Samsung executives have long poked fun at rivals
for ditching the headphone jack in smartphones.
With the new Galaxy Note 10, the company will
now be doing exactly the same thing.
The Note 10, announced, squeezes in more
battery power and other goodies, but at the cost
of the familiar old jack. So now the company is
doing an about-face and declaring that many
people use wireless headphones anyway.
Samsung, which for years has pushed bigger
and bigger displays, is also introducing a smaller
version of the Note for those who think phones
have just gotten too big.
The new Note models will come out Aug.
- The main model is being called the Note
10 Plus and will have a display measuring
6.8 inches diagonally. Though the display is
bigger, the overall size is about the same as
last year’s 6.4-inch Note 9. To accomplish that,
Samsung shrank down even more of the bezel
surrounding the display.
The smaller, 6.3-inch version will be called the
Note 10 and will sell for almost $950, or $150
less than the Plus. It’s designed for those who
want the Note’s signature stylus without its
once-signature size.
“You hit a certain point where you can’t get
much bigger without being physically too
large to hold,” Technalysis Research analyst Bob
O’Donnell said. “That’s the challenge they are
running into.”