Feds arrest two men for hacking top intelligence officials

American authorities have arrested two men from North Carolina for hacking into the emails of top intelligence officials, including CIA Director John Brennan. Andrew Otto Boggs, 22, and Justin Gray Liverman, 24, are reportedly part of a hacker collective you might have heard of in the past: Crackas with Attitude. If you’ll recall, UK authorities nabbed two other members back in February for the same offense. They were both teenagers, and one of them was apparently the leader codenamed Cracka.

According to The Washington Post, these four — along with another person under investigation in the UK — used social engineering to gain access to the email accounts of various intelligence officials. In Brennan’s case, Cracka posed as a Verizon technician to dupe one of the carrier’s tech personnel into giving him the CIA chief’s password. He then used the details he got to steal (and release) a 47-page top secret security clearance Brennan filled out with all his personal details.

WP said that the team also used social engineering to hack into the accounts of Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., former FBI deputy director Mark Giuliano, FBI executive assistant Amy Hess, CIA contractor Centra Technology’s chief Harold Rosenbaum and Gregory Mecher, the husband of White House communications director Jen Psaki. They got access to Giuliano’s details, in particular, simply by calling an FBI help desk and asking the the person on the phone to reset his password. The group then used his info to access a database containing information on law enforcement officials, which they then released online. When authorities looked at Liverman’s computer, they found 80 Miami police officers’ details taken from Giuliano’s database.

Based on the FBI’s affidavit, the teens from the UK did most of the social engineering. Boggs and Liverman are mostly being suspected of compromising the victims’ accounts and releasing stolen information on the internet. The two Americans are scheduled to make their first federal court appearance next week in Alexandria, Virginia.

Via: Ars Technica

Source: The Washington Post

Huawei P9 Second Opinion: A well-rounded smartphone with a brilliant camera

The quick take

The latest flagship smartphone from Huawei, the P9, has a lot of things going for it in tandem to offer a great Android smartphone experience, along with arguably the best mobile photography credibility a smartphone has offered yet.

The Good

• Brilliant camera
• Excellent fingerprint sensor
• Good display
• Elegant design and build quality

The Bad

• Not cheap
• EMUI is overwhelming
• Occasional lags
• Single SIM only

Huawei P9 Full Review

Huawei does a lot of things right. It’s made some great hardware for the past couple of years, like the Nexus 6P and the P8. Then there’s the Honor sub-brand that has offered some very capable and nice-looking smartphones for customers on a budget. It took the Nexus 6P, obviously aided by the Google branding, to make a lot of people aware about the company’s research, engineering, and design capabilities.

The Huawei P9 with Dual Leica Lens is an engineering marvel on paper, and has much improved EMUI software – the biggest showstopper for Huawei phones till date. Let’s see how the P9 fares against the flagship smartphones and the value-for-money flagship killers — because it sits right on the fence between the two.

About this review

I used the Indian retail variant of the Huawei P9 (EVA-L09) that ran EMUI 4.1 running on top of Android Marshmallow 6.0 out of the box. For most of the time, I used it with an Airtel 4G SIM in Delhi NCR. There is another higher spec’d variant with 4GB RAM and 64GB of internal storage that is on sale in some markets. This 32GB variant had about 25 gigs of storage available out of the box.

Huawei P9 Design

The Huawei P9 has an industrial design that is consistent with the company’s design ethos, yet the metallic unibody construction gives it an elegant look. It’s solidly built and the craftsmanship with the chamfered edges and the nicely milled aluminum is impressive.

Because of the smaller screen size, the overall footprint is compact and it is a delight to use with one hand – something which is a thing of the past when it comes to the current trend in flagship smartphones. At 144 grams, it is light and easy to handle, and yet doesn’t feel flimsy because the weight is evenly spread across the surface area of the device. With less than 7mm of thickness and curved edges, it feels great to grip the P9 in your hand and you’d not want to reach for your pocket or bag to put it away all the time.

The back sports the camera unit which, despite the advanced optics, does not have a bump like the Nexus 6P had. Of course, there’s the Leica branding next to it which is something definitely worth flashing.

