New iPhone 7 Case Brings Back the Headphone Jack (thenextweb.com) 377
Apple removed the headphone jack in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, forcing users to use either Bluetooth, the Lightning port or included Lightning to 3.5mm headphone jack adaptor in order to listen to music through headphones. However, one company took it upon themselves to create an iPhone 7 case with a built-in 3.5mm headphone jack. The company is called Fuze and they recently launched an Indiegogo campaign that promises to bring the audio port back to the iPhone 7. The Next Web reports: To achieve this, the company is taking Apple's Lightning to 3.5mm adapter and building it straight into a case, where you can plug your headphones with "no dongles, no adapters, no problems." In addition to the audio port, the Fuze Case will also serve as a battery pack as it adds 2,400mAh of extra battery life to the iPhone 7 and 3,600mAh to the 7 Plus. It will be available in five different colors including white, black, gold, rose gold and blue. The case is currently available for $49 to "super early bird" backers, but will increase to $59 once more people have chipped in and will eventually sell for $69 in retail. The company expects to start shipping the accessory in December later this year.
Makes perfect sense (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple customers can never pay enough ... milk them as much as you can, if they're that stupid.
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Apple can fly the banner "Mission Accomplished". Pay more to get basic functionality that the phone used to have...
Re:Makes perfect sense (Score:4, Insightful)
Pretty sure Apple has absolutely no financial interest in this product succeeding, possibly would prefer it failed.
Re:Makes perfect sense (Score:4)
Yeah, because that is Apple's MO, right? Build something that nobody other than Apple can use?
If the product says "Apple" or "iPhone" anywhere on the marketing material, packaging or product... they are getting license fees....
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Yeah, because that is Apple's MO, right? Build something that nobody other than Apple can use?
If the product says "Apple" or "iPhone" anywhere on the marketing material, packaging or product... they are getting license fees....
Assuming they are doing the Adapter the "legit" way, Apple is getting an MFi license fee for the adapter built into the case.
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Ding ding ding.
That's the real reason they use "Lightning" connectors instead of industry standard mini or micro USB....
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Doesn't Apple get license fee for this adapter?
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That doesn't mean they necessarily want it to succeed, just that they will not block it (which may cause anti-trust issues should they try).
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I may be wrong, but I think if it connects to an iPhone there'll be a licensing fee involved, especially if it's marketed as an "Apple-compatible" product. I'm pretty sure that's the case with chargers and cables. So in the end, I think Apple will make money from this one way or another. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple themselves came out with something like this eventually.
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You actually can't make a lightning connector accessory without Apple's blessing. So they at least have a licensing interest.
Or maybe they overlooked that detail ...
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This is tiresome.
I get this nonsense whenever a major brand decides to ditch a technology.
Normally Apple has been the first, however other follow suite after people realize it isn't that big of a deal.
1. Apple is giving with their phone a converter.
2. Most of the time when people get a second hand device they will get wireless.
I am not trying to sound like an apple apologist but really is the headphone jack that big of a deal?
Or are you angry that the iPhone doesn't have a 25 pin Parallel port so you can co
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> I am not trying to sound like an apple apologist but really is the headphone jack that big of a deal?
Yes.
Having to cart around yet-another-stupid-dongle, faster battery drain, and the inability to charge while listening to music all add up to inconveniencing the customer when the prior model didn't have those drawbacks.
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iPhone users do have the option to ignore Apple Music and use other streaming music services such as Spotify, but I do recognize they can't put their own music files on the phone like Android allows.
As an iPhone 6 user turned to Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, I'm not looking back. But Apple users do have *some choices.
Re:Makes perfect sense (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Makes perfect sense (Score:4, Informative)
Again, your solution is to buy more stuff, which I have already rejected as a stupid alternative. Ok I'll say it, it is completely asinine to pay more for something that doesn't work as well for reasons I have explained. Less sound quality for the dollar, and on top of that wireless headphones are a consumable device because the battery will only last for a few years. Like the fact that you don't understand this very basic concept totally blows my mind. This is why America is so far in debt.
