{"id":3097,"date":"2016-04-22T14:06:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T06:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/22\/these-chinese-phones-beat-apple-to-removing-the-headphone-jack\/"},"modified":"2016-04-22T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T06:06:47","slug":"these-chinese-phones-beat-apple-to-removing-the-headphone-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/22\/these-chinese-phones-beat-apple-to-removing-the-headphone-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"These Chinese phones beat Apple to removing the headphone jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leeco-usbc-headphone-phone\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzIyLzMyL2xlZWNvdXNiY2hlLjQ3MjZlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/39101fea\/011\/leeco-usbc-headphone-phone.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=These+Chinese+phones+beat+Apple+to+removing+the+headphone+jack&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F21%2Fleeco-phones-headphone-jack-removal%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F21%2Fleeco-phones-headphone-jack-removal%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Rumor has it the iPhone 7 <a href=\"mashable.com\/2016\/03\/09\/apple-iphone-7-headphone-jack-removal\/?utm_campaign=&amp;utm_context=textlink&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=\">will ditch the 3.5mm headphone jack<\/a>. Instead, you&#8217;ll need to buy new Lightning headphones, use an adapter, or go wireless with Bluetooth headphones.<\/p>\n<p>If it comes true this fall, there will no doubt be riots on the streets. Apple fans will be pissed at first, but will eventually get over it, defending Apple&#8217;s design and engineering decisions. Android fans and phone makers will cry: &#8220;Ha, you silly Apple sheep!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, maybe it won&#8217;t be that shocking. China&#8217;s LeEco has already beaten Apple to the punch with a smartphone sans headphone jack. Three smartphones to be exact. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/21\/leeco-phones-headphone-jack-removal\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/audio\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Audio<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/headphone-jack\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Headphone Jack<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/headphones\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Headphones<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/usb-type-c\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Usb Type C<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/usb-c\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Usb C<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1461302800' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1461302800'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/sBY-zL6Nvfs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumor has it the iPhone 7 will ditch the 3.5mm headphone jack. Instead, you&#8217;ll need to buy new Lightning headphones, use an adapter, or go wireless with Bluetooth headphones. If it comes true this fall, there will no doubt be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/22\/these-chinese-phones-beat-apple-to-removing-the-headphone-jack\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2375,2376,1507,2378,2377],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-audio","tag-headphone-jack","tag-headphones","tag-usb-c","tag-usb-type-c"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}