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iPhone 7 Launch - Plans?

DinoF
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Thought it would be fun to create a launch thread,for your iPhone 7 plans!!!

 

My iPhone 6, 2 year contract with O2, naturally comes to an end this September - just in time for the iPhone 7 launch.  Lets hope the 7 doesn't come with yet another 2 year contract?!!!!

 

So what are your plans - where will you be getting yours?!!

 

I'm not sure I'll be queuing up for the 7 this time around - far easier to order online!  I remember queuing up for the iPhone 4!! I posted my story on the old O2 forums (probably in some deep dark basement cellar by now!) but essentially, I queued up at the Apple Store in Bromley, where they were handing out cakes, coffees and all sort of stuff to people waiting!   Weirdly though, I'd struck up a friendship with some random poster on the forums, and we arranged to meet up and go together - good job he didn't turn out to be an axe murderer or something!!!!

 

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My favourite iPhone of all time is the 5s Gold, I upgraded to the iPhone 6 which is a good phone, but I defintley prefer the 5s!!! the 7 better be a beast and worth the early upgrade.

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Welcome @Anonymous!

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From a processor/processing power point of view. The iPhone 7 is going to blitz every other smartphone available by a very large amount.

 

Here's a speed comparison that Phone Buff done between the iPhone 6s (a now nearly year old phone) and the brand new Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

 

I was surprised by how much it was beaten. If the test were done with the iPhone 7, then the difference would have been greater, has no doubt it will have the A10 processor which will be more powerful than the current A9 processor.

 

Some people might say, not every one is bothered about processor power, but the processor effects basically everything you do on your phone, from the speed of loading apps, to processing video to name a couple.

 

 

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DinoF
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....all I'm gonna say is this - judging by the leaks of the iPhone 7, which we keep seeing, its gonna be pretty much, exactly the same shape as the current iPhone 6 - which is a little disappointing.....!!!

 

Jumps from the 3G to the 4, then the 4 to the 5, and then the 5 to the 6, were ALL major body changes however, the iPhone 7, just looks like a revamped iPhone 6 with the same body?!

 

My "upgrade" (my iPhone 6 2 year contract naturally expires next month - I can even upgrade today, for a £25 fee!) may actually be a downgrade to an iPhone 5s!!!!

Crazy

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@Anonymous wrote:

 

 

Here's a speed comparison that Phone Buff done between the iPhone 6s (a now nearly year old phone) and the brand new Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

 

I was surprised by how much it was beaten. If the test were done with the iPhone 7, then the difference would have been greater, has no doubt it will have the A10 processor which will be more powerful than the current A9 processor.

 


With so few comparable services running, id expect it to be beaten by an iPhone.

But just for the record...

That is the 6s correct?

OK good, your little bit at the end is voided by the fact the processing power of one of these phones pushed quad HD at 60fps.

The other is stuck in 2012 at 750p

That's a quarter the pixels.

So, unless that iPhone is exactly 4x faster than the note, you just pointed out the note is more powerful.

 

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http://www.phonearena.com/phones/benchmarks

 

Has test result from a lot of devices let's look up scores there

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@adamtemp64 wrote:

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/benchmarks

 

Has test result from a lot of devices let's look up scores there


I have had a quick look at some of those comparisons. Not sure how anyone could produce adequate results for the Note 7 when it hasn't been released yet?

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@Cleoriff loads of them will have already gone to the press etc for review and maybe some fo the becnhmarking companies

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Yes they are always released to trusted reviewers so that they can publish, usually favourable, results. Its the independent reviewers that I look at after the phone has been launched.
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I understand. The Note 4 is still looking good though....

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