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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.
by jeromebaek 8y ago
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.
- 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.
- TwoNineA 8y agoThey 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.