No.They completely contradict what other reviewers said.That part about battery life is hilarious.One of his charts shows the iPhone 7 having better battery life than the iPhone 6s plus and beating the nOTE 7.Now I agree that the iPhone 7 Plus ias at the absolute top in battery life but the iPhone 7?Coming close to the 7 Plus?Hahahaha
Lets start with the Display
Anandtech:
The improved calibration makes it the most accurate smartphone display on the market.Whether or not it's the best mobile display is debatable, as Samsung provides serious competition with their AMOLED displays which benefit from perfect blacks.
However, I think AMOLED's color shifting off angle puts it at a disadvantage, and Samsung is in the unfortunate situation of having to deal with Android not having any form of color management, which means that the wide color modes that their AMOLED displays have available are not truly useful. Apple's control over the hardware and software stack allows them to provide tools for creating wide color content without compromising the visual integrity of existing sRGB content, and that makes the display decidedly more future-proof.
Displaymate : "The Basic screen mode provides a very accurate Color and White Point calibration for the Standard sRGB / Rec.709 Color Gamut that is used to produce most current consumer content for digital cameras, TVs, the internet, and computers, including photos, videos, and movies. The measured Color Gamut of the Basic screen mode is a very accurate 104 percent of the Standard sRGB / Rec.709 Color Gamut, and the measured Absolute Color Accuracy is a very accurate 2.9 JNCD, which is very likely considerably better than your living room HD TV and also your laptop and computer monitor.
Use the Basic screen mode for the best color and image accuracy for most current consumer content
The Galaxy Note7 matches or breaks new Smartphone display performance records for:
· Widest Color Gamuts for Current Content (DCI-P3 for Digital Cinema and Adobe RGB for Digital Photos)
· Highest Peak Brightness (1,048 nits)
· Highest Contrast Rating in Ambient Light (228)
· Highest Screen Resolution (2560x1440)
· Highest (infinite) Contrast Ratio
· Lowest Screen Reflectance (4.6 percent)
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Smallest Brightness Variation with Viewing Angle (21 percent)
Now let's go for the camera
Anandtech :
Overall, the iPhone 7 camera is impressive and I would argue is holistically a better camera for still photos than the Galaxy S7 on the basis of more accurate color rendition, cleaner noise reduction, and lack of aggressive sharpening.The Galaxy S7 manages to deliver similar levels of detail to the iPhone 7, but it definitely oversaturates the red brick colors which might be appealing but really isn't accurate when you look at the RAW reference
"Other than this, the LG G5 and Galaxy S7 both have extremely oversaturated color rendition which just doesn't represent reality"
Overall, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus remain the best phones on the market for video capture
Dxomark:
Achieving a DxOMark Mobile Score of 88 points the new Samsung Galaxy S7 edge ranks in 1st place on the current DxOMark Mobile database. Featuring a 12Mp rear facing camera and 2160p@30fps video module, Samsung’s latest flagship Smartphone is a great proposition for mobile photography enthusiasts. The 26mm f/1.7 lens delivers very accurate and repeatable exposures, which helped the S7 edges achieve an outstanding Exposure & Contrast score of 90 during our tests. In fact, even in tricky high contrast scenes, it captures great exposures thanks to its built-in auto HDR feature, making it a great choice for landscape or backlit photography. The modest 12Mp resolution also ensures a good compromise between noise and detail on the S7 edge, which secures excellent DxOMark Mobile scores of 91 for Texture and 89 for Noise.
Also scoring 88 points in the Photo sub-category, the new Samsung S7 edge ranks in joint first place for still photos alongside the S6 Edge and Sony Z5. The main strengths of Samsung’s S7 edge photos are its excellent and repeatable exposures in all conditions, fast and accurate autofocus, and a very good compromise between noise and detail.
Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone also offers notable improvements to its video performance, achieving a Video sub-score of 88 points, compared to 84 points for the S6 edge. Again, videos capture nice exposures, with pleasant color and excellent video autofocus and stabilization performance, too.
For the iPhone 7, "
Remarkable stabilization in video mode, together with fast and smooth autofocus, nice details and vivid color in bright light, produced a high Video sub-score of 85 points"
Now for the battery life
----Anandtech: Looking at our WiFi web browsing test, it’s
genuinely ridiculous how well the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus perform in this test. The iPhone 7 Plus is definitely down on battery life compared to the Galaxy S7 Edge, but it’s within 5% despite using a battery that’s almost 20% smaller.
The iPhone 7 is actually comparable in battery life to the iPhone 7 Plus, and is significantly above the Galaxy S7 with Exynos 8890
-----The Guardian:
Battery life, however, is poor. Using it as my primary device with three hours of app usage and browsing, hundreds of emails and push notifications, a couple of photos, five hours of music over Bluetooth headphones and the odd game of Jetpack Joyride during my one hour and 20 minute train commute to and from work, it lasted an average of just over 14 hours between charges, meaning it didn’t survive past 9.30pm.
Rather than having better battery life in my testing, the iPhone 7 has
worse battery life than the iPhone 6S when new. No single app caused significant battery drain,
I do not have the Facebook app installed and Low Power Mode made no appreciable difference in my testing when enabled at 20%.
To get through 24 hours, you’ll be forced to have a power adapter close by, shove it in a battery pack or charge at your desk, which means you won’t be able listen to music at the same time via cabled headphones – more on that later.
To make matters worse, the iPhone 7 has the worst of all worlds: short battery life and tediously slow charging. Even using the 12W charger that came with the iPad Pro it took well over two hours to fully charge the iPhone 7.
------Which? published the results of a test into the iPhone 7's call time and internet usage time, and it found that the phone performed worse than the Samsung Galaxy S7, the LG G5, and the HTC 10.
