Many newer car stereos, as well as aftermarket head units, come with an audio jack that allow you to plug an MP3 player or smartphone into, but if you have an older stereo, there likely isn’t an audio ...

Intel says there are good reasons to say goodbye to the 3.5mm audio jack and bring headphones, earbuds and microphones into the digital era. One venerable computing technology, USB, could be about to ...

It's time for dual USB-C smartphones to go mainstream.

We recently reviewed the ultralight Asus ZenBook 14 UX425 equipped with the latest Intel Tiger Lake CPU and noticed that the system did not come with a 3.5 mm audio jack. Nonetheless, a USB-C to audio ...

The "Line In" audio jack on your computer enables you to connect a microphone or other audio output device with a 1/8-inch miniature plug to your computer. On some computers, especially laptops, as ...

Bit-perfect audio is what you want — and a USB-C port is the only way to get it.

Apple's decision to remove the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 brought a sudden and jarring end to this ubiquitous audio connector (though you can still buy some smartphones with a headphone jack).

Seeing as many flagships ditched the headphone jack so far, USB-C headphones became the default alternative to conventional 3.5mm earbuds. If you’re one who isn’t quite ready to embrace all-wireless ...

There are two ways of implementing USB audio on phones. Manufacturers like Samsung, Google and now Apple with its USB Type-C iPhones, prefer to output Digital audio from the USB port and trust your ...

Need (or simply want) to plug in wired headphones? These top-tested phones buck the wireless trend and keep the old-school 3.5mm audio jack. I’m one of PCMag’s mobile writers. That means I check out ...