10 Major New Features Apple Announced Today At The iPhone 7 Event

Apple has just announced the latest iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus with 10 new major features announced besides iOS 10 and the latest Apple Watch Series 2 releases. So what are the new features you need to know? (It’s more than 10 really)

New Earpods

• New design:Available in Jet black, Matte black, Silver, Rose gold and Gold
• Redesigned solid state home button with Taptic feedback
• Water and dust resistant with iP67 rating
• New 12mp camera, f/1.8 aperture and OIS (in both size phones), new image processing, Raw image capture. On the front, you get a 7mp front-facing camera.  The new iPhone 7 Plus has a second 12mp camera( 1 camera is a wide angle 28mm lens and the second is a telephoto 56mm lens) You can actively switch between them to zoom.
• New 25% brighter display with wider color gamut.
• Stereo speakers, one on the bottom, one at the top, offering twice the volume as before.
• Lightning EarPods.
• Apple Airpods. which are basically wireless earbuds. Apple will include a headphone jack to lightning adapter in every iPhone 7 box.  The new Airpods have external mics, wireless charging case, and touch sensitivity on the outside for media controls.  Airpods will cost $159
• Apple Pay now offers more widely international compatibility.
• New A10 Fusion chip which is 64-bit quad-core chip. It’s 40% faster than A9. Two of the cores are low power, to extend battery life.
• Cost: Starts from $649, same as last year and will be available in 32GB, 128GB and 256GB . The  7 Plus is the same on pricing and Jet Black on both is specially only available in 128gb and 256gb.
• UK pricing: – iPhone 7 (32GB | £599), (128GB | £699), (256GB | £799). – iPhone 7 Plus (32GB | £719) (128GB | £819), (256GB | £919).