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Apple iPhone 7 Plus Packs 3GB RAM, Early A10 Fusion Benchmarks Look Very Strong (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes from a report via HotHardware: Apple's A10 Fusion processor, paired with the iPhone 7, is already making its mark on benchmark circuit. Although you may or may not be impressed with Apple's new handset, as usual, Cupertino's latest smartphone is looking very strong performance-wise. According to Geekbench numbers, which showcase the iPhone 7 Plus running iOS 10.0.1 (Golden Master), the 5.5-inch smartphone has 3GB of RAM onboard (the iPhone 7 reportedly contains 2GB RAM). Compared to the previous generation iPhone 6s Plus, this is an increase of 1GB. Compared to Android flagships, which come with 4GB or even 6GB of RAM, 3GB might seem paltry. However, benchmarks show time and time again that Apple's SoCs are among the fastest in the industry and simply do more with less resources. Apple says that the advances it has made with the A10 allow the processor to be twice as fast as the A8 in the iPhone 6 Plus and 40 percent faster than the A9 in the iPhone 6s Plus. The iPhone 7 Plus received a Geekbench single-core score of 3233, while its multi-core score comes in at 5363. For comparison, the beefy A9X processor in the iPad Pro -- also paired with 3GB of RAM -- puts up scores of 3009 and 4881 respectively. Likewise, these numbers far outpace those of the iPhone 6s Plus, which delivers 2407 and 4046 respectively.
Failure of a device. Nobody cares how fast the processor is if they can't plug their headphones in.
Whoa, twice as fast? My boring conference calls will be cut in half. Thanks Apple!
Ah yes, crippling the iPhone further with the removal of the highly standardised headphone jack, requiring a pricey and fragile, easy-to-lose, bulky adapter. They're seemingly trying to make the iPhone as useful as a pet rock, and similarly overpriced.
Why is Apple doing this, really? The reason isn't waterproofing (both Samsung and Sony meet at least IP68 ratings, and for some models, even Milspec 810G) without sacking the headphone jack. It isn't technology-related, since both Sony and Samsung fit far more features into less space - again, without sacking the headphone jack.
It's about having yet another expensive-yet-fragile-and-easy-to-lose mandatory accessory, or to create a sense vendor lock-in (because they'll be telling their gullible customers "by the way we make some premium headphones to match our pet rock") so they can sell more expensive yet inferior and terrible sounding headphones by Beats, which literally include weights to lend the illusion of high quality heavy magnets in the drivers. See:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
http://bgr.com/2015/06/19/beat...
http://www.popularmechanics.co...
I'm happy with my Samsung S7 Edge, thanks - the iPhone 4 was my last; after seeing the direction it was going with the 4s and 5 I made the switch back to Samsung phones (my phone prior to the iPhone 3GS was a Samsung) and am sticking with them.
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See, this would impress Android users because they care about this stuff. Apple users on the other hand, just want an extra shiny Apple symbol on the back (preferably glow in the dark and glowing). And that it's the latest model so they can post "omg I got this phone" on Facebook with Selfies.
Well, there's spam egg MojoKid and spam, that's not got much spam in it! Oh, wait, that's ALL spam except for the egg... Sorry!
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I'd be curious about the performance of the second set of cores, that are supposed to use 1/5th of the power of the main two cores.
Might be very difficult to get benchmark results, because as soon as you start to run a benchmark, the phone would switch to the faster cores.
My cheap One Plus X offered the same over a year ago.
