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The show’s really over when they send you to the Product Experience Zone.
Doesn’t look like we’ll get a trifold tease as a “one more thing” thing here. Guess there’s always January...
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It’s thinner and lighter, but you’ll need some deep pockets for this foldable.
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The Z Flip 7 FE got the briefest of mentions.
There’s one more flip phone this year and this “Fan Edition” didn’t exactly get a big spot in the presentation. It’s $899, which sure, that’s a few hundred bucks cheaper than the Z Flip 7. But its... not that cheap? I dunno. It exists.
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Long clock! Long clock!
The bigger front screen on the Galaxy Z Flip 7 makes space for my favorite new lock screen feature: a clock the gets dynamically shorter and longer depending on your wallpaper photo. It’s on iOS 26 too, so I guess Long Clock is officially a trend.
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Two thousand US dollar bills.
That’s the starting price for the Z Fold 7, which goes up for pre-order starting now. Better hope those trade in deals are strong!
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Oh, it’s AI again.
We are two years into the era of AI on phones and I’m just going to say it: I don’t need any more explanations about how AI can generate useful summaries of text for you. I get it! Let’s just take this for granted and not trot it out at every product launch, please? Anyway, the new foldables have lots of AI. Again.
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Osterloh in the house.
Android and Pixel boss Rick Osterloh is here to talk about Gemini on Samsung phones. He’s plugging Circle to Search getting access to AI mode, plus Gemini Live on the Z series. Samsung and Google are good friends, Google and Samsung would like us to remember.