Yes, for your information I buy expensive headphones for listening to music. But the fact of the matter is, $300 is going to go further on wired headphones. This is another thing that you cannot argue. In every brand I check, the wireless version of similar audio quality (if indeed the bluetooth signal is not more compressed from the start) is more expensive than comparable wired headphones. Furthermore, I know wired headphones will work with everything from my kids cheap mp3 player to my van to my stereo to my phone. If I buy wireless I am relegated to only devices with bluetooth. Don't even get me started on interference issues.
I just don't have the time to make sure all the proper dongles are with me at the right time, and I don't need the burden of remembering to charge all the time. Plugging in every day just to charge gets too monotonous for me, especially having to do it more than once a day. It is my choice if I want to buy an expensive smartphone or not. My money goes to devices that solve more problems for me, not less. Anyone who buys something that doesn't have return for the value *for them* in convenience and usefulness is an idiot, which is exactly what you are suggesting I do.
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Why are people so pissed off that a third party has completely resolved the biggest issue with the iPhone 7 in less than 3 weeks?
GOD DAMN IT I HATE IT WHEN PROBLEMS GET SOLVED EASILY. HOW DARE A COMPANY FILL AN EXISTING NEED!
It's just ridiculous. Don't like the iPhone? Don't buy one. Like the iPhone 7 except for not having a phono jack? This solves your single issue with the product.
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Except for allowing you to use wired headphones at the same time as charging your phone, which is what everyone's bitch is.
Did you even look at the summary?
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or 3) give up my library of apps & music bought through iTunes
That's what you get for being stupid enough to buy into the Apple ecosystem and buy stuff that only works on Apple devices. Enjoy your lock-in.
Re:Makes perfect sense (Score:5, Funny)
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Because it does everything the iPhone does and a lot more. No one cares that it loads a webpage in 18 nanoseconds instead of 17.
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iPhones are objectively inferior. They use IPA LCD screens, whereas Samsungs use AMOLED screens that are brighter and have more vivid colors.
It probably helps a lot that Samsung is a screen manufacturer and is at the cutting edge of these technologies, whereas Apple doesn't manufacture anything at all and has to outsource everything, and has to buy their screens from someone else (like Samsung).
Samsung's cameras are better too. And here again, Samsung makes their own cameras.
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Battery cases prove market for fatter phone (Score:5, Insightful)
Subject says it all. They keep making phones slimmer so they can brag but we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that many people will pay for more battery life.
Re:Battery cases prove market for fatter phone (Score:5, Insightful)
The old nokia-style dumb bricks lasted forever. Sure, I couldn't browse the web but at the time I didn't care to. The early smart phones (android 1-2) were getting there, I had one that would last 3-4 days between charges. Then I had a Galaxy S3 (if I remember right) that barely lasted a day on a single charge. Now with the iPhone 6, I'm able to go a couple days between charges... Less if I'm looking at the thing a lot or streaming music. It's not great, but its acceptable.
Offer a rugged version with bonus battery life (Score:4, Interesting)
I'd gladly pay the same price or slightly more for a slightly thicker/tougher, longer lasting phone.
Agreed. I don't really see the downside to offering a "rugged" version with extra battery life. I would think corporations would buy them by the bushel. I would probably buy one too.
As it is now, I have to get Otter cases for my phones for fear of them snapping or shattering.
I've always thought that the Otter cases were overkill for anyone who isn't suffering from parkinson's or has a terminal case of clumsy. I use a very minimal case make by Spigen and it's managed to keep my phone intact despite an occasional drop for over a year. If you want to be able to dribble your phone like a basketball then by all means get an Otter case but I don't think they are necessary for most and are WAY too bulky to be practical for the bigger phones like the iPhone 7plus.
The old nokia-style dumb bricks lasted forever. Sure, I couldn't browse the web but at the time I didn't care to.
That's a rationalization if I've ever heard one. You "didn't care to" because it wasn't an option. Even the early "smartphones" like the offerings from Nokia were absolutely terrible at browsing. I know because I owned several of them. They sucked.
