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It's just like that. What's the point of knowing what the weather is where you
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are? I need to know what it's going to be. >> I can go outside. I can go outside.
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>> Can you link up with other people and then if you get enough people in a
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localized region? >> How does that tell you what it's going to be? That just tells you
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>> because then when it's coming from the west, my homies to the west are
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information. My weather homies. >> Yo, what is up people of the internet? Welcome back to another episode of the
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Waveform Podcast. We're your hosts. I'm Marquez. >> I'm Andrew.
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>> And I'm David. >> It is uh Friday again, just so you know. So, those of you who watched the last
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episode, if you didn't, it wasn't a Friday, but now we're back to our
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regularly scheduled programming. >> I know how everyone else feels because
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it's actually Wednesday here and you just said it's Friday. So, for us, that's very confusing,
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>> right? Yeah. This is just to lock us back in so people listening know what
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day it's coming out. Uh the dishes were going to be get done anyway. Um today's
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episode we've got Samsung Galaxy S26 official unveil. We've got nothing phone
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4A partial official unveil. Uh and we've got some weather talk. But first >> there was a blizzard.
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>> Yeah. But first uh we're doing South by Southwest again. It's happening again.
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So for those of you who don't know or if you're new here, last year we did our
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first ever live waveform podcast in front of a in-person studio audience. We did it at South by Southwest in Austin,
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Texas >> in the spring and it was a lot of fun and we got invited back to do it again
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and we're going to do it again. So, if those of you who were like on the fence
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about going to Southby or if you're already already going to be there, uh, we'll see you there. We'll we'll try to
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put the official Do we know the time slots? Friday, March 13th, 10 a.m. Vox stage.
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>> We're doing this on Friday. Yeah, >> there's two Friday the 13th in a row.
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>> There's one in February and March. >> That's good luck, right? Yeah, for us.
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>> Oh, yeah. Double negative. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.
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>> So, okay. So, the second Friday the 13th in a row, we're gonna be on stage at 10
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a.m. in Texas, uh, on the stage doing podcast things. >> Come say hi. >> Yeah.
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>> Ellis will run up and down the, uh, aisles again, and it will be beautiful.
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And I'll >> There's one thing I know to be true, it is that Ellis will be running up and
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down the aisles. >> That's right. It was genuinely really fun last time engaging with you guys. We
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had a Q&A section. We had some more engaging back and forth with people in the audience. It was fun. So, we're
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going to do some of that again. Yeah, it'll be fun. >> It'll be fun.
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>> All right. Uh, we have a new Did they even test this? I heard I hear it's
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Adam's turn. >> It's my turn. Okay, finally. >> I have been waiting for this moment.
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>> Wow. >> So, on WhatsApp, >> I use I have a group chat with my
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friends and we send each other mainly voice messages because we have like long updates. So, every once in a while,
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you'll just see like a 10-minute message, and it's like, "All right, like
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next time I'm commuting home or on the subway and I have like 10 minutes, I'll
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just, you know, just listen to this short little podcast." >> Wow. >> Uh, so I'll press play and then it'll
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just like pause randomly when I put the phone back in my pocket. So, for the longest time, I have to press play on
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the voice message and make sure that it's still on the message before I put the screen to sleep. and then I can put
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the phone in my pocket. And I thought this was a Pixel or an Android bug. Turns out I think it's just a pixel bug
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because the other day I was using the S25 Edge I borrowed from the office just to play around and I was leaving a or
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listening to a voice message as usual and fully expecting to have to do this like weird thing where I put the screen
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to sleep before I put it in my pocket because the proximity sensor like messes up what it thinks is happening and
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everything and it just worked perfectly on the S25 Edge. So, I think this is a Pixel issue specifically where
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>> it like flipped to hush. >> Yeah. Like the proximity sensor just gets messed up and even if I'm wearing
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headphones, it'll just like stop playing or it'll start playing through like the
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earpiece of the phone instead of like >> It's very very annoying. Very weird.
