Hari Seldon
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Leaked iPhone 7 Plus Design = iPhone 6 Plus w/o Headphone Jack
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shortsFortallPeople
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it's almost as if they might be invested in no longer giving crappy 3.5 headphones away and pushing people towards their premium headphones instead.
Just bought a pair of Sennheiser bluetooth headphones last week. Jokes on you Apple! You can't make me do what I've already done to myself!
I got 'em because the headphone jack on my 6S+ has been fucking awful since day one and the jack on my Macbook broke a year or so ago and I was sick of that bullshit
Beerman462
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Wow really like every other phone also Apple screens stop about an inch from the bottom of the phone. So what are they using this "massive" space savings for? Also ipods(touch) have screens I have a second gen still that is smaller and thinner than any iPhone so what else you got?
Backfoggen
Banned
Same here I guess. The small performance issues with the 6 Plus at first made me think I wasn't going to keep it for long but turns out I do.
JetBlackPanda
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Until I see specs and see the phone in person I can't speak bad about it. However I'm sure glad I grabbed an SE!
The headphone thing is whatever for me.
I love this little thing.
The headphone thing is whatever for me.
I love this little thing.
Tripolygon
Banned
care to elaborate?
They'd just give you crappy headphones for whatever the new format is instead
Stabby McSter
Member
The only thing that really bums me out is the similar body. whyyyyy 
an iPod touch has less components than an iPhone as well, I also didn't say it was literally the screen that takes up the space...
look, I'm not saying they are justified in removing the headphone jack, I'm saying throwing up an image of an iPod shuffle and saying "what about this??" is not a good argument
radios shipping overview
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The move was made to save on parts cost. Always was. Jacks aren't cheap, and now they have a headphones business.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Can they make the bezels on the 7+ smaller? Also add front facing speakers?
the phones still have way too big of bezels and awful looking antenna lines. There are multiple better looking phones compared to the iPhone now.
Except that they will undoubtedly include Lightning headphones in the box.
JetBlackPanda
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Ipad
That and Beats will probably only use lighting cables.
HazySaiyan
Banned
You know I could cope with no 3.5mm jack if it was USB Type-C, it's annoying but I'm sure I could get used to it, but Apple can just fuck off with this proprietary bullshit. I'll never buy an iPhone again if this happens.
You know what's notably thinner and smaller than any current iPhone - especially the Plus-size models - and yet still packs in a headphone jack in addition to a display and SoC and battery?
But it is if it's just about the thinness.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
but will we be able to charge and listen at the same time without an adapter if they do that?
demosthenes
Member
Hmm, I need a new phone and was thinking of waiting for iPhone 7. I'm on a galaxy 4 right now. IPhone 6+ or galaxy 7. I want a headphone jack.
You know what's notably thinner and smaller than any current iPhone - especially the Plus-size models - and yet still packs in a headphone jack in addition to a display and SoC and battery?
an iPod touch still has a lot more components than an iPhone (cellular, vibration motor, bigger battery, etc.)
Gareth Bale
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They've really stopped trying since the iPhone 4 haven't they
Except that making Beats use Lightning cables would be a terrible decision, given that suddenly they would cease to work with anything other than Apple devices. If you want to sell a ton of expensive headphones, they need to be compatible with more than one make/model of phone.
Netherscourge
Banned
The new iPhone feature is the removal of a standard feature found on every single other cellular phone in human existence.
And - fun fact - the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are larger in both width and height and have plenty more room for all those things anyway!
Apple is not the smartphone king it used to be. Just because they get rid of the headphone jack doesn't mean others have to follow. If anything they'll offer it as yet another point of difference/superiority.
"Why get an iPhone 7 when you can get a bigger screen, better battery life, a better camera, a faster processor, a better operating system, and a headphone jack, all for hundreds of dollars less?"
Mammoth Jones
Member
The 6+ is too thin. I gotta use a case just to give the damned thing some heft.
I really wish consumers would start bucking the thin trend and demand bigger batteries.
I'm a grown adult. I can hold a thicker phone one handed. It's really not that hard.
As for the headphone jack. I'm telling you most people don't want bluetooth headphone problems.
-Random skipping audio
-Interference
-Audio just not working until you reboot either the headphone or phone
-Bluetooth connection just randomly dropping mid song yet the song doesn't stop playing. Audio now blasts through my phone. On a crowded but quiet train. The giggles from people hearing my secret Taylor Swift fetish hurts my heart :/
I've been using bluetooth headphones (Jaybird) exclusively for years. They are really nice 99% of the time. But every now and then either they or my phone takes a shit when I'm trying to listen to audio.
Most people used to and comfortable with 3.5mm headphones are not gonna wanna go wireless or use a fucking dongle. Or not be able to listen to audio wired while charging their phone.
I really wish consumers would start bucking the thin trend and demand bigger batteries.
I'm a grown adult. I can hold a thicker phone one handed. It's really not that hard.
As for the headphone jack. I'm telling you most people don't want bluetooth headphone problems.
-Random skipping audio
-Interference
-Audio just not working until you reboot either the headphone or phone
-Bluetooth connection just randomly dropping mid song yet the song doesn't stop playing. Audio now blasts through my phone. On a crowded but quiet train. The giggles from people hearing my secret Taylor Swift fetish hurts my heart :/
I've been using bluetooth headphones (Jaybird) exclusively for years. They are really nice 99% of the time. But every now and then either they or my phone takes a shit when I'm trying to listen to audio.
Most people used to and comfortable with 3.5mm headphones are not gonna wanna go wireless or use a fucking dongle. Or not be able to listen to audio wired while charging their phone.
Profit share at 94% - Market Share at 14%
Apple doesn't care about market share. It's almost theoretically impossible for them to be making any more money in the smartphone industry, given that they already control 94% of it.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Can't say I'm not disappointed. Apple is going to be shocked with how bad the sales are if they're saving all their good shit for 2017
My V10 is barely bigger than a 6S+ and sports a bigger screen. I imagine the G4 is smaller than an iphone in all dimensions with the same screen size and has a headphone jack.
This is just a push for fucking beats......I'll stick to my knock off phones. I still want to try a windows phone for the hell of it......but know the app market is still pretty dry
This is just a push for fucking beats......I'll stick to my knock off phones. I still want to try a windows phone for the hell of it......but know the app market is still pretty dry
The Artisan
Member
why you say that?
I keep saying this too. Seriously, we've reached well past the point where we need more thin devices. Give me more fucking battery. A lot more. There's no practical usefulness of a phone being a goddamned nanometer thinner or whatever it ends up being. People use battery.
That's one thing I love about the 6S+. The battery is goddamned immaculate. If it could be slickly thicker with even better battery I'd be in heaven. At this point I wouldn't even think of getting something like the regular iPhone. Battery is terrible and I always just buy a battery case which makes it even more bulky than if it were built in.
Blackthorn
"hello?" "this is vagina"
Hahaha they didn't even fill the space with anything, lawd.
Beerman462
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Just coming out with a snarky comment about how a comparison is foolish just comes off wrong. Also I think you are overestimating the size of these components. What does the phone have that the touch doesn't? Bigger battery, touch id, these things are all insignificant. Go look at an iPhone 6 tear down and tell me what freeing that space gets them. Either way my picture demonstrates that the headphone jack doesn't in and of itself self contribute to overall device thickness.
And as guess who said the iPhone is bigger than the touch to accomodate these things.
Mammoth Jones
Member
Yup. I got a 6+ at launch and I still love the battery life. Couldn't go back to a non-plus sized iPhone. Dat battery.
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