{"id":33,"date":"2009-06-11T08:55:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T13:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2009-06-24T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:43:42","slug":"using-an-apple-iphone-headset-on-your-windows-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Using an Apple iPhone headset on your Windows laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received an advertisement for boom headphones from a retailer via email.\u00a0 Since my old boom headphone broke, and the price was decent, I thought this might be time for a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>But I had a thought: I have an iPhone, which has headphones that are comfortable to me, and they have a built-in microphone.\u00a0 Why wouldn&#8217;t I just use that headphone for both the iPhone and the PC?\u00a0 The only problem is that the microphone input and audio output are on one 1\/8&#8243; jack, and the PC uses separate jacks. All I had seen for adapters was a number of adapter cables to allow existing, non-iPhone headsets to be used on the iPhone.\u00a0 There are a few manufacturers producing this product, but my requirement is the reverse: the iPhone headset, not the iPhone itself, is the focus.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I found a lead to a solution, thanks to a blog post by <a href=\"http:\/\/travis.pettijohn.com\/entry\/2008\/6\/8\/736_use_an_iphone_headset_for_voip\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Pettijohn<\/a>, who worked with CablesToGo to develop an adapter cable, which they now make available commercially.  The product link is on his page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received an advertisement for boom headphones from a retailer via email.\u00a0 Since my old boom headphone broke, and the price was decent, I thought this might be time for a replacement. But I had a thought: I have an iPhone, which has headphones that are comfortable to me, and they have a built-in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}