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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 12 2018, @04:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the they-can't-hear-you dept.

PC World has an article on why USB-C has not been a viable alternative for the 3.5mm audio jack. Problems with USB-C include variable handling of digital to audio conversion, incompatible SOCs inside the cable, and non-standard analog-passthrough. In short, the cables which contain computers themselves are not standardized in behavior and the author's conclusion is that mobile devices must have 3.5mm jacks until the USB-C cable technology gets sorted out enough that they become usable.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by MostCynical on Wednesday September 12 2018, @05:51AM (1 child)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday September 12 2018, @05:51AM (#733501) Journal

    Sales.
    Bluetooth everything.

    Want your old wired headphones still? Buy a bluetooth adapter!

    Compressed, lousy, lossy, streamed and youtube music never sounded so good!

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  • (Score: 2) by richtopia on Wednesday September 12 2018, @03:27PM

    by richtopia (3160) on Wednesday September 12 2018, @03:27PM (#733654) Homepage Journal

    I suspect the headphone jack is more of a cost/size issue. With the entire phone nearing 5mm thickness the 3.5mm headphone jack is quite large. Additionally accommodating it in the board layout, and rating the port for dust/water tolerance are calories that could be saved. I do not plan on purchasing a phone without a 3.5mm jack but I can understand why the industry would like to migrate away from a connector designed for transistor radios of the 1950s.