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>> So, it doesn't just stop, it just plays through another source. >> It plays through another source. Like it
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thinks that >> weirder than just weird. >> That's true. It's weird. Like I'll press
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play, put the phone in my pocket, and instead of playing through my headphones like it normally just was, it'll start
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coming out of the earpiece on the phone. >> H very weird. So, I'm just wondering if
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they even tested this. >> Wow. They probably did. >> They probably didn't test it on a Pixel.
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Yeah, voice messages on the Pixel. >> Yeah, I don't know whose fault this is.
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Pixel, Android, WhatsApp. There's many people. >> I'm happy to blame Meta. You want to
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just I'm always happy to blame. >> Yeah, it could be Meta's fault. I was
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like deep in the forums and everyone was like, "This is the only hack that works." And this has been happening for
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months. >> Wow. >> Damn. That like leave it on the screen where the message is playing, put the
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screen to sleep, and then when you put it in your pocket, the proximity sensor won't mess up.
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>> What do you think most people blame in a scenario like this? >> The app maker.
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>> The app maker, right? >> Yeah, probably the app maker. >> I think that's true. So like the app
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maker kind of has to fix the issues even if it's potentially from a different
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phone because they're going to be the ones. >> Yeah. >> If it's like a settings issue or like a
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feature of the phone, then people are smart enough to blame the phone maker. But if it's just an app maker, that's
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easy to just be like, "Yeah, fix your app." >> Yeah. WhatsApp with that.
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>> H crazy. >> All right. WhatsApp, if you're listening, fix it.
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>> Yeah. Adam, has that Slack issue fixed itself yet? >> WhatsApp is a meta product. I thought
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you were just randomly bringing it. It was like same here, bro. >> I mean, for any every other reason as
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well, but yeah, it's a meta product. >> So, now we have two on the board. The
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Slack thing is not fixed, I assume. >> Uh, no. I also People said they liked
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the segment. No one said they had the same issue in Slack. I'm really wondering if it's It feels like just
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you. >> Well, I I pulled up and also had the same thing. >> Yeah. >> Well, remember last time I did this and
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I I was like, "Oh, I have this thing that unlocks my front door and it's
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crazy that they don't have a widget." And then the next week they were like,
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"David, we made you a widget and now it's a feature." And I'm like, "Well, I
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can't complain anymore. I guess I don't have anything else." >> There was one person who commented, I'm
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starting my Slack internship this summer. This is the first thing I'll bring up.
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>> So, big summer project. fixing that icon. Yeah. >> Sick. All right. Well, we did get uh new
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Samsung Galaxy S26s. And for video viewers, you can see I'm holding the S26 Ultra. You might not have been able to
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tell that it's an S26 Ultra cuz it looks exactly like an S25 Plus, but I promise
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this is the Ultra. It's the new violet color. >> Uh it's violet. Yeah. Or it had like a
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two-word name. Feels blue to me. Something violet. >> Cobalt. >> Cobalt. Yeah, that's what it is. Cobalt.
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Violet. Violet. One of the new >> what shiny colors >> violet. You're turning violet. Two
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colors now. >> Yeah, cobalt violet. >> Cobalt violet. >> Anyway, yeah. So, we we know all the
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things now. We all the specs, all the features of S26, S26 Plus, and S26 Ultra. Quick story.
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>> Uh I didn't get to go to the event. >> Yeah. >> So, here's the thing. Here's the thing.
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Uh maybe a little inside baseball, but for those of you who are also tech YouTubers, you know about this. So,
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Samsung when they're coming out with a new phone, for example, will first uh
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reach out to all of the tech media, whoever it is, and go, "Hey, we've got
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something to share with you. We have a a briefing slot for you, and we have a content capture slot for you in this
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nearby city." And, you know, we kind of have read the rumors, we've deduced, we
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kind of figure out what it is, and we'll go, "Oh, okay. Yeah, this is going to be
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the S25." And we'll go, "Okay." We go on the briefing. They'll explain all the
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features and specs and price and we can answer any questions and then we'll go
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to a content capture session. So, if you're a video creator or a social media
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creator, whatever it is, you have time to get hands-on and make your video. And that's what you'll see all the YouTubers
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publish at embargo time or when the official announcement goes out, right? Uh they've had one in New York many
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times. They've had one, I'm assuming, in California many times. I think there's
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usually one in in London somewhere many times so that creators from all over the
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world can just sort of fly to these local places. And then lastly, they'll have Unpacked. And then Unpacked is
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their big event where they'll do the whole unveiling for everyone else in the
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public to see. And they always ask us to go to Unpacked, but I don't know, by the
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time I've made my video, there's nothing really more for me to see at Unpacked.
