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Fortunately for me, we kick issues off with Samsung’s large Unpacked occasion, launching three new telephones and teasing two — sure, two! — extra coming quickly.
Every thing Samsung introduced, together with costs and launch dates (February 8 — I’ll prevent a click on), we collated right here, but it surely was largely a fallow yr for Galaxy S {hardware}, barring a considerably extra highly effective chip.
Whereas the Galaxy S25 Extremely et al. may not thrill, Samsung managed to breadcrumb a number of units with no launch date. First, at its San Jose occasion, the corporate revealed its combined actuality headset in particular person, lastly — even when it was only a functionless headset for images and gawping at.
Then there was the Galaxy S25 Edge — a tool I didn’t suppose existed. (And one thing that wasn’t proven at my satellite tv for pc occasion in London — we received a not-great projection mapping model activation throughout London’s Thames river. Boo.)
Like Samsung did a yr in the past with its Galaxy Ring teaser, we received a fleeting glimpse of the rumored slim Galaxy telephone, truly referred to as the Galaxy S25 Edge. It’s slim, has two cameras and… that’s about all we all know. Bloomberg reviews it’ll price lower than the S25 Extremely when it arrives later this yr.
After which there’s the mysterious teaser for some potential bifold gadget — see the screengrab above. This may be a foldable concertina, like units we’ve seen from Huawei. Samsung teased the show tech again at CES 2022 and subsequent commerce occasions. Is it now prepared?
Will the corporate’s foldables change into the brand new house for Samsung {hardware} innovation? Is the Galaxy Fold sequence now actually the brand new Galaxy Notice?
— Mat Smith
The largest tales you might need missed
At this time, in 1984
The primary Mac(intosh).
Apple demonstrated its first Macintosh pc in entrance of three,000 individuals. Graphical computing on the Macintosh wasn’t as commercially profitable as Microsoft’s DOS and Home windows, however this was the primary profitable mass-market desktop private pc with a graphical person interface, built-in display and mouse. Sure, a mouse! The epic Ridley Scott-directed advert, 1984, additionally teased it.
Time to look at that advert once more.
The brand new chief received straight to work.
It was a busy first week for President Trump.
AMA or AEA.
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