There’s no doubt the P8 and P9 are part of the same lineage, which isn’t a bad thing. The Huawei P8 was a well-designed smartphone, and the P9 is a nice evolution of the same. There’s nothing flashy about the Huawei P9 and yet it is one of the best designed smartphones on the market – not just in looks but in ease of use as well.

Huawei P9 Hardware

Powered by Huawei’s home-brewed octa-core Kirin 955 chipset with four Cortex-A72 cores clocked at 2.5GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.8GHz, the P9 packs in 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage.

The Kirin 955 packs in enough muscle for being a daily driver without breaking a sweat, and it’s a shame that many question Huawei’s decision to opt for its own chipset instead of going with a Qualcomm one without taking it for a spin in the real world. From multi-tabbed browsing to Full HD video playback to playing graphic-intensive games, the P9 handles everything thrown at it smoothly. It does tend to get a little hot when playing games for an extended period.

It’s not all hunky-dory though. While there’s a lot of memory management optimizations under the hood, I did run into occasional lags with the P9. It’s not a showstopper, but one wonders if packing in 3GB of RAM (or having a lower spec’d variant for India) was a wrong decision by Huawei. Overall though, the Kirin 955 does well to offer a fluid Android experience with a lot of tweaks for the camera experience.

The fingerprint sensor on the P9 is one of the fastest in the business and supports 360-degree recognition. You can also configure the fingerprint sensor for additional functionality like answering calls or taking phones et al. Also, the EMUI offers several gestures in conjunction with the fingerprint sensor for extended functionality — like swiping down on the sensor to bring down the notifications shade or double-tapping it to clear the notifications. One of the more useful gestures is the ability to swipe left or right on the sensor to browse photos without your finger blocking the view over the display.

Interestingly, the Huawei P9 has a single nanoSIM card slot that supports 4G LTE instead of the common hybrid Dual SIM slot – surprising considering the trend in the Indian market. So if you use two SIMs on an everyday basis or on your frequent travels, the P9 is a no go for you.

Huawei P9 Display

The Huawei P9 features a 5.2-inch Full HD IPS LCD. Unless you’re a fan of the 6-inch-and-around display sizes, the display on the P9 is just about perfect for most people. Huawei steers clear of the temptation for boundary-pushing 4K or even a Quad HD display, and the 1080p screen makes absolute sense on a 5.2-inch display. Anything higher would only drain the battery faster.

In any case, the display on P9 is extremely good and with a pixel density of around 423ppi, the P9’s panel makes images look incredible and the text crisp. The 2.5D curved glass looks beautiful and accentuates the display. The viewing angles are great and the color reproduction is pretty accurate. You can also adjust the color temperature of the display from the settings to make it warmer or cooler as you’d prefer.

The sunlight legibility is just good enough, though slightly marred by the reflective glass. Overall, the display is sharp, and watching a movie or viewing your photos is a treat.

Huawei P9 Software

Emotion UI, or EMUI, is Huawei’s custom UI layer running on top of Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Far from just a skin, it adds a ton of features to the operating system including a variety of gesture controls. The number of features can actually be intimidating, so you may need to spend a couple of weeks moving things around to make everything work for you.

Like most of the proprietary UIs from Chinese brands, the EMUI lacks an app drawer. There’s a one-hand UI with shifting keyboard (not sure why you’d need it on a compact smartphone like the P9 though) as well as a simple UI mode for basic users and for those who are visually impaired. There’s the ‘Phone Manager’ app that gives easy access to, well, phone management options like system optimizations, memory clean-up, traffic manager, battery manager, as well as a harassment filter for blocking unwanted calls and messages.

The EMUI 4.1 is thankfully a good progression and takes care of some annoyances of the past. It’s a very usable user interface with a host of customization options. Once you get a hang of it, it becomes clear that EMUI 4.1 is the best version of the EMUI yet, and as powerful as any other launcher. Of course, if you don’t like what Huawei has done with the EMUI, you can switch to your favorite launcher just fine.

Huawei P9 Battery life

The Huawei P9 includes a respectable 3,000mAh non-removable battery, and big props to Huawei for packing a battery of that size into the slim form-factor of the P9. With average usage, the P9 easily lasts a day. The lack of Quad HD or 4K panel is a definite factor here, as well as the power-efficient optimizations of the Kirin 955 processor. You can squeeze out even more juice with the useful ‘ROG power saving’ mode which reduces the phone’s resolution to 720p — further knocking down the battery consumption.

