Sigh, I wish this wasn't the case, hey Apple is removing the headphone jack lets all copy...
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Motorola's New 'Moto Z' and 'Z Force' Smartphones Have No Headphone Jack
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You do realize that "blasphemy" only exists in the minds of some, right? It's not universal. Had you asked me to refrain from whatever you consider to be blasphemous, I'd have said no. How can you expect everyone to keep a list of your own subjective magic words? You may ask your children to accommodate your language preferences, but not an internet forum.
not interested with any phone without headphone jack. I don't care if is iPhone or Android phone. If i am forced to go for low end phone with laggy software, i will buy it or i will stay with my iPhone 6S forever.
In the distant future, Apple will declare the SD card dead, put ExpressCard slots in all their laptops instead, tell consumers to deal with it, and eventually the market will catch up. The distant future... the year 2007.
USB Type C is not only similar to Lightning, it very well could be superior at everything you just listed. This isn't must a new Micro-USB connector.
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Where are you getting this? Apple is behind USB Type C, they assisted in its design (some say completely designed it themselves). Your next MacBook Pro will have USB Type C as its primary everything, count on it.
If they finally move to wireless charging it sounds like a good idea to me and i wont mind it because i dont like that lint catch hole much anyway... But if they dont go to wireless charging so that you can do that and charge simultaniously without an adapter then i think its a stupid idea and i agree with you.
And lightening cables do suck (for pricing and for that garbage material they use) so i agree with others to just move to USB-C, and keep the regular headphone jack (if no wireless). And use the regular standard cable material that holds up WAY longer and doesnt turn into chewing gum like the lightening cable and those lousy things that come with the iphones apple calls earbuds.
Uh? What Express ports had to do with SD? And when did Apple declare SD dead? My MBP has a SD port.
I doubt Apple will have a Lightning pass through port on any of their products, because it's not exactly elegant. That said, they did essentially create something similar with the Apple Pencil charging adapter, so anything is possible. Passthrough on the Lightning earbuds included in the box? -- probably not; they have to shave costs somewhere as that will be mode expensive for them the the free earbuds they ship now, if for no other reason than they have offer the highest quality experience possible to see the elimination of the headphone jack. But as third party digital headphones will have removable cables, I would expect someone who actually needs to charge and connect headphones at the same time would buy one that does that. I have never needed to do that, and that's probably true for many people.
Another solution for Lightning charging would be a pass-through port on the headphones themselves. Beats already offers headphones that can be daisy chained together so your friend can plug into your headphones. Changing this to a Lightning port would allow other Lightning headphones to daisy chain, as well as plug a charger into the headphones and pass through to charge the phone. There are MANY ways to skin this cat ...
Do you really think Apple will remove the 3.5mm jack from the iPhone, with Lightning as the only option for connecting wired headphones, and force their Mac customers to buy an adapter to use their Lightning headphones? Absolutely not. They will add a Lightning port for native connection of Lightning audio products. And with that come numerous additional uses. The rMB will benefit the most as the one USB-C port can remain open for peripherals while the Lightning port can be used for charging, and headphones, and even an additional USB 3 data port if necessary.
I think Apple and other companies are in sync more or less with each other when it comes to transitioning to improved technology, especially when it includes eliminating a longtime standard. I'm know Apple, Samsung and other companies have reps that participate in meetings that provide "guidelines" for future product development.
With the iPhone 7 and beyond, users will need wireless headphones, headphones with a Lightning connector, or a Lightning-to-3.5mm jack adapter, which have already begun surfacing. The switch to Lightning looks like nothing more than an inconvenience on the surface, but as we outlined in a recent video, there are benefits in the form of a potential boost to audio quality.
My initial reaction is that audiophile and iphone shouldn't be used in the same article, but I guess compared to 128 mp3's on stock earbuds, anything is an improvement.
It someone invests in high-end headphones and has high quality music (at least 320, if not lossless), you'll get better sound. But for the 90%+ of people just use the stock earbuds and 256 music or worse music, there's little benefit.
It's not just an adapter during the transition, it's long term. This comes with the price of carrying at least one dongle (so you can charge and listen at the same time). That's fine if you're stationary but sucks on the go. It's like leaving the umbilical cord attached to a baby until they're 16.
Wireless headphones don't have the battery life, power, or comfort to replace wired ones (the collar style are annoying as hell). Apple's all about making devices thinner, but they stubbornly refuse to acknowledge how people really use the hardware - we plug things in, both to the device, and the device to the wall. Even the iPad doesn't have enough charge for a long flight, and now we'll have to carry a dongle to use it? When the device has 24 hour active use battery life, then we can talk about making it thinner. Until then, focus on real-world battery life, not on thinness.
Besides, if Apple really cared about music quality, they'd let iTunes autosample to 320, and sell lossless or 24-bit source material.
It looks like they may do the same thing with the Mac. The Magsafe connector has saved my machine multiple times over the years....i'll be sad to see it go. At least they're rumored to put 4 on the new pro, so after the monitor and power, you still have two.
And a whole new set of dongles and adapters to buy.
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That's the one hope - and finally to get decent sync speeds too.
USB 2 lighting must die.
The similarities are what give weight for Apple's involvement with USB-C, but it's mostly structural and not necessarily functional, and not involved in the 3.1 spec which is entirely independent. USB-C is just another wrapper, really, and the movement of hardware dependence to the chain is a Lightning-only achievement. USB-C (2-3.1) still requires the endpoints, or at least one of them, to translate each type of data accepted.
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That Moto personifies the skinny nerd with the big ugly unmissable zit. What is the point of making ultra thin phones if the entire phone isn't ultra thin?
i really hate the idea of removing the 3.5 mm jack, BUT in my honest opinion if Apple wants to do this why not change the Lightning port for a USB-C? Apple seems to want to put USB-C on every product they make but they will make a new iphone with Lightning? Apple, if you want to push USB-C, use it on your best selling product.
Sorry, what? Apple wants to put USB-C on every product they make? Based on what? It's on the rMB, and rumored to be on the MBP. It's a service port on the TV. Lightning is on almost every product they make except the Macs themselves currently (but it's on the Mac peripherals). I think you have it backwards. Apple will be putting Lightning on the Mac, before they force over 200 million iOS users to yet again change over all of their cables and adapters to yet a new port that won't even be mainstream for a few years, by which time wireless will most likely eliminate the need for any connectors on a mobile device.
Amid rumors suggesting Apple will remove the headphone jack in upcoming the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, Lenovo-owned Motorola today announced the Moto Z and the Z Force, two new smartphones that eschew headphone jacks in favor of an ultra-thin design.
Sans headphone jack, Motorola has managed to shrink the Moto Z down to 5.19mm thick, while the Z Force, Motorola's more powerful smartphone, measures in at 6.9mm thick. Instead of a headphone jack, both devices feature a single USB-C port which will require a USB-C to 3.5mm jack adapter to use with existing headphones with a 3.5mm headphone plug.
Article Link: Motorola's New 'Moto Z' and 'Z Force' Smartphones Have No Headphone Jack
It's not even a first for Motorola, their older SLVR L7 iTunes-equipped "candy bar" phone (before the iPhone) required the use of a mini-USB-to-3.5mm adapter. My phone is long since gone, but I still have that adapter in a box of "miscellaneous cell phone cords"...
When did Apple remove the headphone jack? My 6S still has one.
So Motorola copied something that Apple hasn't done or announced?
No, they're just doing what Apple and others are already planning, they just happened to be first out of the gate (or maybe second if some Chinese company did it already).
Soon they will get rid of screens because they take up too much space and make the phone too thick.