Apple iPhone 7 Plus 128GB

Overview

The Apple iPhone 7 Plus 128 GB features a 5.50-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels. Under the hood, the smartphone is powered by a quad-core Apple A10 Fusion processor with 3 GB of RAM. It runs on iOS 10 and is powered by a 2900mAh non-removable battery. The phone has a 12 MP rear camera and a 7 MP camera on the front for selfies. It is a single sim smartphone and supports a Nano-SIM card. The iPhone 7 Plus supports Apple Pay (Visa, MasterCard, AMEX certified).

Apple iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus were launched in September 2016. The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus both are "splash, water, and dust resistant", and are rated to survive for up to 30 minutes when submerged up to 1m deep. However, the warranty doesn’t cover water damage on the phone.

Design

The Apple iPhone 7 Plus 128 GB has dimensions of 158.20 x 77.90 x 7.30mm and weighs 188.00 grams. It is available in Black, Gold, Jet Black, Rose Gold, and Silver colours. It has a 5.50-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels. The phone has a pixel density of 401 pixels per inch (ppi). The iPhone 7 Plus has a splash, water, and dust resistant body which is rated to survive for up to 30 minutes when submerged up to 1m deep. The phone has a 67.7% screen-to-body ratio.

Camera

As far as the cameras are concerned, the Apple iPhone 7 Plus 128 GB has a dual 12 MP rear camera setup. It sports a 7 MP camera on the front for clicking selfies. The iPhone 7 Plus has A wide-angle f/1.8 lens and a second f/2.8 telephoto lens that allows for 2x optical zoom.

The phone comes with Quad-LED True Tone flashes and a feature Portrait mode which lets you blur the background of a photo to get bokeh effect. It comes with features like Face detection and HDR.

Performance

The Apple iPhone 7 Plus 128 GB is powered by a quad-core Apple A10 Fusion processor paired with 3 GB of RAM. It runs iOS 10 which comes with Siri integration, Maps extensions, and CallKit extensions, with the latter enabling deep integrations like TrueCaller.

Apple’s iOS 10 brings a bunch of new features like iMessage apps, as well as enhanced use of 3D Touch.  It comes with a Universal Clipboard feature, a revamped Music app, and enhanced QuickType predictive reactions. The phone is upgradable to iOS 13.3

Battery and Storage

The phone is backed by a 2900mAh non-removable battery. The smartphone has a non-removable battery with up to 384 h (3G) standby time, up to 21 h (3G) talk time, and up to 60 h music time according to the company. The smartphone is available in a number of variants including 32 GB, 128 GB, and 256 GB internal storage. The device does not have an expandable phone memory.

Connectivity

Connectivity options including on the Apple iPhone 7 Plus are Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, GPS, Bluetooth v4.20, 3G, and 4G. Both the iPhone 7 models don’t have a 3.5mm jack. The iPhone 7 Plus supports VoLTE connectivity out of the box.

Configuration

The iPhone 7 Plus has 128 GB of internal storage. The phones don’t come with expandable phone memory. It is powered by Apple’s quad-core Apple A10 Fusion processor 2.34 GHz (2x Hurricane + 2x Zephyr) and runs iOS 10 upgradeable to iOS 13. The smartphone is also available in 32 GB and 256 GB memory configurations. It has a PowerVR Series7XT Plus (six-core graphics) GPU.

Platform

The Apple A10 Fusion processor is a 64-bit ARM-based system on a chip (SoC), which is designed by Apple Inc. and manufactured by TSMC. The chip was launched on the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. The A10 was the first Apple-designed quad-core SoC and comes with two high-performance cores and two energy-efficient cores. The Cupertino giant claims that it has 40% greater CPU performance and 50% greater graphics performance as compared to its predecessor, the Apple A9 chip.

Technology

The A10 is built on TSMC's 16 nm FinFET process and contains 3.3 billion transistors (including the GPU and caches). It has two Apple-designed 64-bit 2.34 GHz ARMv8-A cores called Hurricane. Apple promises "console-level gaming" in its A10 Chip. The new A10 Fusion is a 6-core graphics chip that the company claims are 50 percent faster than A9 found in the iPhone 6S, and three times faster than the A8 chip which is present in the Apple iPhone 6.

Multimedia

The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus come with stereo speakers, at the top and bottom of the display. Apple claims that the speakers deliver output that’s twice as loud as the ones in the previous-generation iPhone models. The left/ right channels swap around when the phone is rotated and the top speaker becomes the right channel when the phone is in the portrait mode. The smartphone comes with a loudspeaker with stereo speakers.

Sensors

Sensors included in the phone are an accelerometer, barometer, gyroscope, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, and compass/ magnetometer. The smartphone comes with a front-mounted Fingerprint sensor for added security. It supports Siri natural language commands and dictation.

The iPhone 7 Plus is available for Rs 37,900 for the 32 GB variant while the 128 GB variant is priced at Rs 39,999. The Apple iPhone 7 Plus 256 GB variant is available for Rs 52,999.