There’s no room for a 3.5mm headphone jack in Apple’s next-generation iPhones, according to recent leaks — but that doesn’t mean all your existing headphones are no good.
Accessory makers are already building all kinds of dongles that will make your favorite cans iPhone 7 ready.
Early reports claimed Apple was planning to remove the headphone jack from its upcoming iPhones in an effort to make them thinner. However, leaked schematics suggest that the iPhone 7 will be even thicker than the iPhone 6s — even after the port has been scrapped.
We’ll have to wait until Apple’s iPhone event this fall for confirmation of this move, but that hasn’t stopped some accessory makers from trying to cash in on it already.
At the Computex conference in Taipei this week, one company is already showing off adapters that allow you to plug standard headphones into the Lightning port — like the one pictured below, which also adds an inline remote control.
Photo: Macotakara
The dongle pictured at the top of this post adds both a 3.5mm headphone jack and a micro-USB port, allowing you to charge and sync your iPhone using a micro-USB cable (who hasn’t got dozens of those?) while listening to your music.
Source: Tama
Via: Macotakara
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
5 responses to “Here’s the dongle you’ll need to make old headphones iPhone 7 ready”
So they decided to put a bigger battery in the next gen iPhone. That’s good. Finally a wise decision.
Be still my beating heart, yet another small, easily lost or damaged dangly bit of e-waste to ride hurd on.
Yay! Another bit of overpriced kit to schlep around!
Pretty sure the iPhone SE will be my last Apple phone. If I’m forced into a larger phone it will be an Android again (already have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3). As for the ecosystem…eh…almost every app I use is available in an Android version and the ones that aren’t I can live without. Apple’s idea of innovation nowadays is dongle city. No thanks. I mean really…who buys an slick and slim ultra portable device that has to have conversion cables and little boxes attached to it just so you can do business as usual? A ruse to force you to buy more crap before you’ve even gotten the value out of what kit you currently own!
Removing a headphone jack from a smartphone is true innovation no matter what haters say..
^sheep logic