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So, I typically don't actually go to Unpacked. We that also that always hasn't been the case of the the like
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briefing right before and then it's weird the embargo coming out at the same
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time as the event. So our video is totally made by the time the event comes. So it's like what else is the
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event before? >> Yeah. >> Um >> that always hasn't been the case but it
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has been lately. >> I've gone to Unpacked a few times and been like sitting in the audience
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waiting for the event to start and publishing my video from the seat at the event which is like
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>> that's they just they've done it like that like the same time. Uh so but
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lately they've just been like please come to Unpacked. Please come to Unpacked. And uh but also here's all the
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stuff ahead of time. So maybe you don't have to go to Unpacked. This year they
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were like, "Yeah, there's no content capture sessions anywhere. You have to
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go to Unpack to do your content capture session." I said, "All right, I guess
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I'm going Unpack this year. It's in California." And then we get two feet of
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snow and it shuts down two straight days of flights. And I booked and rebooked and rebooked and rebooked and had two
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straight days of flights canceled and I just literally couldn't go. Uh Brandon
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did go because he flew out of a less snowy city and he was actually able to get there. So he shot a bunch of footage
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out there while I got the footage back here. I got my briefing still. I got to combine all of my information and the
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footage and uh so I've seen the the phones and I make the video and the video still goes live at the usual time.
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Uh but yeah, that sort of backfired where Samsung like finally got me to go to Unpacked and then the Blizzard was
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like, "No, it's not going to happen." >> Yeah. Can you tell the story of the
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phone arriving this morning? >> Oh yeah. So then uh you know unpacked you also are supposed to uh you know
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pick up the review device so I can make my review. And uh since I'm not there I
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said Samsung can you ship it to the studio? They said sure. Yeah, we'll ship
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it to the studio. It'll arrive on Wednesday which is today. >> So I'm editing this video this morning
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of of the you know Brandon's footage and putting this whole video together. And I
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get like a knock on the door and the door slides open on the studio and there's a guy standing out of breath
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holding a huge pink bag in his hand like this is you. And he points at the bag and it's got a label on it and I'm like
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what? I assume this is not for me. He's got to have the wrong address. But I uh
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I go, "Yeah, can I like maybe help you find the right place?" And I look and
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sure enough it is our address. It says MKBHD. It says our suite and everything. And uh I go, "Oh, okay. Yeah. No, this
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is for me. So, I signed for it. He goes, "Sign, write your name." And I signed my
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name and then he he dipped and that was it. And I opened the huge pink box and there's a smaller UPS box inside. I
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opened that box and it's the Samsung Galaxy S26. >> Was he out of breath because it was like
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by 10:00 a.m. or something? >> He was out of breath because he was like a courier, like a local service courier.
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So, maybe he was like stressing trying to get it here on time or something. Maybe he had a deadline,
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but he definitely was out of breath. >> He was in shorts and a t-shirt and
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boots. There's >> a lot of snow outside. I It felt like he ran here. >> He probably sprinted through mounds of
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snow to get here on time. >> I don't outfit like that. >> Also, I don't think you're understanding
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how big the pink bag was that he came. It was like gig. It was like 4t tall. Yeah. Has like this huge zip around the
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middle of it. So, it just really didn't make any sense. Yeah. It's outside. you
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can take a picture, put it on the pot. Made no sense. >> I was like, this can't cannot possibly
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be for me. >> Tim and I were getting water in like the lobby and saw him walk in and I was just
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like, what is going on? And then we walked back and he's in the office talking.
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>> So, just for the phone and the buds? >> Yep. Just for the phone. Just the phone.
