The 3.5 mm headphone jack has been in decline for many years, but if your phone still has one, you can use it for a lot more ...

A small round connector for accepting the pin-shaped plug from certain phone headsets. This connector can be also be used with certain other types of accessories. While 2.5mm was the original standard ...

Apple has patented a shrunken-down headphone connector that shaves precious volume off existing 3.5mm and 2.5mm jack standards by reshaping the plug, thereby removing — albeit temporarily — an ...

A new Apple iPhone 7 is seen during a launch event on September 7, 2016 in San Francisco, California. A parody product page has sprouted for "Apple Plugs," a fake accessory that fits into the iPhone 6 ...

All this crankiness about the iPhone's new, smaller dock connector—the thin, rectangular port at the bottom that your phone charger plugs into—has made us appreciate the stability of the phone's other ...

Apple Inc. unveiled new iPhones without headphone jacks Wednesday, embracing a wireless future and a potential new source of accessory sales. “Our smartphones are packed with technologies and we all ...

Apple seemingly hammered the final nail in the coffin for the 3.5-millimeter headphone jack in iPhones Wednesday after dropping the 6s and SE models (the last of its handsets to include the port) from ...

Mobile devices are ditching headphone jacks at a brisk clip, so if your new Android smartphone or Apple iPad Pro ships without that precious port, you may have to purchase a wireless headset to listen ...

Phones killed the headphone jack, and years later we’re still paying for it.

OnePlus removed the headphone jack from its 6T, providing listeners with the Bullets Wireless and USB-C earbuds instead. Amid the Google I/O 2019 whirlwind, Google announced its Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a ...