This time, we’ll be saying goodbye to more than just $650 – with the purchase of an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus, you’re bidding farewell to the 3.5mm headphone jack and drawing on the courage to brace the future.
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Removing the port for headphones from the iPhone means they now connect only wirelessly or through a charging port.
“The loss of the headphone jack is likely to divide opinion”.
The Apple Watch Series 2 will also be available to pre-order at this time. It also has an improved home button that lets users perform different tasks by varying how hard they press it. Screen size remains unchanged, as do physical dimensions, although both models are a few grammes lighter than their predecessors. The next highest storage tier is a 128GB, for $749, while the largest is an eye-popping 256GB for $849.
When will the iPhone 7 be available in stores?
Apple’s first big bet stems from the fact you have to buy AirPods separately. While there is no 16GB in the new models, here is no 64GB either.
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Apple is “now at a point where we know before taking the first customer preorder that we will sell out of iPhone 7”, the company said Thursday in a statement.
As of late, Apple has been content to bide its time, letting others scramble to be first to a new service or technology before swooping in with its own take, one that’s developed thanks in part by observing the efforts of others.
Apple has also updated its smart watch. And the original Apple Watch, rebranded Apple Watch Series 1, starts at $270. The Double Cuff in Swift and Epsom calfskin leathers will cost S$2,328. Meanwhile, the iPad Air 2 adds a 128GB model, while that same storage option for the Mini 4 gets bumped down in price by $US100 ($131). Existing Hermes band options will remain. The new models will also be dust and water resistant to IP67 standard (that standard specifies water protection to a depth of 1 meter for 30 minutes). Apple will probably catch the most flack for dumping the analog audio jack. Pre-orders are expected to begin at 12:01 a.m. The program starts at $32.41 a month for the cheapest iPhone 7. Julie Ask, principal analyst at Forrester Research, said waterproofing “is one of the features that we’ve been missing from these watches”.
Apple is doing the same thing for iPads. Apple’s statement said initial sales are “governed by supply, not demand” – that is, demand for iPhones is strong enough that any limits on sales will come exclusively because of limitations on how many phones Apple can produce.
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Apple shares closed at US$108.36 on Wednesday.
