Apple AirPods review: Wire-free future or design disaster?
With no headphone socket on the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus , you've either got to go Lightning connector or Bluetooth wireless. And the company is hoping you'll opt for the latter and buy into its wireless in-ear AirPods. If you've got wired headphones then Apple does include a Lightning-to-3.5mm adaptor in the iPhone 7 box, but that hasn't stopped the £159 AirPods from causing a bit of a storm. Is their wire-free vision the future of wireless listening or does their divisive design render them a disaster? Apple AirPods review: Wireless and wire-free The dinky Apple AirPods have no wires connected to your phone. There are also no wires to connect the two earphones together. They're genuinely wire-free and connect via Bluetooth. Like the new wave of Bluetooth headphones starting to come on to the market, the AirPods are intelligent enough to wirelessly connect to each other and then to your iPhone, iPad, Watch, or MacBoo...