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iPhone 7: So long, headphone jack; hello, AirPods (CNET News)

2016-09-07
Apple earpods are the most popular headphones in the world now with iPhone 7 and 7 plus we're moving to connecting them over lightning well why over lightning well first you may not remember I certainly do but from the start we designed lightning to be a great digital audio connector among all the other things that does it provides a digital audio stream provides power to your headphones or speakers it provides content music control right within its digital connection so we're taking the headphones an iPhone 7 and 7 plus 2 lightning and we're including them in a box with each device now we know there are people in the world who do have some analog old connected devices out there so we've also made this it's an adapter Lightning 2 mini foe no audio adapter I'm going to include that in the box with every iPhone 7 and 7 plus as well so our team at Apple has worked so hard to create something new that delivers on the opportunity of how good a wireless experience can be and they've worked hard to deal with the challenges that have been left there and no one has taken on so that is why today we are so excited to show you a new product from Apple called Apple earpods how do you set them up you simply put a pair of ear pods near your iPhone and open the case the user interface pops up and says connect and you tap connect and that's it there's no step - there's nothing else to do you simply connect and at one step also connects you with your Apple watch so you're automatically set up for both your iPhone and your Apple watch you can start listening and as you have playback on either device the air pods automatically switch to whatever device you're using in fact we also use iCloud to propagate that set up across your iPads and your Mac's as well so one step set up across all your devices it's that easy there are incredible audio experience and listen to beautiful music and stereo or you want to use one just to talk to Siri or make a phone call it automatically routes the audio across whatever you choose to do there's no buttons there's no switching there's no pairing there's no unparent those things are of the past and it all started with a brand new chip w1 chip Apple's first wireless chip and there's so much technology packed into each air pod there's the chip there's dual accelerometers optical sensors beamforming microphones antennas batteries it is a technical tour de force in this Manute little air pod they deliver great battery life five hours each and there's a battery and charger built into its case so you can recharge directly from the battery in the case for up to 24 hours of listening and then plug in lightning what you want to charge the case in the air pods together at once and they're so small you want to carry them around with you everywhere here they are alongside our wired ear pods they really are small and comfortable
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