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New iPhone 7 Video Offers Side-by-Side Comparison With iPhone 6s

Shirasaki said:
OK. No more future iPhone. Once my current one breaks, I will use iPad to listen to music.
Hard time begins, starting from today.
Apple has made my life much harder already by disallowing users to switch countries without providing credit card info.
Count down on leaving Apple.
Reason: No 3.5 mm headphone jack.
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It's interesting the little things we take for granted. I'm on my way to the gym, I just plugged in my gym heaphones into my iPhone and em listening to a few tunes. Once I get to the gym I'll plug the heaphones into my nano for a workout. No headphone jack on the phone 7 makes such a basic routine cumbersome with accessories, or new phones, just so Apple can profit at the expanse of user experience .

As for wireless is the future, I have a set of B&O H8s, used wired as its so superior to wireless for audio delivery.
 
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Shirasaki said:
Count down on leaving Apple.
Reason: No 3.5 mm headphone jack.
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I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the PS2 keyboard and mouse ports ... and those people stayed with Apple. I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the floppy drive ... and those people stayed with Apple. I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the DVI ports ... and those people stayed with Apple. I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the internal optical brick ... and those people stayed with Apple.
 
mcarling said:
I would say exactly the opposite: If one wants a cool-looking phone that doesn't work well, an Android phone will do that job.
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What do you mean by does not work so well? Apple and android have copied each other so much that fundementally you get the same experience. To benefit from iOS you need to tie yourself deep into the ecosystem.
 
mcarling said:
I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the PS2 keyboard and mouse ports ... and those people stayed with Apple. I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the floppy drive ... and those people stayed with Apple. I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the DVI ports ... and those people stayed with Apple. I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the internal optical brick ... and those people stayed with Apple.
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Except that those older devices were replaced for a good reason. Here you are not acutely replacing anything , you are just moving the DAC from iPhone to heaphone , one gets slimmer the other bulkier. Had they replaced the heaphone jack with one 1/2 the size....sure
 
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Savor said:
Where Apple got it right in design is by removing this archaic feature at the front...

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That annoying Assistive Touch can now be turned off at all times. I could care less what it looks like at the back. Is the back of the phone the area we look at? The camera might have a hump but at least protected by sapphire crystal glass. It isn't like the HTC One M8's camera which was prone to scratches. Removing the physical home button is a perfect example of addition by subtraction. The one example where I like to see Apple copy Android.
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You know if you Jailbreak your phone you already have this functionality right?
 
Meh... people will still proudly flaunt this in mirror selfies. Can't wait to see if it will be funnier than with 6/6S.
 
MH01 said:
Except that those older devices were replaced for a good reason.
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There are multiple good reasons for removing the headphone jack: 1) it allows the phone to be much more water resistant, 2) it allows the phone to be thinner, 3) it saves substantial internal volume that can be used for something else such as a bigger battery.
 
mcarling said:
There are multiple good reasons for removing the headphone jack: 1) it allows the phone to be much more water resistant, 2) it allows the phone to be thinner, 3) it saves substantial internal volume that can be used for something else such as a bigger battery.
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1. Phones exists with 3.5mm and water Resistance . Lighting port still exposed
2 . Do we need thinner?
3. Having bulkier heaphones is better?

I believe the cons outweigh the pros here.

This is about profit through MFI program.
 
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mcarling said:
I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the PS2 keyboard and mouse ports ... and those people stayed with Apple. I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the floppy drive ... and those people stayed with Apple. I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the DVI ports ... and those people stayed with Apple. I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the internal optical brick ... and those people stayed with Apple.
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Even though history often repeat itself, that doesn't mean sometimes history will detour and everything from that point is new.
Want example? iOS 10 developer beta 2 is released alongside iOS 10 public beta 1. This breaks the "ol'good" tradition of releasing beta software: DP 3 and PB 1. I see this as history would never can repeat itself forever.
We shall see.
 
MH01 said:
It's interesting the little things we take for granted. I'm on my way to the gym, I just plugged in my gym heaphones into my iPhone and em listening to a few tunes. Once I get to the gym I'll plug the heaphones into my nano for a workout. No headphone jack on the phone 7 makes such a basic routine cumbersome with accessories, or new phones, just so Apple can profit at the expanse of user experience .

As for wireless is the future, I have a set of B&O H8s, used wired as its so superior to wireless for audio delivery.
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I don't even want to mention Apple does NOT remove DAC from device because it is used to support speakers, which renders the whole purpose even laughable.
 
Shirasaki said:
I don't even want to mention Apple does NOT remove DAC from device because it is used to support speakers, which renders the whole purpose even laughable.
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Yes the DAC is needed for the speakers, though the headphones will also require one
 
At this rate iPhone 10 will have camera protruding like SLR lens.
[doublepost=1468835019][/doublepost]At this rate iPhone 10 will have camera protruding like SLR lens.
 
With the removal of a physical home button and iOS10's raise to wake feature which basically copied Motorola's Active Display, iPhone 7 series should last for a very long time. The only open ports will be for the charger and speaker grills. The iPhone 7 should be as tight as an Asian Catholic girl practicing chastity. The iPhone 7 might be more water-resistant than the Galaxy S7...

What is IP68 rating?
http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/what-is-ip68-ip-ratings-explained

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I did not read all posts, so sorry if someone already has mentioned it. But, in the video, does this really look like a 4,7' IPhone? For me it looks like the 5,5......i mean the size.
 
Jimrod said:
Actually that's the one thing Apple could really do with the "7" that might surprise everyone - drop the price. Everything about this design smacks of cost-cutting, removing features, same form factor so likely unchanged screen/buttons, stamped-looking camera cut-out rather than with trim ring - if this came out $100 cheaper than the 6S when it was launched they'd be on to a winner.

Knowing Apple it'll probably cost more though, just more margin for them...
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I hear what you're saying and deep down feel that cost should come down. But I doubt that would happen with a flagship model, especially with how "radically different" next year's iPhone is rumored to be. (I'd be even less surprised if Apple used next year's iPhone as an excuse to raise the current pricing structure.)
 
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mcarling said:
I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the PS2 keyboard and mouse ports ... and those people stayed with Apple. I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the floppy drive ... and those people stayed with Apple. I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the DVI ports ... and those people stayed with Apple. I remember all the people who said they would leave when Apple dropped the internal optical brick ... and those people stayed with Apple.
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I remember the iPod Shuffle v3, when Apple ditched on-device controls in favour of clunkier ones through the headphone so that the Shuffle could be smaller and thinner. That innovation died on its arse very quickly.

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Relentless Power said:
How do you know it's been two years being designed? Source for this?
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Standard lead development cycle in smartphone business since the early 90's.
Development, pre-production, mass-production, post-launch provisioning for multi-million devices all over the world, logistics. It does not go faster.
 
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