Apple's decision to remove the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 brought a sudden and jarring end to this ubiquitous audio connector (though you can still buy some smartphones with a headphone jack).

Others like Samsung, Google, and OnePlus soon followed. One by one, flagship phones launched without headphone jacks, and users were told to embrace a wireless future. Nearly a decade later, that ...

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Over the past decade, smartphone manufacturers have gradually stopped including the 3.5mm headphone jack. Apple was among the first to do so with the iPhone 7, where the Lightning port became the ...