LeEco is one of those rapidly growing Chinese companies that takes a renaissance-man approach to tech development, doing everything from autonomous cars and smart bicycles to more conventional stuff like TVs and smartphones. In the latter category, it garnered some extra press for itself recently when it introduced three new handsets with not a single 3.5mm headphone jack among them. With Apple expected to also ditch the standard headphone port on its next iPhone, LeEco's launch propelled it to the front of the consternation and conversation around the demise of the trusty old 3.5mm.
This week, I got the chance to put the question of why LeEco made the change that it did directly to the company's president of R&D, Liang Jun. At the...
via The Verge
