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The form factor and noise cancelling aspects of the airpod have nothing to do with it being wireless though. Wired phones could have those things too.

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You're right in theory. In practice that either means a battery in the headphones and/or a new audio cable. I'm sure this has been tried before. It seems like something Sony would try--maybe Lighting headphones would count?

I guess Airpods Max would count?

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