Belkin rolls out 3.5mm Audio + Charge RockStar Lightning adapter for iPhones without a hea...
The new 3.5mm Audio + Charge RockStar allows Lightning-only devices to plug in headphone jack audio devices and a source of power or data and use both at the same time.
The MFi-certified device is compatible with any 3.5mm audio source, and supports pass-through charging for the iPhone. Also supported is remote and mic control through the headphones.
The Lightning port allows for not just power, but data synchronization as well.
The new 3.5 mm Audio + Charge RockStar is available for a retail price of $34.99 through Belkin or at the Apple Store. The Belkin Lightning Audio + Charge RockStar from 2016 with a pair of Lightning ports remains available for $39.99.
The MFi-certified device is compatible with any 3.5mm audio source, and supports pass-through charging for the iPhone. Also supported is remote and mic control through the headphones.
The Lightning port allows for not just power, but data synchronization as well.
The new 3.5 mm Audio + Charge RockStar is available for a retail price of $34.99 through Belkin or at the Apple Store. The Belkin Lightning Audio + Charge RockStar from 2016 with a pair of Lightning ports remains available for $39.99.
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What surprises me is that Apple didn't include a similar adapter with the iPhones. Lots of people want to charge and listen to music(and likely cost Apple less then $10 extra).
What surprised me is that Apple included the Lighting/3.5mm adapter. Everybody who bought a 7 knew or should have known that it had no traditional headphone jack. If they didn't, shame on them.
Apple is clearly sending a message— this is the way of our future. I figure it was nice of them to include the adapter but I never felt they were obligated. A lot of people took that as an admission of failure in removing the jack, rather than getting a perk.
Apple included a pair of EarPods that were compatible with the phone. Done. You want to use your own 'buds or headset, there are adapters.
Expecting Apple to include some a power/earphone splitter just does not compute.
I have to admit the lack of a headphone socket on my iPhone really wouldn't be a problem and I suspect that's true for the vast majority of people, especially as Lightning Ear Pods are included in the box with every new iPhone 7/8/10.
What at this product shows is that it costs an extra $35 to make an iPhone 7 or 8 have the same functionality as my iPhone 6. Of course you can use inductive charging on the 8, so that helps, as long as you don't want to hold your phone at the same time.
If Apple's strategy going forward is that Apple products should only be used with other Apple products, I'll say goodbye to Apple. I'm already still pissed that the MBP doesn't enable user replacement of memory, storage and battery just because Ive thinks computers need to be anorexic.
Well, since you can use the new iPhones with other makes of Bluetooth headphones, I'm not sure where you get that idea from.
And since you've known how Apple builds laptops for the past five years then what are you waiting for? Go somewhere else and be eternally happy..
The new phones also come with BT5 which may allow for better audio (not sure if they updated A2DP quality since BT2 tho), but regardless of quality, I would only use BT to connect to cars, speakers, IoT, etc. --not to transceivers mounted millimeters from my brain tissue, including high-bandwidth AR/VR eyeware).
If that's the case, why won't the Pixel 2 have one?
Dongles are the future... unfortunately...
He or she would rather stay and bitch that it's wet when raining.
Wireless charging frees the Lightning port for music, assuming, of course, that you're not already using Bluetooth AirPods or headsets.
This is nonsense. You can use any brand of wired or wireless headphones.
And I welcome thinner and lighter notebooks, as this is my portable system. DIY upgrades is a thing for hobbyists, and I don’t want to pay the price in thicker, heavier, less efficient notebooks for you to tinker.