Will iPhone7 cancel the 3.5mm audio interface? What headphones does iPhone7 use?

There has always been a saying that iPhone7 will cancel the 3.5mm audio interface. In the future, if you want to listen to music with iPhone7, you can only use special headphones that support light interface. This practice is not Apple's first. Both Nokia and Samsung have introduced mobile phones with dedicated earphone interfaces, but these products have disappeared in the torrent of history, and even the once popular 2.5mm interface is very rare. So will iPhone7 really cancel the 3.5mm audio interface?

However, science (statistics) tells us again and again that since Mr. Cook came to power, there have been no so-called "spy photos" and "rumors" at Apple, and confidentiality agreements are as worthless as wiping paper. Everything you know now may come true in the future.

Combined with Apple's behavior in recent years, coupled with a large number of reports and the leakage of new progress, it can basically be confirmed that it is difficult to see the earphone hole on the 20 16 Apple mobile phone.

How can I listen to music when the earphone hole is cancelled?

Because I'm not a science major and I'm not thinking in science and engineering, I always like to put aside terminology and speak in a popular way as much as possible. In this way, we usually need four steps to listen to songs with mobile phones: first, extract digital files from stored files; second, convert digital signals into analog signals that can be understood by human ears; third, amplify the signals; and fourth, plug in headphones or speakers that can make noise.

Under normal circumstances, the first three steps are handled by the mobile phone, and all you need is to find an earphone or a small speaker (if you listen to songs through the speaker of the mobile phone, even the fourth step is packed, so you don't have to take care of it).

However, after canceling the headset interface and changing it into a lightning interface that can only transmit digital signals, Apple's mobile phone only needs to complete the first step of extracting digital files from storage media-and then transmit the signals to your headset through lightning. You must have decoding and operation playback in your earphone to complete the middle two steps, otherwise you won't hear the song.

By the way, there is another battery problem. If your headset comes with its own battery, the weight will increase and many things will be stuffed in it, which is a new design challenge for headset manufacturers. If you choose to use Apple's mobile phone for power supply (lightning is our charging interface, of course, it can also send power to the equipment), then you will save the trouble of plugging the earphone into the battery. As for how much impact this will have on the battery life of the mobile phone, it depends on the specific situation.

What impact will it have on the industry?

Many, let's count them:

1. First of all, there must be an adapter, one end of which can be plugged with lightning, and the other end is a 3.5 standard headphone jack, so that all headphones with 3.5 plugs can be used as usual. The difficulty of this kind of socket is that it can't be too big or too heavy for no one to use, and the sound quality is not good and ugly. In addition, you need to buy Apple's MFI certification.

2. Portable decoding amplifier may usher in a real spring. After all, functionally, this product was indeed dispensable before, but it can become a "quasi-necessity" in the future. Imagine: a back clip battery with a decoding amplifier and an extra lightning, so that people can listen to songs with 3.5 headphones while charging? This ..... is almost a necessity.

Another problem with 3.iphone is that Apple's official player does not support high-quality audio sources. Now gossip shows that Apple's next generation will be completely high-quality audio, which will depend on whether you plug in lighting equipment or not. What's more, Apple has clearly stated that it wants to promote high-quality audio sources, and then you will happen to find that 128G may not be enough in the future (this TM is a conspiracy! ) ..... People's big companies are playing routine boxing, not on a whim.

4. Because lightning is a digital interface, if you plug in an earphone directly, you can't do it with only one cable and two speakers, right? If you want to add messy things, why not install heart rate, camera, Armstrong gun and so on? -Smart headphones, once just a joke, may really look up and become the hottest wearable device in one fell swoop.

5, Bluetooth headsets will also occupy a larger market share, because the easiest way to deal with Apple is to switch to Bluetooth headsets. You don't give me a place to insert TM or YY from a distance, can't you! ?

How do consumers insert?

1, if you use Apple, don't change your phone, or don't change your phone to Apple 7 (this is the most worry-free).

2. Follow the toss and wait for the matching cutting-edge headphones, including the decoding power amplifier developed for this purpose;

3, even if I change Apple 7 in the future, I don't want to toss. Get an adapter or Bluetooth headset to save trouble.

Why cancel the headphone jack? Maybe everyone wants to make the mobile phone thinner (silly, I'm tired of many mobile phones on the market now, and I sacrificed my grip because I want to make the mobile phone bigger and thinner ...); Maybe people want to lead the new wave (Apple deliberately plays with personality, which is often the case, and has led the world reform many times. If the company does too well, it is really qualified to reject the world harmony); Perhaps people consciously opened a new road for the popularization of high sound quality from the root. In a word, there are many possibilities brought by this change.

By the way, when I talked about the impact on the industry just now, I missed an important role: do you remember that Apple recently acquired a headset brand? Since it is Apple's own son, if I say that this brand has developed a series of lightning headphones with the cooperation of Apple's headquarters, and the degree of perfection is bound to be ahead of other brands, it may even be released at the iphone7 conference. Can you believe it?

Beats has become the best-selling earphone brand on the earth in recent years. Taking the opportunity of canceling the headphone jack, will the brand leap to a peak that other brands can't reach at all? Or is it because Apple took a wrong risk this time and was involved in the low tide?

In fact, Apple's practice of canceling the earphone interface is mainly to make more profits through the new audio standard. After all, the traditional 3.5mm interface is simple in structure and does not have much technical content. Once Apple's dedicated audio interface is used, headset manufacturers must pay a certain fee to Apple, and the price of related headset products will be higher.

Although the rumor that iPhone 7 cancels the standard 3.5mm headphone jack has not been confirmed, Apple officials have not clarified it, so it is likely to be close. Although Apple's approach is somewhat unreasonable and paranoid, audio devices such as headphones and speakers have been using 3.5mm interfaces for a long time, and it is time to change. Perhaps many years later, when wireless headphones become as popular as wired headphones, we will look back and sigh that Apple's vision and influence can really change the world.