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Fortunately for me, we kick issues off with Samsung’s huge Unpacked occasion, launching three new telephones and teasing two — sure, two! — extra coming quickly.
The whole lot 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. won’t thrill, Samsung managed to breadcrumb a number of units with no launch date. First, at its San Jose occasion, the corporate revealed its blended actuality headset in particular person, lastly — even when it was only a functionless headset for photographs 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 bought 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 bought a fleeting glimpse of the rumored slim Galaxy cellphone, truly known as the Galaxy S25 Edge. It’s slim, has two cameras and… that’s about all we all know. Bloomberg stories it’s going to value lower than the S25 Extremely when it arrives later this yr.
After which there’s the mysterious teaser for some attainable bifold system — see the screengrab above. This might 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 residence for Samsung {hardware} innovation? Is the Galaxy Fold collection now really the brand new Galaxy Observe?
— Mat Smith
The most important tales you might need missed
At the moment, in 1984
The primary Mac(intosh).
Apple demonstrated its first Macintosh laptop 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 laptop with a graphical person interface, built-in display screen and mouse. Sure, a mouse! The epic Ridley Scott-directed advert, 1984, additionally teased it.
Time to observe that advert once more.
The brand new chief bought straight to work.
It was a busy first week for President Trump.
AMA or AEA.
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