3.5 mm3.5 mm
Specta
The pair with the controls on the cable. Volume, track and calls under your thumb, so the phone can stay where it is while you change something.
Volume under the thumb
A three button block means turning the sound down to hear someone is one movement rather than a whole procedure. In cold weather with a phone deep in a coat, that gap is larger than it reads.
The middle button does the rest
Play, pause and answering a call all live on the center button, using the same press counts that phones and laptops already understand. Nothing has to be paired, taught or set up first, because the buttons are talking to the device over the same wire the sound comes down.
Built for the round socket
Specta comes on the round jack and not on USB-C. If your phone has no round hole in it, the same idea of putting the controls on the cable lives on the plug page under the pairs that end in USB-C.
A catalog built around the wire
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- 1color code to pick from
- $19.99is where the line starts
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Workbench articles
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What is your jack?
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