Hands-on with the iPhone 7: Apple has come a long way

SAN FRANCISCO — I'm not gonna lie to you: the new iPhone 7, which Apple unveiled on Wednesday, feels exquisite and offers the faintest hint of nostalgia.

The highly-polished Jet Black exterior (there are other case options, like the matte Black), is eerily reminiscent of the very first iPhone case: black, incredibly shiny and smooth.

On the other hand, the phone, which I had just a bit of time with in the Apple Product demo room, is also thinner and cooler to the touch than that first, plastic-bodied device was. It's also many light-years ahead of it on the technology front. Read more...