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>> That's crazy. >> Yeah. >> But yeah, now we have it here. So, shout
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out to that guy cuz now we have the phone and we can talk about it in person. And uh I want to um issue my
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disappointment to Samsung. Whoa. For >> Is this for all the phones? No, just for
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the Ultra. >> Oh, okay. >> They're just they they've just slowly
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made the Ultra look just more and more like the Plus. And you know, I understand that when it was like really
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sharp edges, maybe that was like not the best for your pockets. I get that. But I
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feel like the more aggressive design was very much like it's Ultra, it's the
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Ultra. The S21 Ultra is the best design of all of them. I just kind of put that out there.
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>> So, I'll just run through real quick so people know what's new or different
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about this Ultra cuz you're totally right and I have a lot of the same thoughts.
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>> Yeah. First of all, they slightly changed the design. It's a tiny bit
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thinner. It's a tiny bit more rounded. So, it's a little bit less uh square.
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>> It's a little more rounded. >> They updated the camera rings to now
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also have this like plateau around them, kind of like the rest of the S series lineup, and they switched back from
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titanium to aluminum uh rails. It's what everyone's doing. Everyone's like, "Oh,
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it's bad." >> I don't think other phones have had that plateau.
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>> The the base phones. Oh, sorry, not the base phones. fold. The folds have had
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this. Yes. And now the whole lineup has this. >> So now they all look the same as as
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David was saying. And yeah, there are like a couple new colors and there's still $1,300. Still has the S Pen, still
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has the bright screen on the front. And the one big interesting new feature is on the display, which is kind of
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insanely complicated. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how they did this, but it's the privacy privacy
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display feature, which is uh Okay, video viewers are going to see this in person.
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You can clearly see like the viewing angles of the screen are pretty good normally, but you've seen those like
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privacy screen protectors people put on their phone sometimes where if you put it at an angle, it's pitch black.
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>> Those are kind of annoying because they like ruin your screen usually and also
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>> you have to take it off if you get annoyed by it. This is built into the
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phone. You can turn on privacy display. And now when I tilt it off axis, it blacks out the phone. And this works
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from vertical axis, horizontal axis. It's very effective. And not only is it
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very effective, but you can customize exactly how it works. So you can have it black out the whole display or you can
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have it only black out certain apps. You can choose those apps or you can only have it black out password fields and
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notifications if you want. Like it's very specific to >> Can you do the password fields? I swear
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I remember them showing a thing for that, but I don't remember them showing it in the event.
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>> So, password fields, it says pin, pattern, and password. That's just lock
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screen and settings and secure folder. So, it's not in a bunch of other apps,
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but if you just black out your whole banking app, like that's probably >> Yeah, you should do that.
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>> So, yeah, that it seems to work incredibly well. It only dims the display a little bit when I turn it on.
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It's It's really good. Yeah, it seems like they're doing it by directing the
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light only directly up out of the screen instead of letting it kind of emit >> almost like a
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>> like a pair of washers over each individual picture pixels that lenses >> goes higher to narrow the width of the
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light emitting. >> It's really cool. I want to like see you probably can't see it up close cuz it's
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Think of that on every single pixel. >> Yeah. >> And that you can like turn it on and off
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is really cool. >> That Well, yeah, I guess. So then they come back down all the way to the bottom
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so it doesn't interrupt the width of the light emitting. >> So it it raises. But like the little
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animation they showed was like >> oh there's just everyone's got an
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animation for everything like the Fort Knox animations 800 times. Like this means nothing. But this I was watching I
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was like oh >> wait that's really really cool. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And I wish I could see like the
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mechanical aspect of it. >> Yeah. It seems to be hardware right? It's hardware display innovation. When
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you turn it on, do you feel like something moving inside? Like how does that even work?
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>> So essentially Fortnite Samsung might be a joke. Samsung. I was waiting to see
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the the how they explained it in the keynote because my briefing didn't have
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a lot of technical information on how exactly they're achieving this, but the
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way they seem to dis to describe it in the keynote is they have half of the pixels are regular wide emitting light
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pixels and half of the pixels have this sort of a focusing hardware on them. I don't know if it's hardware or lenses or
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whatever where they are very narrow uh emitting just forward. And so when you turn this feature on, all of the wide
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emitting pixels turn off because it's an OLED and you're just left with the
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narrow emitting pixels. >> Oh, so it's not all pixels that have this like screen over it. It's just the
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random half of them. >> Got it. >> And so if you have those just those
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narrow emomitting pixels on, I assumed I would see a big hit to screen brightness. And I'm sure maximum
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brightness is lower, but it still looks totally fine when I look straight at it.
