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.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:48PM (2 children)
How do you text from a landline phone?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday October 03 2017, @03:24PM (1 child)
You ditch it and join the civilized world, that's how.
Do you still use faxes too? Or a horse and buggy?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:36PM
And what do you do when your phone has no service because of the scaffold (in place for over 18 months with no end in sight) right outside your window is covered in chicken wire, creating a faraday cage?
Not trolling here, just a reminder that your use case isn't everyone elses.