Now with the iPhone 6, I'm able to go a couple days between charges... Less if I'm looking at the thing a lot or streaming music. It's not great, but its acceptable.
That means you don't use your iPhone a lot. If you use it heavily it will last 1 day max. I routinely wind mine down to near empty because I'm using it constantly. It's a rare day I don't dip below 50% charge at some point and I typically get to 20-30% with at least one mid-day recharge. I actually keep a charge cable in my car while driving. And in case you were wondering my battery works fine - I just use the phone a LOT.
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I'd gladly pay the same price or slightly more for a slightly thicker/tougher, longer lasting phone.
Agreed. I don't really see the downside to offering a "rugged" version with extra battery life. I would think corporations would buy them by the bushel. I would probably buy one too.
The downside is that it would be durable, useful, and popular. The entire smartphone economy is based on the assumption that no one keeps a cell phone more than 2 years, and that it would be an improvement if everyone had to replace within 1 year.
As speed becomes less of a difference between annual models, designers are looking to make device failure a bigger factor. However, that is a hard trade-off. The glass used on modern phones is harder and more impact resistant than any mass-produced transparent m
Re:Offer a rugged version with bonus battery life (Score:4, Interesting)
Apple & Samsung & everyone else have performed market studies that show that other than a nostalgic vocal few, not enough people would actually buy thicker phones to justify their development. The proof of this is that If the market for thick phones was as underserved as you pretend, sales of thicker phones and these thick, reinforced battery pack cases for todays thinner phones would be a significant percentage of all smartphone buyers. This isn't the case and battery cases & external batteries exist for those who need them and suffice for almost everyone.
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Now with the iPhone 6, I'm able to go a couple days between charges... Less if I'm looking at the thing a lot or streaming music. It's not great, but its acceptable.
That means you don't use your iPhone a lot. If you use it heavily it will last 1 day max. I routinely wind mine down to near empty because I'm using it constantly. It's a rare day I don't dip below 50% charge at some point and I typically get to 20-30% with at least one mid-day recharge. I actually keep a charge cable in my car while driving. And in case you were wondering my battery works fine - I just use the phone a LOT.
You might think that, but I use my phone as an iPod most days. I've got it loaded up with assorted music and podcasts that I listen to throughout the 8-9 hour workday. If i'm not getting a lot of texts and don't bother with Waze, then I'll get by using only 15% of the battery over the day. Typically I'll be closer to 50% use during the day by browsing the web, checking email, answering texts... Even lower if I use Waze or Pandora.
Re:Battery cases prove market for fatter phone (Score:5, Interesting)
Which is why I have an Android based Note 4.... It's not that the battery last a long time, being old it doesn't usually make 10 hours actually, but I can carry a spare charged battery which I can insert ANYTIME I choose and presto, I get another 10 hours. My "battery life" is governed by how many batteries I can carry (which is one spare that fits in my wallet case), not how much capacity is built into the phone.
It's not that I'm opposed to the Apple stuff.... But I like the endless capacity I get by having spare batteries that I can switch out on the go, so I never have to worry about not having any power when I'm out and about.
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The idea of opening your phone to the elements just to get more battery power seems insane to me.
I work on messy, dusty, wet, and generally gross film sets. I watched a guy try to open his phone and replace his battery in the middle of december in well below freezing temperatures on a hectic set. He dropped the battery cover in the slush at his feet and generally made a hash of it.
But even if he hadn't been an infomercial-level klutz.. it would be crazy to me to need to turn off and open my phone in order t
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B) How is having a battery pack dangling from your phone by a cord in any way more elegant? You have made a portable device non-portable, or at least very awkward.
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A) come to a film set some time.. you don't have many options and can't just walk away whenever you feel like it. I've been standing out in the desert for 4 or 5 hours at a time and then it starts raining and "clean and dry" is a leaking popup tent. Even the porta potty is a 10 minute ride away.
