Apple Ditches Headphone Socket in iPhone 7
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£119 for wireless "air pods" .....i don't think so :rolleyes:
wonder how much they charge for the adaptor to connect traditional ear phones |
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Nothing. There is one in the box with the phone.
However I am sure the UK price is going to be £159 Also the ear buds that come in the box connect by lightning connector. There are better and cheaper Bluetooth headphones out there. |
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Our twins dumped wired headphones/earphones years ago and changed to bluetooth. And my daughter's phone recharges without a physical connector, plus the battery is sealed inside.
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Plus, they're including a lightning-3.5mm adaptor in the box so they're hardly pushing people to buy wired headphones with a lightning connector are they. This is part of a long running philosophy at Apple anyway. They ditched the 3.5" floppy drive and serial and parallel ports from their computers long before any other high street pc brand. |
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Not quite what they used to be. iPhone 7 so many leaks, it's as well jobs is dead he'd have been livid. :clap: Apple could have deflected the no jack thing by simply including Wireless charging of the phone. You know that thing Androids been doing for years. It would at least have stopped the charging phone or listening to my el crappo lightning port headphone jack add on dilemna. Not everyone wants or likes bluetooth speakers/headphones, apart from the fact that now you have yet another thing to charge up, the quality is never as good as a good wired headset. Still nevermind, if Apples waterproofing is as good as the thickness of the metal used in construction [bendgate] or the placement of wi-fi antenna in the phone [antennagate] then shortly I'm sure we'll have WATERGATE :D That'll stop people stressing over the headphone jack. |
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I'd agree if the leaks were only headphone jack, the phone sites I frequent have practically given the whole specs away long before it was released.
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Apple won't be able to be as secretive as before due to the sheer amount of phones they need to make. They'll have to ramp up months before release and enviable they will be a lot of leaks. |
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Pretty rip off prices in the UK, compared to the US (for all iPhones).
Their "exchange rate" is about 1.07 iPhone 7 Plus $769 > £719 (1.07) iPhone 7 $649 > £599 (1.08) iPhone 6s Plus $649 > £599 (1.08) iPhone 6s $549 > £499 (1.10) iPhone SE $399 > £379 (1.05) Blaming "Brexit" is just an excuse IMO, the dollar exchange rate is 1.32 atm. |
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Dollar prices tend to appear much lower because they don't normally include sales tax, unlike UK prices which by law have to include VAT.
They probably are still cheaper in the USA, but not by quite as much as it first seems. |
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Do something controversial and dress it up as a bold technical step forward and hey presto! everyone's talking. The buzz generated gets the product into heads even those who think it's a load of old cack.
Far less people would give a stuff if Apple released just another iPhone with a few upgraded bits inside. |
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