It wouldn’t be hard to make a USB C to 3.55MM adapter and they very well may be already available. The other alternative is to use a portable DAC as I already do or use Bluetooth headphones, nothing much to worry about there but I do acknowledge its a nuisance, part of the reason I’m staying with my iPhone 6 though that’s not the entire part of my reasoning, I just see no point in changing the iPhone given how little I actually use the device these days. Granted there are some features I really like about the iPhone like the ability to integrate the iPhone with your Mac or iPad - when it works <smile>. -
> On 3 Jun 2017, at 12:01 am, Joe Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > > So they axed the 3.5mm headphone jack, only to ax the lightning port a year > later? What'll they do for headphones now? To my knowledge, they don't have > headphones with usb ends! > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jun 2, 2017, at 8:40 AM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello everybody >> >> Apple’s new 4.7 and 5.1-inch iPhone 8, to be released in September or >> October of this year, will feature a new glass body, front-facing camera, no >> Home button, USB connector (replaces the Lightning port, which Apple is >> phasing out), wireless charging and new A11 processor for faster >> responsiveness. >> >> With Edge-to-edge display, fingerprint sensor and varying capacities, Apple >> is now following Samsung, it would seem. As I understand it, they are also >> trying to make the iPhone thinner and lighter. That’s why they are ditching >> the Aluminium case. >> >> |The home button, again, as with Samsung’s new S8 Galaxy, has been dumped. I >> also understand that, as with the iPhone 7S and 7S+, there will be no >> dedicated audio connector. >> >> Clearly, the battle of the smart phones is now hotting up. Seems to be that >> Samsung has the edge, if you’ll pardon the pun, from where I’m standing. >> >> It will be interesting to see what’s coming in iOS 11, scheduled for release >> around the same time as the iPhone8. Definitely time to dump my old iPhone >> 5S I think, and super-definitely time to dump my old third generation iPad. >> I actually have a first generation iPad sitting in a drawer, but it doesn’t >> work any longer. I just haven’t had the heart to dump it, as it was the >> second device on which I learned to use iOS. Ah well, let battle commence! >> >> ======================================== >> >> My complements and kindest regards >> Gordon Smith: >> <[email protected]> >> >> Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. >> >> Contact: >> >> • UK Geographic – +44(0) 1642 688095 >> • UKFree Phone – 0800 8620538 >> • UK Mobile – +44 (0) 7907 823971 >> >> • Australia Geographic – +61 38 82059300 >> • US Geographic – +1 646 9151493Mobile/S >> >> ---------------------------------------- >> >> > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
