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Apple Reportedly Testing iPhones With USB

Apple in recent months has been testing future iPhone models that replace the Lightning port with a USB-C connector, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing unnamed people with “knowledge of the situation.” The company is also reportedly working on an adapter that will let future USB-C iPhones use accessories designed for the Lightning connector.  The Bloomberg report …

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iPhone game controller from Backbone sports social and streaming smarts

Startup Backbone’s inaugural product, an app-integrated game controller for the iPhone that the company considers more a “gaming content creation tool” than the typical run-jump-crouch-shoot accessory, has a very well-thought out design and novel feature set that raises the bar for its category. Like the Razer Kishi, the $99 Backbone One expands to slip on either end of the iPhone …

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Goodbye, headphone jack: Apple iPhone 7 ships with Lightning headphones and dongle

After months of speculation Apple has confirmed at an event in San Francisco that its latest iPhone 7 and 7 Plus smartphones will not include a headphone socket onboard. Instead the brand-new phones ship with both a set of new EarPods, which have a Lightning adapter and a digital-to-analog converter built into the cable, and a Lightning-to-3.5mm dongle for connecting …

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