Apple’s iPhone 7 event: all the news from the big announcement – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2016-09-14T10:00:03+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/12594293 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Lauren Goode <![CDATA[Apple Watch Series 2 review: work it out]]> https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/14/12906348/apple-watch-2-review-new-features 2016-09-14T06:00:03-04:00 2016-09-14T06:00:03-04:00

Let's call it what it is: a fitness tracker.

The Apple Watch Series 2 is exactly that. It's what Apple had resisted calling its wearable for the past year and a half, even declining to categorize it as such when citing industry rankings, opting for the "smartwatch" category instead. It is, definitely, still a smartwatch. But the Watch now has focus, and that's a good thing.

From the first Apple Watch, which came out in April of 2015, Apple learned that lots of people were using it primarily for health and fitness-tracking purposes. They had been groomed by years of Fitbits and Jawbones and Garmins and Polars and "smart" scales and the whol …

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]]> Vlad Savov <![CDATA[Competing with the iPhone’s specs is harder than it seems]]> https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12886058/iphone-7-specs-competition 2016-09-12T08:30:03-04:00 2016-09-12T08:30:03-04:00

It's a common fallacy, convenient to Apple, to think that the iPhone maker doesn't care about specs. Oh, they're too busy sticking cigarette stubs into people's ears, those Cupertino types, to mind the nerdy feeds and speeds of their phones. The iPhone is behind the Android curve on almost every spec, and yet it remains the world's best-selling smartphone year after year. It's not because specs don't matter, but because the same spec means different things in the iOS and Android ecosystems.

A small matter of scalar asymmetry

Take the iPhone's battery as the cardinal example. At IFA 2016, I watched Huawei advertise its new Nova phones by noti …

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]]> Nick Statt <![CDATA[The iPhone 7 is a huge gift to accessory makers]]> https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/10/12867208/apple-iphone-7-plus-anker-belkin-headphone-jack 2016-09-10T09:15:03-04:00 2016-09-10T09:15:03-04:00

With every new iPhone comes a series of separate, smaller purchases - perhaps a phone case or a portable charger, or maybe a new adapter for your car. This year, with the iPhone 7 and its lack of headphone jack, we can expect that even the most avid of tech hardware collectors won't have all the necessary accessories on day one.

Sure, Apple is bundling a 3.5mm dongle and a pair of Lightning EarPods in the box, but that won't be enough. And no one knows this better than third-party accessory makers. These are the companies that wait patiently each year to analyze and understand a problem created by a …

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]]> Walt Mossberg <![CDATA[Mossberg: Apple, the king of tech taste and daring, takes a breather]]> https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/9/12856092/mossberg-apple-the-king-of-tech-taste-and-daring-takes-a-breather 2016-09-09T09:50:41-04:00 2016-09-09T09:50:41-04:00

Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Recode by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Recode.

At this week's annual Apple iPhone intro event, the hall was packed, as usual. As always, the program featured gorgeous photos and videos, impressive charts, a few demos, surprise guests, and dramatic claims of improved product performance and capability.

What it didn't feature was a new design for the company's most important product, the iPhone. There was, as I said, a new iPhone model - two of them in fact. But the iPhone 7 and its larger siblin …

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]]> Nick Statt <![CDATA[iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, and Apple Watch Series 2 preorders are now live]]> https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/8/12855256/apple-iphone-7-plus-preorder-guide-att-verizon-sprint-t-mobile 2016-09-08T20:02:02-04:00 2016-09-08T20:02:02-04:00

The second weekend of September is nearly upon us, and tradition says we must now gather around the collective browser window to show our devotion to Apple's annual iPhone refresh. This time, we'll be saying goodbye to more than just $650: with the purchase of an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus, you're bidding farewell to the 3.5mm headphone jack and drawing on the courage to brace the future. Or buying into a near-term dongle nightmare - depends on how you look at it.

