I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back

Re:I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back by Klover on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:05AM (#18540761)

$50-$100 worth of kit? The dongle is €10 (21% VAT incluis) in an Apple Store. EarPods with lightning connector integrated are €23 (again, VAT included) if you want the most easy solution on a like €600 minimum phone.

If you have a phone that doesn't come with a 3.5mm headphone jack, then you're able to spend €10 on a dongle to make your $4 set of 3.5mm headphones work. If you cannot afford that, then you have one of the many phones that do have a headphone jack. I'm sure that, if in the future everyone for some strange reason got rid of the integrated headphone jack and there's no company that sees it as a USP while people still want to use 3.5mm headphones, that the price of dongles will be next to nothing.

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Re:I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back by threeseed on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @05:56AM (#18541266)

You don't have to buy Apple's dongle. I found third party ones for $1.46.

At the price you could just buy like 5 and permanently attach them to each pair of headphones.

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Re:I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back by hatsubai on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:10AM (#18542825)

Be careful. Many of them don't actually work with the latest iOS for one reason or another. I just ran into this issue myself after grabbing some cheap dongles off of Amazon, and I got an error stating that the "device is not supported."

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