I don’t think so, unless they forgot how they used to make older phones waterproof whilst still having ports on them.
Mine (Galaxy Xcover 5) has a headphone jack on it, but is marketed as a “waterproof rugged smartphone”, or essentially a “tradesman’s phone”. Basically you can fill it with dust and water and paint and sand and drop it off a tall ladder into a bucket of water. Oh, and you can replace/swap out the battery too.
Anyway, my suspicion is that any company saying they need to take ports off or stop you removing the battery “for waterproofing reasons” are not being entirely truthful.
They can probably do it easier and cheaper by taking away features, but they could still do it if they wanted.
I don’t think so, unless they forgot how they used to make older phones waterproof whilst still having ports on them.
Mine (Galaxy Xcover 5) has a headphone jack on it, but is marketed as a “waterproof rugged smartphone”, or essentially a “tradesman’s phone”. Basically you can fill it with dust and water and paint and sand and drop it off a tall ladder into a bucket of water. Oh, and you can replace/swap out the battery too.
Anyway, my suspicion is that any company saying they need to take ports off or stop you removing the battery “for waterproofing reasons” are not being entirely truthful.
They can probably do it easier and cheaper by taking away features, but they could still do it if they wanted.