Monday, November 30, 2015

Rumor: Next iPhone lacks headphone connector – 99mac

The headphone jack of 3.5 millimeter can be the next thing that disappears from the iPhone to allow for thinner devices.

Apple plans to remove the headphone jack of 3.5 mm from the next year’s iPhone, commonly known as # Iphone 7. This reports the Japanese site Macotakara [Google-translated] and refers to ” reliable sources “. If the headphone is removed, the device would be “more than a millimeter thinner” than the current iPhone 6S.

If confirmed, would headphones only be connected to the iPhone 7 wirelessly via Bluetooth or via Lightning connector. Apple published last year, specifications for manufacture of headphones that use Lightning protocol during the program MFI (Made for iPhone). 99mac has also reported on a patent that suggests that Apple is developing wireless noise canceling headphones, which in future could replace today Earpods that come with the iPhone.

According to Macotakara, however, a special variant of Earpods to accompany Iphone 7, which connects directly via Lightning connector. The headphones will contain a small converter from digital to analog signals. Other manufacturers of headphones will need to include a Lightning connector, or an adapter from 3.5 millimeters for them to work with the phone.

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