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Belkin's $40 Lightning Adapter Lets You Listen to Music and Charge Your iPhone 7 at the Same Time

Almost... but actually not at all what people will want.

I think people want:

Lightning male ===== Lightning female and 3.5mm female. (for charging and listening at the same time at home)
Lightning male ===== USB male and 3.5mm male. (for changing and listening at the same time in the car)
 
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xmlninja said:
People need to calm down about the audio jack removal. I mean, who is really crazy... the one who removed an ancient connector from their modern pocket computer, or the one who bought analog headphones for $350 now screaming and shoking... jeez.
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Oh, I'm calm. Calmly enjoying my Note 7 (I'd be calmer if it wasn't the exploding model, but it'll be swapped soon enough).

Actually, it's because of the jack that I bought the Note 7, but wow, Apple is living in the stone age. The Edge Panels alone are worth leaving Apple's ecosystem. Not to mention the gorgeous screen.

Phil is right, everyone should have the courage to give the note 7 or s7 a test drive. I'll never own another iPhone.
 
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Excellent. A $40 adapter to fulfill a need that shouldn't exist in the first place. After all, no company renowned for great industrial design and a customer-oriented approach would design a device where you couldn't charge it and listen to your music at the same time (using your normal headphones / cassette adapter / home stereo system / powered speakers / anything in the world with industry-standard aux-input, etc.) Would they?

I recently "upgraded" from my iPhone 5s to the iPhone SE so I could keep my headphone jack and get the latest iPhone that wasn't too large for me.

Only one reason I didn't abandon the iPhone is because I was unable to find an android-based phone that was both small and fully-powered. So Kudos to Apple I guess on that one. For realizing there is still a market for a small but powerful phone. Regardless, I'm one of those people who does have to charge and use the headphone jack simultaneously, so unless Apple builds that basic functionality back into the iPhone line in the future the SE will probably be my last Apple phone.
 
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DTphonehome said:
Because you have to plug an adaptor into this adaptor to use the 3.5mm plug.
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How many people even have a radio that has an aux jack? How many people use it? How many people don't have usb port in their car or bluetooth audio?

Edit: also, I'm sure someone will come out with cable with headphone jack and charging port. But I still argue that this is a super small group of people.
 
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This Rockstar should have stayed on the tour bus.

I guess it's ok - it's just a splitter, but now we're at a total of 50 additional dollars to listen to headphones and charge the phone.
 
It will work just fine for the target use case. The vast majority of people, despite the whiners out there, don't sit there with a phone plugged in and headphones on. They don't sit in a hallway and watch movies in a phone with the plug in the wall. They aren't on international flights every day. They don't go to rooftop parties and then hook up a charging pack and the put in headphones to "escape" from the electronic music.

They charge their phones while they sleep, then they go to their jobs, and if they listen to headphones it's while walking or at the gym about 99% of the time. If they drive, they usually have a car with either Bluetooth or USB. It really is time to move on and stop acting like this is the end of the world.

And, NO, buying an Adele CD at Target or playing around on Garage Band a few times 5 years ago doesn't make you an "audiophile" any more than having spent hundreds on a single pair of high-end headphones when you were trying to impress someone. Almost no one has those, either.
 
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spazzcat said:
How many people even have a radio that has an aux jack? How many people use it? How many people don't have usb port in their car or bluetooth audio?
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The way people were freaking out yesterday, you'd think everyone still used it in their cars. In fact, I think I've ever only met 1-2 people who ever DID use one, and that was because their jalopy cars didn't have a CD player and they wanted to use their Discman to listen to a CD skip as they drove in the 90s.
 
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DTphonehome said:
Super convenient!

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Kaibelf said:
It will work just fine for the target use case. The vast majority of people, despite the whiners out there, don't sit there with a phone plugged in and headphones on. They don't sit in a hallway and watch movies in a phone with the plug in the wall. They aren't on international flights every day. They don't go to rooftop parties and then hook up a charging pack and the put in headphones to "escape" from the electronic music.

They charge their phones while they sleep, then they go to their jobs, and if they listen to headphones it's while walking or at the gym about 99% of the time. If they drive, they usually have a car with either Bluetooth or USB. It really is time to move on and stop acting like this is the end of the world.
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Now, now, you're trying to apply logic and common sense on the INTERNET. That is strictly forbidden by social custom.
 
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