After roasting Apple about headphone jacks, Google quietly dumps it from Pixel 6A

Google simply revealed the Pixel 6A at Google I/O on Wednesday, and whereas it has a lot of spectacular specs for a midrange gadget, it’s lacking one which the corporate has celebrated on its A-series line for years: a 3.5mm headphone jack.

As many smartphone producers have moved on from the headphone jack — a development largely kicked off by Apple with the iPhone 7 in 2016 — its presence on the A-series line has change into increasingly of a distinguishing characteristic. Google even made a ridiculous two-minute advert celebrating the headphone jack within the Pixel 5A that parodied Apple’s elaborate design movies. That video was titled, partly, “The Circle Comes Full Circle.” Well, it appears the circle is coming full circle once more, as now Google is the one set to drop the headphone jack from its subsequent telephone.

The factor is, this isn’t even the primary time this circle has come full circle. In an advert for the very first Pixel — launched in 2016, the identical yr because the iPhone 7 — Google noted this key feature: “3.5mm headphone jack satisfyingly not new.” But the headphone jack was gone from the Pixel 2 launched only a yr later. The first A-series Pixel, the Pixel 3A, would carry it again, however not till 2019. Once once more, Google has parodied Apple solely to change into a parody itself the next yr.

We’ve requested Google why it’s dropping the headphone jack for the Pixel 6A. But it’s doable the corporate desires to make a extra convincing case to promote you wi-fi headphones — and wouldn’t you recognize it, Google revealed the brand new Pixel Buds Pro at Google I/O as nicely.