B) nothing's dangling from anywhere. It's just sitting in my pocket charging. Since it's not major surgery to charge up my phone I don't let it get so low that I can't unplug it when I need to use it for a few mi
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B) So you have to take the phone from your pocket, unplug it, put the battery pack back in your pocket, use the phone, take battery pack from pocket, plug in phone, and then walk around with a phone and battery pack in your pocket. Yeah, elegant.
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A) personal vehicles are generally very far away from where you're working. And crew transport vehicles drop you off and leave you there. They're not always close by either.
B) I don't have to do anything of the sort. I reach into my pocket... pull out the plug and take out my phone. Then when I'm done I put the phone back in my pocket, grab the plug and plug it in -- an advantage of the lightning plug in my phone.. I don't have to look at it to figure out how to plug it in.
It's far more elegant and usef
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There are fortunately still companies that make phones with decent battery times. Yes, that means my phone is not ultra thin and I also have to pay less for it, but it runs for a week on a single charge.
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There are quite a few well made, high spec Chinese phones that have big batteries. They also have user friendly features like a headphone socket, dual SIM sockets, SD card, and a protective skin case in the box. The cost about 1/3 a much as an iPhone, or less.
OnePlus do good software and updates too.
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Heh, OnePlus takes 6 months to a year to deploy upgrades [betanews.com]
it can take a long time between the moment a new Android release is introduced and it being rolled out via software updates.
Take the OnePlus 2 for example. It launched a year ago with Android 5.0 Lollipop, just before Google released Android 6.0, but it wasn't until early June that it received a software update to Marshmallow. OnePlus X, which launched shortly after the OnePlus 2, only gets its Marshmallow treatment today.
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Actually, OnePlus deploy security and bug fixes fairly quickly, within a week or two of discovery. Upgrades to the next OS version take longer, but at least you are protected.
And for the money, you really can't complain.
Other way around (Score:2)
Battery cases prove SOME people like fatter phones, but they are a minority. They don't sell hundreds of millions of battery cases.
The great thing about battery cases is that the people that don't mind a bulky phone have a solution, and the people who DON'T want bulk have a choice too. If phone makers make bulkier phones that's great for the people that want them, but you can't buy a case to make a phone thinner.
Re:Battery cases prove market for fatter phone (Score:5, Insightful)
To me the thickness of the phone is a "who cares?" factor. The length and width determine what sort of pocket I can fit the phone in.
Re:Battery cases prove market for fatter phone (Score:4, Funny)
But who wants a rigid, flat board to sit on. With thinner phones, they bend to your butt's contours so much more easily. And it also increases phone manufacturers and repair shop revenues nicely.
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Unless we're talking about women's fashion, in which the front pockets may as well not exist.
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But if we're talking fashion, then arguing utility is silly.
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Women keep their phones in their purses. That's why women actually want bigger phones than men, on average, because men care about them fitting into their pockets, whereas women have plenty of room for a phone/phablet in their purses.
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You missed the point of the post you replied to. That's all and well for you that you don't care about thinness - make your phone thicker with a battery case then. Phone manufacturers are designing their products for more than just you.
However, someone that *does* care about a thin phone cannot make the device thinner. And unless you're constantly wearing baggy pants or cargo shorts, the Z-axis also matters for what pocket you can fit a phone into.
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To me the thickness of the phone is a "who cares?" factor. The length and width determine what sort of pocket I can fit the phone in.
Bingo.
This whole "but it's thinner" concept seems ridiculous. It's like these people are terrorized by a slightly thicker phone. Thinner usually equates to "bendable" and fragility. Just give me a decent, solidly-built phone and I won't care if it's 2mm thick or 3mm thick or OMG 3.5mm thick.
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But whether I like it thin or whether I don't care, I can't get more battery time out of the iPhone. Which WOULD, on the other hand, be something I care about.
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Then buy a battery case. If more people did so, Apple & Samsung & ... would have a better case for building thicker phones. Because so few do, the business case for making them is clearly "at a loss".
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Then buy a battery case. If more people did so, Apple & Samsung & ... would have a better case for building thicker phones.
Surely, if everyone bought cases, there would be no incentive for the manufacturers to building thicker and sturdier phones.
