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Removal of iPhone 7 Headphone Jack Was Essential for Water Resistance, New Camera System
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Are you using any other more currant phones?
It's going to be a seven year old phone by the time the next iPhone comes out.
Yeah, I've never had a new iPhone so I'd like to get one while there are still sensible models available. While my iPhone 5 is ok, I'd love better battery life and I'm going onto a plan, so I may as well get a subsidised iPhone with it
But, people still use hammers to hammer and they are old. Honestly, you cannot compare audio jacks with cassettes, floppy drives and CD drives. Audio jacks are not out-dated tech. They are a connector standard for a reason.
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For its time sure, but it's a 6 year old phone.
Some would say that's downright masochistic, which would explain why so much of your post are so passive aggressive.
Maybe it's time to invest in a newer phone?
Keep the adapter attached to your cable. You won't know the difference.
I've used my head phone jack maybe 20 times since owning my 6 and I would think off loading DAC to outside the phone so the consumer can have any quality of decode they need to be a 'no brainer' for anyone that concerned about audio quality.
Being very old I remember a similar faux 'revolt' over losing the floppy, it will pass. In a year or two we will be able to recharge by lightening or wireless, someone is making a 'y' lightening bus as we speak and both audiophiles and the deafening will wonder what the big deal was anyway.
Getting ready to stay up till midnight tonight to pre-order mine tonight only decision is whether to get the standard or the plus (256 G of course)
My last phone before I changed to the very first iPhone was this.
One of the reasons I hated this phone and loved the iPhone was that the iPhone had a headphone jack. The k750i had an adapter which sometimes you forgot to take (on business trips) and then you were out of music.
A headphone jack was one of my purchase decision factors. Removing it sucks.
Meanwhile I would be happy if the latest iPhones support USB 3 syncing already ? With 256 gb USB2 is just too damn slow.
There is a few threads on the iPhone section about USB 3 it a ?- and a potential future work around moding a set of headphones adding a bluetooth reciever.
Let me know if you want links
cheers
Are you kidding? Masochistic for keeping a phone that was released in 2011? It was still on sale on shelves up until February this year. Are iPhone SE users masochists? The majority of that phone was originally released in 2012, 2014, 2015.
No, neither a masochist nor passive agressive here. I do use other more recent products, I just don't buy new updates because Apple sends through a communique to do so. The latest is very rarely the greatest. The design of 6/6s/6 series 3 (iphone7) is pretty awful and the functions aren't supremely better. Always hated the antenna lines and bulging camera. They are just poor design choices by the Apple team.
I'm also attempting to prevent adding to the world's e-waste and environmental impacts of upgrading annually. That's more important to me. Reduce. Reuse. These come before Recycle.
Why the blind fanboy behavior here?
Consider what I paid for my Jawbone™ And it's charger case I guess I can spring for these IF the damn things will stay in my ears.
Love the idea of the X1 Audio chip but not sure about the Airpods. They will always be falling out and you'll always lose just 1! I bought $40 outdoor tech Bluetooth adapter which solves the problem of the "no 3.5mm" jack issue. Wish Apple would make a version of this with X1 + 3.5mm jack + lightning connector. Would be cool!
http://www.outdoortechnology.com/Shop/Adapt/
http://www.outdoortechnology.com/Shop/Adapt/
I totally agree. Unfortunately, consumers will show Apple that this is a great decision. And all other manufacturers will follow suit.
Yeah yeah but the point is that no one other than Apple will transition to using Lightning. That's for sure. Samsung won't start using Lightning, and computers won't start using Lightning for audio (except maybe Macs, but I hope not). No one other than Apple will use Lightning.
So currently we have nearly 100% of audio devices using 3.5mm jack. This will just get fragmented. There is no way 100% of audio devices will continue to use one standard. We'll be left with headphones that are simply incompatible with this or that. Your iPhone headphones won't work with your Mac without an adapter. Your Samsung headphones won't work with your iPhone. Whatever. Currently everything is inter-compatible, you have to be really dumb to not see how amazing this is. No standard has achieved this level of adoption for this long. It's literally the most successful connector in the world. But yeah, it's been good for far too long, let's change it because... because change is good and old, tested, successful, widely adopted, globally compatible things are bad.
The jack is robust, cheap, 360º reversible, and tiny. If it breaks, you can go to any hobby electronics shop and buy one for nothing, and replace it yourself with a soldering iron. Can't do that with Lightning.
