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Apple Introduces iPhone 7 With No Headphone Jack

The company will ship the iPhone 7 with a pair of wired earphones that plug into the iPhone’s proprietary lightning port, and an adapter that works with wired headphones. “The courage to move on to do something new that betters all of us”, Schiller told The Verge.

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The company’s ultimate goal, though, is to transition consumers to completely wireless earphones. Tech experts explain the removal of standard headphone jack helped to make the new iPhone thinner. The monthly cost for an iPhone on Apple’s program starts at about $32 a month.

Apple revealed its latest iPhones iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus. which one should you preorder? That’s something Jobs was famous for whenever he showed off new products. The new smartphone has dual-camera system. He believes Apple’s iPhone sales could decline by 5 percent during the next year.

Just like iPhone 6 series that came out with 6 Plus models, the iPhone 7 will also have an iPhone 7 Plus.

Apple shares rose 0.6% to $108.36. This feature uses the dual-lens camera on the back to make images more attractive. Photography experts say the feature lets users zoom in on images, up to 10 times, with impressive quality and clarity. The first two cores are for high-performance tasks, while the other two are made for actions where efficiency is more important. Apple will begin taking orders Friday. It will be available as a free download beginning Tuesday. One thing to note, however, is Apple reportedly focused less on the physical changes and focused more on tweaking the software and hardware to enhance performance of the gadgets. The newly water-resistant device even comes in a new finish, the high-gloss jet black.

The Apple Watch has been the only major new product released during Cook’s reign, and sales of the device so far have been lukewarm. On top of the growing number of available casing styles and watch faces, as well as watchbands, Apple introduced the Apple Watch Nike+, a Nike-themed version of the Series 2 with a unique watch face and band colors that’s every bit as sporty-looking as you’d expect.

Apple’s attempt to be a little more open, with its first official Twitter account, backfired Wednesday.

The iPhone 7 may not be the bold new upgrade that was the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, but there were a surprisingly large amount of news to take away from the event given that it was predicted that the flagship would be a disappointment. Some individuals are excited to try the wireless headphone feature of iPhone 7 while some are silently snickering thinking how easy it would be to lose the said wireless headphones.

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Information for this article was contributed by Anick Jesdanun of The Associated Press and Sarah Frier of Bloomberg News.

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