Apple iPhone 7 vs Apple iPhone X

The iPhone 7 is clearly recognizable as an Apple device. The round home button and the symmetrical black bezels at the top and bottom of the screen are key features of Apple. Beautiful, but as a result, the screen is only 4.7 inches. Personally, I'd rather have a larger screen. The quality of the LCD screen is good, but an OLED screen is more beautiful. On an OLED screen, pixels light up individually and they can be turned off separately, so black is really black, for example.

After 10 years, Apple completely deviates from the smartphone design that they've used for years. The display now covers the entire front side of the device. Even the selfie camera is surrounded by the screen. I think that's a big improvement. Apple has also chosen OLED instead of for LCD for the first time. The color reproduction of this technique is more beautiful, and it contributes to the energy-efficiency of iPhone X. At the back of the device, you can find a vertical dual camera.

On its predecessors, the home button was a mechanical button, but on the iPhone 7 that's no longer the case. Partly because of that, the smartphone is now waterproof. Apple has integrated a vibration function, so it feels like you're pressing a button, which I think is nice. It feels as though you pressed a button. The home button of the iPhone 7 has an integrated fingerprint scanner, which you can use to unlock the phone and protect your data.

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To make room for the screen, the home button has disappeared, including fingerprint scanner. That's why Apple introduced Face ID, which works differently than other types of facial recognition. The camera analyzes thousands of points on your face to create a 3D image, so the system can't be fooled by a photo. This apparently makes Face ID safer. It sounds promising, so I'm curious how this works. Another area affected by the missing home button is the phone's navigation. You can now open the multitask menu by swiping the screen, and you can activate Siri via a button on the side.

The Apple iPhone 7 has a 12-megapixel camera with optical image stabilization. This allows me to take sharp photos and record stable videos. The image stabilization compensates for movements that I make while taking photos and recording videos, so my images are sharp despite those movements. The camera has a large shutter, so I can also take clear pictures in low light.

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The biggest difference between the camera of the iPhone 7 and iPhone X is that the iPhone X has an extra one. This allows you to zoom in with optical zoom, without loss of quality, and take photos in portrait mode. This feature illuminates the subject of your photo, because the background is less sharp. The Apple iPhone 7 Plus also has this option, but the iPhone X is the first iPhone that also has portrait mode on the selfie camera. I can use the selfie camera to make fun animoji recordings. The famous Apple emojis can now talk, thanks to the facial recognition.

The metal casing of the iPhone 7 is sturdy. I wouldn't throw my phone around, but metal can take a beating. In addition, it feels nice when I hold the device. It's slightly heavier than a plastic casing, but the smartphone feels sturdier and of better quality. Unfortunately, almost all metal phones aren' Qi compatible, including the iPhone 7. That means I can't charge it wirelessly. It would've been nice if I could, but charging my phone via a cable works fine.

Instead of a metal casing, the Apple iPhone X has a glass casing. In my opinion, this material gives the smartphone a more beautiful, glossy appearance than the metal. The glass does make me more afraid that my phone will break. An advantage of the glass is that it allows you to charge your phone wirelessly. Apple has made iPhone X Qi-compatible, so I can charge the device wirelessly and via a cable.