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Spec Sheet Shows iPhone 7 Plus With 256GB Storage and Lightning EarPods
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If you guys go to the spigen website, the have cases for an iPhone 7 plus depicting dual camera lenses and if you look at the bottoms of the cases they show no headphone jack and dual speaker grills...
Someone seems to have hit the post button a bit early lol
you no longer have to deal with with two cords (the charging cord and the headphone cord)
See, just what I was expecting. Apple will remove the headphone jack, but will offer an adapter with the phone because everyone still uses the jack. Like what the hell is your problem Apple? And why are the EarPods going to be wired with a lightning cable? I thought the idea was to promote wireless headphones.
But hey, moving forward is important. Doing work properly apparently isn't. Idiots.
But hey, moving forward is important. Doing work properly apparently isn't. Idiots.
That's a possibility. One thing I do notice is that, occasionally, my BT head phones (plural) will get these skips or drop-outs that go away. Really kills the musical immersion. My hardwired earphones never have this. Hard to reproduce and diagnose. My speculation is that the skips and drop-outs are when it is communicating with the watch. Perhaps it is sun spots or moon sharks. Either way, if this persists for the iP7, I agree it will be 'what a mess!' for Apple as the problem will be magnified by a much larger wireless user base.
Maybe so, but you were just complaining that Apple can't win because everyone always picks on them. I think it's funny that you'll just say anything to defend Apple. It's like they could shoot someone in Time's Square and you would still vote for them, err, wait, I got my cults confused.
WHAT is compelling enough for you? Shaving off a millimeter of thickness? As far as we know, that's the only improvement.
Waterproofing and a larger battery could have been accomplished without removing the headphone jack.
It's true. Besides the cosmetics features, there is a whole array of updated features I look forward to. Obviously the major redesign will be in 2017. But I do welcome the new iPhone next week.
Still hoping Apple falls flat on their face with the iPhone 7. They're in dire need of a reality check.
That sounds about right. Unless they save the 256 GB for the 7 Plus or Pro with the dual camera set up.
At least we are finally away from the 16gb variant.
Because too many people slate Apple. If you think they can please 1 billion users, then, wow. What planet are you on, Mars?
Don't worry, they're be a $39 dongle for that
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And whom exactly are they pleasing by removing the headphone jack here?
I think your incorrect. I do believe Apple will provide the adapter.
However, the Bluetooth EarPods will clearly be sold separately.
If by "we will see in a week" you mean "Nearly every iPhone 7 rumor we've heard about thus far being confirmed", then you're right! We will see in a week!
Now you're just moving the goalposts, and parsing a strawman -- BT Is an industry wide supported STANDARD. WiFI is an industry wide supported STANDARD. Any modern mobile audio device that people commonly use will have at least BT if not both BT & WiFi, and most, if not all will support a wide variety of legacy BT & Wifi devices.
Apple is a member of the BT SIG. Which means they were intricately involved with its development, and know exactly what the requirements are which need to be implemented. So there's every likelihood that Apple will introduce BT 5 in the iPhone 7 and their new BT wireless headphones. If you have links to something that proves otherwise, I'm happy to take a look.
I'd love to see your data that removing the headphone jack will greatly inconvenience the entire iPhone user base.
In the meantime here's mine that Apple is actually inconveniencing a small percentage of the user base who buys the iPhone 7.
http://www.macnn.com/articles/16/01...o.ask.apple.shoppers.what.they.thought.131986
We haven't see the teardown, but then again we also haven't seen the actual phone. So we don't know how thin it is, or how the internal space previously occupied by the headphone jack is used. Rumors suggest a larger battery. Apparently not a priority for you, but I find additional battery life compelling, especially when all I have to give up is a headphone I rarely use (and when I do, I can use the included lightning headphones).
Waterproofing CAN be done without removing the headphone jack, but again at the expense of internal space.
I like thinner, too, so you got that one right!
I'm not really giving up anything, so the threshold of "compelling enough" for me is pretty low. I'm looking forward to wireless charging. Then they can get rid of the lightning port also. Maybe a smart connector for physical expansion devices.
Some people don't care and for the people who do, get over it, it's happening. It's an old port, so what? Apple certainly don't care. How are you (we) supposed to move forward if the same technology is used over and over again?
Or you can spend a few bucks on a pass-through adapter.
The point is, it's an uncommon problem with an easy solution. If you're complaining just because you like complaining, then that's fine. But it's hardly a reason to stop progress
After reading this article and seeing the item sheet, I do feel Apple will provide the adapter. The only reason I say this is because this such a major move, this would ease some Of the inconvenience for others.
I'm hoping Apple will make an exception for this situation.
A widely accepted standard that was invented when Noah built the Arc. Dude the fact that you are clearly not an Apple fan and post on an Apple forum to dis their product tells me a lot about you. Why don't you go to an (INSERT YOUR PHONE HERE) website and post positive vibes about a phone you like rather than negative rubbish about a phone you dislike. Try that and see how your life changes. In the meantime, 3.5mm needs to go. It's antiquated analogue tech. Seeya, but I wouldn't want to be ya
A widely accepted standard that doesn't need replacing just for the sake of replacing. It was first used by a Sony EFM-117J radio which was released in 1964. That is 52 years of products that now will now be made useless without a dongle. If you can't bash a product made by Apple and see flaws in a product on a site about Apple rumors and discussion about their products where can you?
You know nothing about me so stop trying to say I don't like Apple. I'm a fan of great design and useful technology. I have zero brand allegiance(which more people should try). I try different products and buy what works best for me.
You claim I'm here posting just to be negative about my dislike of Apple. Little do you know that I am currently typing this from an iPhone 6+. I also own an iPad Air2 and a MBPR along with a variety of PC's/Droids. Which I won't bore you with since you are Apple only fan. So no I will not go to another site to post "negative rubbish" which is completely warranted. You can like a brands products but still criticize them.
I'm thinking that 32/128/256 sounds about right as well. At long last, the 16gb is dead! So glad to have 128 in the middle, because that's about what I need, although might bump up to the 256 just in case, especially since file sizes on everything won't be getting any smaller. Also, I can have all of my music ON my phone and can load up as much Apple Music as well.
That's been my thinking too...
But to be fair, pretty much everything Apple is currently doing is un-Apple, so who knows?!