With the iPhone 7, Apple Changed the Camera Industry Forever
The new iPhone uses circuitry, software, and algorithms to create images that look and feel as if they came out of high-end cameras.
.. Thus far, expensive stand-alone cameras with great lenses have been the ones able to offer what is called “bokeh,” a way to blur the background and focus on the subject in the foreground. This is especially useful when shooting portraits. It has been difficult to achieve on smartphones because of hardware limitations. Apple designed a new beefy image-processing chip for the iPhone 7 Plus