housing portion 133 has an opening 146 formed therein and through which the floating header 136 protrudes when assembled connector 102 provides the interconnect for an external accessory such as a remote speaker as seen in fig2 and in accordance with the present invention the floating header 136 protrudes from the opening 146 of the connector housing 132 in accordance with the present invention floating header 136 is a non stationary header which is assembled into the connector housing 132 such that it has a predetermined amount of travel within the connector for the floating header 136 shown in the embodiment of fig1 and 2 the amount of travel from side to side is preferably 0 40 millimeters the floating header 136 of the present invention is thus slidably moveable within the connector housing 132 this eases the alignment with the stationary contacts 124 of the bottom surface 116 of the back housing 110 of portable communication device 104 the floating header 136 includes top wall 148 which preferably includes an alignment notch 152 for receiving the alignment rib 130 located on the bottom surface 116 of the back housing 110 the alignment notch 152 is preferably offset to one side as shown to prevent the header 136 from being inserted backwards into the portable communication device a plurality of spring contacts 154 preferably accordion type spring.