They need to improve the software, not the hardware. Pushing the hardware for profit is going to undermine the brand. The existing hardware is powerful enough to run a well written mobile OS. The only half way good mobile OS appears to be Windows 10 or perhaps some version of Linux. Android and iOS are horrible. They are operating systems made to sell apps and mine people's data. On top of all that the mobile platforms are too immature to trust with personal data and they are being stuffed with personal data. You have an entertainment toy/phone being sold as a personal computer and the software is not robust enough to offer either the value or the security. If you weigh the costs and benefits, smartphones are a net loss other than to the companies who got rich selling them.For users, they really don't offer much more than a flip phone and are way easier to break and half like 1/3 the battery life. Flip phones also did not mine your personal data nearly as much. Studies show smartphones lowers productivity and with the huge costs and the horrible, malware filled app stores. I see a trend, not a solid industry with any real vision or direction. They are just scrambling to make the fast money while they can and offering very little value for our dollar. The cheap 100-200 dollar smartphones can offer decent value, but for the key uses of being a phone and texting they are probably a net loss due to the unreliable battery levels. (texting may be faster, but the phone being off for periods fo time offsets most benefits), but there is nothing a 600 dollar smartphone can do that warrants 3 times the cost of the 200 dollar one. The premium phones offer almost nothing for the money other than silly features that come and go. What they really need is better software across the board. Android and iOS could go back to the drawling board and reinvent the UI and really no be doing any worse then ever.. that's how generally undeveloped their UIs really are.. they may as well all be viewed as beta operating systems at this point. A good phone MUST be able to be controlled by one hand. That's how we've used phones for a long time. Large phones you can't hold right or interfaces that don;t adjust automatically are just not acceptable or well thought out. These companies are experimenting with customers necessary infrastructure and they are not being careful at all. They don't care about our personal data. They pile it up and sell it, that's how little they care about your security. If they cared they would not be mining your data because they would realize the liability is not worth the risk when you are still building and secure the basic mobile platform. So.. who cares how fast yet another overpriced and under conceived smartphone happens to be. What is it that we are really supposed to do with these things? They aren't better phones, they basically refuse to finish voice commands, the music apps are all horrible scams designed to sign you up for their services now. The best parts of the platforms are being all tied directly in profit motives. The three major features of a smartphone beside being a phone are supposed to be to get email, to take pictures and to play music. The scan ALL out email to sell us adds, they broke all the music apps unless you pay 10+ a month to get all the features. Whats next? Are they going to make us pay 10 bucks a month to use the camera too?
Apple's SOCs ... simply do more with less resources
That's because the tagline for Java could be:
simply do less with more resources
Better known as 318230.
I don't need a phone that is twice as fast. I can only talk and type so quickly. I need a phone that is half the cost. I really, really don't want to pay $600 every 3 years because my goddamn iPhone is built for obsolescence. Really.
Wahhh
Isn't A10 Fusion a bit of a weird name? AMD called their APU's "Fusion" when they first came out and gave them model numbers A6, A8, A10.... Even though they dropped their "Fusion" branding, I am sure I am not the only tech guy who upon hearing "A10 Fusion" thinks of an AMD APU. And it's been just five years since they came out, it is not like you have to be an old geezer to remember.
Unless I've missed something and Apple now uses AMD APUs on their iPhone...
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Apple's CPU design work doesn't seem to get much coverage outside the highly technical trade press, but they have and continue to produce great designs on the ARM base. Not sure if their license allows them to sell their chips to 3rd parties, but I'd think both the 9 and 10 series would be attractive to many systems designers (aerospace, etc). Also wondering if Apple is moving toward at least a dual-CPU (x86 + A10, say) design for the next generation of Macintosh.
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Is a major disapointement. At this price, I expected 4 GB.
And how many samples per second does the DAC chip process to send out the headphone jack?
Nobody says that you have to write an app in Java for it to work on Android, actually. When I was working as a game dev a few years ago, I actually wrote more apps using ndk than I did using Java. However... while Java may be less than ideal for systems that requite the handling of fast-changing circumstances like what you might need for a video game, for instance, in terms of user-interaction, Java on Android is not generally going to be the bottleneck on performance. To be perfectly frank, the cpu usage problems you have had with Android are probably more likely attributable to the actual devices or even possibly badly written applications you have used than they are to Java.
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About twice as fast as any Android phone in common applications performance. Or in other words, about 2 years ahead in the performance race.
Well that way he wouldn't be able to let everyone know he works as a simple retail jockey.
The metric that I really want to know was not there: how long will it last when idle (waiting for incoming calls) and how long the speech time ? For me, I want a minimum of 48 hours idle, more is better. It is occasionally nice to do something else with the thing, but not all the time. This is like all computer reviews: focus on speed, for client stuff it is not what interests me.
I did see that the $159 AirPod headphones only last 5 hours before needing recharging. Although not being a mac fanboi I can't see myself buying one.
Actually, bluetooth is quite capable in terms of achievable fidelity. The spec allows for 768kb/sec, and can transfer CD-equivalent sample bit resolution.
This is pretty good, in terms of human hearing, because bluetooth compression isn't just randomly lossy, it's a lot smarter than that. It's both predictive and takes into account human hearing characteristics.
Where the most serious problem lies is the common tendency to use too much compression on music. Once that's done, there's no fixing the result.
Here are two simple rules:
1: Use the highest bitrate your compression software will allow you to.
