Griffin's New iTrip Clip Adapter Makes Wired Headphones Work Wirelessly

Great idea, but it could look better and possibly be smaller.

Here's a concept for an Apple-designed one:




IMO it should be as small as possible and having playback controls isn't strictly necessary, with a lot of headphones having remotes these days and the phone still being reachable in your pocket.

Source: http://blog.partlysean.com/page/2

These things have been around for years under different brand labels. I have one that looks identical to this one that I bought back in 2013.

Cool, an adapter to make wired wireless headphones!

Jabra BT3030 circa 2008

Thanks for the tip! If new iPhones are going to be sans headphone jack, I guess I should probably switch to bluetooth anyway instead of dealing with a stupid lightning adapter.

I'm also planning to start traveling with it as well. I fly American mostly, and it would be great to plug the BT transmitter into the headrest Entertainment system on the back of the seat in front of me, so I don't have to keep unplugging my headphones to let passengers out.

I also had a situation where I rented an older car on a trip that only had a 3.5mm jack on the radio, and I made a couple of attempts to buy a cheap cable at a convenience store, but neither had them. The BT dongle would have been very helpful.

Ideally an Apple dongle would be perfect so I wouldn't have to carry a micro-USB to Lightning adapter for charging (though that would be easy enough to leave plugged into the BT transmitter all the time), especially if I can control the sound from the iPhone.
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All of these devices are based upon Bluetooth A2DP adaptor chips that have been on the market for over ten years. A web search will find you the current crop of prociders. There are even Arduino Shield modules using these chips that you can code yourself.

I think the fact that people are unaware of these devices speaks to the notion that people don't seek out solutions they might actually benefit from, if they have no need to, but rather respond to products directly marketed at them, or upgrade when their old methods no longer function. Sometimes when watching late night TV I see all kinds of direct marketing products being sold on TV, many of which I find would be very useful to me over the way I'm currently doing something. What usually prevents me buying them is the fact they aren't made by a brand I know anything about.

I found out about them because I wanted to see if I could find a wireless solution for use with an old iPod, otherwise I would have never been looking. People who already have wired headphones, and aux cords, don't need to find wireless solutions, because they already have an inexpensive solution that does the job. Even if you showed them a BT dongle they might pass it up as what they're using is good enough. Yet for many of those same people, if the headphone jack is removed and they are shown a wireless product, they might wonder how they ever lived without it.

That's how I felt when I started using my BT dongle in my car. It changed my whole communting experience.

Thanks for the tip! If new iPhones are going to be sans headphone jack, I guess I should probably switch to bluetooth anyway instead of dealing with a stupid lightning adapter.

Once you get a Bluetooth headphone/earphone that actually works (no disconnects, decent audio quality), you are never going to want to go back to wired. So much freedom being wireless!