Apple seems to have cut corners with their iPhone 7 32GB model as the larger variants were found to perform faster in terms of the storage writing speeds.
Besides the read and write tests, the smaller variants of the new iPhone 7 were also found to have poorer 4G reception which is unfair for most people. YouTube Channel Unbox Therapy tested the iPhone 7 models to see whether there are differences between them besides the storage capacities.
It turns out that the smaller variants are actually slower in performance. People assumed that Apple makes all of the iPhone 7 models equally with only the capacity being larger for different models.
While the reading speed difference of 600Mpbs is not noticeable in everyday use for most users, the write speed is another story. Testers found that the Apple iPhone 7 32GB model was over eighht times slower compared to the 128GB model, The Guardian has learned.
The Cupertino-based tech giant's 128GB iPhone 7 write speed was around 341Mpbs wwhile the 32GB model had just 42Mbps. It is a large difference and is noticeable even without the technical tests done by the tech geeks.
Apple's iPhone 7 256GB finished copying the 4.2GB "Star Wars: A New Hope" video file in just 2 minutes and 34 seconds while the iPhone 7 32GB took 3 minutes and 40 seconds, ExtremeTech reported. That seems to be unfair for people who bought the smaller model thinking that the only difference it had with the larger ones is the storage capacity.
Celllular Insights from New York also tested the iPhone 7 Plus smartphones for reception quality. They found out that some models had Intel modem chips while the other ones had Qualcomm-powered modems.
Their tests found out that the Intel-powered iPhone 7 Plus models performed up to 75 percent worse than their Qualcomm counterparts. They also had slower download and upload speeds.
Apple has not commented on the shocking discoveries by the testers regarding the storage speeds of their iPhone 7 models and the poor 4G reception on some of their iPhone 7 Plus variants. The devices were just recently released by the company.