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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: 1) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday October 03 2017, @06:57PM
... Back in the days of the Apple Newton. They had a PS-2 cabled keyboard (made just for the Newton) that you had to connect to the multi-connect port of the MessagePad 2000 via a dongle. That multiconnect port could theoretically interface with other stuff, but outside of development I never saw anybody use one except with the keyboard.
I lost two of those suckers before I learned how badly dongles suck.
So when it came time to replace my phone a month ago (and I'm stuck with Apple because of work,) I was allowed to get a brand new 6S Plus to replace my 6S. I want my headphone jack more than I want their "progress."
This sig for rent.