Originally Posted By: drakino
Rumors are currently pointing towards the iPhone 7 ditching the 3.5mm headphone jack.
A bit of a thread hijack here... sorry.

The purported reason for ditching the 3.5mm jack is so that Apple can make the iPhone even slimmer than it is now. Okay... WHY??

I am not a smartphone (or really, even any genre of cell phone) user, but if I were, I would happily pay extra to have a cell phone twice as thick as an iPhone IF that extra volume were devoted exclusively to extra battery. Wouldn't tripling (or more) the battery life be worth giving up the stylistic status of a skinny phone? Or is there some other benefit I don't understand?

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