And the camera? Are there really two of them?
Sort of. The iPhone 7 Plus is getting the dual-lens treatment, while the iPhone 7 has been relegated to the one-camera corner. The new dual-camera feature on the iPhone 7 Plus features two cameras side-by-side that shoot as one for high-resolution optical zoom. One camera is a ƒ/1.8 aperture wide-angle lens, while the other is a built-in ƒ/2.8 aperture 2x zoom telephoto lens. A new button will be available on the iPhone 7 Plus that will allow you to tap the screen to quickly zoom in with the telephoto lens. Additional internal software on the iPhone 7 Plus will make it possible to zoom up to 10x.
Apple has also upgraded the iSight camera in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus with better optical image stabilization that is three times better than iPhone 6s. It has a wider sensor for capturing more light, and the 12-megapixel lens is 60% faster and 30% more efficient. The True Tone Quad-LED flash provides 50% more light and a new “flicker sensor” identifies flickering light. The image signal processor is also faster.
The FaceTime camera has been updated to 7 megapixels and video is 1080p HD, with wide color capture and image stabilization.
There is a new option in the Camera on the iPhone 7 Plus called “Portrait” that creates a shallow depth-of-field.
The screen is 25% brighter with a wide color gamut and Cinema standard, so you can see colors pop in a way that wasn’t available before.