Belkin Headphone Adapter for iPhone

by Belkin

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 4.2 x 5 inches ; 1.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000SXI5SI
• Item model number: F8Z177
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #34 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Audio & Video Accessories > Headphone Accessories > Adapters

Product Description

Connect your iPhone to portable speakers, sound cards, or home-stereo devices with RCA jacks for great sound quality.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

134 of 144 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this... you can trim your current headphone and it'll fit into iphone..., July 12, 2007

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MTLA (Los Angeles CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Belkin Headphone Adapter for iPhone (Wireless Phone Accessory)

Don't buy this product...! Save yourself the $10 and the bulk ... use an exacto knife and slice off about 1/8" off the rubber ( go all around so it's flush with the metal base) and then it fits into the iphone hole perfectly. The rubber on most headphones are quite soft and easy to trim off.

I did with my expensive Senheiser noise cancelling headphone and it didn't damage the headphone at all... it still look great and I save myself the $10 and not having to deal with adding another thing to the jack.

Check out the image I submitted under "customer own images"; it has a diagram of how to do this.

38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculous design, July 11, 2007

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Robert Bartel (Columbia, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Belkin Headphone Adapter for iPhone (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I have to echo another reviewer who asked if they were actually serious. Most Belkin accessory products are fairly well conceived, and it was based on that reputation that I took the risk even though it looks bad in the picture. If I were trying to come up with the worst plausible design for an iPhone headphone adapter, I don't think I could do better than this. It's absurdly large and stiff, and there is no benefit to it over just a simple short headphone extension cable. Please, don't waste your time on it like I did.

Of course this begs the question why Apple made the inexplicable and utterly indefensible decision to ship the "best iPod we've ever made" that won't work with any headphones other than the unusable ones that come with it. Is the "best iPod we've ever made" not intended to be used for personal audio or something??? However, that said, I love my new cell phone. I was hoping I would love my new iPod too, but so far I'm disappointed.

28 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Thank MTLA, July 31, 2007

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Stuart M. Flechner "SMF" (hudson, ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Belkin Headphone Adapter for iPhone (Wireless Phone Accessory)

Mr. MTLA is spot on. I have a favorite Bang-Oluffsen lightweight headphone set that I used with my ipod. It was so frustrating that it didn't fit into the iphone speaker port. Just a quick 1/8 inch trim of the rubber off the male end (above the metal) narrowed it enough to fit snuggly into the iphone port. My only add-on: you don't need a fancy knife. My fine-sharp steak knife from the kitchen did just fine.

Thanks again. MTLA Time for Apple to come clean.