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One of the most annoying things about the latest generation of Apple iPhone and iPad products is the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack. It's just dumb to force us to use bluetooth 24x7. Apple includes a lightning to 3.5mm audio headphone jack adapter, but it's a bit of junk. No worries, though, Kanex is now shipping a terrific Lightning to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter and it's a far better option.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checked out the 6-inch Kanex Lightning to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter and found it has - quite literally - one shortcoming, but otherwise was a solid adapter for a variety of uses.
Check it at Kanex: https://www.kanex.com/
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Does this fix the most annoying problem with your iPhone
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Let's check it out. Apple did a lot right with the design of the iPhone
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but there's something that happened along the way that's annoyed the heck out of millions of people
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and that is the lack of a 3.5 millimeter audio jack. So whether you have favorite headphones or speakers or you wanted to plug it into your car
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All of a sudden it became a real pain. So Apple knew that was an issue, and they included this
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This is their lightning to 3.5 millimeter headphone jack adapter. The problem is the Apple version might be inexpensive to replace
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but you do need to replace it, because this is the cheapest piece of junk that I think Apple's ever shipped
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I don't really understand why they have a cable that's so flimsy
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But yeah, you can pick up another one at the Apple store for $9. bucks, but you don't want to be replacing these little adapters. You want to have one that works
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forever, right? So, whatever. We're out of you. Out of here with Apple. So, instead, I wanted to
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check out the K-Nex lightning 3.5 millimeter headphone jack adapter. So they sent me one. Now
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first thing I want to note is on the box. It says that it's a six-inch cable. So we'll see how that
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plays out. But the cable itself is actually pretty nice, except here's what happened. They sent me
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smaller version of that so I don really understand what the deal is here but I thought you know let actually measure it so I have a handy ruler here and when we put it on the end of the ruler it is four and a half inches long
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So it's not six inches long. Then again, it's not three inches long
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So it's somewhere in the middle there. But it is, in fact, perfectly long enough for the task at hand
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And it's a really nice cable. They did a really much nicer job than Apple did
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Sorry, Apple. But it's a dura braid nylon fiber cable. and reinforced connectors and an aluminum housing
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and it is indeed MFI certified. And so MFI means made for iPhone
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Used to mean made for iPod. But what that means is that somewhere in this end
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is a teeny tiny little chip that's an authenticated chip. So you'll plug this into any iPhone
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or actually any lightning connector or anything, like an iPad or something that's the same
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And this will come up as a valid and legitimate, not fake or counterfeit product
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So that makes it really nice. And of course, then once you plug it into your iPhone
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and you'll notice that my case is friendly for this, so once it's plugged in, now I can plug in anything I want
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and I have a cable that's going to be actually able to survive the experience of being used
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for months or potentially years. So this makes it super easy, right
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And then you can, of course, do something like I can plug in my wonderful
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biodynamic Amarons. These are some real nice headphones. And now I can listen to them again
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finally with my iPhone which is something I haven been able to do for a really long time So having one of these adapters is really nice But again there a whole sort of economics piece here which is a little
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weird, because number one, why don't they just include the darn adapter? I mean, not adapter. Why don't
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they just include the actual jack on the phone? I mean, come on guys, you know, I know this is the long
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history of Apple making decisions for us and forcing us to move forward, but I don't really always
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want Bluetooth all the time. I like being able to plug things in. So then you have to have the
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adapter and you know what? Their adapter is not very good. We already looked at that. So third
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parties. Now here's the economic piece. So actually no, before we get to the cost and all the
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economics, let me ask if you can quick move that cursor down and click on that subscribe button
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I really appreciate when you do that. And leave me a comment. Let me know. Do you just listen to Bluetooth and that's it with your iPhone and you never plug anything in
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Or if that's not the case, how do you deal with having stuff that you plug in when you don't have an AUX or 3.5 millimeter jack on the phone itself
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Yeah, it's a pain. Okay. Now, back to this. So the Apple unit is, well, one comes with your phone and then they're nine bucks to replace them at the Apple store
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But, you know, you're sort of kind of getting what you pay for, unusually so with Apple
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So the Canex or Canex, I'm not exactly sure how to pronounce that, but this is a pretty spendy
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The Canex lightning 3 millimeter headphone jack adapter is 2495 at Canex So that is multiples of the price But again
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I feel like they've done such a nice job with the build quality on this, that this is going to be
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the one adapter you'll buy and you'll never have to replace it. So if this is something you worry
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about and if you just look at that little apple adapter and you just grit your teeth at just
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how flimsy it is, then here's your solution. This is nice and simple. And
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you know, is it six inches long? No, I don't really understand. And even the packaging was clearly
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designed for a longer product than what they shipped. You can see when I put it in that there's
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all this space up here. It's very strange. My guess is that the manufacturing team made this
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to be exactly the same dimensions as the Apple product, while the packaging team said
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well, six inches is probably the length we're going to go for, so we'll just mark it at six inches
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So if you can get over that piece, then I will tell you everything else is good, and this is
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actually a really cool product. So I say if this is a problem that you're aware of, then this might
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be an elegant solution for you. And with that, I will catch you in my next video
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