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Samsung Plans All-Screen Design in New Galaxy S8 Phones (bloomberg.com)
Samsung may have big plans to overcome the whammy of its disastrous Galaxy Note7 this year. The company is reportedly planning to push the boundaries of design with the next flagship smartphone, dubbed the Galaxy S8. The smartphone, which was recently pegged to ship without a headphone jack, will have an "all-screen" design, Bloomberg is reporting. The report adds that there might not be a home button -- at least the way we know it -- and that any part of the lower display will serve as a fingerprint scanner. From the report: The bezel-less displays will provide more viewing real estate while a virtual home button will be buried in the glass in the lower section. Samsung needs the Galaxy S8 to be a hit after suffering through the Note 7 debacle that tarnished its brand, led to an embarrassing recall and may cost the company more than $6 billion. While Samsung is targeting a March release of the S8, that could be delayed until April, the people said. Samsung is adopting tougher testing procedures in the wake of the Note 7 debacle that could push back the launch by about a month, one of the people said.
This will allow for more glass to be used as shrapnel when it explodes!
.reportedly planning to push the boundaries of design
Now might be the time for them to pull back, go for a less cutting-edge stable design, and save pushing boundaries for another day.
>All-Screen Design
I bet the replacement glass will be sold at 10000% markup.
>iPhone 8 is going to have TWO screens. One on the front and one on the back.
So its screen will break two times as often
I was about to say that, finally, finally, finally. How long have we been waiting for to finally get rid of that!
Definitely the must-have (or rather, must-not-have) feature everyone was looking forward to.
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Accidental touches galore! When are they going just embed the phone into your hand? Or better yet, direct brain stimulation?
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Umm, isn't the very center of our galaxy a giant black hole with no burning whatsoever?
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>iPhone 8 is going to have TWO screens. One on the front and one on the back.
So its screen will break two times as often
No, because you won't be able to pick it up...
Touch Disease Everywhere!
Now to train Siri to say
"Don't Touch Me!"
"Stop Touching Me"
"MOM!!!"
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I think that the phone was tested, and likely the issue was known. ;)
The problem is that, in an order to save costs and decrease the chance or product leaks, Samsung has moved away from using 3rd party labs and started setting up their own internal labs.
An internal battery lab was used to test the note. The testing for batteries is standardized. And while the ISO 17025 accreditation requires a sort of separation of the lab and the production side, it is clear that the lab would be under intense pressure to both speed up the certification and down play any issues which may block the ship date.
3rd party labs will of course feel the pressure from customers like Samsung, most European and American labs would never close their eyes and issue a passing test report. In Asia though, it is a different story. One reason why the FCC no longer allows test reports from Asian lab. Often times the reports are available as soon as the PO is sent
For you guys in the USA, nearly every one with a cell phone is using one which is PTCRB certified. PTCRB mandates the use of 3rd party accredited labs. PTCRB however is concerned with the health of the network, not whether or not the battery will explode. Though, they do test conducted RF (100's of hours) from -10c to +55c, but the battery is actually removed in those tests.
Perhaps they should think about requiring 3rd party battery testing also. As Li batteries get larger and larger, the potential for this type if thing increases.
Sorry Samsung, as a current user... I won't be getting anything above the S5.
It's probably going to be the LG G5.
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The headphone jack isn't just a hole though, it has electronics that take up space in the internals which manufacturers want to use now for other things.
Common !
- Other manufacturer are managing to still cram an audio jack into their competing smartphones
- Smartphone are getting *wider* with *larger screen* each generation. In theory they should have *more room* for electronics.
- The "other things" might not be as useful as marketing would like you to think (Apple's taptic engine was the excuse for removing their jack).
- The only reason that manufacturer are lacking space is because they have launched themself in a competition for the thinest device possible. By trying to shave a few mm of thickness, they are losing critical space. This has already cost Apple their bendgate (less thickness = less mechanical resistance) and caused Samsung a few exploding batteries (not enough space for battery expansion).
In other words: I manufacturer weren't competing for the first company to release a phone thin enough so you can cut cheese with it, they would have plenty of space to keep a phone jack, add their useless new features AND have bigger batteries with better life.
I get why people want to hold onto this legacy port, it's a well established piece of tech that has been tired and true and remained unchanged for decades but to say that there's a pen hole so a headphone hole is the same thing isn't really accurate
The total volume of a pen, is still bigger than the volume of small compact jack connector and the tiny DAC feeding it.
No the real excuse is getting a way to sell either extra dongles (audio-out to USB-Otg or Apple Lightning)
or expensive accessories (force you to buy Bluetooth Wireless earphones. Or wired phones with custom plugs).
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