Belkin F8Z177 Headphone Adapter for iPhone

May 16

Belkin F8Z177 Headphone Adapter for iPhone

Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000SXI5SI
Manufacturer: Belkin Components
Average Customer Review: (From 31 total reviews)
List Price: ~~$10.95~~
Amazon Price: $0.49 (60 new 1 used available)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours (Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping)

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Features

3.5mm plug to RCA
7 ft. cable
Chrome-finished connectors and nickel-plated contacts and Color-coated connectors

Editorial Reviews

Product Description:
Belkin’s new Headphone Adapter for iPhone uses a specially shaped headphone plug that fits in iPhone’s recessed headphone port. The Headphone Adapter thereby enables virtually any pair of pre-iPhone headphones or earphones to work with iPhone’s uniquely-shaped top surface — for users of premium earphones, a superior alternative to junking your old favorites in favor of replacements. Though its central portion looks like hard plastic, it’s actually flexible, and bends with the cables you attach.

Customer Reviews

It deserves 0 stars! by A Standard Foe
Just….LOOK AT IT! How much worse could a design possibly be?

By the time you plug this into your iPhone and your headphones, you’ve got a monstrosity that’s as long as the iPhone itself.

Do yourself a favor and either shave plastic from the 3.5mm plug on your headphones, or buy the Griffin.

It works, sort of. by Timothy Stone
This adapter does work. However, notice that it only has 3 contacts instead of 4 like the iphone headset has. After you use this adapter, when you unplug it, the microphone on your iphone will be disabled. You will not be able to talk to people on the phone. If you reboot the iphone, everything will be fine - until you use the adapter again. Buy an adapter with 4 contacts. Walmart sells an adapter set (with 5 different pieces) by Schosche for about $10. It is much better.

Ugly Grey Mass; Failed After 1 Month of Use by A. Walsh
1. Its horribly ugly; I almost always found myself trying to hide it with my hand when I took my sleek iPhone out of my pocket.

2. It’s like a 2 inch thick grey antenna from a 1980s cellphone.

3. After less than 1 month of use, I began only hearing sound out of one headphone anytime the adapter was flexed or bent even slightly. Of course, it is also flimsy and impossible to keep perfectly straight.

4. Did I mention this is the ugliest, most worthless adapter I’ve ever had? Thanks for the speed of release Belkin, but you guys really face-planted on this one.

Horrible design by M. Marchand
This adapter constantly does not connect correctly with the iphone. Sound will come out of only one speaker because of the connection problems. In order to get it to work right, you have to fiddle with it for fifteen min bending the adapter till it works only to have it mess up again 30 sec later. I would not recommend this adapter, choose another one.

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