While it may seem like quite a few people are sitting this round out in protest of the audio port, there's still likely very high demand fo …

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]]> Nick Statt <![CDATA[This $40 adapter can charge the iPhone 7 with your headphones plugged in]]> https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/8/12852098/belkin-apple-iphone-7-plus-adapter-dongle-charge-music 2016-09-08T14:59:26-04:00 2016-09-08T14:59:26-04:00

Picture this: a pair of headphones plugged into 3.5mm dongle, which is then plugged into a Lightning adapter, which is then plugged into your phone. That is the reality we live in now that Apple removed the headphone jack on the new iPhone 7. Because the new phone only has one Lightning port for all your peripheral needs, the company has tapped accessory maker Belkin to provide the adapter necessary to both charge the iPhone 7 and listen to music at the same time (so long as you're not using the new wireless AirPods). The product, called Lightning Audio + Charge RockStar, costs $40 and will be released on October 10th.

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]]> Jacob Kastrenakes <![CDATA[The biggest winner from removing the headphone jack is Apple]]> https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/8/12839758/apple-is-biggest-winner-from-killing-headphone-jack 2016-09-08T12:32:43-04:00 2016-09-08T12:32:43-04:00

If you take Apple's word for it, removing the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 was a pure expression of its desire for technological progress. "Some people have asked why we would remove the analog headphone jack from the iPhone," Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing chief, said yesterday. "It really comes down to one word: courage. The courage to move on to do something new that betters all of us."

Already Apple's defenders have been echoing that sentiment. The headphone jack is century-old technology - why not get rid of it the same way Apple killed the CD drive and Ethernet port on laptops? After all, this is just another connector that can …

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]]> Nick Statt <![CDATA[Apple is trying to turn the iPhone into a DSLR using artificial intelligence]]> https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/8/12839838/apple-iphone-7-plus-ai-machine-learning-bokeh-photography 2016-09-08T10:00:07-04:00 2016-09-08T10:00:07-04:00

When Apple unveiled the seventh iteration of the iPhone yesterday, it made sure to play up the camera. After all, the company has a small army working on the iPhone's ability to take photos. The device's camera is also often touted as one of its most cherished features, keeping Apple's smartphone ahead of the competition. Yet in recent years, competition from Samsung and others has caught up to Apple's imaging lead.

The newest Apple devices, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, are naturally more capable in the photo department than their predecessors. But the company is stepping up the game with what it's calling a machine learning-enhanced imag …

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]]> Vlad Savov <![CDATA[The iPhone is still a fundamentally superb phone]]> https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/8/12846438/apple-iphone-7-camera-design-upgrades-android-convert 2016-09-08T09:01:16-04:00 2016-09-08T09:01:16-04:00

As unhappy as I might be about Apple's removal of the headphone jack, I have to admit that it's not enough to spoil the appeal of the new iPhone 7. This is shaping up to be yet another excellent update to what was already, for many people, the best smartphone in the world. It just feels like the iPhone 7 itself, the essential device and the things it can do, got almost lost under the weight of all the hype and hoopla of its launch. So let me tell you why I find the new iPhone instantly appealing, with as little hype and grandeur as I can muster.

Firstly, of Phil Schiller's 10 points of differentiatio …

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]]> Micah Singleton <![CDATA[Apple’s luxury watch dream is over]]> https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/7/12839686/apple-event-2016-smartwatch-luxury-watch-market 2016-09-07T18:00:27-04:00 2016-09-07T18:00:27-04:00

Apple tried, and Apple failed.

The luxury watch market isn't for everyone. Many companies have tried to enter the market, which values exclusivity and hand-craftsmanship over mass-produced devices built by robots. Apple was the latest entrant, attempting to break in two years ago with the 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition, which started at $10,000 and topped out at $17,000. It was essentially a luxury watch starter kit: it was gold, expensive, and Apple handed out custom versions to fashionable celebrities like Beyoncé and Karl Lagerfeld for the free promotion.

But now that watch is dead. You won't find a trace of it on Apple's website. Th …

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