Apple to drop headphone jack, add wireless charging in new iPhone7: report
09 Jan 2016
Apple will be doing away with the headphone in its next major iPhone release, says a new report.
The company will swap the traditional headphone jack and instead send sound through the lightning port, which is currently mostly used for charging, according to a report in Fast Company.
With the changes, the phone can become even thinner than normal, alongside a range of other design changes.
Additionally, the phone would also be waterproofed and can charge wirelessly, according to the magazine which cited ''a source with knowledge of the company's plans''.
Apple would also work with the company that helped create its audio chips to make an iPhone that capable of playing music out of the port.
The phone would also feature new noise-cancelling technology made by a UK company called Wolfson Microelectronics, which would allow the phone and headphones to work together to eliminate background noise while listening to music and making phone calls.
The report further said, the special technology would be licenced to other headphone makers for a fee.
Not much else was known about how Apple would implement the new headphones, and Apple had also not said anything about how it would do so or suggested that it actually will.
Meanwhile, metro.co.uk reported the current iPhone comes in three storage capacities, 16GB, 64GB and 128GB, but according to rumours, 16GB version might be scrapped and the top end expanded to 256GB.
Further, with the removal of the headphone jack and use of a smaller analogue to digital converter, there would be enough space to accommodate a larger battery.
The report added that the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus were fairly waterproof and considerably more water resistant than previous iPhones, so it is possible the iPhone 7 would be fully waterproof.
The question was not about whether Apple would make it rather it was about whether Apple would decide to make it a feature of this year's model or wait for another year or so.
