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We’d love your feedback on what you’d like to see covered in these meatier editions – hit me up at TMA (AT) Engadget.com.
Luckily for me, we’re kicking things off with Samsung’s big Unpacked event, launching three new phones and teasing two, yes, two! – More coming soon.
Everything Samsung announced, including pricing and release dates (February 8. I’ll save you a click), we’ve rounded up here, but it was largely a fallow year for Galaxy S hardware, barring a substantially more powerful chip .
While the Galaxy S25 Ultra et al. You may not get excited, Samsung managed to Breadromb several devices without a release date. First, at its San Jose event, the company revealed its mixed reality headset in person, finally, even if it was just a headset with no photo function and jaws dropped.
Then there was the Galaxy S25 Edge, a device I didn’t believe existed. (And something that wasn’t shown at my satellite event in London: we got a not-cool projection mapping brand activation on London’s River Thames. Boo.)
As Samsung did a year ago with its Galaxy ring teaser, we got a fleeting glimpse of the rumored Galaxy phone, actually called the Galaxy S25 Edge. It’s thin, it has two cameras and… that’s all we know. Bloomberg reports that it will cost less than the S25 Ultra when it arrives later this year.
And then there’s the mysterious teaser for some possible foldable device – see the screenshot above. This would be a folding concertina, like the devices we have seen from Huawei. Samsung joked about screen technology at CES 2022 and subsequent commercial events. Are you ready now?
Will the company’s foldables become the new home for Samsung hardware innovation? Is the Galaxy Fold series now the new Galaxy Note?
-Mat Smith
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Today, in 1984
The first Mac (Intosh).
Apple demonstrated his first Macintosh computer in front of 3,000 people. Graphical computing on the Macintosh was not as commercially successful as Microsoft’s Dos and Windows, but this was the first successful mass-market desktop personal computer with a graphical user interface, built-in display, and mouse. Yes, a mouse! The epic Ridley Scott-directed ad, 1984, also made fun of him.
It’s time to see that ad again.
The new leader obtained right to work.
It was a busy first week for President Trump.
Rabod’s ration.
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