I do a lot of international flights +12-16hrs. How do i charge my phone and listen to music? Please help.
1) Buy a bluetooth headset. But to get the latest W1 chip technology, you're only choice until late October is to buy the Beats Solo3 for $300. They provide 40 hours of playback on a single 3 hour charge, and up to 3 hours playback on a 5 minute charge.
2) Buy a $20 Bluetooth 4.2 adapter to plug your current headphones into, with a 10-hour playtime. For $40 you could buy two and charge one while using the other. Or, just plug it in an recharge it while you use the one.
3) Buy a $50 Apple Lightning dock with a 3.5mm output.
4) Buy the $40 Belkin charger/audio splitter. But that won't be available until some time in October.
And that's about it.
Thought: and this is totally a thought experiment, but I wonder if a $40 Apple USB 3 Camera Adapter would work, if you plugged a USB-to-USB cable into the adapter and charging port, and plugged the Lightning headphone adapter into the Lightning pass-through port on the adapter? Alternatively the $50 Lightning HDMI adapter might be compatible with a HDMI to VGA adapter with the 3.5mm headphone jack, but that seems more convoluted than it needs to be.