The 3.5mm headphone jack is an industry standard audio plug. Most commonly used for connecting a pair of stereo headphones to your smartphone or 'piping' your audio from your phone to an external ...

To really understand the difference between USB and 3.5 mm audio connection types, we need to dissect a few of the basic concepts at the core of digital audio.

Virtually all smartphone manufacturers have eliminated the 3.5mm audio jack even though it has long been the standard connector for a huge range of audio equipment over the past century.

Although many use portable speakers via Bluetooth nowadays, most speakers still have USB ports for reasons other than playing ...

It’s almost impossible to find a smartphone with a 3.5mm headphone jack these days, at least not in flagship phones. There’s also a big market for wireless headphones and earphones which are ...

Some manufacturers opt for placing a 3.5mm audio jack on this remote control instead of directly on the phone itself. The reason for this is that 3.5mm jacks take up quite a lot of internal space ...