Iphone 8, should you upgrade from iphone 7???

It's not easy buying an iPhone these days they seem to be getting expensive with every passing year with hardly anything innovative worth paying the additional cost. If you already have an iPhone 7, you absolutely should not buy an iPhone 8.

The issue comes down to exactly what you get when you buy an iPhone 8. The phone is practically identical to the iPhone 7 from last year, with some minor upgrades. They will certainly give you marginal increase in performance, but is it worth the price that you have to shell out?

Let's start with the processor: The iPhone 8 comes with the new A11 bionic processor, the fastest Apple has ever created. It's a six-core CPU that, according to Apple, includes two performance cores and four high-efficiency cores.
 

 

Apple claims the performance cores operate about 25 percent faster than the previous iteration and the high-efficiency cores operate about 70 percent faster than the previous generation.

But here's the thing: When is the last time your iPhone 7 actually lagged or couldn't complete a task because the processor was too slow? It's probably never happened to you because the iPhone 7 is a perfectly capable phone that can run Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Asphalt 8 and other apps with ease. Do remember the iphone 7 is a beast when you play games as no other phones not even the insane amount of RAM(8GB) in Oneplus 5 can outperform in game loading or video rendering in the iphone 7. Although transitions is much quicker in oneplus 5 thanks to its oxygen OS.

You could also make a point about the brand-new cameras. IPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are equipped with new image sensors which in theory, should give you much better photos at the end of the day.

When's the last time you looked at a photo taken on an iPhone 7 and thought to yourself that it wasn't quite good enough? Are you hanging your photos in a museum, and if so, shouldn't you be snapping photos with something other than a phone anyway?

Ultimately, it boils down to two very insignificant upgrades. Sure, you get an improved new processor and better camera, but these things are simply not worth the $700 starting price of the iPhone 8. They're iterative upgrades which are certainly welcome additions for most users — but not worth buying if you're upgrading from last year's model.

 

If you have the iPhone 7, your best bet is to step up to the outrageously priced iPhone X, or simply wait until next year. I'll be holding off on any new phone purchases for now because I just can’t justify the insane price of the iPhone X.

Check out the link in the speed test between iphone 7 plus & iphone8 plus.

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