Overall, the battery life on the P9 is pretty good — not stellar — and since it supports fast charging, you can charge it up to two-thirds in less than 30 minutes. Trouble is, the supplied charger is the normal 5V/2A charger and takes over two hours to charge the phone from empty to 100%.

Huawei P9 Camera

Of course, the highlight of the Huawei P9 is the camera — co-engineered with Leica, the legendary optics enterprise from Germany. It’s obviously less of a hardware partnership and more of a branding collaboration, similar to the Dolby Atmos or Beats tie-ups we’ve seen in the past for audio component.

Yet, imaging is a critical aspect of a smartphone experience today, and the collaboration with Leica and the execution is impressive, and so let me just say it outright. The photos clicked with the Huawei P9 are some of the best photos clicked with smartphones – the flagships included. Shots from the 12-megapixel rear camera offer a lot of details with impressive color reproduction.

The rear camera on the P9 packs in two sensors – RGB and Monochrome – with 27mm focal length and an f2.2 aperture, assisted laser AF as well as a dual-tone LED flash. The smartphones that boasted dual camera sensors in the past typically used them for 3D effect or for sensing depth of field, and hence never made a big impression. For Huawei, the dual camera sensors allow you to snap outstanding pictures using the two sensors, which work in unison with the RGB sensor capturing the colors and the monochrome sensor capturing the details. Despite sporting a smaller sensor as compared to the Samsung Galaxy S7 for example, the P9 has terrific low-light performance because of that monochrome sensor.

The P9 also includes a dedicated depth sensor which allows users to mimic depth of field just like shooting with DSLRs. Several other phone cameras with similar attempts end up clicking pictures that look unnatural. But the P9 excels here, allowing for bokeh effects that are pleasant to look at and look real.

Just as the marketing pitch of Huawei proposes, snapping monochrome photos on the P9 is an indulgence in itself. The monochrome mode captures photos with the monochrome sensor – unlike other smartphones where the photos are taken with an RGB sensor and then desaturated to look like a black-and-white photo. Nah, not the same thing! The monochrome photos with the P9 are brighter with more details. If you’re like me and love monochrome or B&W photos, you’ll end up shooting random things using the monochrome mode on the P9 all day for the sheer delight of the results.

On the front, there’s an 8-megapixel camera with a f/2.4 aperture. It does well for those selfies outdoors, and even in low light although they are a tad darker in the latter case. There’s also the functional beauty mode if vanity is your thing.

The brilliant results the P9 camera manages to offer are not just due to the optics hardware, but also the under-the-hood processing as well as the stock camera app. The latter may be intimidating as there is a lot going on here. There are almost too many options and features baked in, including 14 modes for clicking pictures and the option to shoot in RAW or the manual mode to granularly adjust ISO value, exposure, shutter speed, and focus.

At the end of the day, this is still a smartphone camera. It will not replace your DSLR (no smartphone can make such a claim at the moment) like some hyperbole headlines would suggest, but it’s a darn nice camera with tons of options to get the photos you want for those likes and shares.

The video recording tops out at 1080p and 60fps and the P9, despite all its camera credentials, doesn’t shoot in 4K. Frankly, like most people, I don’t care about 4K, but it’s a dent on the specifications sheet. Even on other flagships that support 4K recording, I record only 1080p to save storage space. You still get manual controls, and an option of standard, smooth, and vivid colors for video – but not the star monochrome option here. There’s no optical image stabilization as well. So, yeah, you can shoot decent videos on the P9 but nothing fantastic or extraordinary like the stills it manages to capture.

Huawei P9 Bottom line

After the Nexus 6P, which probably isn’t a Huawei phone in absolute terms, the Huawei P9 is the best smartphone from the Chinese brand. As Phil NIckinson says, the P9 is the “best mainstream phone Huawei has made.” It’s one of those smartphones that can’t be judged on mere specifications and impresses you when you hold it in your hand and start using it.

