A new report from South Korea has revealed that Samsung smartphones in the near future will not arrive with a charger in the box. Chargers being bundled in the box is a norm in the industry but recent rumors may say otherwise.
Samsung is one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world. It ships hundreds of millions of smartphones each year. So, if the South Korean tech giant decided to drop the chargers that were bundled in the box, the company would see a major reduction in cost. This, on the other hand, would enable the company to price its handsets even more aggressively.
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According to the report, Samsung might implement this change to select smartphone models. And unfortunately, we may see this change implemented as soon as next year, which is just barely 6 months away. Unlike earphones, which also used to be bundled in the box, a charger is downright essential for a smartphone owner.
At this day and age, charging ports and standards have more or less unified across the board. And it seems Samsung is banking on this uniformity to no longer ship chargers to new devices. Notably, Samsung isn’t the first company that has had this rumor go about as Apple’s upcoming iPhone 12 series was also rumored to drop the charger from the box. Similar to the headphones jack, if Apple does so, Samsung may follow as well.
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