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Archives for July 2024

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked, condensed.

We’ve prepared a 12-minute supercut of the event for you, in case you missed the livestream.

Allison Johnson
Allison Johnson
Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm are, uh, still doing that XR thing.

Google’s Rick Osterloh mentioned the elusive XR collaboration briefly in his onstage appearance at Unpacked, without providing any new details. That’s the at least the third time we’ve heard about it without actually hearing anything at all about it. But I guess now we know it’s still a thing in the Osterloh Android era?

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Some looks at the new Galaxy Buds 3.

Setting aside their Apple-ness and the Cybertruck-like angles, what do we think? Here’s a gallery of new Galaxy Buds images from Galaxy Unpacked.

For more on what they’re like, check out Chris Welch’s hands-on.

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Victoria Song
Victoria Song
Google’s Rick Osterloh takes the stage.

Osterloh heads up hardware over at Google and is taking time to really cement the Google / Samsung partnership. The thing that stuck out most to me was when he said: wherever you are on your Galaxy phone, just hit up Gemini. And does he have that Galaxy Ultra on his wrist? Looks like it.

“Lets unpack the future together.”

Image: Samsung
Victoria Song
Victoria Song
These foldable phones are still pricey.

The Z Flip 6 starts at $1,099, while the Z Fold 6 is $1,899. All the products, including the Galaxy Watches, Ring, and Buds will be available starting on July 24th.

Chris Welch
Chris Welch
Samsung says adding a stem to its earbuds produced a “quantum leap” in comfort.

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 Pro and Galaxy Buds 3 ditch the more discreet look of the company’s past earbuds for a familiar stemmed design. The company says a ton of research and analysis on ear shapes and comfort led to the big design shift.

A screenshot of Samsung’s Unpacked keynote.
Image: Samsung
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Live Translate will support more languages this year.

Samsung is expanding its feature that translates phone calls in real time to cover 16 languages in July and 20 languages by the end of the year.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Google Gemini x Samsung.

Google and Samsung confirmed that their deal for Gemini AI features on Galaxy devices will bring updates (announced at I/O earlier this year) that let it read and respond to what’s on your phone screen or in a video you’re watching, as well as new Circle to Search features.

Gemini AI feature shown in split screen on a Galaxy Z Fold 6, with the video on one side and AI chat responses on the other side.
Image: Google
Victoria Song
Victoria Song
Interactive wallpapers are kinda neat.

Yeah, they’re kind of gimmicky, but I’ll admit that I was entertained when playing around with them the other day during our hands-on experience. The FlipSuit cases for the Z Flip 6 were also fun, especially the ones with LEDs.