HONG KONG – China shipments of smartphones from Apple, Microsoft and other makers that do not use the Android operating system rose about 33% in the final quarter of a year ago, according to government and analyst data, indicating strong sales for the iPhone in its largest market outside the US.
Apple will also reportedly add NFC and Touch ID to the iPhone 5e that will allow it to support Apple Pay. Those are thing. They’re like regular headphones or earbuds – only they plug into the lightning port instead of the 3.5mm jack.
Apple’s iPhone 7 might be months away from launch, but rumours around what the new iPhone will feature, how many devices will be released are already doing the rounds. And if we’re lucky enough, we might also see the rumored Apple Watch 2, also set to be unveiled at an event happening in March.
‘Tell Apple to keep the standard headphone jack and ditch planned obsolescence!’
Given this pattern, and the fact the iPhone 7 will be a totally new model, not just an “s” update, we expect the so-called Special Event to take place on 13 or 14 September, with the iPhone 7 on sale in the United Kingdom on 23 or 24 September.
Apple has been granted a new patent that may offer an explanation for how it plans to improve or at least maintain audio quality on internal speakers as it seeks to build ever-slimmer iPhones. The only question, though, is how big the backlash will be if Apple actually does abandon the traditional 3.5mm headphone jack?
If you’ve thought that there are a lot of rumors about the lightning port and the audio jack, wait until you read about the phone’s thickness and the screen, and this one is directly from the horse’s mouth, so to say.
When it comes to the display of the iPhone 7, there are reports saying Apple has tapped Samsung and LG Display for the device’s organic light emitting diode (OLED) screens.
04/01/2016: The iPhone 7 Plus could have up to 256GB storage and feature a 3,2000mAh battery, according to Chinese website MyDrivers (via MacRumours). However, until now, many thought it would be the iPhone 6c while others simply stated that the Apple would skip the “6” moniker entirely and settle for releasing an iPhone 7c. This means that the tech giant is seriously thinking about swapping the available processor with a more powerful one.
iPhone 7c, or iPhone 6c as it is being referred to, will also be waterproof. The company has been introducing a new iPhone design after every two years. Apparently, for the iPhone, the slim features would come at the cost of a missing headset jack. Apple will inevitably do what it wants because it can. With the display transformed into fingerprint-sensing display, Apple will look for more internal space to fit the additional hardware that’s required.