud they
work well and in general it's a good experience with the stereo it's not as
good as the latest phones but it's fine for most people when you're watching
video maybe you're watching something on here playing a game the speakers will be
nice and loud and you'll have no issues whatsoever again they're not going to be
as good as the latest phones but in general they're decent now the overall
speed of the phone is quite good even though it's a little bit older doing
things that you're used to doing such as messaging or music or maybe going to the
App Store scrolling through will work just fine
multitasking is good with RAM management even though we have two gigabytes of RAM
we can go back and forth between apps go into the camera it may take a second to
load but going back and forth to apps you wouldn't see a whole lot of
reloading even going back and forth to YouTube or something like that so
overall it's quite good and then if we go into say an app like Minecraft which
was already loaded it'll take a second to resume and even on the latest phones
it will still resume so if we resume the game you'll see we're in it nice and
fast so no issues here we can zip through it without any problem and just
play the game as we might want to and in general it's a very usable phone the
only thing that you really have is a down side compared to the newest phones
if you don't have face ID if you see that as an advantage you don't have an
edge to edge display and you don't have the incredible battery life of the
latest phones otherwise everything else is great and I would still recommend you
pick one of these up if you're looking for a phone that's about two hundred and
fifty dollars and that you can get used or maybe a refurbished from someplace it
will work fine and we'll get iOS 14 although I'm not sure that will get iOS
15 so we should see iOS 14 maybe iOS 15 but at least one to two years of support
still from Apple I wouldn't expect them to pull the plug
on this phone for quite some time so in general it's a really good phone and I
definitely can recommend it for most people so if you're still thinking about
should I upgrade I have an iPhone 5 5 s and you want to go to something newer it
will definitely feel faster if you're going from say an iPhone 5 like this to
an iPhone 7 or 7 plus you'll have no issues you'll see a speed increase a
battery life increase better cameras and you'll have just a better overall
experience but if you want the latest and greatest of course you can go to the
newest phone but there is one major advantage to this phone over even the
latest phones such as the iPhone 11 Pro Max and that advantage is this has a
Qualcomm modem in it so what that means is you will have better reception when
making phone calls you'll have better access to Wi-Fi and switching between
Wi-Fi and LTE because the newest phones have have
Intel modems in them that just don't seem to do as well while you might get a
little bit faster speed with the newer phones Qualcomm modems just seem to act
better overall and you'll have very good signal on the newest phones so I would
expect to have better signal here and if you're using it more for phones and
communication this is actually going to be a better option in most cases at
least in my experience and from what many of you have said as well so that's
it for the iPhone 7 let me know what you think about it in the comments below do
you still have one maybe you're considering upgrading to one or maybe
someone's giving you one to try out let me know your thoughts about it in the
comments below if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course I'll
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thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time