Galaxy A53 5G renders show small refinements on familiar design, no headphone jack
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- Anonymous
- dWy
- 10 Nov 2021
Anonymous, 08 Nov 2021I love the headphone jack, and considering that most of the... moreI really do not understand why the analog headphone jack is so important. Just buy a type-c to jack cable and you will be fine. Analog output isn't that much important. Is like saying the same for VGA output. We moved to HDMI and then to type-c.
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- Anonymous
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- 10 Nov 2021
Anonymous, 09 Nov 2021Good points. But A series phones changed a lot. They aren&#... moreSo normal improvement in technology justifies price increase? So we should pay 1 million dollars for phones today since they are more powerful than any 1990s computer
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- vikrant82
- qpN
- 10 Nov 2021
These shameless corporations leave no opportunity to mint more money from customers. Now they are removing headphone jacks from midrangers as well to sell you their stupid wireless headsets every two years. Soon we will have no charger in the box and no headphone jack on every phone. We foolish customers just accept whatever they throw at us.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Nov 2021
Anonymous, 09 Nov 2021I guess they think that people won't just buy the olde... moreGood points. But A series phones changed a lot. They aren't weak and slow anymore. They are powerful for most tasks. Hardware got better so price should increase as well.
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- Anonymous
- nUk
- 09 Nov 2021
Anonymous, 09 Nov 2021I guess they think that people won't just buy the olde... morePeople are buying s10 due to the dimensions of this phone. For me personally, s20fe is a good phone but it's too big sincerely. The same story will be with s21fe. In case that someone want to buy a high end 'small' phone, the choise will be or iPhone 12/13 or S22/S21. There is another model which coukd be interesting, Zenfone 8. Unfortunately Google left this field, but anyway the Pixels weren't available to a large number of users.
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- AnonD-909757
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- 09 Nov 2021
No 3.5mm Jack = No buy.
Same for the punch hole/notch/UDC, curved edge display (that it thankfully not have), lack of Telephoto, sub-12Mp Ultra-Wide and/or Telephoto, and 2Mp/5Mp useless sensors mainly when it comes at the cost of another, better sensor, only exception is the 5Mp TeleMacro who is, sadly, the best dedicated Macro available.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Nov 2021
Anonymous, 09 Nov 2021I would rather keep my A51 instead of upgrading to an S21 f... moreI still don't understand why someone can't collect enough cojones and make an "Ultra" phone that has it all. IR blaster, headphone jack, microSD slot and still have some water resistance. It's not that complicated, we had that, I see no reason why it couldn't be done again. Whoever would do this, they'd stand out from the rest and have widest audience of buyers. Until the rest would follow and we'd get all the stuff back again lol.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Nov 2021
RealLifePhones, 08 Nov 2021No room for the headphone jack but room for two useless sen... moreHaha, the sensors being the "software controlled" sensors like the proximity sensor.
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- Anonymous
- j{g
- 09 Nov 2021
Anonymous, 09 Nov 2021Ok but who do you „vote“ for when all phones removed the he... moreI would rather keep my A51 instead of upgrading to an S21 for free just because of the headphone jack and sd card... unless they give me the highest storage option, then I may consider it. Giving up the headphone jack is still a hard pill to swallow. With my A51, I experience BT audio stuttering when literally anything besides a light cloth is covering the top of the phone. Moved your hand close to it? Connection stutters and audio is dropped. This is BT 5.0 end to end BTW. The audio latency is also terrible and I can't adjust the output strength (power usage) in developer options, so sometimes, the audio always stutters even when I have the phone right in front of me, and it can't take a hint and increase the output power level.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Nov 2021
At this point, Samsung is just disrespecting customers by removing useful features. Time to pay them back by not buying :)
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Nov 2021
Anonymous, 09 Nov 2021I won't believe this until the final product. It'... moreI want to believe...
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- Anonymous
- j{g
- 09 Nov 2021
s8, 09 Nov 2021Probably Samsung noticed that too many users are buying the... moreI guess they think that people won't just buy the older model. People are still buying the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S20 FE instead of buying the Galaxy S21 simply because it has more features with a lower price. I would buy the S20 FE instead of the A52s if it had a headphone jack in it. I don't care that it's slightly faster. It is harder to use for me and more inconvenient for me to use with a dongle flopping around. Not to mention that I need an even bulkier dongle if I want to charge the phone while using the headphone jack as well.
500 dollars though for an A series phone is way too expensive for me though. I'll wait a few years for that price to drop or for other companies to provide an actually good phone with a headphone jack and micro sd.
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- AnonD-731363
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- 09 Nov 2021
Hahahahahahahaha.
No headphone jack.
In maybe year or 2 maybe 3 to 5 every midranger will have no headphone jack, no charger in box and no many else but retain its very high price.
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- Anonymous
- y2j
- 09 Nov 2021
TweeetY, 09 Nov 2021Best thing of midrange Samsung phones is headphone jack...t... moreSamsung is hard to beat with reliability and software in my experience. I wish some companies like Oneplus kept the headphone jack and expandable storage in their marketed "It has everything you need" smartphones. Would buy in a heartbeat.
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- Anonymous
- y2j
- 09 Nov 2021
I also read in many comments that the a52s does not have radio support through the headphone jack. Someone here can probably confirm this though
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- Anonymous
- y2j
- 09 Nov 2021
s8, 09 Nov 2021Probably Samsung noticed that too many users are buying the... moreWell yeah, now the S20 FE is a better deal than the A53 because it has the lack of a headphone jack as well.
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- 09 Nov 2021
Gool, 09 Nov 2021I was planning to buy this phone next year, but if there�... moreGo for the a52s if it's available in your region, or the a73 if it has a jack and a comparable soc. I got the a52s as a midrange daily driver, and it does daily tasks about as well as the flagships I've owned.
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- 09 Nov 2021
Gool, 09 Nov 2021I was planning to buy this phone next year, but if there�... moreHow can A73 3.5 headphone jack when A73 is slightly higher in specs than A53
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- 09 Nov 2021
Probably Samsung noticed that too many users are buying the models from A series, especially A52, A72 & A52s, since phones from the A series are still having audio jack + MicroSD support. Not such a small number of users decide to buy these models instead of, for ex. S21 or S20fe, so that could be a reason why they want to remove these "advanced features" from A series phones. Look at the difference of these phones, of course they exist but for the average user are not extremely important so they decide to buy phone from A series and save a few hundred bucks. Of course, the additional goal is also to sell more wireless buds if it is possible.