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And yeah, then you can customize like which pixels turn on and off. So, if you just have a notification come in, you
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can just turn those narrow pixels on and leave the rest as wide emitting pixels.
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>> Does that mean your your resolution is worse when it's on? >> Yes. Yes.
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>> I didn't think of that. >> So, half your pixels are off, so half
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your resolution is gone. >> And all of them are on when it's when the privacy protector is off.
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>> Correct. >> So, it's using the narrow and the wide ones normally.
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>> Yeah. >> Huh. That's really cool. I guess if you're somebody who really wants just
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privacy on some things, then you don't really No one cares if they have 4K Bank
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of America app open, I guess. But um >> yeah, >> so you do lose resol I wonder what the
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resolution is. It's just >> so the resolution is the same. It's still a 1440p display when it's maxed
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out. So yeah, it's theoretically half half your pixel density is gone. >> Huh. And I mean, I'm looking at it like
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really up close because I maxed out the screen resolution right away and I turned it on. And yes, it does get a
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little bit more pixelated >> from this angle is crazy because I saw you looking at it and then when you
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turned it on, it just went black. >> Blacked out. That's hilarious. Perfect
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angle. >> Yeah, I I don't mind that resolution lost for that feature. >> You should show Ellis the uh cuz I think
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you missed that part of the event where like a notification comes up and just the notification is like black. You did
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see it. >> Yeah, that's cool. That is like one of the cooler demos I've seen in a while. I
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>> Yeah, I mean they used a lot of the keynote talking about that for sure. It
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was the the first thing that they talked about during the keynote. So >> So to Samsung's credit and they've done
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like a bunch of crazy display innovations in the past. They've done the Note, they've done the Galaxy Mega,
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they've done the Galaxy Round, they've done the trifold, the regular fold,
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they've done a lot of crazy screen stuff, so this is right up Samsung's alley. But also to your point, David,
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the rest of this phone >> feels less unique than ever before. And I think my review I feel like I have to
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say feels less like an Ultra than ever before. >> Yeah, >> it does have a S Pen, but it's kind of
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just like way the Bluetooth in the S Pen. It's like a bigger S26 Plus. >> I think to David's point, like the
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boxier display, like >> it still all kind of felt like a Note to us, right? Like it felt like the Note
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was just released at the same time and they called it Ultra. Now, this just feels like an S26 lineup. Yeah. Like
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plus+ or Yeah. Plus. >> I mean, my theory is like last year for Q1205 of all the Samsung folds of all
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the Samsung phones sold, the S25 was the third highest selling with the two before it being the cheap phones, like
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the pay as you go phones, which sell a crazy amount. >> And so, I think that they probably just
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want to make the Ultra more appealable to more people and seem less aggressive so that more people are like content
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with it. It's really interesting >> because everyone in the United not
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everyone in the United States, but a large chunk of the United States just buys phones through carriers anyway on
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carrier plans. Yep. And so most of these companies are selling the most expensive
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phone to the most people. So at least in the United States, the iPhone 16 apparently did sell more than the 16 Pro
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Max in the Q1 of 2025, but the Pro Max is always near the top. >> Yep. >> So I don't know. I'm assuming they're
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just trying to sort of like make it a little more simple so it appeals to more people. Well, you know, they also
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narrowed the difference in price between the base phone and the Max or the Ultra.
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>> This is Yeah. >> Did they at least raise the storage? >> So, they did
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>> cuz iPhone did this too. >> Yeah. So, last year S25 was $799, >> right?
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, I got confused. I think this they technically the S25 is
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the same price without the 128 gig option, which >> is exact. They keep doing this the third
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company to do this. >> Apple's the was the same price as the year before, but you just the more
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storage. That's what Samsung should have done. Samsung just took away a cheaper
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option. >> Yeah. >> And kind of like played it off with like, well, you get more storage. It's
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like, yeah, but you could have gotten that same phone for the same price. >> Storage is crazy, right? Storage is like
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half the cost of the phone. So, there is no 128 gig version of the of the S26 at
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all. It starts at 256 gigs. >> Okay. And of that phone is is nine is eight is $900.