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agreed. Through all the dozens of phones ive ever had, i dont think ive ever looked at one & said "you know what this phone needs? to be thinner"
More rugged yes, better battery life HELL YES.. but thinner? its never even entered into my mind that i want a thinner phone.
And yet its all any of the phone manufacturers are ever concerned about, its the only thing they change from model to model, its gotta be thinner! thinner! THINNER!
Where the hell are they doing their market research??
Do you think it is just barely conceivable that you are in a minority and that one of the world's richest companies may, indeed, spend quite a lot of money on market research?
Now there is a company with courage (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Now there is a company with courage (Score:5, Insightful)
Next step is to include a free wire so you don't lose those wireless earbuds.
This is Apple we're talking about. "Free"? Expect to pay $39.99 for a iWire, and have to put up with standing in line waiting for a Genius install it for you.
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Next step is to include a free wire so you don't lose those wireless earbuds.
This is Apple we're talking about. "Free"? Expect to pay $39.99 for a iWire, and have to put up with standing in line waiting for a Genius install it for you.
Of course, but that's for the Apple iwire. Though these third party wires don't provide nearly the same sound quality or social status, they are cheap.
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Next step is to include a free wire so you don't lose those wireless earbuds.
It'll be called the iWire or iTether and it'll be $39.95 for the white version, $49.95 for the black. It'll also be super-thin so it breaks every couple of months.
That video... (Score:4, Informative)
That video is so absolutely horrible, it actually wraps around and becomes good.
What were they thinking?
Exactly as predicted (Score:3)
Apple removed the headphone jack in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, forcing users to use either Bluetooth, the Lightning port or included Lightning to 3.5mm headphone jack adaptor in order to listen to music through headphones. However, one company took it upon themselves to create an iPhone 7 case with a built-in 3.5mm headphone jack.
This is exactly what I predicted would happen prior to the iPhone's release. Those who want a headphone jack will get a case with a headphone jack built in. Those of us who don't really need one (myself included) won't be burdened by having a port they don't use though admittedly most of us (myself included) didn't mind it being there. Given that most people put their phones in a case anyway it is to some degree a win all around albeit an imperfect one.
Now if someone would just make a decent waterproof battery case that doesn't use micro-usb (either lighting or USB-C would be fine) I would be a happy guy. None of the current options are very good. If the battery case had a headphone jack built in, so much the better.
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"Burdened". "Burdened by a headphone jack".
Let that sink in. There are people out there burdened by a headphone jack. Luckily we have a company courageous enough to save these poor souls.
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I remember people saying the exact same thing when Apple removed Floppys, serial ports & optical drives: "How could anyone be burdened with it, it's sooo small and light and I need them soooo muuucch!!!".
This tempest in a teacup will soon blow over as well.
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I remember people saying the exact same thing when Apple removed Floppys, serial ports & optical drives
False equivalency. All the items you listed were blatantly obsolete when Apple removed them. Us old folks remember Microsoft shipping a box with 60 or 70 floppies to install Office from. Serial ports suck and aren't extendable. And so on.
There's no "replacement" for analog audio going into your ears. As this thread should make it abundantly clear, an external converter of some sort is absolutely required when there's no analog output from the iPhone.
Unused ports are a wasteful problem (Score:2)
You do realize if you have a port you do not use it is not a problem, but if you want one you have to _buy_ a case for sweet money and it also makes the phone bulkier.
Disagree that it isn't a problem. On a mobile device that is space that could be put to a better purpose. For me I'd rather have the space devoted to extra battery because that is more useful to me. Your mileage may vary. If you prefer a built in headphone jack I won't call you crazy because it's genuinely useful to some. But there are a LOT of people who rarely use the headphone jack in their phone so it is logical to make it an option on a case instead of built in. Plus there are plenty of smartphon
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For me I'd rather have the space devoted to extra battery because that is more useful to me. Your mileage may vary.
