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Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple

posted by martyb on Monday August 12 2019, @02:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-jack-in-the-box^W-phone-for-you dept.

takyon writes:

Samsung spent years trolling Apple in commercials. Now it's cloning an iPhone feature it mocked and has deleted the ads.

Samsung has a long and illustrious history of trolling Apple in its smartphone commercials. But now the South Korean firm is cloning one of the iPhone features it once mocked, and it has quietly deleted records of the ads.

Samsung unveiled its Note 10 on Wednesday and, as has been widely observed, the phone falls in line with other new devices on the market in that it does not come with a 3.5 mm headphone jack.

[...] Samsung released a memorable advertisement in November 2017 titled "Growing Up." It features an iPhone user through the ages becoming increasingly frustrated with the limitations of his phone. In the end, he caves and buys a Samsung Galaxy. In one section, he ruefully inspects an adapter cable, which enables iPhone users to turn their charging portal into a 3.5 mm headphone jack.

Fast forward to 2019 and Note 10 customers may need a similar bit of kit to use wired headphones with their device. And as for that "Growing Up" ad, it has disappeared from some of Samsung's major YouTube channels.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 12 2019, @03:22PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 12 2019, @03:22PM (#879235)

    Changing the batteries? Apple's version doesn't allow that. Once you factor in the battery cost the savings on copper becomes inconsequential.

    I want a phone with a long-life, user-changeable battery, standard headphone jack, and standard MicroSD card storage. I guess my next phone will be a BlackBerry.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 12 2019, @04:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 12 2019, @04:25PM (#879273)

    Changing the batteries? Apple's version doesn't allow that.

    I've been using Bluetooth ear buds for many years (LG, Boss, Jabra and others), and none of them have had replaceable batteries.

  • (Score: 2) by Alfred on Monday August 12 2019, @04:47PM (1 child)

    by Alfred (4006) on Monday August 12 2019, @04:47PM (#879282) Journal
    Motorola makes some

    • (Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday August 12 2019, @09:13PM

      by Magic Oddball (3847) on Monday August 12 2019, @09:13PM (#879377) Journal

      AFAIK, Motorola's 2018 & 2019 phones unfortunately don't have user-removable batteries. Everything else about them is cool, just not the battery situation.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 14 2019, @12:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 14 2019, @12:25AM (#879904)

    Check out Caterpillar brand phones.

    3.5mm? Check.
    SD card? Check.
    Long battery life? Check.
    Swappable batteries? I don't think so, but oh well.

    Plus: very rugged (basically toddler-safe), more-or-less standard android (mostly), some multi-SIM options (as I recall), and excellent sunlight visibility.

    Not perfect, but a solid option.