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>> $8.99 >> for the regular one. >> The regular S26. >> That's garbage.
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>> So then it's 256 gig, 1100 for the S26 Plus. >> No way. >> $1,100
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>> and then it's 1300 for the Ultra. >> That's crazy. >> So yeah, they've they're all expensive
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phones. And when you look at what other phone companies are calling Ultra with these crazy fast charging like silicon
00:21:06
carbon batteries and these massive display and camera arrangements like all these insane features that they're
00:21:11
doing, this doesn't feel as much like an ultra phone like the way those do. Yeah.
00:21:18
You know, they're really trying to sell the Ultra though cuz when you go to samsung.com and you go to shop, it just
00:21:23
lists Galaxy S26 Ultra. And then from there, when you go to that page, you can you can pick Galaxy S26. And it's like a
00:21:31
tab on the top that's really easy to miss. >> It's like you're going to buy the Ultra.
00:21:34
>> You're going to buy the Ultra. >> Wait, does the Do the regular ones come
00:21:37
with the privacy screen or is that an ultra feature? >> Ultra. >> It's only ultra.
00:21:41
>> So the 26 and 26 Plus is >> they're the same phone. >> It's the same.
00:21:44
>> And they're kind of terrible deals compared to like the Pixel and the
00:21:49
iPhone. >> And they those phones really didn't change much. Like I think the B the
00:21:53
battery went from 4,000 to 4,300 on the base. Otherwise, it's like same phones,
00:21:57
same cameras, slightly different design. mostly everything else. >> The most boring looking phone I've ever
00:22:03
seen in my life. >> Yeah, it's a generic standard phone. >> It's honestly not even a It's not Pixel
00:22:09
isn't even a better deal because Pixel 10 is 800, but that's at 128. >> Inside you there are two wolves.
00:22:15
>> So 256 you're at the same price. >> Yeah. You're either the S26 standard
00:22:20
edition or you're the trifold. >> Yeah. >> The two wolves of Samsung.
00:22:24
>> This the Ultra. All you needed All you needed to do if the S26 Ultra comes out with the privacy
00:22:34
screen, Chi2, and like a silicon carbon battery, it's like phone of the year
00:22:39
right off the >> What a bad phone. What an actual upgrade. Instead, they're like kind of
00:22:44
ugly though. >> Hey, here's a pretty cool thing. Let's give you that, nothing else, and just
00:22:47
yap about AI slop for a while. >> Didn't you say they would have you you
00:22:51
thought it would have magnets? I do have to issue an apology to all of our listeners.
00:22:55
>> We thought it would have magnets. strive for accuracy at this podcast. >> That was a prediction.
00:23:00
>> I gave you >> I'm very confident >> fake news and uh I apologize.
00:23:05
>> But next year we got it next year >> cuz we all said it wasn't going to have
00:23:08
mag. >> Well, my uncle works at Samsung and he said that next year they're going to
00:23:11
have GT. >> Yeah, they're but you >> Bixby stick or something like that.
00:23:18
>> Yeah. Speaking of Bixby, you know, a lot of the other features that they talked
00:23:21
about with these phones and that are new are software. So, a bunch of AI stuff, a
00:23:26
bunch of Bixby, a bunch of integrations, Gemini here, Perplexity there, a little
00:23:32
bit, you know, there's a new the new Bixby is technically technically LLM powered. It used to be a small language
00:23:37
model. Now, it's a large language model. >> So, I'm going to be trying out this new
00:23:40
Bixby. So, yeah, we'll see how that goes. Um, but yeah, they they managed to
00:23:46
import or build their own versions of a lot of the same features that have made Pixel phones Pixel phones. Like they
00:23:53
have call screening now and they just have a different name for it, but they have like that they have um,
00:23:58
>> God, it's like Nudge Nudge or something. >> Yeah, now Nudge Nudge. Now, nudge, which
00:24:02
is essentially magic Q, which is both meaningless things to say out loud, but it's basically uh built into the
00:24:08
keyboard will give you suggestions of things to type based on the context of the conversation you're having.
