Poll: ** The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Thread **

Which colour iPhone 7 or 7 Plus are you going for?

  • Jet Black (gloss)

    Votes: 84 12.9%

  • Black

    Votes: 207 31.8%

  • Silver

    Votes: 30 4.6%

  • Gold

    Votes: 11 1.7%

  • Rose Gold

    Votes: 7 1.1%

  • I wanted one, but the lack of headphone jack is a deal breaker

    Votes: 76 11.7%

  • I'm not buying one

    Votes: 236 36.3%
  • Total voters
    651
I just recorded and then played back a 4k video on my 7+ and can definitely hear a background whine. The video sounds like it was recorded on one of those old video cameras from the 90's!

I'm returning my phone for a refund but I don't know what I'll be doing next. My android side is pulling at me again and I may end up buying a new Pixel phone.
 
You guys need to play your clips on a different device to see if the hissing is caught when recording, it might just be your device hissing and the mic doesn't pick it up.
 
Well I managed to reserve a 256GB matte black 7+ in Gateshead on Friday and picked it up straight away. I've never used an iPhone before, but moving from a pretty battered Nexus 6, it's amazing. Apple Pay is really convenient, and seems to work much quicker than using a bank card, never mind having to fish one out of my wallet. The apps all seem better quality than their Android equivalents and the battery life is amazing. I haven't charged the phone since Sunday morning. I've still got 25% battery left and I had a full day's use out of it yesterday including plenty of Spotify and a couple of hours of videos on Youtube. I've never owned an Android phone that wasn't completely dead within 24 hours if used heavily. The camera is excellent too, but more importantly for me the phone is ready to take a photo much quicker than my old Nexus which took an age. Touch ID is crazy too, it works instantly. No lag whatsoever which I was shocked by.

Not heard the coil whine. I'm not going to go looking for it either as presumably once you've heard it you can't unhear it and I don't want to torture myself.
 
Murf said:
Well I managed to reserve a 256GB matte black 7+ in Gateshead on Friday and picked it up straight away. I've never used an iPhone before, but moving from a pretty battered Nexus 6, it's amazing. Apple Pay is really convenient, and seems to work much quicker than using a bank card, never mind having to fish one out of my wallet. The apps all seem better quality than their Android equivalents and the battery life is amazing. I haven't charged the phone since Sunday morning. I've still got 25% battery left and I had a full day's use out of it yesterday including plenty of Spotify and a couple of hours of videos on Youtube. I've never owned an Android phone that wasn't completely dead within 24 hours if used heavily. The camera is excellent too, but more importantly for me the phone is ready to take a photo much quicker than my old Nexus which took an age. Touch ID is crazy too, it works instantly. No lag whatsoever which I was shocked by.

Not heard the coil whine. I'm not going to go looking for it either as presumably once you've heard it you can't unhear it and I don't want to torture myself.
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Had you not heard of Android Pay which works in exactly the same way as Apple Pay, or perhaps the 2 day battery life on a Xperia phone or the superior battery life of the S7 Edge?

As an ex-iPhone user I do find some mirth in these types of post. Get a decent Android phone (there are many) and they are just as competent as any iPhone.

One of the many things Apple owners like to say about iOS versus Android is that you get iOS updates for quite a few years. That may be true and yet given that many iPhone owners are upgrading after only a year, two at the most what relevance has that fact?

With Android you will get OS updates for around two years at least. In fact it doesn't matter to the same extent anymore with Android as a lot of the new features are actually included with the apps now so when there is an OS update it isn't that much of a change.

I do like balance in a debate.
 
Does anyone have a 128gb iPhone Plus in black and can check if they have the coil whine?

After a lot of reading in forums etc, it seems it is mainly restricted to 256gb.
 
Thanks for the advice guys, I used the "Apple upgrade program reserve service" online. Selected my local Apple store and booked a slot for 3:30pm yesterday.

I was seen on time and I explained I didn't want to the Applecare which was completely fine. Instead I was showing the 0% finance option and what the various payment models were. Whole process took like 15-20 minutes and then I had my new Iphone 7 128gb matte black :)

So coming from my ancient iphone 5 what a difference! I am very much still trying to get used to the 3D touch features.
 
Have a Jet Black 7 standard here.

I can hear coil whine if I put my ear right against the back of the phone, I can't hear it with my ear to the front of the phone so I don't think it'll be an issue for me.
 
R0Z4G said:
It's beautiful. Although I am having trouble with people hearing me they say it is muffling and keeps cutting off can't work out why its doing it but its coming annoying.. it done it with my other 7 too
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Yes, my friend said I sounded like predator yesterday. Annoying.

Billies Bangers said:
I doubt you would be able to compile the business reports and forecasts I do quite regularly at home on your phone. Not the best thing for spreadsheets, pie charts, surface charts etc.

I also have a full home network to run, lots of different tech, so again phone not much use.
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Well of course I wouldn't be able to do that but that's why I have a desktop at home that I can do things like that. The phone has isn't designed to replace the computer at home but when away from home my phone is priceless.
 
I have the Matte Plus 128GB and I also had the JB in the same config. Both have the whine when placed to my ear and both have the white noise on video recording/playback.

I don't have clicking, popping or call issues.

I think it's a bit of both, the mic is over sensitive and it's picking up the processing whine. Apple should be able to but a SW filter on and or reduce mic sensitivity.
 
JunglistE said:
Well of course I wouldn't be able to do that but that's why I have a desktop at home that I can do things like that. The phone has isn't designed to replace the computer at home but when away from home my phone is priceless.
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Which of course is fine. Your original post implied that you had replaced normal computer use i.e. using a laptop by using a phone instead. There was no mention of you having a desktop, therefore my response was quite understandable in the circumstances.
 
Billies Bangers said:
Which of course is fine. Your original post implied that you had replaced normal computer use i.e. using a laptop by using a phone instead. There was no mention of you having a desktop, therefore my response was quite understandable in the circumstances.
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My OP made no such claim. I said it has replaced my need for a Laptop - which it has.

There's my PC in my signature. It was quite obvious I wasn't speaking about replacing my actual computer use with a phone.

Oh well :rolleyes:
 
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