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

Yep, and have the battery life the same as a kindergarteners attention span.

Max Portakabin said:
So far almost all BT headphones have been crap, even the expensive ones. Some sound quite good but that's only if you can manage to pair them and keep them connected.

A lot of people have been burned by the experience and it is going to take a while to convince people.

I honestly think Steve would have realised this and stuck some wireless cans in the box. Not a usual stunt but because of how poor previous BT headphones have been. If the Air Pods were included and were a genuine game-changer, Apple kills the criticism on arrival.
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Mlrollin91 said:
How are you at $50. The lightning/3.5mm is included with the phone.
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...because I have a few places where I use headphones and don't carry them around, Car aux port, biking headphones, phone call headphones, and reference headphones.

Won't be moving a small cable with me (because invariable forgetfulness), so I'd need extra. Also, it's two connectors that break easy, so I'm sure I'll be needing more. It's probably 100 bucks at the end of the day.
 
ppcebay said:
All headphones as analog......



Back in the days you had to buy a floppy reader...or super disk USB......where is the floppy today?

Yes progress needs time and someone who pushes it!
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At least when Apple got rid of the floppy drive, the Macs had USB ports which were becoming an industry standard at the time, to support external floppy drives and other storage devices. What they're doing now would be like dropping floppy drives in favor of their own proprietary connector.

This wouldn't be so bad if the iPhone 7 used USB-C. But it doesn't. The Lightning EarPods won't even work on a MacBook. Apple can't stay consistent within their own ecosystem, what a joke.
 
Only a matter of weeks until you can get generic ones on ebay for $5
 
bladerunner2000 said:
Yes, because Samsung is the only company making Android phones.

There needs to be an IQ test for all new members before signing up on MacRumors.
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There should probably be a detector for those that don't grasp jokes and sarcasm, frankly.

Also, I've been a member for longer than you. So . . .
 
Kaibelf said:
Be smarmy all you want, but this was news because they specifically did this to outflank Apple removing the headphone jack. I'm sorry you didn't keep tabs on what was going on.

This was also reported on Mashable, The Verge, Slashdot, and all the other news sources you tried to avoid in order to be willfully ignorant.

There are also plenty of articles about everything going USB-C and third parties are already coming out with those accessories as well.
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Why do you think they care about Apple. Also they are not the only one that removed the headphone jack prior to Apple announcement.
 
Ahheck01 said:
Oh thank goodness! Now to plug in my headphones and charge while driving, I just plug my headphones into my 3.5 to lightning adapter, plug my usb cable into my car charger, plug that usb into Belkin's new adapter, plug the 3.5 to lightning adapter into Belkins adapter, and plug Belkin's adapter into my phone.

Thanks Apple for working closely with Belkin on this solution to your courage! :cool:
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To clarify - You drive around with headphones on?
 
yngrshr said:
There should probably be a detector for those that don't grasp jokes and sarcasm, frankly.

Also, I've been a member for longer than you. So . . .
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Oh please, you know full well there's a boatload of Android phone manufacturers but you deliberately said that to make Android look inferior. Don't backpedal, just admit you're a liar and move on.
 
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kanselmo said:
I didn't realize how aggressively mods deleted responses. On the first page, someone said, "Too bad I can't put moderators on the ignore list" in response to post #3. That was it - not that incendiary a response to a post that added little, but still removed.
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You are basically repeated it, so you might end up missing another post.
 
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bladerunner2000 said:
More kludge for a crippled phone. Why not just get an Android phone and make your life easy?
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The kludge is insisting on using wires in the first place. These adapters are for people that insist on using dated technology.

Kind of like people that insist on using Android.

An Android device would remove tons of daily functionality and integration that I enjoy and depend on. I won't need this adapter, or any others, as it turns out; I imagine many people are already in the same boat, and most of the rest that aren't currently, will be before too long.
 
DevNull0 said:
Having never tried a vanilla android, I'll take your word for that. But the Note 7 with Touchwiz is still wiping the floor with iOS. I've only had it a week, but I'm still kind of in shock about how much I was missing out on with Apple. It is just so sleek and simple to access everything compared to a grid of icons.
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I totally disagree. Samsung touchwiz is a mess. As soon as the new nexus comes its outa here. The edge causes constant mistouches, the finger print reader never works and you have to hit the home button just right

I haven't used wired headphones in years, so all this bitching is comedy to me
 
A dongle plugged into a dongle eh? My current phone doesn't require any dongles at all.

This progress business sure is confusing.
 
GeneralChang said:
I've been trying since yesterday without success to think of a single occasion since I got my first mp3 player that I have listened to music with wired headphones while the device I was listening on was charging.
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Headphones - no. Speakers - yes.

I plug my iPad into my HiFi with a 3.5mm cable while its on charge - I'm sure plenty of people do something similar with iPhones. Also, if your car doesn't have a swanky iPhone-aware/bluetooth stereo then you might use a 3.5mm jack to the stereo + USB adapter in the cigar lighter. The existing iPhone dock is probably a better solution to the first.

The Belkin adapter does look gratuitously large, though - there ought to be room for a 3.5mm jack in there as well!
 
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