Apple will definitely be removing the headphone port in its next major iPhone release, according to a report.
The company is set to swap the traditional headphone jack and instead send sound through the lightning port that at the moment is mostly used for charging, according to a report in Fast Company. That process will allow the phone to be even thinner than normal, alongside a range of other design changes.
As well as the changes to the headphone setup the phone will also be waterproof and able to charge wirelessly, the magazine reported citing “a source with knowledge of the company’s plans”.
Apple is working with the company that has helped create its audio chips to make an iPhone that will be able to play music out of the port, the magazine reported. It will also use new noise-cancelling technology made by a UK company called Wolfson Microelectronics, which will allow the phone and headphones to work together to remove background noise while listening to music and making phone calls.
Other headphone makers will be able to use that special technology but will have to pay Apple a fee to do so, the report claimed.
Little is known about how Apple will implement the new headphones, and the company itself has not said anything about how it would do so or suggested that it actually will.
source: timesofindia