Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades

Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by incongruity on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @12:01PM (#32167688)

My understanding was that it’s always been about the physical size and the impact it has on the stack-up of iPhone components. Looking at a standard mini-jack vs. my iPhone 13, the connector itself is close to 40% of the thickness of the phone. Add the additional size for the jack’s structure and you quickly get to a point where the phone has to be thicker.

Now, has Apple gotten too obsessive about thin phones? Maybe - but that’s a different discussion.

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Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by smoldesu on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @12:19PM (#32168004)

If that is the case, I have a hard time believing it's still true on any model past iPhone X. There's plenty of space to fit a 3.5mm jack in there, I would happily trade any/all of the FaceID hardware or Lidar components for a headphone connector.

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Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by Dylan16807 on Thursday July 21, 2022 @12:57AM (#32175922)

I don't see how that could be true. The thinnest ever iPhone was the 6, and it had a headphone jack. The phones since then have been 3-20% thicker.

Some searching suggests that 5mm is about the point where it won't fit, and iPhones are comfortably 7+. One of these phones is 5.6mm thick with a headphone jack and has near-zero bezels.

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