iPhone 7

Let's get right down to it: if Apple had launched

 the iPhone 7 in place of the iPhone 6S last year, it would probably

 have been the phone of the year.

We're used to the S variants of the iPhone being minimal upgrades

 – just the right amount of change to encourage a purchase by

 those with ageing handsets – and if the myriad changes on

 this new iPhone had arrived in 2015, it would have been

fantastic.

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Instead of the iPhone 6S, with just a 3D Touch screen in the

way of new features and a few power boosts here and there

, we'd have had a waterproof handset with dual speakers, a

brighter and more colorful screen and a boosted 12MP

camera that took better pictures than the one

 on the iPhone 6.