iPhone 7 Rumored to Ship With Standard 3.5mm EarPods and Lightning Adapter

[x-evil-x]

Has it already been said nine times in this thread:
"Double-down on leaks"
Steve would have NEVER done this
yet?

what?
You don't remember the LOST iPhone 4 which happened under steves time at apple...
Biggest leak in history. There was many others

 

[Tycho24]

The more I read about rumors concerning the next iphone the less I wanna buy one. It's turned from a bewildered disappointment to a desire to punish (?) send a message to Tim and co. If you can't come up with a new form factor every 2 years you don't deserve my money. I hope the stock price crashed.

Yup. I also DEMAND a triangle, for no reason. Just so I can feel special. I'm going to cry like a baby too!!!

/s

 

[CFreymarc]

Except for Apple. They will have this technology in their products at launch. There's a reason Apple sits on the advisory board of the Bluetooth SIG.

You still need to get an entire semiconductor line up and running. That is not trivial and usually takes a year to get the process run in for good yields. Apple is no exception no matter who they thing they are. There will be no Bluetooth 5 devices til 12 months from now.

 

[dixido]

The Dongle Song

Bravo! Bravo!

 

[Tycho24]

Yea, because that is so convenient and want get lost. Good luck with that.

Thank you!
I don't own Beats, because I have taste, but I certainly DO plan on using the adapter on my lovely pair of Grado's... while I'm not the least bit afraid of "losing it" or whatever, & imagine it'll be roughly the size of the lightning adapter that came with my Apple Pencil; if you meant it, I appreciate the sentiment.

 

[CFreymarc]

Hardly expensive at all. A $3 part times 10 million iPhones at launch is $30,000,000.00, which is pocket change for Apple. Like I mentioned the other day, use the reserve funds to move the industry forward instead of pointlessly hiding it away in a Swiss Bank Account to just sit there.

You wouldn't last a day at Apple CFO's office.

 

[AFDoc]

My sources say they keep the 3.5mm headphone jack and include lightning earphones with a 3,5mm adapter.

Now this was clever.

 

[Hog Milanese]

Wow, Apple's really phoning it in lately, aren't they?

 

[kerrikins]

Because then people would bitch that they have to buy an adapter to use the headphones that they want. The only way to make people happy would be to ship both bluetooth AND an adapter, which would be expensive.

I agree, this is why they're doing this. Plus it's probably cheaper for them to just include their standard headphones rather than move to designing bluetooth ones.

 

[chinesedemo]

This has to be false.

thats an awful user experience. At least ship with headphones with a lightning adapter.

Given the length of the 3.5mm jack, this will not exactly be a small adapter. Perfect for carrying the phone in ones pocket....better get AppleCare for the broken lightning ports

I will suggest this rumor is accurate, this is Tim Cooks Apple and this would be in line with Mr Cooks reasoning.

 

[Rigby]

I had the bluebud x and then the x2's they sounded basically the same i thought they where amazing with comply tips.

The Jaybird X and X2 are actually not particularly good choices for iOS devices since they don't support AAC. The SBC codec can sound audibly worse. The Freedoms do support AAC and should sound better (haven't tried them though).

 

[HVDynamo]

It's pathetic that Apple may, according to the rumors, ship a phone without the ubiquitous 3.5mm audio jack. Of course the so-called audiophiles will argue the alleged benefits of audio pumped through the lightning port versus an analog signal. The 3.5mm audio/mic jack is one of the few standards that spans the vast array of manufactures from computers to phones ... loosing this "standard jack" sucks! If Apple ships earbuds with a 3.5mm to lighting converter, it just adds insult to injury.

Well, I consider myself an audiophile, and I am firmly in the 3.5mm jack should be left alone camp. I use mine all the time and don't want to have to deal with a stupid adapter to use something that has been an industry standard for decades.

 

[GizmoDVD]

Well, I consider myself an audiophile, and I am firmly in the 3.5mm jack should be left alone camp. I use mine all the time and don't want to have to deal with a stupid adapter to use something that has been an industry standard for decades.

Cellphones have not had a 3.5mm jack for decades.

 

[HVDynamo]

Cellphones have not had a 3.5mm jack for decades.

Cellphones didn't used to moonlight as music players either. That was progress, this is regression.

 

[deany]

I'm sold on the 3.5 mm going on the iPhone, happy with a FREE adapter.
Apple must be going 'wireless charging' or you couldn't listen to music while charging iPhone.

 

[monstruo]

"And yes, adaptor is included free as well!" —crowd applauded and went wild.

 

[JamesPDX]

-Crowd goes silent when they learn that a charger is no longer included.
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Well, I consider myself an audiophile, and I am firmly in the 3.5mm jack should be left alone camp. I use mine all the time and don't want to have to deal with a stupid adapter to use something that has been an industry standard for decades.

And long live 1/4" TRS, Ethernet, AES/EBU XLR, TT-DB25, the 1-frame-1kHz cue tone, and the lowest round-trip latency that physics will allow. Audio pros know what I'm talking about.

 

[morden]

Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be manufactured without a 3.5mm headphone jack

So this is confirmed? I don't remember seing a consensus on this rumor to the point of calling it 100% sure.

 

[recoil80]

Sounds too sloppy for apple, don't believe it

Exactly.
If they're ditching the headphone jack they're going to provide a lighting EarPod, maybe with a 3.5 adapter to be able to use it on the Mac.

 

[Loge]

So this is confirmed? I don't remember seing a consensus on this rumor to the point of calling it 100% sure.

It is not confirmed; just highly likely based on a number of rumours.

 

[paulalive]

If Apple does eliminate the 3.5mm jack, I cannot imagine the iPhone 7 shipping with an adapter. I would anticipate that Apple would instead ship lightning earbuds.

I can't see Apple ever making Lightning only headphones, if only because they would break compatibility with their own devices; remember that their brand new MacBooks still have a headphone jack to go along with the USB C port. Unless they did something really bizarre like ditching the headphone jack and adding a Lightning port to the next MacBook refresh, the only way to go from here (from Apple/Beats anyway) is wireless or a dual cable setup, whether that be a regular 3.5mm end so they can sell you an adapter or two separate detachable cables (think Audeze EL-8).

If anything I'm surprised they won't offer a pair of Bluetooth buds in the box, as an upsell of course.

 

[x-evil-x]

The Jaybird X and X2 are actually not particularly good choices for iOS devices since they don't support AAC. The SBC codec can sound audibly worse. The Freedoms do support AAC and should sound better (haven't tried them though).

If you ever do try them I suggest getting the actual comply tips from the site. The ones that come with them are comply but they are the soft sport type ones. I think the stickier ones are much better for sound.

 

[SMIDG3T]

Literally everyone on these forums has been discussing this over the last several months, but thanks a million for the bolded reminder.

But they haven't really. A lot of people are grumpy that the iPhone 7 will be pretty similar to the iPhone 6s but don't know why. (I thought I'd put that in bold too, just for you.)

 

[The Game 161]

As long as they keep duel camera and improved speakers

 

[MrGimper]

Stereo speakers take up space.

Rather pointless as they are on the same edge of the device and would be separated by what, half an inch? Hardly stereo.