iPhone 7 Plus: Review teardown reveals bigger Apple battery and redesigned haptics
THE iPhone 7 Plus review is in progress in which the new device is given the teardown treatment, revealing more on the battery and redesigned haptics.
The iPhone 7 Plus has been pulled apart and its secrets bared to the world, answering whether the smartphone actually does include space for a headphone jack and if that extra hour of battery life can be accounted for.
It’s all thanks to the people at iFixit, who in the past have taken apart the iPhone 6, among other models.
One of the most exciting upgrades Apple announced on-stage in San Francisco is only included with the 5.5inch iPhone 7 Plus – the fancy new dual-lens camera.
And it has been revealed that the device's dual snapper actually comes as a single module which resides in an slightly larger exterior nook, likely to help avoid water damage and dust problems.
According to the iFixit team, both cameras now include a new image sensor that is claimed to be 60% faster and 30% more energy efficient than previous iPhones.
More news surrounding other parts of the iPhone 7 Plus include the 3.82 V and 2900 mAh rated battery, “for a total of 11.1 Wh, a slight upgrade over the 10.45 Wh (3.8 V, 2750 mAh) of the 6s Plus, and on par with the 11.1 Wh, 2915 mAh cell found in the 6 Plus.”
The new taptic engine was also revealed to have been expanded, taking up the room where the old headphone jack would have been situated.
“This sleek engine uses haptic feedback to simulate the push of a button, without having a real button,” the iFixit review explains.
“Anyone familiar with the touchpad in the Retina MacBook 2015 has already experienced haptics from the Taptic Engine.”
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Other recently revealed stats have confirmed that the new Apple handsets score better on both single and multi-core performance than any MacBook Air ever shipped.
In fact, iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus perform similarly to the 2013 MacBook Pro, which has a single-core score of 2885 and multi-core of 5619.
The news comes as Apple revealed it run out of the iPhone 7 Plus and the new Jet Black models.
iPhone 7 will become available in UK retail stores tomorrow, but the majority of models will not be available as the initial stock has already sold-out online, Apple confirmed.
