DESIGN
The iPhone 7 Plus does not come with a drastically new design. You can look at it more of adding finese to iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6s plus design. The similar design is now in its third generation. The first thing to notice that visible antenna lines have been nicely camouflaged. While it is still visible to a extent on the rose gold, silver and gold variants.
The edges are so thin 7.3mm and weigh around 188 grams and approx 4grams lighter than the iphone 6/6s.
SOFTWARE
Apple iPhone 7 Plus comes with the latest iOS 10 operating system. The one running on the review unit was 10.0.3 on which majority of the testing was done, before switching to the 10.1 beta to access the Portrait mode in the Camera app. The iOS 10 is refined and operationally quite smooth on most occasions. There were a few instances of apps not registering action on first tap.
PERFORMANCE
Call quality is top notch with audible earpiece speaker even in high traffic situation. The iPhone 7 Plus supports Cat 9 LTE, voice over, Wi-fi calling. I did not find any connectivity issues with a jio SIM card on it and was able to make succesful VoLTE calls.
In terms of raw members, the iPhone & plus comes out tops. In real life usage through, the phones runs lag free and things such as app switching, fingerprint scanning work fast. The phone does get warm when you are on a particular photography heavy day nut never crossing certain degree mark.