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Roboprog
So, 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
You'll have to pry my LG G6 from my cold, dead hands....

Unless you trade it for a G7

jeromebaek
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
Why would they need to test that? Apple has already done it for them.
philistine
Exactly. 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
Regardless, 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
Imagine 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
While 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.
TwoNineA
They 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.
[dead] rcchyssser
Apple fanboys are jerking it to this.
kennu
Same 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
Indeed 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
You can use CTRL [ in vi to do the same function as the ESC key.
reddit_clone
Oh 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.

just_myles
Imagine how much real estate they get after removing it, right?
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moretai
Is there a conclusive opinion on the negative effect that bluetooth signals have on our bodies or is it just conspiracy talk?
h1d
Where did you read about it?
cdumler
Personally, 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.