Yes, people will get over it. But just because people get over it doesn't mean it's better. People get over literally anything. There was a time when phones lasted a week. Now they last less than a day, and you can be easily left without a working phone at the end of your day when you need it the most. People got over it. So what? Now there's a whole market for battery cases and external batteries that you didn't need before. It was no doubt better when they lasted longer. Compromises have to be made sometimes, but the jack fit perfectly into the iPhone 6. Is the iPhone 7 so much better than the iPhone 6, that having to fiddle with adapters or separate pairs of headphones for each device is worth it? To me, it isn't. To those who go swimming with their phone, maybe. Though if the lightning port can be waterproofed, then why not the jack?
If the iPhone 7 would last a week on a charge, if it would cost significantly less, or if it didn't shatter into pieces when you dropped it, then I'd be okay with the jack going missing. But right now I don't see the advantage.
So currently we have nearly 100% of audio devices using 3.5mm jack. This will just get fragmented. There is no way 100% of audio devices will continue to use one standard. We'll be left with headphones that are simply incompatible with this or that. Your iPhone headphones won't work with your Mac without an adapter. Your Samsung headphones won't work with your iPhone. Whatever. Currently everything is inter-compatible, you have to be really dumb to not see how amazing this is. No standard has achieved this level of adoption for this long. It's literally the most successful connector in the world. But yeah, it's been good for far too long, let's change it because... because change is good and old, tested, successful, widely adopted, globally compatible things are bad.
The jack is robust, cheap, 360º reversible, and tiny. If it breaks, you can go to any hobby electronics shop and buy one for nothing, and replace it yourself with a soldering iron. Can't do that with Lightning.
Yes, people will get over it. But just because people get over it doesn't mean it's better. People get over literally anything. There was a time when phones lasted a week. Now they last less than a day, and you can be easily left without a working phone at the end of your day when you need it the most. People got over it. So what? Now there's a whole market for battery cases and external batteries that you didn't need before. It was no doubt better when they lasted longer. Compromises have to be made sometimes, but the jack fit perfectly into the iPhone 6. Is the iPhone 7 so much better than the iPhone 6, that having to fiddle with adapters or separate pairs of headphones for each device is worth it? To me, it isn't. To those who go swimming with their phone, maybe. Though if the lightning port can be waterproofed, then why not the jack?
If the iPhone 7 would last a week on a charge, if it would cost significantly less, or if it didn't shatter into pieces when you dropped it, then I'd be okay with the jack going missing. But right now I don't see the advantage.
Exactly!
What this person said, people. Listen up!
Yes masochistic for using a 6year old phone as your primary smartphone.
Head over to Walmart I'm sure you can find a digital camera that uses a floppy lingering about on one of their shelves, doesn't mean it's not old and outdated, just means that the consumer buying one in 2016 is either incredibly cheap or uninformed.
The se offers an a9 64bit processor, lte , Touch ID etc. , so not only is your comparison poor but se users are not considered masochistic in the same way you are.
Again your using a 6 year old device as your primary smartphone, don't like the series three you could pick up an se that doesn't have antenna lines or a bulge with the same internals as a 6s.
I call Bs on your environmental reasons. Annual upgrade, seriously? Your using a six year old phone.
Well people use steering wheels in cars. Whoa, another 100+ years old technology! Lets dump this and build cars with joysticks steering. Just for the sake of moving on.
You joke, but in the next 10-15 years cars won't have steering wheels (thanks to autonomy).
amazon top ten 90% wired only number ten the
Anker SoundBuds wireless - https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Audio-Headphones/zgbs/electronics/172541
perhaps price sensitive but still its almost like 83% WiRED based on amazon top ten.
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Sorry if this has already been mentioned (didn't want to read through every single page) but there is still the issue of having only 1 port. Therefore you can no longer plug your phone into a power point and have your headphones plugged in at the same time, which you might do if you're say sitting at work or on a plane or on a long distance bus. Ultimately you would need an adaptor that allows both the charging cable and the headphones to connect to the lightning port at the same time. The other option is to use an existing pair of Bluetooth headphones or purchase the new AirPods. But then for those people who prefer wired over using Bluetooth then what is their option?
As this is the way forward then I guess there are going to have to be adaptors made available to allow charging and listening at the same time.
I really like the Jet Black iPhone but might hold off until I can get hold of said adaptor.
As this is the way forward then I guess there are going to have to be adaptors made available to allow charging and listening at the same time.
I really like the Jet Black iPhone but might hold off until I can get hold of said adaptor.
