IDG Contributor Network: Apple iPhone 7 is packed with a few small surprises (and not all of them are good ones)

The biggest surprise for anyone following the most popular phone ever made is that it is not that surprising.

The new Apple iPhone 7 and it’s larger cousin the iPhone 7 Plus are roughly the same size and weight of the previous versions. They are not “impulse buys” but stick fairly close to the Apple recipe for success. There’s a better camera, a faster processor, stereo speakers, and a curiously absent headphone jack.

Even that isn’t really a shocker, though. As Apple revealed at an event today in San Francisco, the phone does still support wired headphones and earbuds. You’ll need to connect them with a simple adapter -- included in the box -- to the Lightning charge port.

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