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Spec Sheet Shows iPhone 7 Plus With 256GB Storage and Lightning EarPods
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As another user pointed out, Apple uses the term headphone jack a lot. It is on every Tech Specs page of a product with one.
My point is that I don't think Apple will call the adapter the "Lightning to Headphone Jack Adapter". That would be like calling the Lightning to 30-pin Adapter the "Lightning to 30-pin Port Adapter". The port - and jack - are superfluous.
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What functionality did we lose with the switch from 30-pin to Lightning?
I think it's fair to say if the picture is in fact genuine it is entirely possible it is not the finished copy. We've all read instructions and guides that are way more dodgy than this.
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Here's the thing - if you don't like the headphone jack then right now with your current iPhone you can buy some crappy sounding BT headphones, or some proprietary lightning headphones. Meanwhile the 99.999999% of the rest of us will use wired headphones as they a) sound good, b) don't cost an insane amount, and c) work without batteries.
Options are glorious. Removing options is idiotic, especially when the option you choose to remove will greatly inconvenience virtually your entire user base.
Aha great.. so those few millimeters better be shaved off, because you know, the phone is HUGE.
Better leave it like that and not decrease the battery capacity even further. Yes I know it's the same old same old, but it's true.
Yeah, the loss of analog video output sucked, but the 1/8" audio jack is used by far more people and it is used on the move, when dongle adapters are clumsy. Video output is usually used in one place, so an adapter isn't as burdensome.
I'd like to see iDevices move to USB-C since Apple could use it for video output without expensive adapters. It would also have the side benefit of imposing a greater minimum thickness for iDevices than the Lightning port. Of course the main benefit is that it will be an ubiquitous standard and peripherals could be shared between iDevices and Android devices.
I hope some day in the not so distant future Apple's dwindling user base will force them to adopt industry standards again. They are a better company with a fire under their arses.
Sony use their own codec (gaming voice optimized) for their BT headsets on the PlayStations. And I think it does sound much better than the standard BT headsets. Of course, it only works when you pair a PlayStation (3 or higher) and a Sony BT gaming headset, and I believe rather than pairing in the normal BT fashion, you just have to plug them together quickly by USB, that makes it all automatic.
My point is that companies can use their own proprietary stuff over BT, if it serves them. And we know from history that Apple is a company that doesn't mind going proprietary to drive innovation (well, actually as you point out, to serve their own needs).
I thought the iPhone can carry on two BT connections? I routinely have my watch and some other connection going (car, ear phones, or satellite speaker).
I know quite a few people here chime in with every new product announcement screaming "I WILL NOT BUY IT BECAUSE OF THIS 1 MISSING FEATURE"....and I thought I would never say it, but I am joining that body of people. I need the 3.5mm jack and no, I'm not attaching some adapter/dongle to it so it will stick out a few inches (and likely snap off and cost me $200 to fix). Even the physical aspect of the adapter aside, I don't need some brand spanking new version 1.0 technology, that isn't even a standard, being shoved down my throat while the existing technology of over 40 years works fine and works on literally tens of billions of devices. Not to mention the DRM aspects down the road.
I have an iPhone 4S and was finally going to plunk down my money and get a new 7 but not if the 3.5mm jack is gone. I'll look at (and baring any issue porting over my 7,000+ song library on the iPhone) Samsung.
Really? How often are you using headphones and charging your phone at the same time? Most people are walking around and listening to their headphones, then charge their phones are night while doing something else.
As an Apple person and someone who has had every iPhone from the 3G on -- Keep telling yourself that. Lol
iPhone 7 is going to be nice but not a "truly incredible device". iOS10 is good but not "great". I don't anticipate the iPhone 7 being amazing either. Camera update, storage, memory update. That's about it.
Hmmm, I'll have to look into that. A friend of mine complains that when using BT headphones they always cut out when her phone tries to pair to her car. Or her iPhone's pairing with her car is lost when her iPhone tries to pair with her headphones. The latter is probably because she forgets to turn off the headphones, but still, what a mess!
Another thing I hate about BT is that I can't share a BT keyboard between my iPhone and Nexus 7 without re-pairing each time I switch. IMO a cable would be ten times easier. I know there's keyboards with memories for multiple BT pairings but reviews on the ones I looked at pretty much agreed that the multiple pairings switch often didn't work.
The fact you trawled through the posts is kinda sad.
Trust me, they'll win.
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That was in regards to including an adapter anyway.
Within a few months, people will have forgotten about it all.
Time to coordinate your talking points, fanboi.
I'm cautiously optimistic about the camera. I want to believe the LinX technology will bring back the days when the iPhone camera was the ultimate phone cam on the market. If so then I'll get one in Dec or Jan after the manufacturing bugs are worked out.
I had my hearing ruined a few years back by a prescription NSAID, so the loss of the audio jack doesn't matter to me. Well it matters that it doesn't matter to me, but it's absence still doesn't matter to me, if that make sense, lol.
That's how I see it as well. A lot of smaller features you already listed that add up to make a difference. I can look past the complaints regrading the antenna bands and protruding camera. Personally, there is enough for me to upgrade.
I guess the iPhone 6s will be available in just 16gb and 64 gb after the iPhone 7.
With the 64gb 6s being the same price as the 7 32gb, and the 6s 16gb 100$ cheaper than the 32gb 7.