The EMUI is in its best avatar on the P9, and although a little overpowering, it offers what the best in business offer feature-by-feature. It’s got powerful internals with a well-executed dual-camera setup encased in a beautiful chassis with understated elegance. There are misses, too. Like the underwhelming RAM — in number or in memory performance. With all the camera hype, expert videographers and photographers — not me — would point at the lack of 4K recording and the just about average f2.2. aperture. And there’s no dual SIM variant, mind you.

Should you buy it? Yes

The Huawei P9 is a top-notch smartphone, but alas, it’s not a ‘value for money’ device like the Xiaomi Mi5 or OnePlus 3. At ₹39,999, the P9 is expensive but also a really impressive smartphone, and Huawei is within its rights to charge the premium for it.

Go ahead and buy it if you love mobile photography (who doesn’t?) or like a stylish-looking slab that fits snuggly in your hand.

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Best Apple iPhone 7 pre-order deals: £200 trade-in for old iPhone, new iPhone every year and more

The Apple iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are now available for pre-order, meaning you can guarantee yourself the hottest new smartphone come launch day.

Announced at Apple’s special event in San Francisco on 7 September, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will be in stores from 16 September, but we’re pulling together pre-order information we have into one handy place for you to size up your options.

We’ll be adding to this list as details unfold throughout the day.

Apple 

Apple offers the iPhone 7 directly, SIM free. 

The iPhone 7 will start at £599, for 32GB models. You can find the options on Apple.com right here. If you’re looking for the Jet Black model, this starts at £699 as it starts with 128GB. You can find the details here.

The iPhone 7 Plus will start at £718, for 32GB models. you can find the options on Apple.com right here. For those who want the Jet Black iPhone 7 Plus, you’re looking at prices from £819. You can find all the options here, although delivery is listed as November.

Additionally, Apple is now introducing the iPhone Upgrade Programme in the UK. This will let you buy an unlocked iPhone 7 today and pay monthly instalments starting from £33. You’ll then qualify for an upgrade to the iPhone 8 when it comes out next year, as you roll-on with the plan.

Carphone Warehouse

Carphone Warehouse has confirmed that it will be stocking the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, both sizes, and in all the colours. 

The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will be available for pre-order on pay monthly contracts and there will be lots of options, but  you can get a 32GB iPhone 7 for £79.99 upfront on a £42 monthly contract with 3GB data from Vodafone, or a free handset on £47 1GB plans using O2 upgrade. 

As a sweetener, however, Carphone Warehouse is offering a trade-in value of £200 for your old iPhone 6.

You can find all the details on the Carphone Warehouse website.

EE

EE has confirmed that it is offering the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus on a range of plans.

iPhone 7 32GB will be available for an upfront price of £49.99, then £50.99 a month for 24 months with 5GB data.

iPhone 7 Plus 32GB will be available with £79.99 upfront, then £55.99 per month for 24 months for 10GB data.

Additionally, EE has also confirmed that the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be on 4GEE Max plans, meaning you you’ll qualify for a free upgrade to a new iPhone next year when you trade-in the iPhone 7. You’ll pay £65.99 a month, but get a staggering 25GB of data, as well as BT Sport for the duration, and 6 months of Apple Music.

You can find all the details on the EE website.

Vodafone

Vodafone pre-orders are open, with all sizes and colours of iPhone available to order.

The iPhone 7 is available from £28 a month, if you’re happy to pay £400 upfront, but you can get the 32GB on the Red Value Bundle for £90 upfront and then £48 a month for 10GB data.

If you’re after the iPhone 7 Plus, you can get the same deal on the 32GB model, with £90 upfront, but a monthly cost of £53.

You can find all the details on the Vodafone website.

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Android 7.0 Nougat review: Subtle but super-sweet OS update

Android 7.0 Nougat is the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system. It makes its debut in the LG V20 (which we won’t get to see in the UK) with the rumoured 2016 Google Nexus phones the first time we’ll catch the OS on these shores.

The update is relatively subtle from a user point of view, tweaking where Android 6.0 Marshmallow took things. The new OS acts as the stepping stone to enabling Google’s Daydream VR, while introducing native split-screen functionality, better notification management and more battery optimisation behind the scenes.

So, does version 7.0 turn Android into a sticky mess, or is it sweet refinement all the way?

