The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, launched at an event in California Wednesday, are the first iPhones without that familiar 3.5mm headphone jack. Included in the iPhone 7’s box are Apple’s ever-popular EarPods that will instead feature a Lightning connection rather than the traditional analog/headphone jack connection. So, we’ve also made this: It’s an adapter, lightning, to miniphono audio adapter.
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In addition, Apple is hoping to appease those angered about the lack of a headphone jack by making the AirPods easy to use and easy to setup. “The courage to move on, do something new that betters all of us”.
Airpods, which is not a typo for iPods, has some of us wondering if we’re really about this iPhone 7 life.
The new iPhone is water-resistant, doesn’t have a headphone jack and has a dual camera lens, while the new smartwatch has a new water-resistant shell and a Global Positioning System chip.
Gamers should also rejoice with the new iPhone. Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. By promoting wireless ear buds, analysts say, Apple may also hope to get more people using streaming services on the Apple Watch as well.
If you’ve seen any of the iPhone 7 leaks you’ll know not much has changed in terms of design, but those familiar antenna bands have migrated to the edges of the device rather than the back.
And for fun, Apple announced the arrival of Mario gaming – in the form of a new game called Super Mario Run – before this year’s holiday shopping season, as well as new support for Pokemon Go on the Apple Watch.
■ Wireless earbuds. Apple’s optional Airpods talk to each other and to the iPhone using a unique radio technology, and plug into a case which doubles as a battery charger for the earbuds.
The Apple Watch Series 2 will cost $369, around £275, which will knock the price of the original Apple smartwatch, now known as the Apple Watch Series 1, to $269.
You don’t need to be a tech enthusiast to appreciate the first iPhone 7 announcement: it’s water and dust resistant. The tweets were deleted but not before savvy watchers screengrabbed and disseminated the images of the new waterproof iPhones.
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If nothing else, the iPhone 7 packs a punch.
