Galaxy Note 10: Samsung Ditching This Beloved Feature Ahead Of Launch?

If the Galaxy Note 9's successors are too expensive, the Galaxy S10 is still a good choice. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images

August is coming and so is the launch of the highly anticipated phablet from Samsung, the Galaxy Note 10. Reports claimed that the upcoming device will ditch a beloved feature that’s sure to turn a lot of people off.

Previous reports said the Galaxy Note 10, which is confirmed to launch during a Samsung Unpacked event at the Barclays center on August 7, will feature the beloved 3.5mm headphone jack that other top-tier smartphone models like the iPhone XS and XS Max have already done away with. Well, it seems that won’t be the case.

According to XDA Developers’ Max Weinbach, an unnamed source got to “play” with a Note 10 and Note 10 Pro, which we now know to be officially called the Note 10 Plus. That source said both the basic Note 10 and Note 10 Plus feature the beloved headphone port, along with other features.

That announcement, which would obviously cause a lot of fans to go and buy the device once it gets released, however, was shortlived. Weinbach followed it up with another announcement simply saying that the “headphone jack was a fake.”

The writer for XDA said the source didn’t know that the jacks were fake until they tested it using wired earbuds which, after plugging in, didn’t work. The reporter said Samsung deliberately did that so it could trick the public, especially since the testers would bring the smartphones to their offices and take it outside where people could see it.

Samsung reportedly wanted to trick fans so they won’t know that the beloved feature, the removal from other devices of which caused a lot of feedback, won’t be on the upcoming device. For sure, some fans will be turned off from getting the device all because it doesn’t have the jack -- that could be very useful for people who have invested in wired audio accessories.

Weinbach said the Note 10 will come with Type C wired AKG earbuds in the box. Whether this news makes people happy or upset remains to be seen, but with Samsung hiding the removal of the port via use of fake one, it’s obvious that Samsung itself didn’t want the backlash.