I PHONE 7 AND 7 PLUS ACCESSORIES

I PHONE 7 AND 7 PLUS  ACCESSORIES

GOOD BYE HEADPHONE HACK, HELLO AIRPPODS

The iphone has always been a device for listening to music, and with the iphone 7 Apple was determined to dramatically raise the quality. That entailed two major changes: dropping the analog headphone jack, which Apple derided as 1000 year old technology that greatly limits quality, and developing a new wireless technology for a superior Bluetooth 

experience. To replace the absent jack, the iphone 7 comes with Earpods that you connect to the Lightning port. Because that port is powered by that battery, it affords the opportunity for better sound, including, for example, noise cancellation and fine control over frequency response.

If you’re invested in high end headphones that used the old analog jack, not to worry; Apple also includes an adapter that lets you connect them to the Lighting port. But connecting with wires is so yesterday. The future is wireless, Apple says. Hence the new Airpods.

The new apple Airpods are tiny about the height of a matchstick yet each Airpods is packed with technology: Apple’s new W1 processor, two accelerometers, two optical sensors, two microphones, an antenna, and a battery. This is design genius. Apple has taken Bluetooth earbuds to a new level.

Better quality, cool features

          

While Bluetooth headsets have been around for some time the quality, reliability, and ease of connecting is often poor. The Airpods change all that. Apple has boosted the quality by developing its own chips, one in the iphone itself and the W1 processor in the Airpods. Advanced features include noise cancellation to reduce ambient sounds when you’re listening and external noise captured by the microphones when you’re talking on you phone.

And here’s something cool if you want to pause the music, you simply remove on from your ear. The airpods use their sensors the detect when they’re in your ears and only play sound when they’re both inserted. The sensors also let you invoke siri simply by double tapping one of the airpods. Best of all, setup is extremely simple, and they work across all your apple devices, allowing you to easily switch from you iphone to your mac. (They also work with non-Apple devices, but the quality is then no better than other Bluetooth headsets.)

The airpods have a 5-hou battery life and come in a rechargeable case, which itself has a 24-hour battery life. If you use up your five hours. You put the airpods in the case for 15 minutes and they are then good for another 4 hours of music.

APPLE WATCH SERIES 2

Also announced at Apple’s event in September was the Apple Watch Series 2, with the top new feature being GPS. Other features include greater water resistance, a faster processor, and a brighter display, as well as a new ceramic model.

Having GPS means you can track you workouts workout being tethered to you iphone, making the watch more of a standalone device. Then when you’re near you iphone. The data will offload so that you can see all the details or you workout, including a map of you route.

The new watch is also swim-proof, able to withstand water pressure at a depth of 50 meters. In addition, the Health app has swimming-related workouts, depending on whether you’re in a pool water. It tracks all the details of you swim, such as the number of laps and the calories burned.

The dual-core chip is up to 50 percent faster, and the graphics-processing chip is twice as fast. The original Apple watch now called Apple Watch Series 1 also has the faster dual core chip

The display is two this brighter than burro, and is much easier to see in sunlight. And the Apple Watch Series2 in colludes a white ceramic model that Apple says is more than four times hared than stainless steel, but you’ll have to pay a premium of $1.000 for it. In addition, Apple has partnered with Nike plus start at $369 the apple watch series 1, including the dual core chip, starts at $269.