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Spec Sheet Shows iPhone 7 Plus With 256GB Storage and Lightning EarPods

skinned66 said:
That's the most convincing evidence of no headphone jack for me - I'll take it.

As for storage the real question for me isn't max capacity but the minimum. Will they continue to cling to 16GB?
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Already been confirmed that it will be a base of 32gb
 
yaxomoxay said:
On compressed audio files? Please.
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Plus even if you have lossless files in your phone's iTunes library, the DAC is going to have so much impact on the quality of the sound. Not just the internal DAC on the phone, but the ones on the Lightning headphones.

I don't know what people mean by "the quality will get better". I throw a pair of MDR 7506s into the phone's jack, and sure, it won't win any awards. But damn the quality is more than acceptable for casual listening. To get anywhere near that quality of sound with Lightning headphones, you'll be paying through the nose.
 
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It would make much more sense for apple to drop the 3.5mm headphone jack and include normal earpods with an adaptor than it would to make lightning earpods and the adaptor go the other way.

I can't think of any reason to make earpods use lightning that doesn't have way way way more downsides than keeping the current ones and giving us an adaptor.
 
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newyorksole said:
I feel like an adapter will come out that will allow you to do both at the same time.
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Don't we have that already?

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profets said:
More importantly, it even mentions lightning to 3.5mm included in the box. I think it's excellent for users if Apple does include it, but I think it's a mistake for Apple as it shows there's a need for 3.5mm still and they've removed it.
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Dude this is the same old argument when Apple removed the old dock connector and replaced it with Lightning. There was so much uproar etc and in the end it doesn't really matter. People were losing the **** and were pissed off at Apple and still iPhone sales went through the roof. Unless they change the connector game there will always be a need for normal headphones, hence the adapter. In any case the adapter is the right thing to do in the transition phase. Won't be needed in 3 or 4 years.
 
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While extremely overpriced, more storage is always good. But I still don't understand why they're not going the usb-c road. Even their MacBook has it, the new the new MBPs will probably too. Why not make everyones live easier and go with usb-c.

Other than, "Apple is stubborn", can somebody explain this? It's not like the usb-c port is huge in size compared to lightning.
 
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Brookzy said:
Don't you think the text is too wide? Comparing to the back of my 6s Plus box this looks fake.

And do you really think Apple will call it a "Lightning to Headphone Jack" adapter?

That's become the accepted nomenclature here but really that's informal language. I would expect something more like "Lightning to 3.5mm Audio Adapter" or something.
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It's fake.

That's how Apple refers to that port: 3.5" headphone jack (all lowercase, vs "Lightning")
 

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plexdk said:
it puzzles me they call it iPhone 7, when its basically same design?
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Because Apple doesn't not want to introduce a new product naming convention, i.e., they're sticking with the number/number + S convention and since the S is already out they have to use a number now
 
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profets said:
More importantly, it even mentions lightning to 3.5mm included in the box. I think it's excellent for users if Apple does include it, but I think it's a mistake for Apple as it shows there's a need for 3.5mm still and they've removed it.
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Agreed, I call BS on this rumor.
 
Brookzy said:
Don't you think the text is too wide? Comparing to the back of my 6s Plus box this looks fake.

And do you really think Apple will call it a "Lightning to Headphone Jack" adapter?

That's become the accepted nomenclature here but really that's informal language. I would expect something more like "Lightning to 3.5mm Audio Adapter" or something.
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Yeah, i guess it's fake
 
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Smartass said:
If it's gonna bring better sound quality, i'm all for it.
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so the iphone 6s has three cirrus audio ic's. since not all three are relevant any more for putting audio out over the jack, i think apple will relocate at least one of them into the adapter. this adapter has to be small so i guess they go for the smallest dac available. imho, smaller in some degree equals to inferior. so there's a good chance that putting audio through an inferior dac in the external adapter actually decreases audio quality.
 
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