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Possible iPhone 7 Lightning to 3.5 mm Adapter Surfaces in New Photos


Only if you believe it never occurred to Apple to spend a tiny amount of its $20 billion R&D budget the last couple of years to come up with a solution. There's a reason why they have sold a billion and over a hundred million people will buy the next one
 
Fedelix said:
$ 35.00
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I can see the error messages already...

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gaanee said:
One of the advantages mentioned of the lightning headphones was it could carry digital audio (not sure if that's the right term) and headphones could use custom DAC for better audio processing, the sound quality would be much better compared to that of 3.5mm jack.
With this adapter, wouldn't you lose that? More over you have extra adapter to carry with you. The only upside is you can use your old headphones and possibly slightly bigger battery.
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Yes, using headphones that have an analogue headphone plug cannot use a custom DAC because with an analogue plug they cannot receive digital data.
 
Is showing the adapter on a wet piece of wood supposed to imply a waterproof or at least water resistant iPhone 7? At least subliminally? (Wishful thinking I'm sure.)
 
iLilana said:
run-on sentence incoming....
...over the lazy hardware designers and aggressive corporate cost-cutters that think one port is the way while passing the cost of apple authorized (which they get a financial piece of) adapters and chip enabled dongles to the consumer. We saw these shenanigans with the macbook and now the already minimal micro-computer we now call a phone. instead of giving the rest of the world and industries that use these products a good 3 years to adapt they force us to adapt with single port devices.
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It's just a phone/computer.
 
This more or less confirms no headphone jack for the iPhone 7. Not this part, I mean this part could be fake, who knows. But the part about plugging it into a device running iOS 9 or older and it says incompatible. But when used on iOS 10 Beta it works normally.
 
Benjamin Frost said:
If Apple stops offering an iPhone with headphone jack, I will seriously consider switching to Android.
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If that's all that is keeping you on the Apple platform I'd switch now. Android will save you a few bucks in the short term and some major anxiety. Life's too short to get wrapped around the axle and Apple is always going to be pushing the envelope.
 
We can currently have better audio now by buying better headsets - which almost no one does. and we can currently use "custom" DAC's now thru the current lightning port. saying the 35mm jack is ancient technology ignores the fact that humans can only hear analogue signals. We can't hear digital signals so at some point in the process we need an analogue signal. Apple needs to come up with a VERY good reason for removing it - and saying better audio is not the reason.
 
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shk718 said:
Apple needs to come up with a VERY good reason for removing it - and saying better audio is not the reason.
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Reasons I have seen mentioned so far have included:
Fewer openings/orifices for water etc
More space for battery etc
 
I remember reading about the DAC in the Lightning to 30 pin adapter, supposedly it is a good quality one. Perhaps they will use a good one in that adapter too.
 
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