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Apple Introduces Wireless AirPods

To others, it goes way above that and the new iPhone 7 made a great jump from F/2.2 to a wide opening of F/1.8.

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That’s double what you get on the iPhone 7 and it allows you to do cool things. These little “pods” are headphones but without the wire.

Will Lightning headphones work with older iPhones? Apple is also donating iPads to more than 50,000 students through its role in the ConnectedED national education initiative. The device will be available in stores on September 16th. They still use standard Bluetooth, but the chip enables the AirPods to pair without digging through settings. Additionally, Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus now features the Taptic Engine haptic feedback system to make the home button that much better. More smartphones manufacturers will try this feature and, in the future, we could be more used with the wireless headphones than we the normal ones. “The courage to move on and do something new that betters all of us”, said Apple’s head of marketing, Phil Schiller, on stage at the event.

Right out of the box this means you can now use optical zoom on an iPhone.

Some early reviewers are already captivated by the AirPod. But they’ll be easier to pair than most Bluetooth headphones.

Because Apple can. Removing the headphone jack frees up more room under the hood of the iPhone.

But gone is the traditional headphone jack, requiring audio to be delivered via Apple’s proprietary “lightning” connector or by wireless – and that may ruffle feathers. “It’s about getting consumers thinking more about that ecosystem of Apple products – and how they all play nicely together”.

Apple recently announced its iPhone 7 smartphone and the only big problem that Apple fans had with it, was that it was missing a 3.5mm headphone jack.

The team at Nicer couldn’t be more accurate about how Apple would try to sell such a product. Note that if you’re not aware, Apple typically releases a new iPhone every 12 months. Last year, the company released a super expensive gold version, which started at $10,000.

The flagship devices will be sold at around the same price as the models they replace, starting at $649 for the iPhone 7 for United States customers, with deliveries in 25 countries beginning September 16. These are a wireless version of the EarPods that will ship with the iPhone 7.

O’Donnell, for instance, considers the changes from last year’s iPhones “modest” overall.

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For starters both the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus come in two new colour variants – Black and Jet Black, the latter which is a darker shade with a high-gloss finish.

Live Coverage of Apple's September 2016 iPhone/Apple Watch Event