How so? It's just a minor iteration on the 6S. Next year you may be impressed with AMOLED display.
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Spec Sheet Shows iPhone 7 Plus With 256GB Storage and Lightning EarPods
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HobeSoundDarryl
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No problem... you just buy a new car.
Have good headphones terminating with 3.5mm? No problem... you just buy new headphones.
Have a Mac or Macs without a Lightning port? No problem... you just buy new Macs.
Spending lots of money for no real net gain in audio playback solves all such problems.
Part of the reason corded headphones are still superior to wireless ones. The other part is they typically sound better than wireless of the same price point.
I'd love to see inductive charging introduced on the iPhone but I don't see how that helps you. How do you listen to your BT 'phones and charge them simulataneously?
If this is the case, then does that mean the 256GB iPhone 7 Plus will cost over £1000? It will be interesting to see what happens.
If that turns out to be true, then I can't see how Tim can possibly spin the loss of the 3.5 port on stage as a good thing. Its been a while since there was booing at an Apple keynote...
All the time. I use my iPhone at work to listen to music / podcasts while plugged in.
If Apple had a good reason to drop the port, it would be one thing. But to make the phone thinner? Who is complaining about how thick the phone is??? So instead, people will have to compromise how they use the phone to take off a mm or two. This is not innovation.
And for the people asking what they will call it, it will be the iPhone 7. Simply because you will sell more iPhone 7 phones than iPhone 6SE phones, even if they are identical. Because 7 is bigger than 6.
Agreed.
Looks unApplelike to me, but the haters are willing to suspend their disbelief to support their agenda.
HobeSoundDarryl
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The reality is a move like this is going to create drama. The same happened when they changed the dock connector to lightning. A whole bunch of whinging nitwits carried on like 2 bob watches and for what? It achieves nothing in the end. At some point (now) Apple will transition away from OLD TECH. See I used capitals to highlight something you really cannot comprehend. Watch, I'll do it again. OLD TECH. There needs to be no other reason. Get over it, buy an adapter and move on with your life. More importantly, DON'T WHINGE or buy a Samsung or LG or whatever and be happy.
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This. If there is no way to listen via wired connection and charge at the same time, I'm out. Yeah, it would be great to have a faster phone with a better camera, but at the end of the day, I would lose functionality over my iPhone 6 for no reason, other than Apple decided it such.
It's a really sad day when it seems that Samsung is the company driving innovation forward.
While I am excited about a new iPhone and happy to see everyone excited, it's unfortunate that Apple will remove the headphone jack. We all have different life styles and I for one travel long distances (24+ plus trips), and enjoy working out while I listen to music. There is just no way to keep my phone plugged in and charge on the plane, and I won't be using an adapter at the gym.. The iPhone was just turned into a pair of high heel shoes as far as I am concerned.. She looks hot but she can't go hiking with me. Big shame...not sure what I will do, as I had been expecting to get this.
Lots of adapters and dongles.. Its horrible as they get lost and break and provide unreliable connections - no thanks
your guess is as good as this picture as well. neither can be proven until the iphone7 event. the picture does have some merit of proof. now what's your merit of proof to your claim?
People said that about the 3GS too, and it looks pretty portly in 2016:
Has any generation of iPhone ever had less battery endurance that the previous one?
Mac Rumors never gets tired of attempting to perpetuate the iPhone bending myth.
I would think a thinner phone would be easier to hold because your hand could wrap that much more around the edges.
Lighting reduced the size of the connector and replaced it with something better (capable of USB 3 speeds, if Apple ever decides to support it).
Removing the 3.5mm jack is replacing it with..... an adapter to give you the same functionality that was built in? For what purpose? Maybe a slightly thinner phone?
These are not the same cases. Apple has dropped many older technologies, but replaced them with something better.
Tim is going to have to do a Jobs-like performance next week on this one. Many people who are not techies will be out, just because of the bad press.
Probably not, unless there is a "budget" model. Apple (and Tim, really) is obsessive about minimizing the number of SKUs.
This will be incredible in the gymAn elegant solution for portability.
I found the 6 to be too thin, that is how I was holding it, was such that the it was less comfortable then thicker phones.
I like how my SE feels, its dimensions are perfect for me, I hope Apple doesn't make that thinner
As I mentioned in my post, I said for me it was plenty thin enough. I have no problem holding onto the phone I have now and the points about bending/breaking and battery endurance were speculation and light wondering by me - not "MacRumors perpetuating myths."People said that about the 3GS too, and it looks pretty portly in 2016:
Has any generation of iPhone ever had less battery endurance that the previous one?
Mac Rumors never gets tired of attempting to perpetuate the iPhone bending myth.
I would think a thinner phone would be easier to hold because your hand could wrap that much more around the edges.
Dude it's only techies that care about this crap. I can assure you, mum & dad iphone user won't give a rats ass about this change. That is their bread & butter not whinging tech heads.