As more mobile device manufacturers mull
over ditching headphone jacks entirely, fans of high - quality sound find them selves increasingly in need of ways to keep using their favorite pair of wired headphones.
Not exact matches
Over the past few months, we've come across various tidbits — including
ditching the
headphone jack — about Google's next - generation Pixel devices for 2017.
An online petition hosted on the Sum Of Us website and titled «Apple is
ditching the standard
headphone jack to screw consumers and the planet» has already gained
over 220,000 signatures as of the time of writing.
A lot of consumers have already voiced their disappointments
over Apple's decision to
ditch the 3.5 mm
headphone jack from the iPhone 7, and this could be the same response if Samsung is planning to
ditch it as well.
Speculation
over whether Samsung will
ditch the
headphone jack with the S9 has circulated for awhile, and nothing is confirmed yet.