{"id":30037,"date":"2016-09-10T14:48:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T21:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/a-40-dongle-lets-you-use-wired-headphones-and-charge-your-iphone-7"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:42:08","slug":"a-40-dongle-lets-you-use-wired-headphones-and-charge-your-iphone-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/a-40-dongle-lets-you-use-wired-headphones-and-charge-your-iphone-7","title":{"rendered":"A $40 dongle lets you use wired headphones and charge your iPhone 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-40-dongle-lets-you-use-wired-headphones-and-charge-your-iphone-7.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Apple got rid of the headphone jack on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/09\/07\/iphone-7-and-7-plus-hands-on-preview\/\">new iPhones<\/a> yesterday you were probably thinking: How am I supposed to charge my phone <em>and <\/em>use wired headphones? Fear not dear reader, accessory maker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/05\/17\/nest-thermostat-wemo-support\/\">Belkin<\/a> has a solution. With its $40 Lightning Audio + Charge RockStar adapter (actual product name), the company provides a way for you to replenish that iPhone 7 or 7 Plus battery while still keeping the music going.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, Belkin\u2019s new dongle supports 48 kHz 24-bit audio output and if you\u2019re still planning to use 3.5mm headphones, it works with the Lightning adapter that comes with the new iPhones. Remote control and voice cues from Apple\u2019s headphones are also still in play. If you need to pick one up so that you can listen while you recharge, you\u2019ll be able to do so October 10th. Now when you head out of the house you\u2019ll need to remember this dongle, the adapter, your headphones and a charging cable. Or you could just go with one of many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/09\/07\/apple-airpods-hands-on\/\">wireless<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/06\/25\/bose-quietcomfort-35-review\/\">options<\/a> if you desire less clutter.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/09\/08\/belkin-iphone-7-lightning-headphone-charging-dongle\/?sr_source=Facebook\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/09\/08\/belkin-iphone-7-lightnin...e=Facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Apple got rid of the headphone jack on its new iPhones yesterday you were probably thinking: How am I supposed to charge my phone and use wired headphones? Fear not dear reader, accessory maker Belkin has a solution. With its $40 Lightning Audio + Charge RockStar adapter (actual product name), the company provides a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,42,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-media-arts","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49899,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30037\/revisions\/49899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}