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Samsung Kills Headphone Jack in Latest Smartphone After Years of Mocking Apple
- kennu 8y agoSame 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.
- reddit_clone 8y agoIndeed 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.
- taborj 8y agoYou can use CTRL [ in vi to do the same function as the ESC key.
- reddit_clone 8y agoOh 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.
- Roboprog 8y agoSo, 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.
- berbec 8y agoYou'll have to pry my LG G6 from my cold, dead hands.... Unless you trade it for a G7
- jeromebaek 8y agoClickbait 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.
- blackstrips 8y agoWhy would they need to test that? Apple has already done it for them.
- philistine 8y agoExactly. 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.
- adetrest 8y agoRegardless, 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.
- jeromebaek 8y agoImagine 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.
- philistine 8y agoWhile 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.
- scarface74 8y agoJust to provide a reference. https://www.sammobile.com/2017/08/02/average-selling-price-samsungs-phones-go-thanks-galaxy-s8/ 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.
- rcchyssser 8y agoApple fanboys are jerking it to this.
- just_myles 8y agoImagine how much real estate they get after removing it, right?
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- moretai 8y agoIs there a conclusive opinion on the negative effect that bluetooth signals have on our bodies or is it just conspiracy talk?
- h1d 8y agoWhere did you read about it?
- cdumler 8y agoPersonally, 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.