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Image of Headphone Jacks for White and Black Next-Generation iPhone Surfaces

Friday June 4, 2010 7:51 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Taiwanese site Apple.pro is continuing to receive images of parts for the claimed next-generation iPhone, this time posting a picture of the headphone jacks for the device in both black and white.


Always looking out for aesthetics, Apple has utilized separate black and white headphone jacks for its existing iPhone models in the respective colors, maintaining the consistency of appearance even for the small amount of the interior of the jack visible in the absence of connected headphones.


Maintaining this consistency in the next-generation iPhone would appear to be less important given that the headphone jack is located on the aluminum edge of the handset rather than in the colored back wrapping around the edges found in existing models, but Apple appears to be continuing to match headphone jack colors to those of the handsets.
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Tilpots
22 months ago
Any way to tell from these pics about the headphones as antenna for a possible FM capable iPhone?
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douglaswilliams
22 months ago
Wait, I don't see it?

Oh, there it is! A black one and a white one!

I'm sure glad they put those circles with the words white and black next to them; I might never have figured out which piece they were talking about.
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jwsmiths
22 months ago

Any way to tell from these pics about the headphones as antenna for a possible FM capable iPhone?


Headphones as an antenna? I doubt anything could be ascertained about that from this photo - but who needs FM when you have 3G? NPR.app, pandora, etc. No commercials and better quality.
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Tilpots
22 months ago

Headphones as an antenna? I doubt anything could be ascertained about that from this photo - but who needs FM when you have 3G? NPR.app, pandora, etc. No commercials and better quality.


Anybody who is about to have a cap on their data...
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Deadman64
22 months ago

Headphones as an antenna? I doubt anything could be ascertained about that from this photo - but who needs FM when you have 3G? NPR.app, pandora, etc. No commercials and better quality.


Not saying I do this any other time, but when I drive to work I listen to the radio instead of my music library for the talk show in the morning. In the AM its pretty much all I want to hear. I realize I'm driving at this point, so a tuner in my phone is not needed, but I'm sure many people ride trains, etc. on their way to work & may be in the same situation.

But in reality, an FM tuner is really only a few components, so why not? (Yes I realize real estate is limited, but you can prob fit it somewhere)
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JonB3Z
22 months ago

Headphones as an antenna? I doubt anything could be ascertained about that from this photo - but who needs FM when you have 3G? NPR.app, pandora, etc. No commercials and better quality.


But the FM wouldn't draw down your data allotment nor drain the battery nearly as much.
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jamone13
22 months ago
The 3GS uses the Broadcom BCM4325 chip which has a FM receiver in it. So presumable the 3GS can do FM reception. Its just lack of software.
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Tilpots
22 months ago

The 3GS uses the Broadcom BCM4325 chip which has a FM receiver in it. So presumable the 3GS can do FM reception. Its just lack of software.


Right. I believe it also lacks a connection from the chip to any type of antenna, hence my Q.
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nagromme
22 months ago
That’s pretty crazy—it’s a hole! I guess that’s attention to detail for you.

Not saying I do this any other time, but when I drive to work I listen to the radio instead of my music library for the talk show in the morning. In the AM its pretty much all I want to hear. I realize I'm driving at this point, so a tuner in my phone is not needed, but I'm sure many people ride trains, etc. on their way to work & may be in the same situation.

But in reality, an FM tuner is really only a few components, so why not? (Yes I realize real estate is limited, but you can prob fit it somewhere)


People do use radios for sure—but (as when you drive to work), they already HAVE radios most places. So it’s probably not worth finding the hardware space nor developing the software interface.
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kanon14
22 months ago
Other than price, is there anything we don't know about the new iPhone?
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