Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Samsung’s IFA 2025 press conference is about to start.
Do I smell AI?
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Samsung
Founded in 1938, Samsung is the largest chaebol in South Korea. The myriad of companies under its brand are some of the biggest in their respective industries, but Samsung Electronics is the most notable. It makes some of the most popular phones in use today, and its flagship portfolio includes the Galaxy S-series and foldable Z-series devices. It also makes televisions, tablets, computers, headphones, and many of the displays, chips, and batteries found in devices from Apple, Sony, and others.
Dominic Preston
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Sean Hollister
‘The World’s First 37-Inch Monitor Shows How 5 Inches Can Change Everyday Life’.
Obvious joke aside: if bigger is better, why not 43 inches? Why not 49? Why not 42 or 48? Samsung suggests 37 is best because it’s not much bigger than 32. But if the goal is 32+ while saving space, why not make it taller instead of wider? 16:10 not 16:9!
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Barbara Krasnoff
Allison Johnson
Dominic Preston
Huawei tris again.
We’re still waiting for Samsung’s first trifoldable phone — last we heard it’s due “this year” — but Huawei is ready for round two. It’s announced a September 4th launch for the Mate XTs, a follow-up to the impressive Mate XT, and has already teased a major upgrade: stylus support.
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Jay Peters
Samsung is redesigning its mobile gaming hub.
It won’t be fully revealed until later this year, but the changes will add things like deeper personalization. It’s also expanding its cloud gaming platform to the UK and Germany in beta.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Samsung’s gigantic 115-inch Mini LED TV costs $26,999 and has the tiniest feet.
First announced back at CES, the 115-inch QN90F Neo QLED 4K TV is finally launching for a whopping twenty-seven thousand dollars.
I’m not usually like this, but I can’t stop staring at its feet. I suppose wall mounting is encouraged.
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1/2Big TV. Little feet. Image: Samsung
Thomas Ricker
Dominic Preston
$32,000 and no Dolby Vision? How come, Samsung?
Its new 115-inch Micro RGB TV might cost more than some cars, but don’t think that means Samsung is about to pony up for Dolby’s licensing fees.
Ahurazo:
Hysterically funny that they’re selling a 32 thousand dollar television that still doesn’t support dolby vision.
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Tom Warren
Samsung’s 500Hz OLED monitor now available in the US.
Announced at CES earlier this year, Samsung’s 27-inch Odyssey OLED G6 gaming monitor is now available in the US for $999.99. It has a 1440p resolution, two HDMI 2.1 ports, a single DisplayPort 1.4 port, and that all-important 500Hz refresh rate. Samsung is also launching the 37- and 40-inch Odyssey G7 4K monitors in the US.
Dominic Preston
Don’t write off Bixby yet.
Samsung is fulfilling its promise to upgrade the voice assistant with generative AI, with new features now rolling out to its 2025 TVs in the US.
Bixby should now be better at answering natural language queries about anything, whether on the TV screen or not, and will help turn your TV into a smart home hub with voice controls for SmartThings appliances.
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More cover screen is indisputably better.
Allison Johnson
Richard Lawler
How tough is Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7?
Yes, we tested Samsung’s latest premium foldable, but we didn’t try to destroy every surface and angle of the phone.
For that, there’s JerryRigEverything on YouTube, with the usual scratching and bending, with the results you’d probably expect, although the new hinge design is surprisingly resilient for something so skinny (and with the protruding camera lenses that make it a bit wobbly).
Richard Lawler
Elon Musk says Samsung’s mystery $16.5 billion AI chip deal is for Tesla.
A regulatory filing surfaced Monday morning in Korea showing the underperforming electronics giant won an order to build chips for an unnamed large global tech company in a contract that runs through 2033.
Then, a few hours later, Elon Musk tweeted the arrangement was for Tesla’s “next-generation AI6 chip,” built at Samsung’s plant in Texas, confirming an earlier report by Bloomberg.
Update: Added info from Elon Musk’s tweet.
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Dominic Preston
Samsung’s Galaxy A56 is finally on sale in the US.
It took Samsung four and a half months from announcing the Galaxy A56 to quietly adding it to its US store, though other countries have had the phone since March.
Starting at $499.99, it comes in gray or gray, and is a pretty standard midranger: Exynos 1580 chip, 6.7-inch OLED display, 50-megapixel main camera, and a 5,000mAh battery with 45W wired charging.
1/2Other countries got the A56 in fun colors, but the US gets light gray... Image: Samsung
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It’s thinner and lighter, but you’ll need some deep pockets for this foldable.
Allison Johnson
Dominic Preston
Samsung chairman acquitted all over again.
Today Korea’s Supreme Court cleared Lee Jae-yong of stock manipulation charges related to a merger which helped him take control of the company founded by his grandfather. He was acquitted by a lower court last February, which prosecutors appealed, but the country’s top court sided with the Samsung man.
In 2017 he was found guilty of bribery and embezzlement, but later released from prison on appeal and pardoned in 2022. He’s currently Samsung’s executive chairman.
Richard Lawler
Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked 2025 event in 11 minutes.
If you missed anything from Samsung’s big event earlier this week, we’ve got the highlights for you to watch right here, along with our first impressions of the new Fold / Flip and Galaxy Watch 8 series.
Victoria Song and Allison Johnson also joined Jake on this week’s episode of The Vergecast to give more of their opinions on everything we saw this week, plus some other tech news.
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Samsung’s Z Flip 7 FE is unavailable from US carriers.
If you thought Samsung’s more affordable flip phone felt like an afterthought during yesterday’s Unpacked, apparently so did every major US carrier. SamMobile points out that none of Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T lists the FE, and even Samsung’s own site only offers the phone unlocked.
In fact, the only US provider we’ve found offering the FE is Boost Mobile — maybe that’s what it meant when it announced it’s a real carrier now?
Allison Johnson
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...
Victoria Song
No K-pop stars today.
Sigh. Oh well. That’s a wrap. I guess BTS is just out of the military, and Stray Kids already finished their North American tour. Sob. Well, at least we had the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack blasting earlier.
Jess Weatherbed