Don’t forget you’re on a tech-enthusiast forum. Your “old phone” is most likely less than three years old.

My mother will be thrilled with the new camera, coming from her iPhone 6.

iPhones are increasingly cameras the other features, of which the actual "phone" part is almost trivially unimportant. Personally I'm actually happy about these updates (I've skipped the last many generations) and I really hoped for and got a tele zoom.

Only thing I would have liked different was a slightly bigger phone (for a bigger display).