Potential Mega Rumor - Apple to ditch headphone jack & require Lightning for iPhone7
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Ingueferroque
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That would be terrible, especially given how the build quality of their headphones suck.
Unknown Soldier
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I need to find out which companies are the biggest suppliers of iPhone accessories and buy their stock
H.Cornerstone
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So you won't be able to charge and listen at the same time?
TheKaeptain
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Your head phones now charge your phone.
*files a patent for a device that allows you to charge and listen to your iphone at the sametime*
Not until the Iphone 7s, Apple hates putting more than one available port on their devices for their first iteration.
freenudemacusers
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You'll have some very slim (ahem) pickings by that time for equivalent droid options.
Jazzy Network
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You buy the splitter that they sell for $79 of course.
Dr. Feel Good
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I would imagine Apple is attempting to remove corded headphones altogether. Goes off the trademarks of AirPods two months ago: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/10/01/airpods-trademark/
Good riddance I say. I cannot stand corded headphones and if it weren't for spotty transmission in wireless sets, I would have dumped normal headphones a long time ago.
Good riddance I say. I cannot stand corded headphones and if it weren't for spotty transmission in wireless sets, I would have dumped normal headphones a long time ago.
badcrumble
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I'm down for audio being Bluetooth-only if they can supply the battery life to justify it.
Apple gonna Apple. Moves like this are exactly why I haven't been able to stomach any Apple products since the iPod Classic (and my 160GB one is still kicking!). Rather than care about customer convenience they always go for proprietary stuff like this just to sell more of their branded items.
The iPod Touch doesn't have as many internals battling for space.
Mammoth Jones
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This has been a rumor for a long time and I doubt it'll happen. All this would do is piss off consumers that own a variety of headsets and force them to buy bulky conversion dongles.
I just don't see it happening.
Maybe at some point in the future they'd ditch the 3.5mm jack altogether and go pure bluetooth. I do that know w/ my headphones and speaker. But even then when the battery gets low I need a wired headset.
I just don't see it happening.
Maybe at some point in the future they'd ditch the 3.5mm jack altogether and go pure bluetooth. I do that know w/ my headphones and speaker. But even then when the battery gets low I need a wired headset.
-Pyromaniac-
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Sounds cool. Will happen on all phones eventually.
freenudemacusers
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Me. I used to think what wanted was a smaller height/width, but I want shit to be as thin as possible. I look at my old 4s and just think of how obese it is.
chalkitdown1
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PartTimeWarrior
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Not Android
-Pyromaniac-
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well android will get rid of the headphone jack eventually but likely for bluetooth
obviously not all android phones, there are too many. This is gonna be the same as ditching flash and cd drives and whatever else. People will complain for a while then not care.
Phoenixazure
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They're working hard on getting rid of that pesky battery, it's the only obstacle in the way of a phone that easily crumples in your pocket.
Ah, I totally forgot the battery capacity. I guess it will keep on decreasing then. 2915 mAh > 2750 mAh > ???
Jazzy Network
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Ironically no one knows that OPPO already had a phone with no 3.5mm jack.
Could phone companies just fucking stop with the thinness bullshit? Seriously, it doesn't need to be any thinner. It just fucking doesn't. Give me more battery, not a more thin phone. It's perfectly fine as it is. Taking out useful ports just to try and make things thinner is well beyond insanity at this point.
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