Reports that Apple plans to ditch the 3.5mm headphone socket on the iPhone 7 in favor of Lightning headphones have been growing in number, and a recent poll found that 70% of you expect Apple to ...

First, it could replace the standard 3.5mm audio socket with a 2.5mm one. While 3.5mm has been the standard audio socket for mobile devices for a long time, it’s not the only option out there.

Now, however, there are rumours that Apple is to do away with the 3.5mm socket in the next iteration of the iPhone. Perhaps predictably, about 250,000 people have signed a petition begging the ...

First mainstream smartphone launches WITHOUT a 3.5mm socket The newly-revealed Moto Z is the first smartphone to shun the standard 3.5mm headphone socket - will other manufacturers follow the trend?

A switch to using the Lightning connector instead of the traditional 3.5mm headphone socket would allow Apple to save internal space on the iPhone 6, however we're not convinced Apple would make ...

Sure it’s simple, but I’m willing to take bets that very few people will miss the era of the 3.5mm audio jack once it’s over. It’s a global episode of the sunk cost fallacy.

Waterproof 3.5mm jack sockets CUI has introduced a series of 3.5mm waterproof audio jack connectors rated to IP67. They come in surface mount, mid mount SMT, and through hole styles, with right-angle ...

Hit the road, jackThe discontinued handsets, which have now been removed from the Apple website, include the iPhone 6S and iPhone SE, meaning you can no longer buy an iPhone with a 3.5mm headphone ...

Car audio - all I need is a basic FM tuner and a CD player, but I'd like to plug my MP3 player into it. So all it needs is a simple 3.5mm stereo jack socket line-in on the front somewhere, to hook ...

Products like MicW’s $200 iShotgun, RØDE’s $80 SmartLav and TASCAM’s $35 TM-ST1 all rely on the 3.5mm socket on your device, which means they can be used on all phones and most cameras.

The self-imposed problem: finding a 3.5mm successor My overwhelming impression from CES 2018 was that headphone companies have, without exception, bid a silent goodbye to the 3.5mm audio plug.