What we think of this fortnight's top tech news stories and rumours, and how they affect you.
What happened?
Apple showed off the latest versions of its smartphone, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, to fans and journalists at a glitzy event in San Francisco.
Both handsets offer a host of updates and long awaited features, but much of the focus was on the disappearance of the 3.5mm headphone jack in favour of a wireless headphone connection. Apple’s head of marketing, Phil Schiller, said the move showed the company’s “courage to move on, to do something new, that betters all of us”.
This story is from the September 21 2016 edition of Webuser.
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