Is there enough bandwidth available in a cubicle farm or 787 for everyone to use their airpods?
I doubt it. Headphone jack was a nice reliable piece of hardware. Thank goodness some other brands are rooted in reality.
I doubt it. Headphone jack was a nice reliable piece of hardware. Thank goodness some other brands are rooted in reality.
I get audio drop outs with airpods everytime I pass through one of the above stations.
Funny how they really should have worried about this but apparently haven't.
But you can still use the lightning earphones that come together (or buy a dongle, since the newer model phones are dropping the adapter). 3rd party dongles are cheaper and some allow you to charge and listen to music at the same time.
Apple, not everyone lives in the suburbs and uses their phones primarily at home or in personal vehicles.
What number of AirPods users would there have to be on a 787 for the interference to become a problem?
Or do they already have something like this?
I fly regularly and have yet to be on a EU flight where Bluetooth is allowed.
And even for wlan only since one year we started to get planes where it is allowed at cruise altitude.
I am yet to hear that I can turn Bluetooth on after the security debriefing and even though I fly regularly, so far just boarded like two flights where there was on-flight wlan available.
> You can use your Bluetooth headphones during the entire flight without restriction – even during take-off and landing, unless the crew instruct otherwise.
britishairways.com:
> Bluetooth devices, e.g. wireless keyboards or headphones, can be used during the flight but must be switched off for taxi, take-off and landing.
I believe that Bluetooth was prohibited on Lufthansa as recently as 2017, so it might be worth to check for each airline you're using.
Really? Am I missing something? I've never been pulled up on using bluetooth headphones on a plane in the EU. The flight attendants have never said anything, and I've been in full view of them before...
EDIT: researching it that could be just a "be safe" catch all though, and regulation might actually mean just cellular in some cases. No idea how a normal person is supposed to figure out what exactly applies to the current flight then.
I worked at an airline two years ago on the rollout of inflight wifi and they advise customers to enable airplane mode and reenable wifi (if it's disabled). These days within aviation, "airplane mode" refers to disabling just of the cellular radios.
Ethernet is more reliable than WiFi. Power is more reliable than batteries. But the world doesn't want wires so Apple has to listen.
B) No one was calling for the elimination of the headphone jack. Every poll shows broad support for it. Apple themselves said it took ‘courage’ which is not the adjective you’d use to describe an action that the world agrees with.
Common sense suggests that if the world wanted a thicker phone then one of the hundreds of OEMs would have made one and been successful at it. But yet that has never happened.
What I'd like is a mophie with a 3.5mm jack in that connects to a modern iphone.
Also, why are you responding to the question about limited RF spectrum? It's like you have an agenda in this thread.
It's very clear consumers aren't clamouring for losing the jack. There are a lot more dollars selling wireless and they have an inherent limited life thanks to battery lifespan.
The SE, with a headphone jack, is roughly the same thickness as the new XS without. They both have bluetooth for those who might like wireless.
That's not Apple or whoever listening, that's them imposing.
But did the poll ask them which they want: Thinner iPhone/No Headphone or Thicker iPhone/Headphone
Were the new generation of phones thinner than the jack I'd have to concede you may have a point, but that is not what we're getting.
If the question becomes "would you like 0.2% more battery or a headphone jack?" I doubt many would vote to remove.
The iPhone X battery is rated for 2716 mAh.
So if you could use 100% of that volume efficiently for increasing battery volume, I think battery capacity increases approximately 6%.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/oneplus-ignores-its-...
But anyway who are we kidding? It’s not about making space in the device in the end. Perhaps that’s the straw that broke the camels back, but not what set Apple off in this direction to begin with.
Yet Samsung did fit a 4000 mAh battery, a headphone jack, wireless charging, expendable storage, fingerprint sensor, 512Gb of storage AND a PEN in their IP68 Note 9.