The audio jack we now use is smaller, known as the 3.5mm jack, which became popular in the mid 1970s with the Sony Walkman music player.

The work "will really make USB Type-C the right connector for audio," Saunders said. Technology standards arrive all the time, but the 3.5mm audio jack is a surprisingly contentious issue.

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Google sells a USB-C dongle with a DAC in it and the Pixel 2 XL ships with one -- but if you try to plug an analog USB-C dongle (no DAC) into a Pixel 2 XL, the device won't play audio even though ...

And all the dongles.More importantly, the 3.5mm headphone jack is an analog connector, meaning it can transfer sound but is otherwise quite dumb. In contrast, a USB Type-C connector can deliver ...

The 3.5mm jack on the iPhone SE. Image by iFixit USB-C can transfer analog audio already, but Intel is also working on a digital audio standard for the data transfer protocol.

New port, same parts Audio of any type that can be played back on our phones needs to have a handful of specific parts to work. Moving from a 3.5 mm jack to a USB-C port doesn't change that.

USB Audio over USB Type-C™ allows OEMs to remove the 3.5mm analog audio jack, shaving up to a millimeter off product designs and reducing the number of connectors on a device.

I've been spending time with some USB-C audio hardware, using it with a Windows PC with USB-C ports and with a recent Samsung Galaxy Note 10+. While my test PC has a headphone jack, it's awkwardly ...

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