After months of rumors around Apple's plans for the headphone jack, the company revealed today that it is scrapping the 3.5mm port on its latest iPhone. That leaves lightning-powered headphones and Bluetooth wireless headphones as the only compatible accessories without the need for an adapter. Apple is introducing a new wireless communications protocol alongside its plans to remove the headphone jack, and it's called the W1 chip.
Apple's Phil Schiller described Apple's move to a new wireless chip as "fixing the challenges" of wireless audio in a keynote address this morning. Apple hasn't detailed whether its W1 chip uses a proprietary communications protocol, but the chip sits inside the company's new EarPod headphones and can...
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