Your mileage will certainly vary in the downwards direction if you actually use the bluetooth earbuds. A set of wired earbuds uses less power than a wireless pair. Your imagined gain in battery life only works if you never use earbuds or headphones, and even then I doubt you'd really gain anything. It doesn't look like they made the battery bigger since it's not filling the space that the headphone jack occupied.
Face it, this was just a money grab.
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The payoff for removing the jack isn't so much with this year's iPhone it's that it's preparing the way for next years design.
This year's iPhone7 doesn't have a TouchID "Button" any more. Pressing TouchID gives feedback using the new haptic engine which needed the space freed by the removal of the Jack. Next year's iPhone will, from what I've read, remove the residual touchID zone (but not TouchID function) so that the whole front if the future iPhone will be used for the screen & haptic feedback will b
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They make cases for that as well.
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From the beginning Apple phones have low battery life, and Apple makes it difficult to replace the battery, which means you'll be forced to buy a new phone once the battery decays (which all batteries do).
The battery for my iPod Touch (1st gen) lasted eight years. It will be interesting to see how long the battery in my iPhone 6s will last.
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Almost everyone I've ever seen has a case on their iPhone which makes it bulkier so I don't think the bulkiness argument holds any water. Apparently many users must actually want the phone to be bulkier. It's easier to hold securely, makes it possible to hold it against your shoulder (almost anyway). This race to the bottom as far as thinness goes is such a strange fad. My phone is about 1cm thick and that's as thin as I want it to be. Sure super thin looks sleek but that's as far as it goes.
This new cas
Peak thinness? (Score:2)
This new case design looks really sweet I think. Makes the phone look just about right. Maybe they should offer a version without the headphone adapter for those that don't care about that and just want extra battery life and a little thickness.
My preference if Apple was going to offer more models would be for them to make a "rugged" version with a bigger battery. Something that basically can take being dropped and handle more abuse without the need for an add on case and has 2-3X the battery life. Obviously being bulkier doesn't bother a lot of folks since they put it in a case anyway and obviously battery life has been a recurring complaint. The market CLEARLY exists and I think Apple is leaving money on the table by ignoring it.
I would think
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Consider the following though: by making the phone thinner, you can get a case that while making the phone bulkier, is still a manageable size to hold in a pocket.
Remember when everyone was walking around with the phone holster on their belt? You don't suppose that might have had something to do with the thickness of the phone, do you?
Personally, I'm glad that Apple didn't try to make the 7 any thinner than the 6. It's already a bit ridiculous, but going thinner would be insane.
What size drill bit? (Score:2, Funny)
And I can just add one myself.
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And I can just add one myself.
And sue the people who told you where to drill when the phone get's broken too...
Am I the only one who saw the news stories where the idiots who actually did this where trying to sue the producer of the videos claiming you could do this? I was laughing pretty hard until I realized they where actually SERIOUS....
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Sure they're serious. They might win. Stupider suits have succeeded.
So ... lemme get this straight.... (Score:5, Insightful)
You buy a superspecialawesome phone that is ultrasuper thin. Then you stick it into a phone case, returning it to the 3-4mm you had before.
So ... you have a phone with a crappy battery life because they can only include a paper thin battery pack, which has to be glued on and can't be exchanged "or it would get too thick", you accept that they take away your headphone jack for the sake of thinness, then you pay extra to put a case around it that returns it to brick size.
Let me spell that in a way that you people understand:
#idontgetit
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Why do contemporary cellphones need a case? Mine came with an outer shell that did a pretty good job at keeping the contents from falling out...
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More phone makers should make super-resistant phones like the Moto X Force. [youtube.com]
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So either I'm lucky or cheap Chinese knockoffs are better at surviving drops than ass expensive phones...
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Or you're a corner case too insignificant to matter for most phone makers.
Why no card? (Score:2)
How about one with an SD card? I'd buy that, it beats having to schlepp a WIFI harddisk in the pocket.
Won't fly (Score:2)
Apple just hired another lawyer. I can't imagine this makes it out the door.
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Especially if the case has rounded corners...
