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Hobbyist Gives iPhone 7 the Headphone Jack We've Always Wanted (engadget.com)
intellitech shares a report from Engadget: For those of you who miss the iPhone headphone jack, you're definitely not alone. But Strange Parts creator Scotty Allen missed it so much that he decided to add one to his iPhone 7. He just posted a video of the project's entire saga, with all of its many ups and downs, and in the end he holds what he set out to create -- a current generation iPhone with a fully functional headphone jack. It turns out, real courage is adding the headphone jack back to the iPhone. The project took around 17 weeks to complete and throughout it Allen spent thousands of dollars on parts including multiple iPhones and screens and handfuls of lightning to headphone adaptors. Along the way, Allen bought a printer, a nice microscope and fancy tweezers. He had to design his own circuit boards, have a company manufacture multiple iterations of flexible circuit boards and at one point early on had to consult with a chip dealer that a friend hooked him up with.
The final product works by using a lightning to headphone adaptor that's incorporated into the internal structure of the phone. However, because the headphone jack is powered via the phone's lightning jack with a circuit board switching between the two depending on whether headphones or a charger are plugged into the phone, you can't actually listen to music and charge the phone at the same time.
The final product works by using a lightning to headphone adaptor that's incorporated into the internal structure of the phone. However, because the headphone jack is powered via the phone's lightning jack with a circuit board switching between the two depending on whether headphones or a charger are plugged into the phone, you can't actually listen to music and charge the phone at the same time.
Your comma offends me.
Maybe that was an imperative sentence: "Creative minds, I command you to make creative products."
Circumcision is child abuse.
Reading the ordeal and expense that is putting a microphone jack in an iPhone, I must say that now I understand the reason why Apple took it away. It's simply not worth it!
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
My Samsung has a wireless charger and a standard phone jack.
You mean you can plug a landline into it? That's an odd feature for a cell phone...
... there'd be a lot of difficult technical challenges implanting a retractable microsd card into my pinky finger.
Just choose a less challenging and more cost effective location instead.
Inspire yourself from that guy with his headphone jack; you already have an easy adaptable port located in your lower back.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.