Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iPhone 7 Headphone Roundup!”.
Hey what is up guys mkbhd here – and this is the iphone 7 and we already know it doesn’t have a headphone jack anymore, just the lightning port. So it does have slightly improved speakers and you could listen to those if you want to listen to music or watch videos, but the removal of that headphone port means. We now have two real options for listening to music via headphones, lightning, headphones and wireless headphones. Fun fact: apple. Dropping a headphone jack from the iphone 7 is actually great news for one person or one group of people and that’s headphone manufacturers, because they just got a huge new market of people to sell headphones to that didn’t exist before and that’s iphone. 7. Buyer, so as this iphone comes out and it’s brand new, the accessory market is young.
So if you’re going to be early to this phone, you got to be early to the accessories. So these are those accessories option. One lightning headphones. So your default option is the lightning earpods that come in the box. They’Re nothing special, but you can see obviously, instead of ending in a three and a half millimeter headphone jack, it’s a lightning port, so plugs right in no charging required no adapter required. This is the standard now everything else about them from the earpods to the inline controller is the same as before from the standard.
You can go up a little bit in price to these phillips headphones. I’Ve shown before these are the philips fidelio m2 and they’re pretty much what you’d expect from a classic third-party pair of lightning headphones. So a lightning jack on one end: on-ear headphones on the other end, and these headphones also have an on cup volume, control, rocker and the entire right ear cup is a giant play pause button. So it works the same way it did with the previous iphones but yeah.
Now it’s the primary option. It’S standard, plugging right into that lightning port. This is the other ovary repair i’ve showed in a previous video. These are the audeze sign, definitely a more premium price but you’re, getting better materials, more real leather and metal, and a bit more of a heavier headphone overall, a softer, headband, more comfortable, but yeah. This pair has an inline controller with a mic and a play pause button which is different and volume controls, etc. This plugs right in by lightning again and works as expected sounds pretty good. If you’re more on a budget, though there are way less expensive, headphones. I’Ll have links to all these below, but this is a pair by bright tech, inline controls again it’s a bit of a trend, but honestly these are a bit less adjustable and a lot less comfortable, but they’re still lightning headphones, you’ll just notice.
They definitely feel cheaper and definitely hurt in the sound department. So it’s what you’d expect for the price, but really i’d recommend these to someone who’s trying to save money, but just definitely want over-ear headphones and have to go on via lightning and last but not least, another pair of lightning earbuds. These are the shark lightning earbuds their advantage over the lightning ear. Pods are small, they have slightly bigger, more clicky, inline controls and the flat blue cable throughout is a nice touch, helps it not get tangled as much and the earbuds themselves feel a bit more solid. They have what feels like metal on the back and they have a little bit more weight to them. But, as you know, none of that matters, if they don’t stay in your ears very well – and these didn’t stay in my ears very well all right.
So option number two is wireless headphones. This market has already existed for a while. So all these headphones, except for one, are new, but the thing about wireless headphones is you’re, never quite going to match the level of sound quality you get from wired. But what you want to look for in wireless headphones is a really long battery life to hopefully alleviate the inconvenience of having to charge them.
So the default option here with the iphone 7 is the new air pods. You know the ones the 159 dollar earpods without wires. They get a lot of flack for it not being worth it, but actually they have a couple of extra features. So they have apple’s new w1 chip inside which makes pairing to an iphone super simple, and then they automatically also sync, with your other apple devices, on your account like a macbook pro or an ipad. It has microphones for listening to voice, commands and touch sensitivity for triggering siri, so there’s a lot actually going on.
Hopefully i’ll get my hands on them to review them, but there are definitely other better options like bluetooth, earbuds. Any of them you’ve seen these before jaybirds x2 or jaybird freedom. They have a battery life almost twice as long as the air pods rated at about eight hours of playback before you need to recharge. So that’s awesome and they sound phenomenal. That’S why i like them.
So much and they’re very unlikely to fall out of your ears, no matter what the shape is, because they have this wingtip that fits snugly and comfortably they’re, sweat proof. They have a great mic and in-line controls they’re, basically built to be workout headphones. So they’re really good at all of that. Another pair you’ve probably seen before since i’ve reviewed them, is the bose qc35 or the bose quietcomfort 35s.
The quietcomfort series finally went wireless and they are so nice they’re, much bigger, so you’re. Looking at about a 20 hour battery life and they have excellent noise cancellation, because that’s basically bose’s specialty here and much better sound than most other wireless headphones they’re pricey. But if you watch the review, you’ll probably also be convinced like i was, and there were also plenty of other wireless headphones in this bluetooth over ear, category again check the links below and then there’s these the new beats solo 3.. They were announced alongside the new iphone on stage since apple owns, beats now and they’re still beats uh they’re on your wireless headphones and they also have the new w1 chip inside them, like the airpods do so when you turn them on they pair to your iphone. Really easily like the air, pods and, in theory, the rest of your apple id devices as well. They talk with your iphone sending information back and forth like battery percentage.
So that’s a nice advantage to having them work so closely with apple and what’s nice, though, is they claim a 40 hour playback battery life, which is a really long time, so there’s no noise cancellation to take up a lot of power, but that’s a decent advantage. Having such a long battery life not having to worry about charging it so much just know that they’re still priced like beats and they still sound like beats just so you know, so that’s what’s out there right now, if you want to avoid having to adapt your Current headphones, but if all else fails there is that nine dollar dongle, i’m personally against dongles. I don’t want to have to think about an adapter every time i want to plug my headphones in but worst case scenario, you keep your current pair of headphones and plug the dongle in to the end and just leave it there permanently. That way.
Hopefully, you won’t lose it, but listen. This market, which is so small right now, will grow a lot in the next year, like i want to say 99 of the companies who are making headphones for iphone right now with the three and a half millimeter jack. They’Ll, probably all be making lightning headphones to take advantage of this new market within the next year, pretty much guaranteed, so they can thank apple for the huge new market to sell headphones to. We can thank apple for the inability to charge and listen to wired music. At the same time, but here’s what i’d like to see in the next iphone – i know it’s pretty early, but i’d like to see the next iphone have two lightning ports, and if someone wants to get in on it early, they can make an android phone with Two usb type-c ports. I wouldn’t really care about the lack of headphone jack as much either way.
That’S been it. Thank you for watching i’ll talk to you guys, the next one peace .