Something's Fishy (Score:2)
This is how the Fuze case will look [tnwcdn.com]. Really? Where is the lightning port on the bottom of the iPhone in that picture? Did Apple relocate it to somewhere else on the phone, because it looks like you've glued a plastic mold to the back of an iPhone and photoshopped out the lightning port.
To make this work you've got to connect this "case" to the existing lightning port and that is on the bottom of the phone. Which means you're going to have to have this case wrap around the bottom of the phone. And how a
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Replying to my own comment. From the actual indegogo site the case contains two parts, one of which is a complete wrap-around bumper that contains the lightning jack. Picture of how they've done this is here [iggcdn.com].
Thanks! (Score:2)
Stupid phone (Score:2)
I really like iOS, but the iphone 7 is stupid. I WANT A HEADPHONE PORT. I also think a phone is horribly flawed if a case is required to survive a drop, which everyone will do at some point.
Make a thin and rugged phone with a headphone port. You have a winner to me. Otherwise I'll hang onto my iphone 6 for as long as I can and then go Android.
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This is Apple you're dealing with. Apple does not make compromises. It's less convenient AND more expensive. Not or. We know what our customers can expect from us!
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I would much rather pay for this case that allows you to use your own headphones, AND give extra battery life, than be ripped off by Apple forcing you to buy their extra probably highly inflated in price box of trick. Dropping the headphone jack is just a cynical marketing strategy to make people give even more money to Apple.
Doesn't the built in adapter allow you to use 3.5mm headphones?, We all know that Apple dropped the 3.5mm jack to make money out of third party accessories manufacturers, yet they provide you with a solution out of the box. Not defending Apple, i have a 6s Plus, think is a great device, yet a don't really like Apple.
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The problem with an external adapter, and with lightning connector headphones, is that the DAC has now been moved from inside the phone to the external dongle or headphone.
For audiophiles, this was standard practice (to use an external DAC) even with the 3.5mm jack, because the iPhone's internal DAC was limited to 24-bit/48kHz. But now with cheap dongles and cheap headphones, the built-in DACs could be quite inferior for audio quality, or if decent, raise the cost (rather than one decent DAC in the phone, n
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I should refine my last statement that I do not use the 3.5mm jack during the day while I am at work. However, I DO use the 3.5mm jack quite extensively when I am mowing the grass, going for a walk, or listening to music when falling asleep (and leaving my lightning port connected to a charger overnight). I would like a slightly thicker phone if more battery life could be had - as it is now I can only get by always charging my phone overnight, AND by topping it off while I am at work by leaving it connected
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Or buy a $30 widget that allows charging and phono output at the same time. Yes, you're having to buy an extra thing, which is lame. Yes, this is an arbitrarily manufactured issue. No, this isn't an insurmountable issue.
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You know what's great about wired headphones and earbuds? They don't go dead if you leave them sitting in a drawer for a week. Or a year.
That's why wireless earbuds are a ridiculously impractical invention, and I would go so far as to call them "consumer hostile". Two more batteries to drain, wear out, and be disposed of. Lovely.
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Besides, worthwhile headphones don't come with an 1/8 inch jack anyway.
Correct. They come with a 1/8 inch plug.
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You realize this case is from a third party, right?
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Nonsense, Apple invented the headphones and the headphone jack. I refuse to believe anything else.
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Maybe we can throw on a pair of balanced XLRs for my monitors, too...
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not sure how long the indiegogo campaign has been up but they have 676 people interested and have raised 43.5k out of their 50k goal and they still have a month to get the rest. Heck, ignoring the jack it's a fairly nice looking addon battery pack. I think they'll do okay.
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Wow, Hundreds of people do you say? That must be 0.0005% of iPhone 7 sales so far!
It sure proves that Apple was wrong to remove the iPhone jack for over 30 million iPhone 7s sold so far that a few hundred people want to buy a case with a jack in it...
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True, but there are also very good Android phones for half as much or less. In fact, there are many sub-$200 Androids that most people would find perfectly satisfactory. (Unless you want it for some specific task that requires a more high-end device - or just conspicuous consumption.)