The Lightning to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter is already on Apple’s website as an iPhone 7 accessory, although it’s showing as now unavailable. But for $159, some people weren’t having it.
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Apple shares, which closed up 0.6 percent on Wednesday when the new phones were launched, were down more than 2 percent at $106.04 in morning trading on Thursday.
No, you can’t charge your phone while using this adapter, but, honestly, how often do you actually do this?
“Maintaining an ancient, single-purpose analogue connector doesn’t make sense, because that space is at a premium”. This makes it incompatible with most wired headphones without an adaptor, however Apple includes the adapter.
Apple announced the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus on stage at a special event in San Francisco.
The AirPods pack up to five hours of power, but the accompanying case will hold a 24-hour charge, so users can place them back inside to get more juice.
These AirPods are compatible with all Apple devices and will be shipped in India later in October. This means the United Kingdom consumer will pay an extra £81 – nearly 16% more than the U.S. average. Still not totally clear is just how Apple will decide who gets priority for the new iPhone among those who are upgrading, those new to the program and those buying a phone outright.
Apple may be setting the stage for a dramatically different iPhone model to debut next year on the 10th anniversary of the smartphone first introduced in 2007, Bajarin said.
Despite the addition of new features such as waterproofing, twin high-resolution cameras and a pressure-sensitive button, most of the fuss about the iPhone 7 has been about something that’s missing. “And so the headphone jack, which – let’s face it – is just another plug to plug things into, becomes symbolic of Apple’s constantly changing products”.
iPhone 7 Plus has a Telephoto lens (apart from the standard, wide-angle lens) with great zooming quality. But Forrester Research analyst Julie Ask figures consumers will appreciate the faster chip and other improvements once they try the new iPhones.
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“Apple has a very long history of removing features we all thought were necessary, and then convincing us that we didn’t need them”, said Ask, noting that Apple paved the way in phasing out the use of floppy discs and optical drives in computers.
