The Essential Phone Audio Adapter HD is the expected digital-to-analog converter that snaps on to the Essential Phone. Although we’ve known about the Audio Adapter HD for some time now, the device ...

The Essential Phone Audio Adapter HD is finally here. The snap-on peripheral will set you back $149 and give your Essential Phone a headphone jack and DAC. The Essential Phone Audio Adapter HD is ...

Most people thought that Essential was dead and had probably given up hope of getting the Audio Adapter HD dongle for headphones that the company had been promising for a long time. Things haven't ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

How do engineers squeeze all the necessary circuitry (and what is it?) into one of these devices, and do so this inexpensively? With the demise of analog audio line out, headphone (output-only), and ...

Use iPhone headphones with your MacBook or iPad Pro with this handy adapter. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac Anker’s latest adapter lets Apple fans bring a single pair of wired headphones to use with ...

Most consumers are content with the sound that comes out of their wired headphones and earbuds. It’s sufficient for keeping them entertained at their cubicles or during long flights back home for the ...

Recently, I offered a first look at Audioengine’s $149 W1 Wireless Audio Adapter —a kit that contains USB audio transmitter and receiver units along with a power supply and a handful of audio cables.

Amazon currently sells audio adapters that enable visually impaired Kindle owners can have their audiobooks read aloud to them. Normally, this adapter costs around $20, but you can make your own for ...

Amazon hasn’t offered a Kindle eReader with speakers or a headphone jack since the 2011 Kindle Touch. That was also the last model to support text-to-speech software that could read eBooks aloud to ...