Many newer car stereos, as well as aftermarket head units, come with an audio jack that allow you to plug an MP3 player or smartphone into, but if you have an older stereo, there likely isn’t an audio ...

Intel says there are good reasons to say goodbye to the 3.5mm audio jack and bring headphones, earbuds and microphones into the digital era. One venerable computing technology, USB, could be about to ...

We recently reviewed the ultralight Asus ZenBook 14 UX425 equipped with the latest Intel Tiger Lake CPU and noticed that the system did not come with a 3.5 mm audio jack. Nonetheless, a USB-C to audio ...

It's been nine years since Apple started moving away from the 3.5mm audio jack on its mobile devices. The iPhone 7 and the 7 Plus were the first iPhones to launch without an audio port and relied on ...

Apple's decision to remove the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 brought a sudden and jarring end to this ubiquitous audio connector (though you can still buy some smartphones with a headphone jack).

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

The "Line In" audio jack on your computer enables you to connect a microphone or other audio output device with a 1/8-inch miniature plug to your computer. On some computers, especially laptops, as ...

Need (or simply want) to plug in wired headphones? These top-tested phones buck the wireless trend and keep the old-school 3.5mm audio jack. I’m one of PCMag’s mobile writers. That means I check out ...

The 3.5mm headphone jack is an industry standard audio plug. Most commonly used for connecting a pair of stereo headphones to your smartphone or 'piping' your audio from your phone to an external amp ...

Smartphone makers, it’s time to have that come-to-Apple moment, where we tell you that it’s time to put the 3.5mm analog headset jack back on the phone—at least until you get your USB-C audio act in ...

Ever since the first rumors that popped up late last year that Apple will be dropping the headphone jack from its next iPhone, the tech world has gone into a tizzy. Since then other manufacturers have ...