Who Cares About the Headphone Jack? This Is What iPhone 7 Needs

Apple tree is fix to unveil its side by side iPhone on September 7. Certain improvements are a given, including a amend screen, longer battery life, and a faster processor. But as usual, the rumour manufacturing plant has also served upwards a few interesting tidbits.

Opinions The biggest news is that Cupertino might ditch the headphone jack, which has become a scandal amongst pundits. "Oh, noes! What are we going to do??"

On the design front end, photos of a blue, metallic Apple iPhone accept leaked online. If it releases a blue smartphone, Apple must release a carmine one too. Of course, I practise not mean rose aureate; I mean red. This colour, plant on cameras like the Olympus Tough TG-4 and all sorts of gear, would be a hot ticket and might encourage rivals to liven things upwardly. I volition personally be very disappointed if I do not run across a red phone.

In that location are likewise hints that the Apple iPhone 7 Plus will have an odd dual-lens camera, or ii 12MP f1.9 cameras side by side. But why? The 2 lenses are besides close for whatsoever sort of 3D application and that will make you wonder why Apple has not added a 3D attribute to its phones.

While 3D is borderline expressionless, that'south largely due to pricey 3D imagers. However, 3D movies taken at birthday parties and other events involving your children are very entertaining, so it would be great fun when combined with a 3D display that could easily exist turned on and off.

Apple may have developed some new technology to combine images or a new camera mechanism to make pictures improve somehow using these 2 lenses. While that would be a pleasant surprise, I suspect we are looking at a mechanism like to the dual-lens Kodak pocket cameras from a few years back.

The versatile but now-defunct Kodak EasyShare V610 and V-705 employed the thought with a design that allowed the camera to extend its focal length and avoid ane bulky long lens. This would be the obvious thing to exercise on a smartphone.

While I am not a large fan of camera phones for taking serious photos and prefer big sensor cameras, I have to admit that an Apple iPhone can take a fantastic picture. Exactly how many people actually demand these photographic camera features remains to exist seen.

Frankly, I cannot imagine what more than Apple tin can do to ameliorate the iPhone besides performance upgrades. Regardless of what information technology adds, though, people volition line up to purchase them on release day. Been there, washed that.

About John C. Dvorak

John C. Dvorak

John C. Dvorak is a columnist for PCMag.com and the co-host of the twice weekly podcast, the No Agenda Show. His work is licensed effectually the world. Previously a columnist for Forbes, PC/Calculating, Reckoner Shopper, MacUser, Barrons, the Dec Professional likewise as other newspapers and magazines. Onetime editor and consulting editor for InfoWorld, he also appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, Philadelphia Enquirer, SF Examiner, and the Vancouver Sun. He was on the kickoff-up team for C/Net as well equally ZDTV. At ZDTV (and TechTV) he hosted Silicon Spin for four years doing 1000 live and live-to-tape Television receiver shows. His Cyberspace bear witness Cranky Geeks was considered a …