With Apple widely believed to be planning to drop the headphone socket in the iPhone 7 in favor of Lightning-connected and wireless headphones,a patent application published nowadays describes how a single set of headphones could switch smoothly between wired and wireless modes without any interruption of playback.
There’s of course nothing new in headphones that support both wired and wireless exhaust – many Bluetooth headphones arrive supplied with a plug-in audio cable that allow them to fall back to wired exhaust whether they run low on battery power or you just want the higher quality a wired connection typically delivers.
But switching between wired and wireless exhaust typically has a couple of issues, and Apple’s patent aims to solve both of them … more
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Source: 9to5mac.com