will this cord solve all your iphone
audio connectivity hassles let's find
out Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at
this this is the you know II I don't
know I think that's how you pronounce it
car aux cord and it's a pretty cool idea
it's really simple all right it's cord
stretches out to be pretty darn long but
more importantly it has a little adapter
on here and then on the other end
it's an aux 3.5 millimeter and a
lightning connector that is really cool
that's really super cool for cars so I
have my JBL speaker with aux-in so let's
go ahead and let's plug it in and give
it a quick test so the nice thing about
this speaker is that it automatically
selects the input so we'll start with
the easy one so this is my iPad and I
have a little movie trailer going on so
I'm just gonna do aux to aux that should
be the easiest of them right so we're
just gonna go here and I don't know what
this is for it's an ad of some sort it's
a premiere of the series on Showtime but
the important thing is is you can tell
that it's a straight aux cord it's
working just fine let's just stop here
cuz the real interesting part is when we
get to my iPhone 10 because my iPhone
doesn't have an aux out it doesn't have
a headphone jack kind of a pain right
you end up having to use bluetooth for
everything or using the little Apple
adapter which is so fragile that every
time I use it I'm amazed it's still
working
enter lightning to aux so I'm gonna plug
this in and I found that sometimes it
takes a couple of seconds for the phone
to notice that it's an audio out device
but let's find out what happens
all right well we have music coming out
of our speaker from a wire that I
plugged into my lightning port Wow
glad I have a case on that how easy is
that
so it works and that really it's that's
kind of the whole stick here right so
it's a 3.5 millimeter audio jack and a
lightning connector it has a coiled end
which I really like because it stretches
way out but it actually can stay nice
and compact perfect for your car
actually and has a ninety degree a UX
plug on this end which I don't know I
guess it could work either way but it
probably is a nice feature and it has
interesting lis in here apparently
there's actually a built in codec chip
which actually helps it keep the audio
fidelity even as it's using these both
both these connectors you don't want to
do both at the same time because that
might cause the chip to get very
confused don't try that who knows what
will happen right and one more thing
they've done nicely is that inside the
wire there's an aluminum shell they've
put around the base of the plugs which
supposedly is gonna give them longer
life the whole thing is a pretty nice
thick cord so I feel like it is gonna
last a good long while and that's it
this is a super simple solution to a
tricky problem and if you have an iPhone
and you don't a Bluetooth in your car
you know what a hassle it is to be able
to get the audio to work or of course if
you have something like an iPad but most
iPads I think pretty much all the iPads
have aux out it's just these darn phones
and who knows what the new phones are
gonna be like right Apple is moving away
from aux Jack's so maybe the next
generation of Mac books will also not
have any audio out enter this until we
end up needing to use a version of this
that has USB C but that's another story
for this this is the you know e u n o OE
kar aux cord and you can pick one up at
Amazon but pay before I tell you the
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comment too if you do have a phone that
doesn't have an audio out how
you got you know working with it how do
you have it plugged into your car I'm
super curious how people solve that
problem or if people just ignore it and
they literally listen off the speaker of
their phone while they're driving not a
great solution but a functional solution
anyway let's get back to this so this is
the you know a car aux cord you can pick
it up at amazon.com for $14.99 so I say
check it out if you have this problem
this it could be a really simple and
elegant solution this is Dave Taylor and
I'll catch you in minutes
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