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  • Alleged 'iPhone 7' chassis shows symmetrical speakers, lacks 3.5mm headphone jack

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    tjskywasher said:
    CoboRodRegas said:
    Disappointing if true,  The headphone jack is one of the most important features to me.... Way more important than the camera...  I use it hours every day in multiple locations, connected to different devices (car stereo, large quality headphones I keep at work, small ear buds I use for working out, and multiple home stereos depending on what room I am in). 

    No other audio interface will suffice,  I am not willing to sacrifice the quality & convenience of a traditional headphone jack, I am not willing to spend hundreds of dollars to buy several dongles or spend hundreds of dollars to change my audio equipment,  And I am not willing to carry a dongle with me at all times. 

    Its a simple, ubiquitous, quality, standard, with no peer.   Its not like the floppy disk, its not like fire wire.

    So if these rumors are, true my next phone will be an android.


    For how long? Once Apple drop the headphone jack it'll become more and more prevalent amongst other device manufacturers and within 5 years no one will use or miss the headphone jack. Move with the times.
    So if Apple moves to lightning connected headphones everyone else will too?  No - my hifi, my computer, and other devices are going to use a 3.5mm connection or worse some of the likes of Samsung are going to come up with their own 'standard'. This is a horrible move especially if its the only change to the design. I won't be buying.
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  • Back in black: iPhone 7 & iPhone 7 Plus mega review

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    sog35 said:

    You are only delaying the inevitable.

    The analog headphone jack is going away. PERIOD. Deal with it. 

    Sure you can buy the 6s this year but eventually you will need to switch over.


    You are almost certainly correct, but in 2 years time hopefully bluetooth will be better, the lightning connector will be dead, USB-C headphones will be commonplace, battery life will have improved or apple will have included more than one port... or failing all that at least there will be some other improvements that will be significant enough to make up for the inconvenience.  

  • Back in black: iPhone 7 & iPhone 7 Plus mega review

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    dreyfus2 said:


    (This whole headphone jack brouhaha is a frigging non-issue though. Everybody sleeps one or two hours, totally possible to charge the phone without listening to music at the same time.)
    I'm going to buy a 6S (having passed on it last year) instead of a 7 because of the lack of a jack.  I often struggle for battery life especially when travelling - there's no way I want to choose between music and charging when I'm on the move.

    While there are battery, processor and camera improvements in the 7, none of them are enough to pursuade me to use bluetooth or dongles for music. The fact the new lightning headphones are having problems, the home key might not work with my touchscreen gloves in winter and the reports of weird buzzing means the only disappointment I have is that I can't get the 6S in black.