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Ganoncrotch on 22 September 2016
t3mporary_126 said:
How is the battery life of iPhone 7 when using the wireless headphones? If I heard correctly, it uses bluetooth connection? Doesn't that make your phone battery life decrease faster every time you use it?

BlueTooth communications use very little power to transmit / receive information so it would not impact the phone very much at all having these headphones connected, the Headphones themselves though I think have somewhere in the region of 5 hours use as new, so after some time if this time was to go down a bit I mean... there is going to be far more cases of the headphones running out of power before the phones do.



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think-man on 22 September 2016

Id buy it if i considered it value for money. But i personally think apple don't innovative anymore so until they do its a no from me.



 

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 22 September 2016
Johnw1104 said:
Captain_Yuri said:

I really wish there was a better way to have a discussion in vgc. 

I'll be brief this time around lol

Again, I feel we've both pointed out plenty of areas in which one is superior to the other but Samsung's Galaxy 7 is not superior in "most ways" (just review our list, there was a lot more than merely speed and the OS/Support that favored the iPhone 7). It really boils down to which features you prefer.

As for the camera, I prefer the iPhone 7's precisely because the two things that mean the most to me are portraits and some zoom capabilities which it happens to be very good at. When compared with slightly better contrast/sharper colors and much better low-lighting photos, I'd have to choose the former. Yet again, a matter of preference.

Personally, I don't think an audio jack would qualify this as a "home run". In fact, as much as I like this phone there's two major deficincies that I'm irritated they did nothing about and the Samsung Galaxy 7 does very well: The screen's resolution, which still looks great to me, really should be much improved by now, and while they improved night photos with the camera it still remains the iPhone's biggest weakness, despite endless complaints for a decade running now.

If they'd fixed those I'd be over the moon about the phone, and they're bizarre oversights in my opinion that really wouldn't have cost too much to fix... resolution like  the Galaxy 7's is not nearly as expensive to provide as it used to be, and they need to get on the ball with that one. I honestly wonder if they left those two out simply so they could turn around and offer said obvious upgrades for their mid-gen model in a year or so (I wouldn't put it past Apple).

Otherwise, I'm not arguing that the Samsung would be the better choice for VR given they make their own headset and have superior resolution and a slightly brighter screen. I'm actually curious if VR even factors into people's decisions, as at the very least it probably will in the coming years.

For me, the speed, touch options, great speakers, OS & Support, new long-awaited camera features, switch to an aluminum casing, Apple Pay, iTunes,  web browsing and so forth of the iPhone 7 are preferable over the better screen, audio jack, micro-sd compatible, sharper contrast/colors and low lighting camera, wireless charger, better VR etc of the Galaxy 7. There's a couple features of the Galaxy 7 that I'd love the iPhone 7 to have, but overall I prefer Apple's product.

Well, can you tell me in which places iphone 7 is better apart from those? Cause to me, it is better in Horsepower and Speakers and software updates. But Samsung has better camera according to majority of the people (yet to see a professional person that disagrees honestly), it has wireless charging, better battery, better screen, dedicated headphone jack, microsd card, tied in waterproof and the list goes on.

I understand that it is your preference but thats not exactly an argument. Because by that logic, eveything is a preference and there is no reason for this thread. If in almost all tests, the Galaxy S7 produces better results though the camera, it wins. Now sure, your preference can be the zoom and etc and that is why you prefer the iphone 7 but for most people, the Galaxy S7 will be the better choice if they are deciding which camera is better overall and not in some specific category. Specially since the iphone 7's camera is more prone to mistakes.

The audio jack itself wouldn't qualify it as a home run but the entire package with the audio jack would.

Again, I am not arguing about what you like vs what you should like but I am arguing about what most people think about the phones. Cause no one can change a person's preference so arguing about preferences like that is pointless. I am not disagreeing that you prefer the iphone and its features but what I am saying is Galaxy S7 objectively has more things than iphone 7 does... Thus making it better in a day to day case due to it having more convinent things for the same price. Now if you prefer iphone 7 over S7, more power to you but there is no point in saying iphone is better for me because of this this and that. Cause I am not trying to tell you specifically that Galaxy S7 is better than the iphone for your personal preference but I am trying to tell you that from an objective standpoint, the S7 is better in a day to day basis for most people.



                  

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Soundwave on 22 September 2016

Agreed with the OP. Apple takes way too much hate.

iPhone 7 is the fastest smartphone in the world. It destroys the Samsung Note 7/Galaxy S7 chip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_PK_6F_Bhk

http://bgr.com/2016/09/13/iphone-7-vs-iphone-6s-vs-galaxy-note-7-antutu/

People just never want to give Apple credit for anything. An iPhone 7 also costs about the same as other comparable phones, yes there is a premium but it's not that huge either.

A lot of this stuff is overblown. Yes, you can't charge and listen to music at the same time ... but who the hell even does that? How often are you listening to music while tethered to a wall outlet.

The battery life is also very good, my fiance has the iPhone 6S and I have the Galaxy S7 Edge (pretty much the best non-Apple phone on the market) ... when we were on vacation we had to use one as a GPS for the rental car, and we ended up using her iPhone because in actual usage the battery life was far better. 

Again Apple takes way too much hate for making quite frankly phones that are better than 98-100% of what's on the market. 

In terms of a phone that has great performance, very good battery life, best in class camera, and a no-nonsense superfast OS with no bloat, iPhone is a great choice. Even the display while not matching in pixels, still looks fantastic with the wider color gamut and increased brightness. IMO lower resolution but better battery life is a better trade off, phones above 1080p on a little screen is just overkill. 



Mbolibombo on 23 September 2016

Apple makes good phones. No doubt, but it's like paying 120$ for a great game. Good product - price is waaay wrong.

Then there's some of those design choices I dont like, but it's still a good phone.



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Soundwave on 23 September 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
I see it like TVs. Some brands are just priced so much higher than others. If there`s two TVs that are the same price but one is significantly more expensive, then why would I want that one?

It`s the same for phones, except when it comes to Apple the price difference between a regular phone and an Apple phone is much larger than the one for TVs.

Galaxy S7 Edge (32GB) is $660 give or take, the Apple 7 Plus (32GB) is $760. 

It's not that huge of a difference, especially considering almsot no one buys their phone off-contract. 



Soundwave on 23 September 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
Soundwave said:

Galaxy S7 Edge (32GB) is $660 give or take, the Apple 7 Plus (32GB) is $760. 

It's not that huge of a difference, especially considering almsot no one buys their phone off-contract. 

I do, and for about $100 as well. That`s an insanely large difference to me...

It's not for everyone, but for a device that most people use every day for 2+ years, that works out to roughly 13 pennies extra a day.

For people who prefer the iOS interface, and I can understand why some people would (some people just do not want to deal with customization or bloat ware), also the iPhone 7 destroys the Galaxy S7 in speed tests (better processor + OS), has better battery life, and a better camera. Also I tend the find the newer iPhones are actually more durable, the Galaxy line will crack on the back as well as the front because it has a glass back. 



konnichiwa on 23 September 2016

You should watch early Iphone conferences with steve jobs. Those early Iphones were groundbreaking and he spoke about one issue people have with the phone...The price because 299 is simply to much so they lowered the price to 199...

This Iphone 7 is not really an improvement in fact it copies stuff that other companies did and is so expensive because they want to make money and that is fine from a business perspective but for consumers it is horrible.






HelloTM on 07 November 2016

oh no