“We expect iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be incredibly popular with customers, and we are thrilled to begin taking preorders on September 9”, Apple said. A new dual-lens camera in the iPhone 7 Plus may be impressive, he said, but it’s only available in the larger and more expensive phone, limiting its appeal.
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T-Mobile’s strategy is going to work out in its favor, because you’re granted an opportunity to get yourself a free iPhone 7 if you trade-in your previous iPhone.
The company said it will not release first-weekend iPhone sales data, saying the number was more a reflection of supply than demand. The lack of a standard 3.5mm headphone jack means using a dongle with old headphones, and it also means not being able to listen to music while charging unless that music is streaming to a speaker or headphones over Bluetooth. The price has already put a lot of people off, but when you compare it to just about every other pair of truly wireless earbuds (many of which come from startups you’ve probably never heard of), it’s actually really competitive.
But Apple won’t tell us how many iPhone 7 it’ll sell.
The home button’s changed, too, as this now supports Force Touch, giving you the same kind of Taptic feedback as the Macbook Pro’s Force Touch Trackpad.
Again, at first glance, the display on both the iPhone 7 and iPhone 6S look nearly identical. They’re both 4.7in across the diagonal and they both share the same 1,134 x 750 resolution. He believes Apple’s iPhone sales could decline by 5 percent during the next year.
Apple Senior Vice President Philip Schiller made it clear Wednesday that the company sees a future where its sleek gadgets are no longer encumbered by cords at all.
I mean, I get it. Apple is trying to push things forward – even saying it takes ‘courage’ to do so.
“It’s not just about your iPhone anymore”, she said. Instead, they announced new iPhone compatible earbuds called AirPods, which are essentially cordless headphones (if cordless headphones cost £159). For instance, Apple quote up to 40 hours of wireless audio playback for the iPhone 7, but up to 50 hours of wired audio playback for the iPhone 6S.
Hopefully, this fog will dissipate within the next week and we’ll figure this all out. It doesn’t have any OIS, either.
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Note that Jet Black is not available in 32GB capacities on either model. It wasn’t until the company’s two-hour keynote almost ended that it revealed a crucial detail about its new smartphones: The cheapest version of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will come with 32GB of storage instead of 16GB. “Apple’s incremental innovations for the iPhone are focused on improving the processing power of the device, lengthening the battery life, and delivering improvements in voice and video”.
