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Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone

posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @10:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the Only-$10-per-millimeter! dept.

takyon writes:

There's a new dongle in Apple land:

Apple ditched the headphone jack on the iPhone with the iPhone 7. The company's latest and greatest iPhones, the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and the iPhone X also don't have the headphone jack. The only way of listening to music on Apple's newest iPhones is to use a wireless headphone or use the lightning connector on the phone. But if you are charging your phone and want to listen to music with your wired headphones on the iPhone at the same time, that's obviously not possible.

Apple already sells a $39 dongle that lets you charge your phone and listen to music via a lightning connector at the same time, and it's now selling a new dongle that'll let you use a 3.5mm headphone jack instead. The Verge reports that Belkin has released a new version of its Rockstar adapter for the iPhone which lets you charge your phone via a lightning connector and listen to music via a 3.5mm headphone jack at the same time for $34.95.

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  • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Monday October 02 2017, @11:45PM (2 children)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Monday October 02 2017, @11:45PM (#576308)

    My Lumia 950 also has a removable battery. I used a phone with a built-in battery once. Never again if I can possibly avoid it.

    I mean, it was a solid phone and I quite liked it. Until the battery bloated it apart. :(

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:31AM (1 child)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:31AM (#576327) Journal

    Interesting. Too bad it's a Windows phone. And that has more to do with the lack of apps though, I barely have any apps to begin with (because lets face it, they all suck, along with the whole mobile concept)

    • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:18AM

      by coolgopher (1157) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:18AM (#576474)

      For all the complaints about apps, I have had very little difficulty finding support for the things I genuinely need (mostly various authenticators). And there's nevertheless a ton of what appears to be utterly useless stuff on the app store. I shudder to think what it must be like in iOS or Android land. As I mentioned elsewhere, recently [soylentnews.org], I am actually quite fond of the UI on Windows 10 Phone.