![]() ![]() The pros and cons of iOS and Android are discussed in more detail here: Ultimately, though, it’ll probably come down to what you’re used to. Android allows for more customisation, but iOS offers a tighter and more consistent user experience, and is broadly more secure (although with careful, sensible user habits you should be fine with either). Android has more apps, and more of those are free but the highest-profile apps tend to come to iOS first, and fewer of its apps are riddled with adverts. The choice of iOS or Android is a very personal one. (The 6s Plus is also available with 64GB – solid – or a pitiful 16GB.) iPhone buyers are stuck with what they buy in the first place, so think carefully about whether you need top whack: 128GB. microSD supportĪnd if storage is a priority for you, it’s worth noting that the Note 7 supports microSD, giving you the option to bolster your original allocation with removable storage. We talk about this a bit more when we talk cameras in the specs section.įans of Apple Pay will obviously have to plump for the iPhone, but the Note 7 is equipped with NFC (and MST) and should be compatible with a range of mobile payment standards. The Note 7 doesn’t have an equivalent feature, but there are third-party apps available that provide a similar function. ![]() The iPhone 6s Plus has a feature called Retina Flash, which lights up the screen when you take a selfie in low light as a substitute for a hardware flash (neither device has a flash on its front-facing camera both have hardware flashes on their rear-facing cameras). ![]() Always on in a fairly minimal sense, but the (neat) idea is that you can get notifications and important updates without waking up your phone. If we can return to the screen, Samsung wins a point back by including an ‘always on’ display. Samsung hasn’t announced any kind of similar feature on the Note 7. It’s gimmicky, it’s fun, it occasionally captures a lovely and/or unexpectedly candid video but (on your reviewer’s phone at any rate) spends most of its time turned off. Live Photos, the cute feature introduced with the iPhone 6s that (if activated) records three seconds of low-res video before and after each still photo you take. Once the (presumably 3D Touch-capable) iPhone 7 appears it may become more widely integrated. In part this is because only one generation of iPhone has the tech, so app developers are reluctant to use it for essential features and exclude other users. We like 3D Touch but at present it remains a nice gimmick rather than an essential interface element. Bookmark this page and come back when the Note 7 hits the shelves we’ll update the article with a definitive verdict once we’ve had some more hands-on time.ģD Touch tech – which makes the display responsive to variable degrees of touch pressure, allowing for interactive app icons, interface shortcuts and the like – has no equivalent on the Note 7. We continue to prefer the user experience (and security) of iOS, there’s no equivalent of 3D Touch or Live Photos on the Note 7, and Apple Pay is a selling point for many.Overall, though, it’s hard to escape the suspicion that the Note 7 is a better phone for the money. Apple is still ahead in a few departments, though. So it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that the Note 7 is better-specced in nearly every area: its processor is much faster on paper, for example (although we’ll discover its real-world advantages once we get hold of review samples for lab testing), and the screen is a lot sharper. As mentioned above, this isn’t a totally fair comparison – the iPhone 6s Plus is very nearly a year old, while the Note 7 is so new that most stores aren’t even allowing pre-orders yet. ![]()
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