Right but I felt that the adapter is pretty much just a pass-through. Like the inexpensive MagSafe 2 adapters for the newer MacBook Pros.
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iPhone 7 Hands-On: Improved Cameras, New Jet Black Color, AirPods, No Headphone Jack, and More
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Seriously Apple? That's your solution? Wireless earphones with a long stick poking out? People are gonna get serious stick for wearing those!
How are other companies able to make theirs much more compact and stylish, yet you've gone for some weird alien protrusion? I thought style was something Apple excelled at.
Those wireless headphones look ridiculous. While I can't say that Bragi is perfect (for me very minor connectivity stuttering on occasion), at least they look like a well thought out finished product.
I think this just is something for people to get used too. Like when people complained about the lack of real buttons for texting and how weird and wrong it felt. But very quickly got over it and killed physical keyboard phones.
This is the same thing. Within 3 years no high end phone will have a physical home button at all.
I'm just surprised the volume buttons and sleep/wake button aren't also capacitive.
One downside I will have to workaround with no headphone jack.
For snowboarding I have speakers in my helmet. You don't really want to go wireless because of battery life on both the phone and speakers in the cold.
So my helmet speakers are corded with controls on the cord. Because I keep the phone 6S Plus in my left leg pocket, in order to keep it from being even bigger or breaking off the headphone connector I bought a Beats style right angle headphone connect. It plugs in almost flush to my phone and then I plug my cord to my helmet into that. No stick coming out of my phone to land on and snap off. The lightning headphone adapter is not right angled and makes the phone longer in your pocket.
For snowboarding I have speakers in my helmet. You don't really want to go wireless because of battery life on both the phone and speakers in the cold.
So my helmet speakers are corded with controls on the cord. Because I keep the phone 6S Plus in my left leg pocket, in order to keep it from being even bigger or breaking off the headphone connector I bought a Beats style right angle headphone connect. It plugs in almost flush to my phone and then I plug my cord to my helmet into that. No stick coming out of my phone to land on and snap off. The lightning headphone adapter is not right angled and makes the phone longer in your pocket.
I found the emphasis on the jet black amusing since 99.9% will have their beloved iPhone hidden in a case. I did find the new air pods interesting and will definitely be checking them out. I still wouldn't be seen dead with an Apple watch strapped to my wrist. I don't like the plus size to buy a phone for the camera, which looks impressive, but I'll stick with my Fujifilm for now.
Come on Apple, the Mac is where it is at, your getting lost up your own arrogant backside.
Come on Apple, the Mac is where it is at, your getting lost up your own arrogant backside.
IT's $9.00 more than the 6S and it's tacky, and another adapter to carry!!!!!!!
And the real kicker.....what DAC do you think you are getting for $9.00.....
genius......given the DAC in the 6S costs more than $9.00..... You are getting worse audio experiece....and you are actually gloating and celebrating...wow....just wow.
Before you cheerleader on, let's see how much an equivalent DAC to the 6S will cost....not the junk supplied in this adapter
Right but I felt that the adapter is pretty much just a pass-through. Like the inexpensive MagSafe 2 adapters for the newer MacBook Pros.
Seriously Apple? That's your solution? Wireless earphones with a long stick poking out? People are gonna get serious stick for wearing those!
How are other companies able to make theirs much more compact and stylish. I thought that was something Apple excelled at.
No ear hair, very good grooming.
Not sure about the log stock at the end of the the airpod tho....looks odd.
Lol - you know nothing - http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-7#01,10,30
Jet black - the one in his hand is only available in 128 and 256
Total Apple cop-out on deleting the 3.5mm headphone jack. "Courage"? If it was so courageous they wouldn't have felt the need to throw an adapter in the box with the new phone while simultaneously flipping off the millions of people who charge their phone while simultaneously using the 3.5mm jack for audio out.
And in another bone-head move they introduce "air buds" that look (and probably sound) absolutely terrible. It boggles the mind a bit that Apple continues to insist that one-size fits all earphones are still relevant in 2016.
And in another bone-head move they introduce "air buds" that look (and probably sound) absolutely terrible. It boggles the mind a bit that Apple continues to insist that one-size fits all earphones are still relevant in 2016.
Still sounds like Apple hasn't even matched the Rokr E8 with Haptics. 
Hey Tim, 2007 called....It's offering to tell you how Haptics work.
Hey Tim, 2007 called....It's offering to tell you how Haptics work.
It won't. They said the jet black is as durable as the other colors. Guess they've learned from the black iPhone 5, which looked like sh** after a few months.
Yes but he said Black AND jet black were not avaliable in 32gb. Black is.
The one thing I keep thinking about with these wireless headphones is that right now if those sometimes loosely gripping EarPods happen to fall out, all that happens is that one might drop and hang from the iPhone jack. No biggie. Now they'll drop down on the asphalt. Maybe while you're cycling. F everything about that.
Ive designed those AirPods?
I've lost faith in him some time ago but this must be a new LOW...
I've lost faith in him some time ago but this must be a new LOW...