Kevin Fox, lead designer at Mozilla Labs, thinks the iPad 2 is using pogo pins instead of the more traditional switch contacts. They’ve actually filed patents for the pogo pin style headphone jack (which is smaller) before and have been interested in re-making the headphone jack entirely. The difference is super slight but Fox thinks it makes the headphone jack waterproof. Not that your iPad is, though. [Fury]
Aaron
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 9:56 PMIt looks no different to the jack used on the 4G ipod, or as I like to call it, the iPad2 Nano.
Aaron
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 9:57 PM*4G iPod Touch
olearymo
Monday, March 14, 2011 at 10:14 AMah, waterproof. this would be to combat ‘false’ readings of water damage some idevices show, because of moisture getting in the headphone jack.
clever clever!