Former software engineer resurrects the iPhone headphone jackExtremely dedicated former software engineer Scotty Allen modded an iPhone 7 to include a full headphone jack, and everyone is jealous … kind of.
When Apple's iPhone 7 was debuted, many people noticed the very glaring lack of a standard 3.5mm headphone jack. Sure, official adaptors that allow you to plug your regular headphones into the Lightning charging port came soon after, but that created another issue - you couldn't charge your phone and listen to your music or podcast of choice at the same time.
Enter Scotty Allen, a former software engineer living in Shenzhen, China. He, too, felt our pain, and craved a functioning headphone jack that didn't require an adaptor to use. So he bought an iPhone 7 and modified it. And when I say modified, I mean really modified. The entire process took four months, three completely disassembled iPhones, a whole arsenal of new and expensive tools and seven custom circuit board designs. (Also presumably blood, sweat and tears.)
After he fi...
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Former software engineer resurrects the iPhone headphone jack