00:24:14
>> When they announced that, I was like, >> I've had that for 50 years.
00:24:17
>> I was like, Marquez, is this that thing Google has? And both of us were like, I
00:24:20
can't remember the name of it. you looked it up and then I went I honestly don't know if that's working on my phone
00:24:26
cuz either I just don't use it and skip by it all of the time cuz it's so
00:24:30
useless or it literally doesn't work. >> I couldn't tell you which one it was.
00:24:34
>> Yeah, I hardly use it. It doesn't really work on the Pixel. It's It's supposed to
00:24:39
be a fun pixel feature. >> Yeah, it popped up once for me and it was wrong.
00:24:43
>> Unfortunate. >> So, yeah, maybe now Nudge will be a little better. Maybe. Uh they also have
00:24:47
this like image playground thing. I think it's called creative studio where you can like AI generate whatever thing
00:24:53
image you want. Like they had endless AI generated images uh as features >> of cupcakes basically.
00:25:00
>> What did I think Allison Johnson posted an article that was like it's Samsung is
00:25:05
on slopwatch for unpacked 2026. >> They called it an AI phone. >> Yeah.
00:25:09
>> In all caps at the AI agent. >> Didn't they call it AIOS? >> Samsung just invented iOS. That's iOS.
00:25:19
It's iOS. >> They didn't invent iOS. They invented a iOS. >> There are other iOS.
00:25:25
Yeah. >> Your grammar is wrong. Shouldn't be an an iOS. >> Yeah. Um, it was tough. It was tough.
00:25:31
So, a lot of s, you know, take it or leave it. Some of that stuff, I'm sure,
00:25:33
will trickle down to older phones as well. But if you're if you're thinking
00:25:36
about S26s, you now know that they're very similar to S25s. And then the Ultra has this one
00:25:43
sick display feature. >> Charges at 60 watts. Now, that's a big >> and charges. So, the whole lineup
00:25:48
charges a little faster than before. 25 watts on the base, 45 watts on the plus,
00:25:53
60 watts on the Ultra. >> I wonder if it's cuz I remember this is either the I think this was the S20
00:25:58
Ultra when they said it charged at 45 watts and it only charged at 45 watts for like 2 minutes.
00:26:03
>> This will be similar. I think it's going to peak charge watts, but I think this
00:26:06
stat that's maybe more informative is it's like zero to or 10 to 80% in half
00:26:12
an hour or something like that, which is decent. Can I complain about something that's only for us?
00:26:18
>> In the spec sheet that they sent us for your briefing, >> the way they describe charging is the
00:26:24
S26 has super fast charging, the S26 Plus has super fast charging 2.0, and the S26 Ultra has super fast charging
00:26:32
3.0. >> Oh my gosh. >> No wattage numbers, no numbers. >> This is exactly how this is how Apple
00:26:37
does it, too. I had to get that. They just they just give you this bad branding without any of the technical
00:26:42
>> that same sheet has an option like it shows all the storage options and then
00:26:46
it says micro SD not available not available not available >> like why even why even put it on those
00:26:53
>> just get rid of that column guys. >> Yeah, they're going to bring it back. I
00:26:57
don't know. Anyway, um yeah, it comes in cobalt violet which I don't know why
00:27:02
they call that >> that's my favorite Microsoft product. Cobalt. >> Microsoft Cobalt Violet.
00:27:10
>> I hope. >> Oh, co-pilot. >> I was gonna say Dual Lia hates that
00:27:13
color. >> I didn't get it. I Thank you for spelling it out. I didn't get
00:27:17
>> You going to keep that in the podcast. >> Hey man, you had a lot of bangers last
00:27:21
week. You can't win them all. Okay. Um, sky blue, which I did like that color.
00:27:27
Uh, black and white. Did not like those colors. >> No, black is the one >> is
00:27:34
>> Are there any online exclusive colors? Yeah, there are there are silver shadow,
00:27:38
whatever that means. >> Wait, that's the exclusive. >> It's like gray basically, and pink gold,
00:27:42
also exclusive. Not rose gold. >> Not rose gold. That's patented. Yeah,
00:27:46
that is >> I don't even see I almost forgot. How could I forget? Slightly wider apertures
00:27:52
in the Ultra's primary and telephoto cameras. >> Never mind. I'm all in.
