... By Far, I disagree, it's not BY FAR better than the 6s in which it replaces. The extra camera on the PLUS is just a gimmick, takes horrible pictures in low light, etc. I would say, the 6s = 7 in many aspects. If AT&T would have not given me 650 for my 6s+, I would still have it. And it would not be because I am waiting on the 8 either. Just really disappointed in the iPhones since the 6 came out.
You know what, I seriously contemplated that option. It's still on the table so we'll see. The one reason I'm looking at the 7+ over the 6s+ comes down to memory. The 7+ has 3GB of memory which should really help it with future app and OS updates which are getting more and more resource heavy. But otherwise, the 6S+ does everything I need it to.
I have had the iPhone 7+ for I guess close to two and half months and I've had about half dozen situations where being able to listen and charge would have been very useful. Just for reference, I've bought 4 BT earbuds/headphones and all of them have drawbacks.
The car is another issue. Neither of our vehicles have BT and we're not looking to buy new cars for at least another 3-4 years. I'm certainly not going to get rid of my perfectly functional and trouble-free truck just to get BT.
The car is another issue. Neither of our vehicles have BT and we're not looking to buy new cars for at least another 3-4 years. I'm certainly not going to get rid of my perfectly functional and trouble-free truck just to get BT.
As for the W1 chip, from the research I've done it seems that it solves connectivity issues and adds battery life to the headphone. So far I've not read anything to suggest that it will make the sound better. That will come with BT 5.0 which I hope we start seeing sometime next year.
As I alluded to earlier I'm not against going wireless but I think it was a little too early to pull the plug, pun intended
With all the other outdated tech that Apple pulled from their devices there already was something superior and therefore the adoption of newer tech was fairly painless. Today in 2016 there's nothing that's better than an old fashioned 3.5mm jack and headphone.
The supplied adapter is fine but it doesn't work 100% of the time. The controls stop working at unexpected times. Sometimes the sound keeps coming from the phone instead of the headphones I just plugged in, and sometimes the headphone's mic stops working during a call. Of course this doesn't happen all the time but the times it does happen is extremely frustrating. Point being...new tech needs to work 99.999% of the time before being introduced and forced on users.
It was probably stupid to remove the headphone jack on this generation. If they had waited until the next model with its new design, and had the airpods ready at launch and in colors to match the phones (or at least offer both black and white) then I think there would have been more awe and less dismay. As it stands now it just looks like a iPhone 6/6s with a part removed. People can't help but feel something was taken away needlessly.
Just like the 2GS/3G/3GS and the 4/4S/5/5S were more or less the same shells.
To me the 4 and 5 were completely different.
The car is another issue. Neither of our vehicles have BT and we're not looking to buy new cars for at least another 3-4 years. I'm certainly not going to get rid of my perfectly functional and trouble-free truck just to get BT.
As for the W1 chip, from the research I've done it seems that it solves connectivity issues and adds battery life to the headphone. So far I've not read anything to suggest that it will make the sound better. That will come with BT 5.0 which I hope we start seeing sometime next year.
As I alluded to earlier I'm not against going wireless but I think it was a little too early to pull the plug, pun intended
With all the other outdated tech that Apple pulled from their devices there already was something superior and therefore the adoption of newer tech was fairly painless. Today in 2016 there's nothing that's better than an old fashioned 3.5mm jack and headphone.
The supplied adapter is fine but it doesn't work 100% of the time. The controls stop working at unexpected times. Sometimes the sound keeps coming from the phone instead of the headphones I just plugged in, and sometimes the headphone's mic stops working during a call. Of course this doesn't happen all the time but the times it does happen is extremely frustrating. Point being...new tech needs to work 99.999% of the time before being introduced and forced on users.
I'm sorry but unless you've abused your headphone cables I find all of that very hard to believe. Also what I mean regarding the 99.999% is the technical functionality and not broken or frayed cables. In other words unless you broke your headphones they should work every single time you plug them in, period.
They're basically the same shapes. 2G/3G/3GS were rounded in the back and sides, 4 to 5S were "flat-boxed", and now we're in a "flat with rounded sides" phase, which the 7S will have and the 8 will ditch.