2: Remain close to the transmitting hardware when listening. Bluetooth degrades with range.
If you follow those rules, odds are excellent that you are among the vast majority of humans who could not pick out any flaws in the resulting playback.
Having said that, removal of the headphone jack is, IMHO, a massively unfriendly move by Apple.
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And remove PRFM instructions
Or absolutely anywhere in the retail industry from director to box packer.
I'm fighting what seems to be the majority opinion with this ... but I really don't take issue with Apple ditching the headphone jack on the iPhone 7.
For starters? It's always been a troublesome connector when dealing with phone cases. Many of them didn't allow you to push a given 1/8" jack far down enough into the phone to make a connection. (Always depended on how much plastic material someone happened to put around the metal part of the jack and so forth.)
When using a $100 extended battery case, such things become serious problems, because you're losing the functionality you paid that much to add, every time you have to take the phone out of the case to use a set of wired headphones, or to plug it into the AUX jack in a car, or ?? That was the problem that initially drove me to start using bluetooth stereo earbuds. (I have pretty good results and sound quality with the LG Tone Infinum.)
Besides that, though? I'm already attaching my iPhone to my Alpine stereo via a USB to Lightning cable in my Jeep. Not using the headphone jack at all for that. That allows the stereo to control much more on the phone than if it was just using an analog audio plug connector.
There have been some good arguments made against this change and DRM, arguing that eliminating the 1/8" stereo jack in favor of something like Lightning connectors amounts to finally plugging the "analog hole" that ensures non DRM access to audio content. But I think it's VERY far-fetched to suggest the entire industry would ditch the analog audio jack. The connector is so prevalent because it's very inexpensive, as much as anything else. It's so easy to implement an audio jack in a circuit and the cables for it are about as cheap as they get. This is just something Apple sees benefits to doing (a way to ensure all the gadgets attached to the new phones use a digital audio pathway with power and control channels as part of the standard). It means more profits for Apple too, certainly. But Apple doesn't make these changes JUST because they can charge more afterwards. They only do it when they see a way to improve the user experience.
Apple has a long-standing fascination with changing around connectors and jacks when they think they have a superior way to handle one of them. The "mag-safe" charging connector on their laptops is a good example. Yeah, it's proprietary and costs more than a barrel plug, up front. But it sure did put a stop to all those costly laptop repairs when someone breaks the charging jack loose inside of it.
I'm not paying $650 for the "best" performance. A $100-150 Android cell phone provides a good enough experience.
Also Apple controls the hardware and software. With Android you get many players and sometimes the optimization of the device is lacking.
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Mid-level Android phones at least until at least a couple of years ago lacked the fluidity of iOS in the OS interface level. You could see the animations were not smooth, unless you had one of the high end phones with very fast cpus. For this reason I switched to getting high end hardware in Chinese phones (to maintain the mid-level price) and now I am happy (e.g. Xiaomi Mi4 currently). But it does show it is an Android problem, not an app-specific problem.
It's not surprising that an iPhone can get by with less RAM and runs faster with a given ARM core architecture - they push a lot fewer pixels than most of their competitors. For example, the iPhone 7 Plus is 1920x1080; the Samsung S7 Edge is 2560x1440. The Samsung device is pushing 78% more pixels. When you factor that into the equation - it's surprising how efficient the non-iPhone devices are.
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I don't find people complaining about performance that much. I hear more battery life complaints, fragile and breakage issues. When Apple talks about performance I just shrug anymore. Yeah it's noticeable on paper but who cares. I'm not trying to run complex computations through it. Just watch videos, text, and play simply games. I could do that on a iPhone 4s. Save your money on hype and still get a audio jack and buy a model below the 7 series. Same would go for a Android. Don't waste extra on the latest and greatest.
Maybe they could also make one with a floppy drive for those that want one, or an ethernet jack, or an adp port for those that want to plug in an old keyboard. Times change.
That's impressive
Day one, every single person that buys an iPhone 7 will be able to use their headphones without any further purchase.
More like failure of a post...
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Ah yes, crippling the iPhone further with the removal of the highly standardised headphone jack
The headphone adaptor ships free with the phone.
The really amusing thing is it is your phone that is crippled by the inclusion of the audio jack; your phone is less good that it could be in some way because that jack has to fit in your phone.
Why is Apple doing this, really?
Because they know in the long run it is better for everyone, just like the ditched floppy drives while people like you raised a stick about that because they could not see past next month, to what the future held - or more importantly, what it could hold.
