Apple has hit its marks with the iPhone 7, delivering upgrades in the right areas and to a decent level at times - it knows the level it needs to hit to make the iPhone seem new, and it’s done just enough to achieve that.
The water resistance is mostly there to improve your confidence in the robustness of the phone, and you’ll need to be ready to listen to your music on the new phone in a slightly different way.It’ll also be good for those people who like to watch films without headphones, as the dual speakers really help sell the handset in that respect(although you’ll need to be careful not to cover the speakers).
After using the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus for about a week, it’s clear to me that Apple has forceful, but considered opinions about how the next generation of phones should fit into our lives. But it’s also clear that the iPhone 7 is a transitional step to that vision of the future, not a complete expression of it. The question for would-be upgraders is simple: is all of the latent promise in this phone worth the inconvenience of that transition?