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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday August 13 2019, @02:54PM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday August 13 2019, @02:54PM (#879673)

    VLC has some setting for audio latency

    it does, but when the fam is sitting down to enjoy a movie in the cabin of the boat, I'm not really willing to spend 5+ minutes fumbling around the "mobile interface" for VLC to try to find the video delay setting and then tweaking it by feel until I think I've improved the sync, only to be told by the wife "their lips still don't match the sound" 10 minutes into the movie. Much easier to say "that's just how it is, we're going to have to live with it."

    I could imagine a photosensor in the bluetooth speakers that would attempt to synchronize flashing video test signals with a click track... not for $20 per speaker anytime soon, but maybe some day...

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  • (Score: 2) by Alfred on Tuesday August 13 2019, @07:07PM

    by Alfred (4006) on Tuesday August 13 2019, @07:07PM (#879793) Journal
    Kinda hopeless for now. In the interest of furthering the engineering: i think that using the mic on the phone to measure the latency of the whole audio loop would be better, a long as it isn't too loud.