It's babysteps, Mark. This is one of the first U.S. phones that does not have Samsung's proprietary adapter for headphones. Rather this has the mini-jack which is at least a little more standard. A lot of the European phones use the standard 3.5mm jacks, so it is only time before the conversion happens over here.
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Looks good, if a little fat.
The only thing I would have changed, aside from the stupid interface, is the headphone jack. Why oh why couldn't they do a standard 3.5mm jack?
That's mostly true... the individual companies do make the phones, but VZW tells them what to make... ie. the Voyager!
It's babysteps, Mark. This is one of the first U.S. phones that does not have Samsung's proprietary adapter for headphones. Rather this has the mini-jack which is at least a little more standard. A lot of the European phones use the standard 3.5mm jacks, so it is only time before the conversion happens over here.
--Travis Hudson, MWW Group on behalf of Samsung
thudson, the A900/A900m had a 2.5mm jack.