“In recent years Apple has made one thing very clear: iPhone ‘Plus’ models are top dog,” Gordon Kelly writes for Forbes. “They have better cameras, far superior battery life and better screens. And now with the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus that gap looks set to get even bigger.”
“The iPhone 7 Plus is getting a much bigger camera upgrade than the iPhone 7 this year. Whereas the iPhone 7 will get a small upgrade, the iPhone 7 Plus will be moving to the much vaunted dual camera technology,” Kelly writes. “Dual modules can be used in different ways – either to mimic optical zoom or create wide angle lenses – so it remains to be seen how Apple will implement it for the iPhone 7 Plus. That said, it could prove the killer difference when millions come to upgrade.”
“Apple’s Smart Connector… will be an iPhone 7 Plus-only feature,” Kelly writes. “The iPhone 7 Plus is also expected to get 50% per more RAM which bumps it up to 3GB, a bigger boost in battery performance and potentially we may even see the arrival of a third 5.5-inch model – the iPhone 7 Pro (reports on it remain mixed).”
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MacDailyNews Take: Imagine if Apple’s flagship iPhone is also the only one to offer 256GB storage? The differentiation will be extreme and lead to many upsales. Now imagine the new Plus, or an “iPhone Pro,” that’s the only one to get an OLED display (maybe even one that’s edge-to-edge 5.7-inch in the same case size as Plus). Upsales, upsales, upsales! (And severe supply-demand imbalance for protracted periods for that model.)
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