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ascorbic on March 3, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: 94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduce...

There's an incredible innovation that can shrink a 3.5mm audio socket by over 30% in thickness. It's called a 2.5mm socket.

marcusjt on March 3, 2017 [–]

One of my old phones (the Treo 650 I think) had one of those sockets, and using an adapter to plug in 3.5mm earphones was pretty irritating.

ascorbic on March 3, 2017 | [–]

More or less irritating than a Lightning-3.5mm adapter?

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