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Spec Sheet Shows iPhone 7 Plus With 256GB Storage and Lightning EarPods
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Wireless charging? I haven't seen any leaks about this. I thought that might happen next year. This years will probably be expensive because of the camera and the increase increase in storage. Thr only features I remember were waterproofing but that seems to have died down now.
I think it's more of a transitional thing, they don't expect to force everyone to buy new headphones but the next time they do they will know what to look for.
What do you think? It is entirely a fabricated false outrage over nothing. Maybe once in 10 years of iPhone have I ever tethered my head to the wall by using a charging cable and wired earbuds at the same time.
People will come up with anything they can think of.
I just checked the photo again. No wireless charging. I think that may be for next year, too.
Def an adapter, cable and EarPods included.
Yeah when did this become a thing? I've never done it in my life.
I think this is a case of "What can't we do that we used to be able to do, regardless of the fact of whether we actually used to do it or not?"
Same old...very old Low Resolution Display.
Samsung passed up Apple years ago, but the Apple Faithful keep buying the old tech iPhone. A testimony to Smoke and Mirrors marketing.
"Look Ma...it's Magical and Revolutionary"
But what's the point of lightning headphones if they keep the headphone jack?
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I do it all the time.
I expect Apple's BS machine to be cranked up to the max next week to make people forget about the negative press they've been getting.
The Retina display on iPhone is okay. I'm not so hung up on that. The only high priority is battery life, storage, OS and hardware performances along with solid industrial design.
yes, of course many do that. If I'm at my desk or at home sometimes (very common indeed)
How does this idiotic perception continue to be advanced?
Do you really think Apple hasn't given this a single thought?
This perceived problem is easily solved in the simplest way with a pass through plug on the charging cable. And there are many other ways Apple, or third parties could address it.
Yours is not a common use case. Apple designs for the largest common market. For you there's an adapter. all of your expensive headphones would cost more if they had digital interfaces, so for the larger customer base, they will always pay less for digital technology over lower cost 3.5mm tech.
Apple will get criticized for being greedy regardless.
all dependent on whether the prices increase... I see a big increase coming, especially on the plus model
At my desk where there's a PC I hookup the phone into the computer to charge and use the headphone socket on the PC. At home I'll use my BT speaker.
I appreciate everyone's setup is different but there's always a better or equivalent solution, it just requires a bit of change.
Karma: It's what you get for selling $10 cables for $80. I find it to be pretty hilarious that after cheating customers into thinking that their gold-plated digital cables were somehow superior (it's a digital signal for crying out loud!) that in the end, their boss ended up getting the wool pulled over his eyes on a massive business deal that lost him a ton of money. Something tells me ($80 cables?) he'll be just fine, but it's still funny.
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Another case of "I don't charge my phone while listening to music, therefore no one else does it either"
But every iPhone 7 will have lightning EarPods included. The majority of people are using the bundled headphones.
100% agree!! I've also never done this, mainly because my phone goes on charge when I go to bed at night, ready for the morning when I get up for work! The battery in the Plus is so good that it easily lasts all day. But even if I wanted to listen to music while charging I could play it out loud through the speaker, or listen to it on my iPad Pro or iMac. Most people don't do this, which Apple probably know and is probably why they are doing what they are doing.
Yeah, Apple would never give a whole new name to something that is essentially the same phone.
Exactly my point. I'd love to hear the long debates/conversations the execs had over something like this.
Sitting at my desk at work wanting to charge my phone whilst listening to something is common, yes.
I do, just not via wired headphones because that means I'd be tethered to a wall, and I don't really want to be tethered to a wall.