Samsung to phase out chargers and headphones from future phones

Samsung’s future phones also won’t come with charging bricks, the company has revealed, but it does leave some wiggle room. In a question and answer on why it no longer includes headphones and a charging brick in the box, Samsung says it believes gradually removing accessories from their phones could make them more durable.

This answer implies that while the next generations of its phones may not come with the included accessories, some may. Samsung has other lines it calls Galaxy, from its foldable phones to its more budget options, and it has given itself the option of continuing to include a charger in some of them for a bit longer.

Maybe Samsung wants to keep the charger in cheaper phones so people who aren’t tech-savvy have a better chance of buying them, or maybe it doesn’t want to upset people who buy its. $ 2,000 phones. He could do both, one or the other, or neither, and it would still count as “gradually”.

However, the company doesn’t appear to be following Apple’s path of removing the plugs from its existing line of phones. The Note 20 Ultra and Note 10 listings always show a charger that came in the box.

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While a company that ships older products with something that is no longer included in their latest and greatest might seem odd, it does mean that Samsung doesn’t have to redo all the boxes for their old products, and that consumers won’t end up in the sticky situation where they watch an unboxing of a phone’s launch on YouTube and then have a decidedly different experience. The correct approach really depends on what you’re optimizing for, but that seems to be the one Samsung has chosen: slowly and steadily winning the race.

You can read the full answer below:

We’ve found that more and more Galaxy users are reusing the accessories they already have and making sustainable choices in their daily lives to promote better recycling habits. To support our Galaxy community on this journey, we are in the process of removing the charger and earphone plug from our latest range of Galaxy smartphones.

We believe that phasing out charger plugs and headphones from the packaging of our devices in the box can help address sustainable consumption issues and remove any pressure consumers might feel to constantly receive charger accessories. unnecessary with new phones.

We’ve also been implementing standardized USB-C type charging ports since 2017, so older chargers can still be compatible with our latest Galaxy models.