Android 7.0 Nougat review: Sweet tweaks

Unlike Android 6.0 Marshmallow, 7.0 Nougat hasn’t introduced a huge visual change to the operating system, but there’s definitely enough to please those who like new things.

The most obvious change in design is seen when notifications pop-up on screen. Where Marshmallow had cards on screen that sort-of floated on top of everything and had drop shadows, Nougat’s cards spread across the entire screen.

There’s still a clear element of what Google calls “Material Design”, but the cards feel more part of the existing screen, rather than being an attention-hogging card that just pops up awkwardly into an empty space.

More importantly, all the animations in Nougat – like swiping away cards, or down from the top of the screen – feel more fluid and smooth. It’s particularly noticeable when dropping down the Quick Settings options from the top, when the quick toggles all work their way in to position.

On the subject of the Quick Settings drop-down menu, Nougat adds the ability to edit, rearrange and add to the visible tiles. While Marshmallow sort-of allowed this through some fiddly process and a downloadable app, Nougat has it built-in as standard.

We found it very helpful to only have the tiles we wanted to see in the drop-down screen, and in the order we wanted to see them. No more hunting around for an option that isn’t there, or getting frustrated because it’s full of settings and options that you never use.

The Settings screen has had a bit of a makeover too. With its smart suggestions at the top of the main menu, it’s easy to see when you have features like Do Not Disturb or Data Saver switched on. The space is also utilised to give you suggestions on any settings you may want to take a look at, but haven’t yet.

For the first time it also has a sidebar menu for when you’ve gone to a secondary settings screen but want to quickly jump to another main category.

Dig into the settings and you’ll find another new addition: the ability to adjust the size of content on the screen. The display size option in the display settings menu has a slider which adjusts the size of everything you see on screen.

That means app icons, conversation bubbles in Messenger and even the settings menu itself change to allow more or less space. It’s similar to adjusting a computer display’s resolution and making things appear magnified. That, combined with the ability to change font size, ensures you have the setup that you like. You’re no longer left with a one-size fits-all scenario.

Android 7.0 Nougat review: Split-screen multitasking

While manufacturers including Samsung and LG have added split-screen multi-tasking into their re-skins of Android for a little while now, Google has never built the feature into Android itself. Nougat changes that.

Android 7.0 Nougat allows you run two windows side-by-side on the same screen. It’s activated, and deactivated, simply by pressing-and-holding the recent apps button. We find it very useful, particularly on larger screens – although full-screen apps, such as games, are exempt, with only compatible apps part of this Nougat party.

However, using split-screen is something of a learning curve if you’re not used to it. With years of switching between apps by simply heading to recent apps, picking one, and switching back and forth, it takes time to remember this new feature. Like anything, building that way of working in to a habitual pattern takes repetition, over days. Plus, Android N has also improved on the “old” method of switching between apps: you can switch instantly between your most recent apps just by double-tapping the recent apps key, which is great.

Once split-screen use becomes a habit, though, it’s a very useful one. Whether you’re reading something and want to share a phrase with a friend, or you want to quickly look up an address in Google Maps while keeping the written address on the screen in Notepad, it can be convenient. That said, it still feels a little cramped on smartphones, regardless of size. And unlike Samsung’s Note devices, which offer sharing directly between some apps, Android N is restricted to viewing the apps individually without any direct interaction.

It’s clear split-screen is aimed predominantly at tablets, where multi-tasking is much more essential, especially if you’re looking at buying a tablet to replace a laptop. Although many manufacturers that make Android-based laptop-like devices already add their own adjustments, such as taskbars and multi-screen options – the new Lenovo Yoga Book being one example.

Android 7.0 Nougat review: Notifications

We’ve touched on notifications already, but only from a design perspective. As well as changing visually, their functionality has been further improved too.

Notifications from the same app now all group together in a cluster that can be opened up like a conversation thread. With so many apps demanding attention with constant ringing and pinging, it’s about time we got more fine-tuned control over when they should alert, and which apps are the most important. 

Android N lets you set a priority level for any app’s notifications. This requires a little digging in to settings, but it can be achieved. It’s similar to the app permissions you’ll find in Huawei’s EMUI, again with a bit of digging.

