[icki]

FYI, you don't need another device to do the comparison.

The Portrait Mode effect is a non-desctructive edit on an original RAW/JPG image, from my understanding.

[gnicholas]

Good point about the RAW. But I thought this was enabled in software via iOS 10, and was available on many other devices as well [1].

How does the RAW part factor in, especially if Apple is selling the feature based on "unretouched" photos like the ones from they keynote? I thought the point of RAW was that it would make for better post-processing.

1: http://www.imore.com/how-shoot-raw-photos-your-iphone-or-ipa...