The camera will be better for sure.
If consumers are lucky, the 6SE will be comparable to the Samsung Galaxy 7. However, I expect Samsung and Android devices in general to always be at least a few steps ahead of Apple when it comes to their camera. Perhaps 2017 will be different.
Having owned the S7 precisely because I thought the camera would be better, I have to disagree with you. The 6s camera is definitely better. It is slower. It has a slower lens. It doesn't have optical image stabilization. It doesn't have pro mode built in. No question the S7 comes with better hardware. In fact, it's not even that close.
So then how could I come to this conclusion? Because it turns out that the primary reason people (me) are satisifed in the LONG run with the camera are the final images that it outputs. And the S7 outputs oversharpened, plastic-looking images that are often overexposed. Colors are also not as natural as the iPHone's. In low light there is a yellow cast. YES, you can output raw and then run a filter in some other app or on your phone and tweak how you like. You can adjust the white balance on every low light photo.
In isolation and viewed on the AMOLED screen, you may not see it quite as much. But the flaws are there.
But the iPhone outputs perfectly exposed, right-on color in every situation such that pro mode isn't really needed except for sports (you need a dedicated camera anyway, no cell phone is going to do it right in anything but full sunlight).
I did not know it, but looking at family member's iphone over these last few months....well their pics were always better than mine from the S7.
Please note that for the S6, wow, that was really nice and Samsung did not kill the postprocessing. But the latest and greatest, S7, long-term, you won't be happy with it.
For this reason, I just choose to trust that Apple has 800 people working on the iPhone and it does show. You take it for granted, but there is some serious work that went into making it "just work". No idea why they don't put in better components, I agree. But their cameras have not taken a backseat to any smartphone's to me. Same goes for video. S7 video has all the pixels, all the modes, but the 6s plus' video stabilization looked much better to me. Go figure.
But the S7 can be had for almost half the price. So is it worth it? For me, it's not if you want to photograph semi-precious moments of pets, family, etc. I'd rather have photos that have the color right and the exposure nailed.
[doublepost=1472313286][/doublepost]Looking at the SE, it's got the battery life of an iPhone plus. Some say even better. With the 10% larger iPhone 7 battery, the same crappy screen, and a 20% more efficient A10 processor, I'm hopeful that the iPhone 7 battery life will equal the SE and the 6s plus. We all know the 6s and 6s plus regressed on already mediocre battery life a little bit.
The biggest reason to get the iPhone 7 will be the battery life. It should be able to last an entire day of heavy use. I do not think that the camera will be much better. The rest will be about the same. The A9 is already so fast that I think we're bumping up on human perception to be tell the difference in speed.
If the 7 has only the same battery life as the 6s, absolutely no way should anyone buy the 7. There'd really be no reason to other than perhaps a mildly better camera.
