Next week, Samsung will be officially unveiling the Galaxy Note 10 and 10+ to an excited audience, but today some of that excitement has been quelled thanks to a leak.

As SamMobile reports, the latest Galaxy Note 10 leak is not about the phone itself, but an accessory it ships with. In the box alongside your new smartphone will be a headphone dongle, which in turn confirms that Samsung decided to drop the headphone jack from the next generation of its flagship phones.

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 (Plus) #donglelife pic.twitter.com/FmXsMkvF9h — Roland Quandt (@rquandt) August 1, 2019

The white dongle will act as a bridge between the headphone jack on your wired headphones and the USB-C port the Note 10 and 10+ uses for charging (and now wired audio). Samsung must know dropping the headphone jack will anger some and even potentially hurt sales, but clearly the comapny's market research is telling them not enough to warrant keeping it.

Also in the box with the new phone we can expect to find a pair of wired USB-C earphones. Pre-orders of the Galaxy S10 included a free pair of Galaxy Buds, so it's likely Samsung will choose to offer the same freebie with the Note 10. We can hope, anyway, and that would certainly help with the disappointment at the loss of the headphone jack.

Clearly the days of the headphone jack are numbered. We've already lost it at the high-end of the smartphone market, and that decision is guaranteed to keep filtering down until it one day it disappears completely.