Apple unveils iPhone 7, kills headphone jack

Apple unveiled new iPhones at an event on Wednesday Sepetember 7 held in San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, was the company’s most important outing of the year.

Apple is joining rival phone makers in making the starter model 32 gigabytes, rather than 16 gigabytes before. The main iPhone is still priced at $650. The larger Plus model is increasing to $770, instead of $750.

Apple is doubling storage in higher-priced models, too — to 128 and 256 gigabytes.

The new phones will ship Sept. 16, with orders to start this Friday.

The new phones are getting faster processors, water resistance, better cameras and more colorful screens, while losing a traditional headphone jack in favor of wireless headphones and those that use the Lightning charging port. Apple also says the iPhone 7 will have better battery life — about one or two hours more from recent models.

Older iPhones will get price reductions, and last year's models are also getting double the storage.

Meanwhile, Apple says its new wireless headphones will ship in late October for $160.


AP