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Samsung Kills Headphone Jack in Latest Smartphone After Years of Mocking Apple

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So, they’re both wrong? (Samsung and Apple)

I like headphones

And enough edges to hold the thing without pressing on the screen. Having dead spots at the edges of the screen is not a solution.

You'll have to pry my LG G6 from my cold, dead hands....

Unless you trade it for a G7

Same mocking occurs every time Apple removes a soon-to-be-obsolete piece of hardware (serial/parallel ports, disk drives, CD drives, USB2/3 ports, etc). So far I think the only big mistake they've made is removing the Esc key.

Indeed I can't imagine the collective pain of all the VI users.

I have BT external keyboards both at work and at home. Never use the MBP keyboard.

You can use CTRL [ in vi to do the same function as the ESC key.

Oh good to know. I am not really a Vi user. Even as an Emacs user, I feel the loss of physical ESC key acutely.

Anything that makes you look down on keyboard is sub optimal.

Personally, I'm quite happy that the headphone jack is gone. It was the number one flaw is most of my phones. Either, the jack would get loose and start to crackle or I would get a spark of static electricity that would blow out headphones. AirPods have been amazing. No cords, no static electricity, and I can easily jump between all of my devices. If I really need a photo jack, I can use the dongle. Best part? If the dongle fries from static electricity, it's a $9 part.

Clickbait title. It's a budget phone, the A line, not the flagship S or Note line. They are probably testing out the feasibility of no headphone jack.

They also mocked the notch of the Pixel 3 XL and they are implementing an even worse solution. Oh and they are trying to pass on a DSLR captured photo as their smartphone’s photo. They are also hooking up with a counterfeit brand Supreme Italia. Oh and they post twitter posts using iPhones.

Why would they need to test that? Apple has already done it for them.

Exactly. Samsung's strategy is to turn the headphone jack into a premium feature by removing it from the cheaper phones. It's not a test, it's a marketing tactic.

Regardless, they mocked apple for doing it. That should be reason enough for this news to matter. That it's on a budget phone or top of the line phone doesn't change that.

Imagine Apple came up with a new iPhone 5 in 2018 and removed the headphone jack. Few people would care. This is a very different stance, in terms of user hostility, than getting rid of the jack in their flagship product.

While Apple lives and dies by the bleeding edge of phones, Samsung mostly pretends to. The big sellers at Samsung are those cheaper, kind-of budget phones. So your comparison is not as sound as you think.

Just to provide a reference.

https://www.sammobile.com/2017/08/02/average-selling-price-s...

According to a report released by research firm Strategy Analytics, the average selling price of Samsung’s smartphones increased to $235 during Q2 2017.

Is there a conclusive opinion on the negative effect that bluetooth signals have on our bodies or is it just conspiracy talk?

Where did you read about it?

Imagine how much real estate they get after removing it, right?

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