The audio jack elicits some very raw emotions
4 years ago by fashash · 637 Likes · 8 comments · Popular
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guest_
· 4 years ago
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Wow. Deep feelings. I liked the audio jack. I miss it. But like.... the phone comes with earbuds. So.... I use those. But if you wanted to use your own headphones.... and they aren’t Bluetooth...the jacks are like $10 from the phone maker. You can get them cheaper aftermarket... and you can even make your own for literally like $.025.
guest_
· 4 years ago
But as they try to make phones smaller and more powerful, as they push the use of advanced technology (many cars don’t even support USB to radio or cable to radio- Bluetooth only...) the jacks are gonna go. If it was all about cash.... why not charge you $10 extra dollars or $20- or even sell a jack version of certain phones for like $100 more? My last iPhone cost me like $800. Would another $10 to have a jack have broken the deal? No. People upgrade hundreds of dollars on a phone just for a slightly bigger screen, bigger hard drive, or a better camera etc. so if it was all a cash grab.... I dunnoh. I think they could do better than a $10 dongle.
cryoenthusiast
· 4 years ago
make my own? like wire a female audio jack end to a male usb-c and then plug it in?
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Pretty much. Now- I have never torn down android audio cables- on the iPhone there is a DAC and amp in the lightening jack- so depending on the headphones you use you may or may not have to/want to splice one or both into your circuit- but yeah. You’re going to have a pin for L/R channel, Mic (if equipped) and controls (if equipped- like volume up/down, pause/play etc.) You can keep track as you tear everything down- or use tools to test your wires/pins. Splice and solder- boom.
guest_
· 4 years ago
If you’re really adventurous- many of the newer phones have space (you may have to move some things, sacrifice some things or replace them with other parts that package better...) you can use your own PCB or microprocessors, tools like a drip etc. and splice a 3.5mm jack to the connector pins inside the phone- then drill a hole and have an internal jack if you really want one. That one is a tad more advanced and potentially costly (one engineer estimated he spent over $1,000 in ruined parts prototyping this on an iPhone 7...)
guest_
· 4 years ago
But I mean... the dongle is $10 or less- so for my time unless I wanted to have a project I’d just buy that- or some blue tooth headphones I like. Or a Bluetooth transmitter module that you can plug regular 3.5mm headphones into and it transmits via Bluetooth to the phone.
guest
· 4 years ago
Honestly Apple has some nerve calling another phone company out after everything they "innovated"
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guest_
· 4 years ago
I don’t think they were calling them out as much as they were calling out the crowd of people who gave Apple or Apple owners so much crap because Apple ditched the jack. Apple said when they did it that the industry was heading that way and tons of people said that was BS and they were just doing their usual cash grab. Not to say there isn’t any element of cash grabbing to any of it- that’s somewhat expected of for profit businesses. But- more so that it wasn’t just some excuse- but the fact another primary phone manufacturer did it too just sort of reinforces the fact that yeah- that’s just the direction the industry and technology is going right now.
