The humble aux cable or, more formally, the 3.5mm auxiliary cable, has long been a universal standard for analog audio signals. Aux cables allow you to accomplish such tasks as plugging in your ...

Virtually all smartphone manufacturers have eliminated the 3.5mm audio jack even though it has long been the standard connector for a huge range of audio equipment over the past century. Most flagship ...

There are two ways of implementing USB audio on phones. Manufacturers like Samsung, Google and now Apple with its USB Type-C iPhones, prefer to output Digital audio from the USB port and trust your ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. There's no two ways about it - the 3.5mm headphone jack as we know it today is going away (and not ...

Upcoming smartphones might not have a 3.5mm headphone jack. It all still hangs on a rumor that Apple's iPhone will shun all connectors but its proprietary Lightning jack (some Android models out this ...

Microsoft has been awarded a patent for a device that could make it possible to retain access to a 3.5mm headphone jack on your smart device, without actually having a 3.5mm headphone jack. The “Plug ...

The Panasonic ErgoFit now come in USB-C, so you can actually use them on your smartphone.

Apple has consistently worked at making the iPhone ever slimmer, and has been willing to make compromises to achieve that, most notably in battery-life. But with the iPhone 6 and 6s, it is close to ...