It's even more amusing to think of how you probably consider yourself a technology savvy person, while sticking your head in the sand and holding out a hand to demand progress stop because you have reached a place you find comfortable.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
My OnePlus 3 has 6GB of ram, and 64 GB storage.
And a 3.5 mm jack.
And costs half as much.
http://www.gsmarena.com/oneplu...
I dont own any apple products, but their hand-drawn SoC parts are super badass. I wish the arm competitors would do whatever the fuck it is that is making the magic. iDevices A series processors are monsters. They are constantly (at least since what, the a5?) raping the competition. apple is shining in the cpu arch business on an arm license. i wish qualcomm and samsung et al could increase their power levels to over 9000 too.
You can also bring it to an airplane.
People like you would support an Apple edict that humans have been breathing air for tens of thousands of years and "times change" so now we're all going to live underwater and install iGills.
Floppy drives were, even when Apple decided to abandon them, becoming relatively useless thanks to low capacity and speed vs increasing capacity requirements. They took a risk by being the first to abandon the device, but it was inevitable that it would have to be abandoned sooner or later.
Ethernet jacks have been replaced by sufficiently high speed Wifi for mobile devices, although wired still has way better speed+latency and remains appropriate for fixed devices.
ADP was a proprietary Apple standard limited to Mac peripherals superceded by the more open and functional USB.
Analog headphone connectors are sold by dozens of low, medium and high end manufacturers, since the de facto standard is simple, open and has existed for nigh on a century. They still offer the best possible sound quality for the application - any alternative which converts to analogue close to the ear can only be as good or worse. They form a solid, dedicated connection, with sturdy waterproof variants having existed for years, and do not get in the way of other functionality, e.g. charging.
The iPhone 7 is the Windows 8 of phones: some incremental updates plus the removal of a feature that a huge proportion of users enjoyed. Sure, we could all install the slightly kludgy ClassicShell, but it's just another thing which takes up space and can go wrong and mysteriously stops working at the next update. Although at least ClassicShell didn't stop people charging their Windows 8 tablets, so there is that.
If they had waited just a couple more years for USB sticks to become readily available
Except it would have been twice as long until that happened because people would have just stuck with floppy drives.
Externalizing hardware is orders of magnitude more annoying on a phone
It's an adaptor about an inch long that you just leave on your plug. How is that seriously "orders of magnitude more annoying". The only thing I have used the audio jack for in many years on my phone is - attaching the earbuds that came with the phone. For car use, even in rental cars I just use the USB ports that just about all cars have had for many years now. For home theater use I just use Airplay, or sometimes the lIghtning dock...
The time has come to move to the future, there are very few people that will even notice the jack is gone more than a handful of times.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
You are free to buy any other phone that features legacy audio technology as a "feature".
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No, it isn't. Well, it can be, but most people associate barcodes with UPCs and SKUs are not UPCs. Neither are useful to this discussion. Model number is the correct term.
Not to mention that it still has a headphone jack. The only difference is that it requires headphones (that come with the phone) that use a newer plug design that enables more technological capabilities. Really it's more like when floppies went from 5.25 to 3.5".
You can plug in the headphone jacks it comes with a converter sheep
People forget that 3.5mm socket has become common on phones only in the last decade. Nokia, Sony, Motorola supplied their headphones with proprietary connector or you could buy a 3.5mm converter. Then some started introducing 2.5mm plug, which also wasn't very standard. I can remember all this as I couldn't understand silliness of not using the standard 3.5mm. That said, it's not fair to say that Apple is killing a standard that was around for 100 years. It arrived to phones many years after they were able to play mp3s.
It's also a bit ironic that Apple is copping it after being a key contributor to bringing 3.5mm to phones (remember Motorola ROCKR) and (now theirs) Beats created the whole headphones craze and general populous carying more about being able to use their cans.
You have all those complaints yet you still buy Apple products? No wonder Apple has contempt for it's users.
Not only will we *not* read that Wall-O-Text, we'll even compose replies about how we haven't read it. Like me!
No thanks. I hate when companies have to maintain multiple product lines especially with minor differences between each one.
I don't care if it eats into profits, there is something to be said for maintaining one's company's dignity.
You know, profits isn't the only reason for a for-profit company to exist. In fact profit doesn't have to even be required .. even if it's not a non-profit.
Making a headphone and non headphone version of the iPhone would be extremely annoying and stressful.
