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There’s a new trend starting in which USB-C cables aren’t included with your tech purchase. Meanwhile, Google might ditch Samsung modems for Tensor G6. Finally, Samsung might be waffling on its original plan to kill off the Galaxy S26 Plus, much to the delight of most Samsung fans.

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00:00 – News roundup summary
00:34 – In-box USB-C cables on chopping block
04:38 – MediaTek modem in Tensor G6
06:33 – Galaxy S26 Edge or S26 Plus?

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23 thoughts on “USB-C you later, in-box cables?

  1. I think USB-C is universal nowadays buy one best and use it for rest. I have a Sony Xperia 1VI without charger or wire and i am ok with it.

  2. this is a disgusting habit and the real problem is not enough press who have more sway than us default users are calling it out as such. Everyone wants to spend hours discussing phone cameras like we aren't all just taking pictures of grocery shelves while shopping but you need to do an hour of research to find a phone with decent specs with a headphone jack and no one says anything about it.

    Dear tech press. CALL OUT THESE PRACTICES AS THE UNAMBIGUOUS MONEY GRABS THAT THEY ARE. Tell people they're being nickel and dimed to metaphorical death. You're influencers…. influence. Ding these releases hard when they fail basic measures like including expected accessories like adapters and cables. Not everyone is a Bay Area FLAME or FIREE or whatever techie buying phones every 18 months. What you let go trickles down to the rest of us.

    I suspect you could draw a line to the rise in the grievous behaviour of listening to your phone on full blast on public transportation directly to Apple's killing the headphone jack and the death of included earbuds.

  3. It is a consensual component that should be included in the box. Because if you put in the wrong USP c cable or the wrong power brick, guess who can be sued? The phone manufacturer can be sued if there's a fire that evolves from that. I don't think they ever thought of that. Did they heck? No, because if they did, then maybe they wouldn't have done it like that. Putting the wrong USB C cable us BC cable with less power or put a USB cable in with more power. Because, of course, you don't know which type of usbc cable or power brick comes with your phone. The brick that needs to be with your phone of course, is not in the manual because it didn't come with the phone. So it's not in the manual. So let's say your phone takes 5 amps, and you get a 10 AM charger, guess. What? It might be a fire hazard. So who will be sued the manufacturer of the cellphone? Will be sued, that's who will be sued.
    Because basically they made, they gave you a phone. Basically, they gave you a cell phone or device or any device that is, a fire hazard, or could be a made of fire hazard by you. Getting the wrong cable by accident or the wrong power brick by accident. So it could be made of fire hazard.

  4. It's all bullshit really. You have a bigger impact on what they consider "sustainability" with thousands of extra deliveries, boxes, and transportation costs. Anyone with basic logic would get this.

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