A new device called the Pogo is aimed at protecting headphones or earbuds, as it is designed to allow them to break away if pulled, instead of snapping off their plug. The obvious comparison to make ...

The danger of buying expensive headphones is that no matter how good the sound quality is, you run the risk of ruining it by breaking a flimsy piece of rubber and metal. Or you can fix the plug for a ...

Wish your iPhone 6s didn’t have a headphone jack, like the shiny new iPhone 7? If dropping the headphone jack left a hole in your heart — and your 6s — now there’s a solution: plug it with ‘Apple ...

It can take quite some time to sift through the many quality headphones available to the mobile music lover and, if you're anything like me, once you've discovered the model that's right for you, ...

HTC's 'Googlephone,' the G-1, has many faults, but the one causing the most fuss is the lack of a proper 3.5mm headphone jack. Instead, the headphones plug into a proprietary USB-headphone port on the ...

Have a headphone plug break inside your phone? Follow along for several ways to remove a broken headphone plug from your iPhone or another smartphone. If you have an iPhone SE or 6s or earlier, or ...

Apple has patented a shrunken-down headphone connector that shaves precious volume off existing 3.5mm and 2.5mm jack standards by reshaping the plug, thereby removing — albeit temporarily — an ...

In 2009, when Square unveiled its original credit-card reader, one meaningful fact about it was the connector it used. The tiny white doohickey commandeered a smartphone’s headphone jack as means of ...

One day is all it took. The iPhone headphone jack is gone, and after a day in the dark world of iPhone dongles, I'm reluctant but ready to go wireless. Apple, you win. When Apple revealed the iPhone 7 ...