I would guess the people with wireless headphones are the minority. By a long shot.
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Samsung Kills Headphone Jack in Latest Smartphone After Years of Mocking Apple
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I would guess the people with wireless headphones are the minority. By a long shot.
iPhone SE here, but same sentiment, and similar specs (except for that damn vibration mechanism I have.. omg... earthquake every time!).
Ironically, I have an incredibly great set of Bluetooth headphones given to me by Samsung as a promotional gift for preordering their Galaxy S8+, which has a standard headphone port.
Bleh, not a big fan of the camera cutout. They should just notch it like everyone else, then they can incorporate the status bar and save screen real estate. With the camera cutout it means apps will have to be developed around it, and I doubt many devs will devote the time to this. Looking at the small size of the cutout they could have easily made a very small notch.
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Still has top and side bezels as well.
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It’s not “truly edge-to-edge”. It still has a chin.
EDIT: Thanks for correcting the story. Death to chins
Still has top and side bezels as well.
It may have been crap but samsung has been pushing forward where as apple plays it safe. been an iphone guy since the first one but after the iphone 5, they've been boring. Switched over to the S8 and now the Note 8 and loving it. Compare the S8 designs to the ipone x. nothing is out of place, it's elegant unlike the iphone with it's weird notch and camera hump. Just cause it sells more does not mean it's better designed. Now as for the OS it is purely preference. I just like being able to do more on my galaxy phones like texting and listening to stand up with youtube PIP.
Samsung is pushing forward but Apple is playing it safe..? Apple was the first to remove the headphone jack.. Now Samsung is doing just that, along with every other company.. Apple created the notch with Face ID.. Samsung is still relying on a fingerprint scanner.. Samsung has their fingerprint scanner on the back of the phone, which by all accounts is out of place. I could be mistaken because I haven't seen the most recent Samsung phone, but my girlfriends old S6 absolutely has a camera hump. I don't see the camera hump being an issue on either phone though as 95% of people use a case.
People who value audio fidelity over convenience. Yes there are still some of us who prefer audiophile sound over the sound that emanates from wireless cans which sound like music through a sock. Granted my ear buds cost 2K but the tech is far from ‘old’ Lol.
Everyone talking about the headphone jack and I'm just like, Samsung, that display... I mean, fight the good fight against the notch, sure, I get that, but isn't that "O" basically just a giant middle finger to all the work done by the folks who make your operating system to support... notches? In the middle of the screen? You just gonna slide over all the information that's supposed to live in that corner of the screen? And how exactly is that better than a notch when you're, say, watching movies? Wrapping content around the camera isn't going to be a little distracting? Like, inserting stuff into my movie instead of just cutting part of it off?
I have questions, is what I'm saying.
I have questions, is what I'm saying.
To be fair, people who really value audio fidelity over convenience have been carrying around their own DACs and headphone amps along with whatever storage medium they want for their uncompressed audio files (which may be a phone, may be something else) for years now already.
To be fair, people who really value audio fidelity over convenience have been carrying around their own DACs and headphone amps along with whatever storage medium they want for their uncompressed audio files (which may be a phone, may be something else) for years now already.
Well actually I do that too but sometimes a compromise has to be struck between my pants falling down due to the combined weight of a DAP/DAC and amp versus a top quality ear bud and iPhone. And it’s really the cans or buds that make 90% of the audible improvements.
I reckon I’ve got enough of this sort of equipment to know how best to utilise it all.
You might as well get used to it now. In 2 years nobody will have a headphone jack.No no no no no. That’s not good! I was planning to buy a new Galaxy in 2019, and if the new S and Note phones don’t have it I might look elsewhere.
Yep, Samsung is going to charge extra for it.
Myself and others predicted this. So many people gave me crap for it. Let me stick it in a bun and serve it back to ya. Eat it. I swear some of you need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future. Seriously—go buy some wireless headphones—it will change everything. You'll look at wired headphones the same way you look at flip phones.
This person feels exactly how I do. I've managed to live without the headphone on my 7 for 2 years now. But there are still days where I forgot my adapter and the only option is a standard audio jack. In my experience, lightning connected headphones are just not a thing and I refuse to buy bluetooth because it's one more device I have to keep charging every freaking day along with my laptop, my iPad, my fitbit, my phone. There is no end...
How is a midrange smartphone aimed at the Chinese market "killing" the jack as the title implies?
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned about technology over the past several years it’s that eventually, everyone ends up copying Apple.
Just to be clear Apple wasn't the first here either.
Several Android phones dumped headphones before Apple.
The Moto Z dumped the headphone jack before the iPhone 7 was released.
Essential had a notch before the iPhone X.
Essential was released two months prior to “x”. Neither copied each other, and Essential had a circle.
This is not their flagship phone. Who cares what they do on their bargain bin phones?
