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Re: iPhone 7

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Post by importantbrian »

slowmotiony wrote: post #892
importantbrian wrote: post #588

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I don't think removing the headphone jack is going to be as big a deal as everyone here makes it out to be. I have a pair of bluetooth headphones I use for the gym and I love them. In fact all the headphones I see at the gym anymore are wireless. The only thing I hate is having to charge them. If battery technology keeps improving there will be no advantage to wired headphones. Even from a sound quality perspective t…

How much do you listen for charging to be an issue? I have the beats solo 2 and I change them like once a week for half an hour. Hardly an inconvenience and I listen to them almost every day.

It's not so much the amount of listening as it is my absent mindedness about remembering to charge them.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by mikeash »

snuxoll wrote: post #866
mikeash wrote: post #831

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I have a 6+ and I can't answer that question. I'll probably sit this one out and see if the 7s is more compelling (or if my 6+ is less compelling by then). I can't blame Apple for it. I think they've reached feature saturation. The stuff is just Good Enough now.

iOS 9 seems to have fixed some of it, but my 6+ still lags on occasion - the 6s+ seems to have fixed it and I feel like I should have waited the extra month but my Xperia Z3's screen got smashed and I needed a replacement device and my Android issues saw no end. I will probably upgrade just for the performance improvements alone, sucks that I'm losing a headphone jack but outside of the car I never need to charge + u…

You're right, performance is a reason to upgrade. I'm satisfied with mine, but it could be better. Whenever I use my wife's 6s+ I'm mildly shocked at how much smoother and more responsive it is. I don't think it's enough to get me to pay $769+ to upgrade, but it's still a potential reason to.

The headphone thing annoys me enormously, but it probably won't be a factor here.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by richie5um »

yock wrote: post #240
acomjean wrote: post #42

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I can't get over the headphone jack either. Another dongle to loose. Tons of headphones obsoleted. Can't charge while listening. Laggy audio. more batteries in the world. They're ok with a bulge for the camera but not headphones? I work in a lab and a phone with headphones is standard equipment on the commute and work (for at least part of the day). I would seriously move off iOS if I was making music with it. If onl…

> They're ok with a bulge for the camera but not headphones? This confuses me too. The camera wart is ridiculous, and I bet if they made the device just that slight bit thicker they'd have room to retain the 3.5mm jack. The other possibility is that the headphone jack makes water resistance that much more difficult. Maybe they think it's worth it?

I think the key point is that they don't want a wired device. When viewed from that stance, these answers are obvious.

Wouldn't surprise me if iPhone 9 was wireless only. Somehow.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by perfectfire »

primitivesuave wrote: post #725
brobinson wrote: post #661

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>I saw an $120 SIM card that gives unlimited Internet access for a year Do you remember which telecom this was?

I went with a Japanese friend to a store called Nojima, which seemed to be the Best Buy equivalent for Japan. There was an entire wall of prepaid SIM cards, and there was a promotion for two 6-month SIM cards for 12,000 yen. I wouldn't have been able to find it had I not been with a Japanese native. I got a 1 month SIM card for 2,200 yen ($22) which still works out to far less than what I pay Verizon. The network nam…

> "docomo"

That would be NTT.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by lancewiggs »

slg wrote: post #5

I still can't get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more conve…

Perhaps a global perspective might help - from what I see in this international city the switch to wireless headphones and earplugs is well underway. I've been unwired for 2-3 years now.

AliExpress can deliver you a decent set of Bluetooth headphones for $50-$100, or earpieces for $12.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by lukeholder »

jamesmccann wrote: post #189

Feeling pretty disillusioned by another iPhone and iOS update. The 3.5mm coupled with lightning instead of USB-C just look like obvious traps for lock in with no real gain (5hr of playback time?!) iOS still continues its march of adding minor features that should be in regular OTA updates and packing them up with some serious marketing hype. There's barely any improvement here and most of the features are already wel…

Charging the Airpods in the case for 15 minutes gives you 3 more hours of audio playback. The case has 24 hours of charge available.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by wfn »

tptacek wrote: post #233

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that cameras are nice and so are Retina displays but what we'd really like to see is a big splashy page about whatever's new with the Secure Enclave Processor in the 7. Not because there's anything wrong with the 6! Ivan Krstic's talk about Apple platform security at Black Hat was probably the best talk of the whole event. Nobody is delivering seamlessly integrated chips…

Does SEP not allow peripherals (e.g. the radio module) direct memory access anymore? That would be a very tangible thing indeed wouldn't it; and if it does not then the radio etc. firmware is still super unsafe.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by ksec »

Absolutely amazing HN thread, 1711 comment as of now and less then 10 are on A10 SoC?

It is truly a astonishing, how they manage to use the same TSMC 16nm, and get 40% single core performance increase. The rumors is the same SoC core from A9 but 40% higher clock speed from 1.8Ghz to 2.6Ghz, while keeping the same thermal envelop.

Some people were wondering if these Smartphone CPU can easily scale up the clockspeed. Turns out it can. And the performance could now exceed the baseline performance of Macbook.

i.e, Apart from compatibility reason, there is no longer a case for Apple to continue and use Intel CPU. A Quad Core A10 may even outrun the current Macbook Pro given the similar TDP.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by nicky0 »

jamesmccann wrote: post #852
nicky0 wrote: post #641

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iOS is a free OTA update.

I was trying to place emphasis on the regularity not the cost of an upgrade. Packaging up what seems like relatively trivial features into a major OS release isn't really progress.

I don't see how it makes much a difference if new features comes once a year or once a month. Being part of a "major release" doesn't invalidate anything.
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