There are two ways of implementing USB audio on phones. Manufacturers like Samsung, Google and now Apple with its USB Type-C iPhones, prefer to output Digital audio from the USB port and trust your ...

Given Apple’s recent penchant for (not) keeping secrets, we all knew this was going to happen. The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus would not come with a 3.5 mm audio jack. Those wishing to use headphones with the ...

Reporting from San Francisco — When the Sony Walkman went on sale in 1979, music was stored on a cassette tape, power came from AA batteries and sound traveled through headphones plugged into a 3.5-mm ...

We've been sold a narrative for nearly a decade now: the removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack from smartphones was necessary progress. Thinner phones, better water resistance, the future is wireless, ...

Those are the words of an elderly mobile phone seller in one of Delhi’s markets when we ask him if power adapters, or “chargers” as most people call them, will be removed from retail packs of mobile ...

Around December 2015, rumours of Apple replacing the 3.5-mm audio jack with the charging port to connect earphones started doing the rounds. However, even before the much touted announcement of the ...

Adapting the standard 3.5-mm audio jack found on most iOS or Android smartphones, the Smartphone Quick-Jack Solution creates a universal interface for external sensors, switches, peripherals, and ...

[Avian]’s dad got a new ham radio transceiver with a 3.5 mm jack, and his pile-of-cables got him a headphone cable from Bose headphones. He built a DB9 to 3.5 mm adapter with that one – and it failed ...

Last year Google followed up its very expensive Pixel 3 lineup with the mid-range Pixel 3a and 3a XL. These phones came in at half the price of the Pixel 3/3 XL while still offering up most all of the ...

Reporting from San Francisco — When the Sony Walkman went on sale in 1979, music was stored on a cassette tape, power came from AA batteries and sound traveled through headphones plugged into a 3.5-mm ...