Friday, February 20, 2009
What adapter you need to connect ANY earphones to iPhone 1G?
Yeah ... this one is a bummer, Apple :-)
They said it was done to "protect" iPhone board, but they found a better way, apparently in 3G :-)
Connector in iPhone 1G is still very standard, compare to most other phones, but it is just ... err ... a bit narrow :-)
It probably helped Apple brand : manufacturers had to put "iPhone compatible" on boxes ( Apple itself is not much in headphones business ... yet and only made some kind of OK headphones just a few month ago) It also probably made people hang on with silly white original headphones from Apple for a bit longer :-)
While connection is fixed in 3G, there are still so many of us who enjoy iPhone 1G...
Many manufactures already switched to slim plastic design of connectors that works with iPhone 1G... but you may have old sets that you like. I do! There are many adapter available today. Here are just a few.
I use one from DLO that has split as well. Here is a smaller version:
This is also a good brand and should work fine:
Now there are a minimalist adapters available, but they may damage your iPhone if you not too careful and hit the adapter:
You can try your luck with no brand, if you believe a good reviews are true ( but it is still a risk :-)) NOT RECOMMENDED even for a simple thing like this adapter. Bad quality connector can be VERY annoying with sound :-)
But ....
Now.... DO NOT *EVER* BUY anything that is 0.01$ or cheap: read review. There are some junk available in this department as well :-)
If you want to get fancy and have MIC so you can answer calls and still use ANY headphones, you can get some thing like this:
So, bottom line, here is how we can classify :
1) size
2) split ( 2 headphones) or no split
3) flexible or not
4) Brand or no brand
5) support MIC
6) Has MIC
7) Has iPhone music control ( pause, play )
Btw: Pay attention on MIC : you may not like how it works. It is always a very personal and sensitive part of such appliance, just like
your favorite headphones, that brought us here in the first place :-)
They said it was done to "protect" iPhone board, but they found a better way, apparently in 3G :-)
Connector in iPhone 1G is still very standard, compare to most other phones, but it is just ... err ... a bit narrow :-)
It probably helped Apple brand : manufacturers had to put "iPhone compatible" on boxes ( Apple itself is not much in headphones business ... yet and only made some kind of OK headphones just a few month ago) It also probably made people hang on with silly white original headphones from Apple for a bit longer :-)
While connection is fixed in 3G, there are still so many of us who enjoy iPhone 1G...
Many manufactures already switched to slim plastic design of connectors that works with iPhone 1G... but you may have old sets that you like. I do! There are many adapter available today. Here are just a few.
I use one from DLO that has split as well. Here is a smaller version:
This is also a good brand and should work fine:
Now there are a minimalist adapters available, but they may damage your iPhone if you not too careful and hit the adapter:
You can try your luck with no brand, if you believe a good reviews are true ( but it is still a risk :-)) NOT RECOMMENDED even for a simple thing like this adapter. Bad quality connector can be VERY annoying with sound :-)
But ....
Now.... DO NOT *EVER* BUY anything that is 0.01$ or cheap: read review. There are some junk available in this department as well :-)
If you want to get fancy and have MIC so you can answer calls and still use ANY headphones, you can get some thing like this:
So, bottom line, here is how we can classify :
1) size
2) split ( 2 headphones) or no split
3) flexible or not
4) Brand or no brand
5) support MIC
6) Has MIC
7) Has iPhone music control ( pause, play )
Btw: Pay attention on MIC : you may not like how it works. It is always a very personal and sensitive part of such appliance, just like
your favorite headphones, that brought us here in the first place :-)
Labels: iPhone 1G earphones adapter
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