The 3.5mm headphone jack can trace its roots back to 19th century switchboard operators. Over a century after its humble, low-tech beginnings, Apple killed it on its primary money-maker: the iPhone.

There’s now a spec for MIDI over 2.5mm and 3.5mm TRS jacks. In just a few short decades, you’ll be able to connect MIDI gear with an audio aux cable.

As the name suggests, it’s a wired pair of earbuds—with a wildly impractical 50-meter cable and a good old 3.5mm headphone jack. Yes, you read that right. Fifty meters of cable.

The death of the 3.5mm headphone jack on smartphones — all smartphones, that is, not just expensive flagships where it’s already a rarity — is something many of us have been afraid of.

The 3.5mm phone jack is a well-established standard in the audio industry and continues to get strong support from users in the market. Originally invented in the 19 th century for telephone switch ...

Space Efficiency One of the primary reasons for eliminating the 3.5mm headphone jack, which has been around for over 100 years, is to free up valuable space within smartphones.

It’s a global episode of the sunk cost fallacy. In the usual way hindsight is 20/20, the 3.5mm audio jack can be looked at as a workaround, a stop over until we didn’t need it.

For the last 50 years, audio playback devices have relied on the 3.5mm audio jack (its predecessor, the 1/4-inch audio jack, dates back to 1879).

Though more and more phone-makers are ditching the jack, there still are a few phones you can get that have the useful audio port. Listed here are some of the mobile phones with 3.5mm headphone jack: ...

The standard 3.5mm headphone jack has been one of our favorite features on the PlayStation 4, letting us easily pump game and chat audio through standard headsets without the need for proprietary ...