The Nokia 3310 has a 2.5mm socket, not 3.5mm. That standard did not stick.
I have not used 3.5mm headphones for years, bluetooth always.
IPhone 7 has no headphone socket
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The Nokia 3310 has a 2.5mm socket, not 3.5mm. That standard did not stick.
I have not used 3.5mm headphones for years, bluetooth always.
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You forgot to add you can play snake on it too! Big selling point with old nokia phones
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Having watched the iPhone 7 launch yesterday I concluded that there are fewer and fewer things they are able to improve on, and there is no strong reason for me to upgrade anytime soon. The dyed in the wool Apple fans will no doubt have their pre-orders in already and be camping out on the 16th to pick them up, and I expect a lot of people whose contracts are up for renewal will naturally want to step over the iPhone 6s, but I can't see any real benefits for my limited use of the phone's features that would make me want to dump my iPhone 6.
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Water resistant not waterproof.
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I know, I know. The argument for is sound and progress is good. I never had a 3310 and I've never actually used earphones in any of my phones. My real bias is that I don't like the Apple company. I always associate it with that smug ex-CEO and I just can't look at Apple with unbiased eyes. Samsung or whatever the other brands are, on the other hand, has no personality attached and feels more neutral to me. It is absolutely silly but I make many decisions like that. For instance, I'll refuse to ever admit that an Oasis song is any good. Guess why.
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There's a standard for this type of thing?
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Was simply quoting Apple themselves
"Splash, Water, and Dust Resistant"
No doubt they'll pull that one out in cases of warranty claims.
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Of course, Apple has been doing this since the late 90s at least. When replaced our Mac LC with a strawberry iMac, we had to replace all our peripherals and buy an external floppy drive as they changed to the ports all to USB. That was a pure design move; USB is an open standard, so anyone could build devices that could plug in. Apple is probably the reason USB is everywhere today. The lack of a floppy disk was also a design move, and also a mistake, because in 1999 there was no other affordable way to back up your data. The sleek design of the iMac in advertising was a joke compared to the table covered with USB ports and external drives that was the reality.
As someone pointed out Sony has been doing this for years. I never bought a Sony digital camera, because you had to buy Sony's memory sticks too and at the time memory was quite expensive, so that would lock you into sony for good. I had one of their mobile phones, and it was very annoying that you couldn't use a wired headset except the ones made by sony. The socket was the same and simple headphones worked fine, but the protocol for the buttons and microphone were different, and it didn't work at all.
I'd like to see some true innovation, and a watch that doesn't need to be charged every night.
As someone pointed out Sony has been doing this for years. I never bought a Sony digital camera, because you had to buy Sony's memory sticks too and at the time memory was quite expensive, so that would lock you into sony for good. I had one of their mobile phones, and it was very annoying that you couldn't use a wired headset except the ones made by sony. The socket was the same and simple headphones worked fine, but the protocol for the buttons and microphone were different, and it didn't work at all.
I'd like to see some true innovation, and a watch that doesn't need to be charged every night.
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I had a IP67 phone. In it's case it was only compliant if you had the covers on the headphone and charging socket - so if water got in, they could reasonably assume that the ports were uncovered. I was too chicken to take underwater pictures with it, but it sat happily on my handlebars in driving rain and survived a "bathroom incident"
How much £159 for earphones.Money does not grow on trees.Unlike some apple products.I see they are $159 in America.So we pay more again.
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