Samsung's Next-Generation Galaxy S8 Won't Include a Headphone Jack

Not really surprising, the industry said it was going in this ages ago. This only gets click bait headlines because it's a rumour about Samsung.
 
apolloa said:
Not really surprising, the industry said it was going in this ages ago. This only gets click bait headlines because it's a rumour about Samsung.
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Right? Wasn't it intel that was pushing heavily for usb c to be the audio solution for the future over a year ago at one of the tech expos?
 
Rumors about Apple - (panties twisted) No f'n way. They don't know what they're talking about. They just made up some crap for clicks. DOOMED! <-- That one really makes me giggle since invariably it's uttered by an Apple fan before a detractor can even touch a keyboard.

Rumors about Samsung - (pants tightened with schadenfreude) I f'n knew it!
/frantically searches "Samsung sucks" folder for picture of "Samsung phones before iPhone"
/repeatedly refreshes to count "likes"

I see this sometimes. Just an observation.
 
I am having severe deja vu in this thread. I swear some of the posters and their comments are identical when this was first a rumor.
 
Great news.

I bet Samsung will include a FREE dongle in the box but it will
have the 3.5mm and ability to charge the devise while listening like the belkin iPhone adapter.
 
aaronhead14 said:
We can rip on Samsung all we want for copying Apple. But hey, at least they're using USB-C instead of stupid Lightning.

Apple has been one of the pioneers of USB-C implementation, yet they don't even want to use it in their mobile devices....It's SUCH a HUGE inconvenience!
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It's not a HUGE inconvenience though is it. It's a minor one at best.

You see how bats*it mental people go when Apple change ports, the 98% of casual iPhone buyers this forum isn't would be climbing the walls in rage if Apple changed to USB-C from Lightning on the iPhone. THREE charging port changes in a decade, too much for them.
 
Hasn't been an issue for me not having one, and makes sense for the future of tech. Hopefully Samsung puts the space to use with more batteries and perhaps some new unique features of their own.

While I think Lightning is superior (as a robust contact in a consumer hardware design), I hope Apple follows suit and switches over to USB-C to make the entire apple Family share a simple unified port.
 
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Many folks over here will realize they were very short sighted in just a couple of years, if not less.

Not to mention the Luddite Brigade of Tech Journalists named "The Verge".
 
MrGuder said:
The 6s and 6s plus are going to be rare phones that everyone will want to get due having a standard headphone jack.
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You can buy mine if you want. I wouldn't go back.
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djcerla said:
Many folks over here will realize they were very short sighted in just a couple of years, if not less.

Not to mention the Luddite Brigade of Tech Journalists named "The Verge".
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Yeah but let The Verge do a few mock photoshoots where they pile loads of dongles on top of phones and laptops first to make it look like thats what you really have to do and whip all the ignorant and stupid up into a frenzy.
 
So everyone who told us if we don't agree with apple's decision to do away with audio jacks that we should simply buy a non-iPhone, what are we to do when all the major manufacturers follow suit?

Bluetooth technology is so far from being mature that it'll likely be years before it catches up with the sound quality of audio jacks, among other things. In the meantime we'll suffer with noticeably poor audio, more devices that need to be charged at least every other day and batteries that will degrade thus necessitating the replacement of those devices (whereas you only needed to replace wired headphones when they broke). And I haven't seen them go down in price in light of the iPhone 7. Headphone manufacturers will continue to gouge us because we'll have no choice.

Thanks a lot, Apple. Thanks to Samsung as well for consistently failing to stand out and be original for the sake of offering choices to the consumer. After the exploding phone fiasco, you really think the majority of your customers were thinking "gee, I'd be willing to put my money and trust in Samsung again if only they got rid of the headphone jack"? Stupid company. They really need to be knocked off their throne. May a superior company take its place.
 
I keep saying it: If they can cram a headphone jack inside my tiny little iPod Nano 6G and still use a case that's nearly as thin as the headphone plug itself, there's no excuse for the iPhone, and for any Samsung phones.

I mean, just look at how tiny the part is, and how much space is inside the already tiny iPod:
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They need as much money as they can save to funnel it to QA and make sure they don't explode.
 
Chris in DC said:
Apple's overall tragectory, first apparent (and even explicitly stated) with the addition of wireless syncing to iTunes, then iCloud, is to go fully wireless. And now we have further reports that the iPhone 8 may have wireless charging (admittedly after Samsung and others did it first). So possibly within as little as a year, the lightning jack vs. USB-C issue will be moot anyway.
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How so? Bluetooth has it's flaws. I tried using Bluetooth earbuds on a flight to Europe a couple months ago and had to switch to my wired buds halfway over the Atlantic when the battery died. If Bluetooth can't get me through an 8 hour flight then it's useless to me. And true audiophiles will never want to go wireless.

Right now, the solution is buy a pair of headphones with a 3.5mm plug and a dongle, either Lightning->3.5 or USB-C->3.5 for all your devices, but if the headphone jack is truly killed off and manufacturers only make Lightning and USB-C headphones, then at some point when buying an expensive pair of headphones, you're going to have to decide if you want Lightning headphones that only work on your iDevices, or USB-C headphones that work on everything else, including your computer.
 
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