Apple was not the first to get rid of the Jack connector for headphones in a smartphone, but it was that caused the most controversy to withdraw it from your iPhone, a smartphone that sells for millions and that moves masses. This decision was the subject of mockery by other brands such as Google with their Pixel or Samsung with its Note 7: “do you know that it has also? Connector for headphones”said onstage the Vice President of marketing for the company during the presentation of the incendiary Galaxy Note 7. A few months later not only is given by the fact that the next Galaxy S8 will have no headphone jack, but that in addition it seems that Samsung wants to have its own AirPods.
Within a few years the Headphone Jack will be completely forgotten in mobile devices, like smartphones or tablets. The advancement of Bluetooth technology, with ever-increasing audio quality and more range, as well as improvement in the autonomy of the bluetooth headset thanks to lower consumption and the fundas-cargador makes as soon as one enters the use of Bluetooth headsets, the convenience of not having cords that tangle and the good experience that offer wireless headphones provokes that soon forget the cables. And Samsung, as usual, will follow Apple in its “brave” decision, and so wants to offer headphones that, like the AirPods, can offer your users something different to conventional headphones.
Is certain that Samsung has in its catalogue several headphones Bluetooth wireless to the style of the AirPods, without no type of cable between them headphones, as their Gear Icon X that lead this article. But the idea of the Korean brand would offer the same functionality as the AirPods in their ecosystem, i.e. that the link between the branded products should be completely transparent to the user and change from one device to another was very simple. Samsung would be considering the idea of including these headphones in the box of the next Galaxy S8, something that is not clear that occurs. What is also not far from clear is if it dares to copy in a manner so blatant to the AirPods, as it did with their EarBuds without blushing.
