2016 – 2019retired
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“It split your screen, tamed your notifications, and never asked for thanks”
“Gave its all, including the jack it left behind”
Announced by Tim Cook at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on September 7, 2016, the iPhone 7 was the tenth generation of the iPhone, succeeding the 6, 6 Plus, 6S, and 6S Plus as Apple's flagship. It brought Matte Black and Jet Black color options, water and dust resistance, a new capacitive static home button, and a bigger back camera. It also famously removed the 3.5 mm headphone jack, a controversial mo
Under the familiar 6-series-inspired design sat a heterogeneous quad-core chip with improved system and graphics performance. After passing the flagship torch to the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus in September 2017, it served on until September 10, 2019, when it was discontinued alongside the iPhone 11 announcement. A good, long run for a phone that changed what we'd tolerate losing.
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“It split your screen, tamed your notifications, and never asked for thanks”
“It dreamed big, but the rest of us never quite put our phones in it.”
“It linked everything to everything, except people to people. Rest well, +1.”