Slashdot Mirror
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.
all we have to do now is sit back and wait to hear that apple tracked down his phone id, then his phone, and bricked it for carrying out "unsanctioned" modifications...
Gain: tons of Youtube views and bragging rights for proving Apple was lying
Circumcision is child abuse.
Here's another brilliant guy with no common sense. Spending countless hours, and loads of money to basically come up with a lousy solution. Which isn't any better then just using the lightning adaptor in the first place. Personally if I wanted a headphone jack that bad, their are some really good Android phones or just buy a older iPhone that still has one? Why did the person buy a new iPhone knowing it did not have a jack? .....Idiot
You can already use $900 earphones that only have a Jack for input on an iPhone 7 using Apple's dongle that Apple bundles with the iPhone.
Anyone who buys $900 headphones and doesn't use an external DAC is an ignorant fool.
TFA's mod dissassembles Apple's Lightning-Jack adapter & reuses it's puny DAC, destroys the phon's resale value and STILL cannot be used while charging.
It's the playtime project of someone who has enough money to purchase & destroy multiple iPhones. It'd be easier and of better value to add a lightning port & a better quality DAC in the earphones.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
The guy falsified Apple's claim that the iPhone 7 has no the headphone jack because there wasn't room inside.
His mod has weaknesses because he used off the shelf circuits; Apple would have used purpose-built circuits without his compromises.
TFA seems to confirm popular belief that Apple users don't care about how much it costs.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
> It's the playtime project of someone who has enough money to purchase & destroy multiple iPhones. It'd be easier and of better value to add a lightning port & a better quality DAC in the earphones.
Somehow, you managed to be modded "insightful" on slashdot, for shitting what is literally a geeks's-geek's-geek technology hobbyist project. I'm not really sure you are clear as to what slashdot is.
I hope beyond hope by "threw it away" you mean recycled it.
Are you serious? Oh how the mighty have fallen. This kind of maker thing used to epitomize slashdot.
Sure it's of no practical value, but the experience and sheer geek joy he got from the project are priceless. This is slashdot where we used to glory in cool hacks like this. Have you hacked a board together from breadboard prototype all the way through to finished, miniature circuit board? Pretty neat stuff. This modern age of makers and youtube blows me out of the water. There's something about making something that is satisfying and always educational.
I thoroughly enjoyed the video and it was neat to see how manufacturing of those circuit boards works.
What is "flagrant", is your grasp of language.
Your audiophiles with their setups are listening in a pristine environment and have trained their ears on hundreds of repeated listens to the same tracks to detect subtle variations in that
A. Do not represent "quality", but only difference from their own setup, which they assume is of the highest quality.
B. Simply do not matter in a typical listening environment.
The DAC in the iPhone dongle is good enough to drive a pair of Sennheiser HD 650s at high volume, converting from 48khz 24-bit lossless. Stick your audiophile friends in some random room and give them a double-blind test with those same headphones on their own amp and they WILL FAIL IT HALF THE TIME. I absolutely, 100-percent, GUARANTEE IT.
Here's a nice collection of similar studies done over the years:
https://www.head-fi.org/thread...
Your "musician friends" are just messing with you.
Seriously? That's kind of insane. There are many possible ways to map your position in a building that will actually work reliably, such as proximity to wireless networks, Bluetooth devices, etc. Air pressure is not one of them. Not even remotely. Heck, even outdoors, air pressure isn't a very good way to measure altitude, because the pressure can shift drastically over the course of a day and over the course of fairly short distances, so you have to have a recent reference barometer reading from fairly close to where you are or else you can be off by hundreds or even thousands of feet. For example, during Hurricane Rita, the barometric pressure at sea level was equivalent to roughly what would normally be recorded at the top of Backbone Mountain (Maryland's highest peak).
Indoors, barometric pressure is complete crap. Air pressure inside a building is so highly variable that I would expect it to be nearly useless even under the best of circumstances. The air pressure inside a building is set by the inflow and outflow rates of the air handlers, and is thus not entirely dependent on altitude. In many commercial office buildings, opening a door can easily reduce pressure by half an inch of mercury or more, which is like being suddenly catapulted upwards by about five commercial-height stories. And the hardware engineers at Apple ought to know this. After all, unless they've fixed it recently, the air handlers in the Infinite Loop buildings produce positive pressure so intense that it frequently holds the exterior doors open for minutes at a time. I'd bet they see shifts of 10+ stories there.
So again, I ask, why the h*** does a phone need a barometer? SMH.
Check out my sci-fi/humor trilogy at PatriotsBooks.