How unsmart is this article http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/64051710/Why-Apple-might-ditch-the-headphone-port
I'm pretty sure 10 years ago my nokia phone had a headphone jack half the thickness of the 3.5mm one
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Hammerer:And how well did that work? *looks at current sony phone, finds 3.5mm jack*
- It has been done before. My old Sony-Ericsson phones had a proprietary connector that handled all connections including power, sound, and controls.
richms: The 3.5mm sockets always give issues for me. Usually loud buzzing noices, cracking when the plug moves, thinking I am pressing a button and redialing people, thinking I have headphones with a microphone plugged in when I dont and disabling the phones internal microphone. Would love to see something replace it, but the problem is if you want to charge and use the output on the phone at the same time if they both use the lightning hole.
Audiophiles are such twits! They buy such pointless stuff: Gold plated cables, $2000 power cords. Idiots.
OOOHHHH HYPERFIBRE!
blakamin:Hammerer:And how well did that work? *looks at current sony phone, finds 3.5mm jack*
- It has been done before. My old Sony-Ericsson phones had a proprietary connector that handled all connections including power, sound, and controls.
richms: Ah yes the no standards so you get no sound unless you hold one of the buttons down.
I would like to see more buttons on phone mics. My vintage mini disk player had loads of things on the remote. Now all I have is a button that is just as likely to redial someone and 2 other buttons whose actions are unpredictable.
eth: In all seriousness though, I don't think Apple would actually remove the 3.5mm headphone jack from any of their devices in the foreseeable future. Imagine the consumer backlash if everyone had to buy some new form of headphones for their Apple device that don't work with any of their non-Apple devices. It just isn't going to happen.
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