As the rumors that the next iPhone will drop the 3.5mm headphone jack have intensified, I’ve been keeping tabs on the specific argument that Daring Fireball’s John Gruber made yesterday: that removing ...

The danger of buying expensive headphones is that no matter how good the sound quality is, you run the risk of ruining it by breaking a flimsy piece of rubber and metal. Or you can fix the plug for a ...

Apple has confirmed the iPhone 7 lacks a headphone jack; changes to the iPhone 7 will require the use of expensive proprietary equipment. Most of the time, iPhone rumors promise exciting things.

Apple isn’t the only company looking to remove the last vestiges of the analog world from our smartphones and tablets. Intel apparently wants in on the action too. The chip maker recently talked about ...

Here are just a few reasons why the headphone jack needs to come back in a big way. For starters, wired earbuds used to come ...

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There’s no room for a 3.5mm headphone jack in Apple’s next-generation iPhones, according to recent leaks — but that doesn’t mean all your existing headphones are no good. Accessory makers are already ...

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 ...

It’s no secret that the headphone jack is dying. Ever since Apple jettisoned the port in 2016 with the release of the iPhone 7, Android OEMs have slowly followed suit. At this point, there are very ...

Despite the trend of removing headphone jacks from mobile devices, Apple’s M4 MacBook Pro, even in its latest iteration, continues to feature this traditional audio port. This decision, which diverges ...