Do you still use a dial-up modem? Or better yet an actual floppy disk? I bet a flash drive would totally blow your mind! You upset about the removal of a port that is literally older than you but not about Samsung new phones being banned for exploding. Priorities.
You make a lot of good points blindseer! I'm...Im going to rape you now.
(bends blindseer over, stars raping)
(blindseer tries to get help but his dumb phone can't understand speech calling)
Or absolutely anywhere in the retail industry from director to box packer.
Not just retail; but any industry that creates, handles, or sells goods on any level.
Now ask the question, "How many of you have wired headphones? How often do you use them." You'll get a dramatically different response from the optical drive question.
People forget that 3.5mm socket has become common on phones only in the last decade. Nokia, Sony, Motorola supplied their headphones with proprietary connector or you could buy a 3.5mm converter.
You're absolutely right! I forgot all about that horrid little adapter on my Motorola or Nokia phone, and then, it only went to a 2.5mm Jack. Getting to a 3.5mm meant yet another adapter.
Mod parent up.
Those making an issue of the missing jack are just narcissistic shit-heads.
Apple has always done what they wanted in terms of features, ports and technology. They only have to justify decisions to shareholders, and I doubt there are any shareholders who matter that are wringing their hands over Apple's stock price at the moment.
If you don't like the product, don't buy it. It's not difficult, unless you have the severe mental issues often demonstrated by many bigoted shitfaces who unreasonably hate a company they do no business with.
You don't understand because it doesn't affect you. I use lightning to charge and the jack for audio in my car, a 328i, and this is the only combination that works well.
I don't understand how this benefits me. Ultimately, Apple does a lot of things that have no benefit for me. They lost the grip. Just looking at the awful remote for AppleTV...everyone in my family has troubles with it. Interrupts movies all the time. There are so many things wrong with Apple design they should start tanking as a hint.
I am slowly accomulating for a complete move. When the iPhone 1 came out, they hadn't ask me, but it was exactly what I wanted. These last phones are a shame, even with the amazing technology they have they are a huge shame. Phone doesn't last a day, screen cracks (requires full LCD change) - everyone I know cracks this phones once or twice. People with 16gb can't do anything at all.
I even had to switch from Mail to Outlook iOS. That is embarrassing Apple. You are goong to tank because you are just riding Jobs shadow, but it's so blurry now that you don't know how far off you are.
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I am glad to be meeting here as important as you. You don't use the jack? They didn't change it to please you (you don't matter to them!!!). They did it to prop sales a Beats and further reinforce their walled sheeple garden.
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I need lightning for something else. If they had two lightning slots I wouldn't mind.
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You know what? I'm fully aware that Apple did not change this to please me. I am fully aware that they (almost) solely did that to make people buy more of their other products. Sure thing. Corporate logic 101.
But as this change does not interfere with my specific needs and priorities (!), I am still happy to get the iPhone 7 as is. If they had broken something I need, I might go and buy an Android device. Or stock up on iPhone 6S, to last me through the Connectorless Ice Age. But if the iPhone 7 still meets my needs, it gets bought. Simple as that. It's called informed choice, or something like that.
The point I wanted to make is that maybe, just maybe, Apple actually weighed the market balances properly before making the change. And figured out that there are enough customers who, like me, will not care enough about the old connector going away to stop buying iPhones. That's all I wanted to say. Not a general absolution of Apple, or their often enough fairly slimy corporate strategies. Nope. Just a comment that removal of that jack was not as stupid as some people make it out to be.
It's not a matter of stupid. It's a matter of fucked up.
You're not affected. Good for you! I am. Boo for me. Had they never removed the port? Still exactly as good for you, AND me.
When people get a feature they use removed they can complain. Frankly, I don't even know what you're trying to defend, since by your own post it doesn't affect you either way.
Lastly, they can ONLY lose customers over this since theres no benefit to losing jack and plenty of drawback. Even the dongle is short term attempt to appease the frustrated, so it's clear they DID know people would be pissed; enough to slap free hardware into the box until people give up.
It's a safe bet they intend to earn more revenue than they lose from those customers, and they just bought a shiny new bluetooth headphone company. It's my rocket science.
While the lack of a headphone jack is ridiculous, it's not as bad as Samsung's indifference to providing updates to their devices. At least Apple provide an adapter. The only way to get the latest Android updates for a Samsung is to hope that CM support your device.
