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POLL: 3.5 mm headphone jack

Should the 3.5 mm headphone jack be removed with the next iPhone?

  • Yes

  • No

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Jsameds said:
People tend to forget if Apple remove something they often replace it with something else. Poll would be a lot more interesting if you were to pit features against each other. For example would you prefer:

- Headphone jack or wireless charging?
- Headphone jack or 10% more battery life?
- Headphone jack or dual-lens depth sensing near-SLR quality camera?

All of a sudden I'm thinking the headphone jack is a sacrifice I'm willing to make in order to gain one or more of the features above.

It's not out of the question either. That headphone jack takes up an awful lot of space on the inside..

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You forgot an option for what will actually happen.

Remove the headphone jack, put in a thinner (smaller) battery, and made the device X% thinner.
 
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I predict big push over the next months on Bluetooth advancement and saturation... Just like almost all gadgets, Wireless seems to be more and more prevalent, and industry preferred. Like the genie you can't put back in the bottle.
 
Voted yes. I don't think the phone should be thinner though, I think that space should be used for more battery or bigger speaker. The 3.5mm jack makes no sense on a phone where space is at a premium.
 
oneMadRssn said:
Just had this thought. If Apple does get rid of the 3.5mm jack, and does introduce a Lightning to 3.5mm adapter, would it also have a lightning passthrough for charging like the Lightning to HDMI adapter has?

If so, it would be the must-have car accessory. Single-cable plug to charge your phone and get music out.

I'm almost beginning to hope Apple does get rid of the 3.5mm plug just for this accessory to materialize.
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I think they'd need to, but such an adapter would be bulky.
 
Apple will not remove the 3.5mm headphone jack simply to make the phone thinner. Just look at the iPod touch and iPod nano, they are thinner than the 6s but still have a 3.5mm headphone jack.

The headphone jack takes up a lot of space inside the phone. Apple can use this space for other components. Slightly bigger battery is an example.

Apple are not afraid to upset their customers. Look at what they done with the 30-pin connector. Everyone needed to either buy an adapter or new cables.

Its been four years since the Lightning Connector was introduced. The 30-pin was also around for four years. With the new connector, it'll probably be used for headphones and charging.

In my opinion, move on. Either use EarPods that Apple will provide with the iPhone 7 or, don't buy the iPhone 7 at all. Problem solved.
 
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Thoughts on thickness: to me, the iPhone 6 is not thinner than the iPhone 5 since I count the cameras height to that dimension. In fact, if you do that, it’s even slightly thicker than the 5. It has been a well hidden (on the website, in ads, even on the tech-spec page/dimensions) trade-off Apple (hopefully) is not proud of. This is, where in the first place, I wouldn’t have made the iPhone thinner to keep camera and housing streamlined. Just a thought.
 
Can't really vote on this poll with only the two choices. Removing it for removing it's sake - no. Removing it to make it a bit thinner - no. But as others have pointed out removing it to make the next iPhone fully water proof - I'd vote for that.

I don't remember the last time I used it, probably in my older vehicle a couple years ago that didn't have bluetooth. But now my vehicles all have bluetooth and I use a bluetooth headset when working out as the wires always annoyed me.
 
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KJL3000 said:
Thoughts on thickness: to me, the iPhone 6 is not thinner than the iPhone 5 since I count the cameras height to that dimension. In fact, if you do that, it’s even slightly thicker than the 5. It has been a well hidden (on the website, in ads, even on the tech-spec page/dimensions) trade-off Apple (hopefully) is not proud of. This is, where in the first place, I wouldn’t have made the iPhone thinner to keep camera and housing streamlined. Just a thought.
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I've never used a case on any iPhone I've ever had. Nor my iPads. Nor my MacBooks for that matter. And come to think of it, not on my iPods either. However, many people do. Based solely on my annectdotal perception, I'd almost expect the great majority of iPhone customers do use cases. If that's the case, I have a better understanding of punching the designs ever thinner. The screen size determine height and width, but by making it as thin and trim as possible, the overall phone becomes much sleeker when used with a case. And that protrusion of the camera lens is absorbed by the case. In fact, the 6S in cases I've seen is the 6S phone many would like to carry without a case -- the normally protruding camera is flush with the case. Id expect that to be the situation even as the phone gets thinner. So in some respects Apple is making a phone that lets the customer decide how thick or thin they want it to be. I will always want the smallest, slimmest case design possible as I carry my phone in my front jeans pocket. And there are times I wish I had a protective case, so who knows, if the phone is slim enough, it might reach a place where it's thin enough I can use a case that will still slip into my pocket as easily as my bare iPhone does now.
 
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azentropy said:
Can't really vote on this poll with only the two choices. Removing it for removing it's sake - no. Removing it to make it a bit thinner - no. But as others have pointed out removing it to make the next iPhone fully water proof - I'd vote for that.

I don't remember the last time I used it, probably in my older vehicle a couple years ago that didn't have bluetooth. But now my vehicles all have bluetooth and I use a bluetooth headset when working out as the wires always annoyed me.
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Other companies have done waterproof phones without removing the headphones jacks, so that's not a good enough reason to me...

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Leave it. I don't need my phone any thinner and having to keep adapters around for my various headphones and line-in ports is far more annoying than the upside of any design benefit.
 
Lightning-cabled headphones? The headphone industry that matters doesn't bother with such nonsense and neither should Apple. I would switch to Android over this.
 
orioncrystalice said:
I hope the pairing process for headphones in particular can somehow be simplified in the next rendition of iOS. If people are going to use them, they will be expecting to put them on, hit the switch, and it just works. They don't want to go in Settings and wait and tap things.
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Right.
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VictoryHighway said:
The day they remove the headphone jack is the day I stop buying new iPhones.
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Famous last words. Save these on your desktop and revisit them in a year.
 
it looks like Apple is going against the majority of user's wants. Apple has a history of doing this same thing. Users are not willing to let go the old habits.
 
janeauburn said:
Then why is the loss of the headphone jack always mentioned as a prerequisite for waterproofing?
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I suspect, but have no way to be sure, that the people making these claims simply don't know about the other phones, or at least not enough about their feature sets and specs. What tends to happen with a lot of members on fan forums is they are completely blinded by the product they endorse. Often times people aren't aware there are different/better options out there.

Not a defense. Not an attack. Just the way of forums, really. Admittedly I spend much more time on iOS forums than Android. It's even possible/probably that i Have parroted misinformation here or there.
 
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lordofthereef said:
I suspect, but have no way to be sure, that the people making these claims simply don't know about the other phones, or at least not enough about their feature sets and specs. What tends to happen with a lot of members on fan forums is they are completely blinded by the product they endorse. Often times people aren't aware there are different/better options out there.

Not a defense. Not an attack. Just the way of forums, really. Admittedly I spend much more time on iOS forums than Android. It's even possible/probably that i Have parroted misinformation here or there.
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Without the headphone jack, there will still be *holes* in the edges of the phone--holes that presumably water can get into. So people need to put on their common sense hats a bit when linking the headphone jack with waterproofing.
 
I kind of want it to happen simply because of the endless entertainment all the unhappy people online will provide me.
 
Voted no. Apple should only remove the 3.5 jack when it finally supports AptX or AptX HD for better quality audio over BT. Which I don't see ever happening, because that would make too much sense. I'm replacing all MP3s in my iTunes library with lossless FLAC files so this matters to me. Apple's proprietary lossless format and inability to easily drag and drop FLAC files into a folder on the phone over USB are other issues.
 
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