- Removing the 3.5mm headphone jack enables Samsung to make the Galaxy S8 thinner while also freeing up more space inside for a bigger battery. Samsung may also integrate stereo speakers which some believe will be made in collaboration with Harman, a company that Samsung is acquiring for $8 billion.
I take your stero gimic and raise you the 7.1 surround sound headphone gimmick. http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-audio/razer-tiamat-71 The consumer marketed audio products are so full of bs.
It is a big step after Note 7 debacle! Go on, lets see what will happen
I don't understand the necessity for ultra thin designs. I mean I get the need to have it fit in pockets without ruining pants, but as of now the thickness of my phone allows me to fit it into my pants pocket with ease. Why do we need to keep going? What is the purpose of it? The thinner phones get the harder I find it to use them. Unless we are headed towards some serious change in dynamic when it comes to how we use cellphones I just don't get it.
I've just about convinced myself that the headphone jack is getting nixed not because it's time for you to buy bluetooth headphones but because a waterproof headphone jack is a lot harder than a waterproof USB-C jack. Stick with just the one hole and you can make the phone water resistant a lot more easily. Never mind the fact that the space taken up by the headphone jack is a substantial portion of the interior volume. Added bonus? Now that your headphones are on a data port, rather than four stupid contacts, it's sooper-easy to only allow "authorized" headphones to work.
I mean, and I know it's sacrilege, but I can see the value of a single type of port for every kind of device. What I can't understand is why there would only be one port. There's certainly enough bevel real estate for 2 or three and that gives you so many more options.
chuckling.... this coming on the heels of the announcement that the supreme court ruled in favor of Samsung indicating that they didn't copy shit from Apple tee hee...
Another reason not to get an S8. I think the real reason is that they don't want to put an expensive Dac chip on the board and it saves them 50c or $1 per unit. The speakers can run on the shittiest dac possible. To be fair the iPhone has so little memory and such a poor music sync interface that I have no music on it.
Those of us in the audio community continue to be furious at this change. How is 3.5mm not thin enough for these people! It used to be a quarter inch and we slimmed that down for you in the 80s!