“After just five days – more than half of which I’ve spent using the matte black iPhone 7 Plus – this jet black iPhone 7 has a few “micro abrasions”, to use Apple’s own term”. When things ramp up on a bass-heavy track like Jamie xx’s “Gosh”, I felt slightly more impact going through the analog port.
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With the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, Apple has taken a risk by, well, not changing very much. Trip Chowdhry, managing director of equity research at Global Equities Research, wrote in a September 13 report that the strong early preorder figures being seen by carriers indicates that the iPhone 7 handsets will likely sell very well.
Apple CEO Tim Cook shared links to professional photographers using the new iPhone to capture sporting events. The iPhone 7 Plus, on the other hand, packs a 2,900mAh battery which is 150mAh more compared to the 2,750mAh battery on the iPhone 6S Plus.
Apple redesigned the home button in part to make the phone more water resistant.
The headphone jack is a universal feature that even Apple has used over the years, despite its propensity for adopting technology that is all its own. What impressed me most was the charging time: The iPhone 7 went from 9% to 96% in just a little over an hour.
When we dried it off, it was clear that the porter had not got under the iPhone’s skin. It’s not ideal resolution that close, but it can be pretty good, even at night. Even searching through my sheets after listening to them overnight, I was pretty anxious that I’d already lost half of my loaner pair.
Local audioheads still prefer to be plugged in, according to market research figures from GfK Asia, which show that sales of wireless headphones here are still far behind those of wired headphones. Even when I yanked the headphones out of the bottom of the phone, the adapter held tight to the headphone cord. Only Apple or Beats headphones offer the best wireless audio experience, and you might not like how they sound or fit.
But the AirPods still seem remarkably easy to lose.
Wired’s take on the lack of a jack: “There’s really nothing to say about the absence of the headphone jack except that it’s not there, which really is annoying sometimes”.
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“Given that Apple will not be releasing opening weekend sales for the iPhone 7/7 Plus, investors will be searching for any incremental information that provides color around the strength of this cycle”, White said. This is due to the power supply available to headphones if they are powered by a Lightning port instead of a 3.5 mm port.
