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Report from iPhone 7 supply chain says no 3.5mm audio jack

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Peter 05 January, 2016

Apple Rumors

Prepare to kiss your tangled headphones goodbye – a report allegedly from the iPhone 7 supply chain claims that Apple is indeed dropping the analog 3.5mm audio jack. Instead, wired headphones will connect to the Lightning port and, of course, there's the wireless Bluetooth option too. A Lightning-to-3.5mm will also exist.

Apple's motives are two-fold – the make the iPhone thinner and to push sales of wireless headphones. We're going back to the dark ages of proprietary audio. Also, your expensive Lightning headphones probably won't work with your computer and other non-Apple devices.

It seems that the Lightning port does not support analog audio (the old 30-pin connector did). No analog from the port itself means that wired headphones will have to carry their own DAC and amp with them.

This will make them complicated, expensive and probably more battery hungry (not to mention that occupying the Lightning port prevents you from charging your phone). Remember the $50 Lightning-to-HDMI adapter? The one with a built-in chipset with 256MB of RAM? Yeah.

As usual, take this unconfirmed report with a grain of salt. Nay, keep your fingers crossed that it's just plain trolling.

Source (in Chinese) | Via

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  • FrankDrebin
  • LFk
  • 18 Mar 2016

Do you even know what a great all around phone means? Iphone only excels at nothing right now, it is used to have the best camera and performance but that was taken care with the snapdragon 820 and the gs7 camera, now let's compare my Xperia Z5 to th...

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  • Anonymous
  • gCS
  • 15 Mar 2016

Although I agree with the fact that as a company Apple is totalitarian and loves ripping people off, the iPhone is still the only all around great phone. Android is still slower to the touch (yes, even with the animations off), its battery life is in...

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  • Nico
  • 01a
  • 11 Jan 2016

Sounds about right... Awaiting for BeatsAudio collaboration finally...

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