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Auxillite iPhone 7 Adapter Is As Elegant As These Things Go

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Apple’s boneheaded decisions can often create opportunities for other manufacturers to develop products to fill in the gaps the company so courageously opens up. The lack of audio port on the iPhone 7 is creating a secondary industry of dongles and adapters, and the Auxillite is one of the more elegant ones we’ve come across. It allows you to do the most basic of things with your brand new phone: charge and listen to your normal freaking headphones at the same time. The device even features a Digital To Analog Converter (DAC) running at 16-bits with sampling frequency 44.1kHz/48kHz and 24-bits with sampling frequency 96kHz. It’s small, sleek, and fits-in with the overall aesthetic of the phone. And at $13 for one, it’s priced just right. The kickstarter is fully funded and the device should ship in June 2017.

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The iPhone 7 Is Invigorating The Dongle Market, For Proof, Here’s the iLDOCK

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Last time we wrote about a similar dongle, it was for Belkin’s offering, which had a bunch of shortcomings. For one, it simply added a second lightning port so you could charge and listen to headphones at the same time, but if your headphones were “old school”, you would’ve needed an additional dongle for it to work. Well, with the iLDOCK, if you’re planning on staying in the 3.5mm camp and don’t want to double-dongle it, you can do what normal humans do and charge your phone while listening to music stress-free. Granted, you’re still stuck having to carry a stupid dongle for this, but hey, it’s $18 for 2 so even if you lose one, you have a backup.

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Apparently iPhone 7s Are Exploding Now

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Apple likes to think that Samsung copies them. Well, it looks like Apple is now copying Samsung, because we’ve now had our first report of an iPhone 7 spontaneously exploding.

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It looks like an iPhone 7 has exploded in China for no reason. Well, no reason other than wanting to do something that Samsung did first anyway. We don’t have many details about the incident at the moment, but a user on Reddit posted some pictures of the exploded iPhone 7. It has clearly exploded, we just don’t have a clear story about how it happened.

One guess would be that it is a battery defect similar to the Galaxy Note 7. Or maybe someone just blew it up to make some drama. Or maybe it’s a cheap Chinese knockoff. Apple has not commented on the situation yet.

[via news.mydrivers via Ubergizmo]

The Daptr Case Puts the Audio Jack Back on the iPhone

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Apple made a very “courageous” move by ditching the audio jack in the latest version of the iPhone, but not everyone is hailing them as heroes. The company’s decision made the purchase of the iPhone 7/7 Plus a real dilemma for people who like to listen to music while their phone is charging. Thanks, Apple.

If you buy the phone you have to upgrade to Bluetooth headphones or use an adaptor dongle. Now, there’s another solution.

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The Daptr case solves the issue by giving you the 3.5mm audio jack back. It accomplishes this by lengthening the phone a bit and adding the jack down there along with a Lightning port, just like the iPhone 6S. Oddly, there’s also a second Lightning port for some reason. The Daptr case adds 3mm of thickness, and 20mm of length to the phone.

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Now you can use the iPhone 7 the way you want. Take that Apple! You can get it in December for $49(USD).

[via Mike Shouts via Ohgizmo]