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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.

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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.

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