Samsung Galaxy S8 said to drop the headphone jack

But Harman CEO Dinesh Paliwal said that “We may adopt Harman’s luxury audio technology into Galaxy S series possibly in 2018”, which means that the Galaxy S9 will get a boost in audio quality. But enough pressure could squeeze the separators to a point where the positive and negative layers would touch and cause the battery to explode.

Samsung still hasn’t come out with an official reason for why exactly the Galaxy Note 7 was prone to explosions. But Samsung could not bring himself to this solution because “it would have reduced the life of the battery, placing Note 7 below the level of its predecessor, the Note 5, and that of its biggest competitor, iPhone 7 Plus”.

There was nothing fundamentally wrong with the 3,500mAh batteries used in Galaxy Note 7 handsets. Charging the batteries leads to mechanical swell.

Express.co.uk approached Samsung for comment on the Instrumental findings.

With the major Android OEMs, and the iPhone seemingly acquiescing to this trend of leaving out the headphone jack, one wonders what effect this would have on both the adoption of USB Type-C, and the removal of traditional headphone jacks on more devices. “It’s possible that Samsung’s innovative battery manufacturing process was changing throughout development, and that the newest versions of the batteries weren’t tested with the same rigor as the first samples”, they said.

According to Sammobile, the latest leaks around the Galaxy S8 suggest that Samsung isn’t planning to incorporate a headphone jack into its replacement for the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge at all. Again, not the first time we’ve heard this particular rumor.

The thesis of design error, in this case of battery explosions, has been raised many times.

According to PhoneArena, the Note 7 was designed by incorporating a pair of polymer layers soaked in electrolytes that distinguished a positive layer consisting of lithium cobalt oxide and a negative layer consisting of graphite. On the device that they disassembled, Instrumental actually didn’t even see a measurable gap, and they believe the battery may have already been under stress.

Users will, presumably, also be able to use Bluetooth wireless headphones with the handset, which Samsung is expected to launch at Mobile World Congress in February.