On a more basic level, when you press-and-hold a notification, you can silence all future alerts from that app. This can be particularly useful when you’re sick of an game demanding that you come back and play, or any other app that continues to send endless streams of notifications through which you don’t want.

Android 7.0 Nougat review: Battery enhancements

Android Marshmallow introduced Doze in 2015, which helps devices conserve battery life when not in use and lying still on a surface of some kind for a given period of time. It’s like letting the phone go to sleep, without needing to intervene – and it means exemplary standby battery performance. 

In Android 7.0 Nougat, that’s been improved upon further with “Doze on the Go”, which kicks the battery optimisations into gear even when the phone is moving around in a pocket. In short: if you’re not using your phone, it’s not going to use much of your battery – and certainly less than it did before.

For devices like our Nexus 6 (which we’ve used to test out Nougat), that means it soon turns into a device which can last a full day on a single charge without breaking a sweat. And that’s an improvement over where it used to be.

Android 7.0 Nougat review: Software updates and Direct Boot

One of the things that you may have noticed (and been excruciatingly frustrated with) in older versions of Android is that whenever your software receives an update, regardless of how small, you spend ages waiting for all the apps to be “optimised”. With Android Nougat, that is no more.

Software doesn’t just download and update seamlessly in the background, it also boots up almost instantly when your phone restarts. There’s no more “your apps are optimising” screen, just power up and go. Yay.

Verdict

Android 7.0 Nougat may not be the biggest operating system update we’ve ever seen, but a lot of the changes and improvements are greatly appreciated and improve upon key areas: battery life, notifications control and seamless updates.

If we had to pick out any negatives, we would like to see more customisation options visually, reducing the need for third-party launchers. Even if just to allow you to choose the number of app rows and columns are in the app drawer or on the home screen, that would be a start. The return of a system-wide dark mode (which we saw in an early developer preview) would be great too.

All in all, Nougat is a great update. But, arguably, the two biggest features are those we cannot yet see: firstly, Google opened it up super early to manufacturers to help them get updates out sooner; secondly, there’s Daydream VR which is built-in but – since no phones support it yet – we haven’t been able to test it, nor see how good the results of the Vulkan API graphics rendering tool are.

But just because you can’t see all the goodness, doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of sweet extras here. Nougat cleans up some of Marshmallow’s underbaked gaps to make for the best and longest-lasting Android experience yet. The most painful point about it might be waiting for your handset to offer the update.

iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Pre-Order Shipping Estimates Begin Slipping

Pre-order supplies of the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus are starting to dwindle, with several of the new iPhone models now displaying shipping estimates ranging into November. Pre-orders began at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday, September 9, and it took less than 20 minutes for supplies of popular models to begin selling out.

Models in the new Black and Jet Black colors are the most heavily affected in the United States. Jet Black iPhone 7 Plus devices were initially quoted delivery times of late September and orders placed now won’t ship until November, while the Black iPhone 7 Plus lists shipping estimates of two to three weeks.

Jet Black iPhone 7 models ship in two to three weeks, while Black iPhone 7 models ship in one to two weeks. Supplies of other colors are better, but may dwindle as the day goes on. At this rate, customers who wait to pre-order a Black or Jet Black iPhone will need to wait several weeks.

Shipping estimates in Apple’s online stores for other countries such as the UK, Australia, and France are also starting to dwindle, with many Jet Black models also listed as shipping in two to three weeks.

Though pre-order supplies of some models of the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus are beginning to sell out, it may still be possible to get an iPhone on launch day by visiting an Apple retail location on Friday, September 16.

Yesterday morning, Apple warned that iPhone 7 and 7 Plus supplies could be constrained in an announcement stating pre-order sales statistics would not be shared. According to Apple, early iPhone 7 sales will be dictated by supply, not demand.

The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus come in 32, 128, and 256GB configurations, with five color options: Silver, Gold, Rose Gold, Black, and Jet Black. In the United States, iPhone 7 pricing starts at $649 for the 32GB model. The 128 and 256GB models are priced at $749 and $849, respectively. iPhone 7 Plus starts at $769 for the 32GB model. The 128GB and 256GB models are priced at $869 and $969.

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