I was not objecting to people complaining about the connector being removed: as you say, commenting on such matters is more than fair enough. What I am objecting to is the seemingly widespread notion that *all* customers are unhappy about this. No, some are, probably rightfully so. But actually, a sizeable number of customers also do not care much either way. That was all I am trying to say here: there is less drama than some observers are making this out to be.
All other things being equal, I am actually not even convinced that removing the port was a smart decision on Apple's part: quite a number of their customers do care, and the removed connector is not *that* big to begin with. OTOH, I can also see more and more headphones going wireless in the foreseeable future anyway - it is bloody convenient to not have cables dangling around, after all.
And with regard to the problem of not being able listen to music, resp. talk on the phone with headphones, at the same time as charging the phone: making power cables that allow you to plug in Lightning earphones *atop* the charger cable is a total no-brainer from an engineering perspective. I'm actually surprised they are not in the line-up yet.
Still don't want a phablet. Happy owner of an iPhone SE. Next upgrade when they make the next phone with an actually useable form factor.
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Really ? Technology changes , should we still be using reel 2 reel , it comes with adapter probably use for my car , what's the issue. Apple very wise at including it rather than having to third party to get adapter , like they said it's Valuable space , I update once every year know changed to once to every two years , so I'm moving from 128gb IPhone 6 Plus to IPhone 7 plus , I use jarbird freedoom ear buds ( amazing sound quality . Used to a successful DJ in the 90s so I'm very fussy about sound quality was dubious about it being Bluetooth and loss of sound quality but they sound better than the wired base model of Bose ear buds ) removal of ear jack oh well no big deal . You got reliaze just how complicated these devices are and space inside them Is premium , the 7 plus will have 3gb And I'm looking forward to stero effect . 1) first time ever I've pre order via apple app used to stand out all night and got the model I wanted 128gb silver ( I use 128gb and have lots of space left ) will I get when they say I will 2) will my leather apple case for IPhone 6plua fit the new Iphone 7 plus ? Without effecting stero sound . Peace n love everyone
Spelling mistakes Jaybird freedom buds Last year first year I didn't upgrade since 3GS I know I am an apple nut , however I was an Apple fan way before the bandwagon began rolling , I learnt as a child all about computers on mac classic and the at the time amazing lc. Who remembers HyperCard ? From the early 1990s
It's not important. Why does everyone make a big deal about this. In another year or two none will have it.
iPad Pro 9.7 has 2GB. iPad Pro 12.9 has 4GB. My 12.9 scores 4954 in Geekbench 4 btw.
Most people never plug headphones into a phone. Those who do will simply keep our egos in our pants and just use the faking adapter. Attach it to one's existing headphones and boom now they're lightning. You forgot to bitch about it dropping the floppy and optical drives as well as the copper Ethernet.
A floppy drive...
A optical drive...
A stylus...
A memory card slot...
And on and on and on and on.
Great. 3 GB to store music and no cheap, convenient way to listen to it.
Apple "i" products. The the "i" is for Idiot, because only an idiot would own one.
What an OUTDATED, OVERPRICED and boring pile of junk.
NO wonder is going down the tubes with Timmy Crook.
What, you're claiming the idiotic loss of the jack plug as an advancement, despite the fact that all of the best audio equipment in the world uses it?
And yet as the same time you are ignoring the fact that the iPhone 7 only has 3GB of RAM, which was standard for flagship phones two years ago?
You truly did drink the Kool-Aid.
im not in that much of a hurry
You expect a company that took 20 years to add a second mouse button to their desktop configuration to see the possible need for a second Lightning adapter? Another 10 years at least, please.
(No, I wasn't trying to be constructive, in case there was any confusion).
You can charge the iphone 6 and listen to music through wired headphones at the same time. This isn't possible on the iphone 7 without additional hardware that does not come with the phone.
I don't think this type of use is edge case. In fact, I think it's probably one of the most common use cases. Sit at your desk listening to music on your phone while charging it. In order to do this with the iphone 7, you either need to buy a lightning splitter or buy some wireless headphones (Preferably apple's new airpods, of course).
New technological capabilities of headphones? I think you have forgotten that stereo 3.5mm headphones are analog and that any extra digital steps the signal has to go through only impedes it. Unless people start needing a source-processed digital surround sound signal I see no use in changing the connector as analog really is as good as it gets for stereo headphones. Maybe it's just me being a snobby audiophile but that's just my 2Â.
They can plug their headphones in(to the adapter)
Seeing the updated Geekbench 4 mark for the current Android "flagships" which struggle to match the main thread performance of a 2 year old iPhone!