00:27:56
>> How could I forget? >> Yeah, they do have like an action mode now that they had that like straightens
00:28:00
the horizon and that uh Becca did like a short on it and it actually did look very good. She was able to like rotate
00:28:06
the camera like this and the image stayed like exactly the same. It like did not move at all.
00:28:10
>> It's clever. It's similar to what Apple did with the selfie camera on the iPhone
00:28:15
where if you are recording a small enough section of that rectangular sensor, then you can fully stabilize the
00:28:23
center portion >> the whole thing based on whatever the orientation is. I'm just explaining that
00:28:26
poorly, but >> it's clever and uses the hardware. Marquez, we are locked in because I was
00:28:32
about to bring that up because I was so mad that they did not steal that from Apple with the S20 sensor.
00:28:37
>> Yeah, like why not? I was just hyping this feature up yesterday to Jess
00:28:40
because she was asking me how that selfie feature worked >> and I was like, it's so good. I can't
00:28:45
wait for everyone to steal it. There's actually an event tomorrow that maybe
00:28:48
we'll see what the S2 and Nope. No stealing. So, they didn't do it with the
00:28:52
selfie camera, but that one feature of like super super stabilization, horizontal lock, uh, allows you to like
00:28:58
literally flip your phone upside down and the horizon stays locked because it has that much degrees of stabilization.
00:29:05
>> Yeah. Which is cool. >> Well, that's boring. So, Samsung phones
00:29:08
for you. >> We should should we do the nothing phone before we take it a break or should we
00:29:12
do it after the break? >> Let's save it for after the break. >> Okay.
00:29:15
>> Yeah. >> But you know what we should do before the break? Um, the MacBook trivia.
00:29:20
>> Okay, little teaser there. Head fake. >> The MacBook. >> There's a new We're going to talk about
00:29:26
a MacBook. >> What? >> Later. >> Why is that not in the in the outline?
00:29:30
>> It is. >> I have nothing about this MacBook. >> H, >> you have nothing.
00:29:34
>> All right. Well, the question Ellis, hit it. >> Were you paying attention?
00:29:39
>> The most boring keynote of all time. >> You guys were not paying attention.
00:29:43
This whole keynote could have been a press release, but at the end of it, they showed off an expert raw mode
00:29:49
feature that ensures efficient and highquality images of underwater coral and fish and stuff when you're swimming
00:29:54
or diving in the ocean. >> Yes. >> What is it called? >> And actually, this feature is not new.
00:29:59
Apparently, I was looking it up. It was released in S24 Ultra, which is funny. They just brought it up again.
00:30:04
>> They just brought it up again for >> I think I remember what they called.
00:30:07
these company's favorite things to do is to reintroduce a feature as if you're
00:30:11
hearing it for the first time. >> They do that a lot. >> There's so many times when we're like
00:30:15
writing scripts on stuff like that, >> I have to just go back and check things
00:30:19
again and be like, I know in the briefing they like claimed they made it seem like this.
00:30:24
>> Yeah. And then I'll be like, that happened already. >> I mean, they showed circle to search
00:30:28
twice in this one event. This is the 40th time they've showed circle to search. I swear.
00:30:33
>> Yeah. >> All right. Well, I think I remember. Well, think about it.
00:30:38
>> I swear I was paying attention. >> I I wasn't I don't even remember the
00:30:41
question Adam asked. >> He wasn't even paying attention to this podcast.
00:30:47
>> All right. >> Which pixel came in coral? >> Oh, that was three. In the biz, we call
00:30:52
that a call back. >> No, three of a sand. Answers will be at the end like usual. Four. We'll be right
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>> All right, welcome back. We got to talk a whole lot about nothing. I think we've
00:32:12
used that joke like 70 times >> and I will continue to use. That's my bad. I should have done a little I
00:32:18
should have made a better >> No, it's okay. It's okay. >> Uh but the Nothing Phone 4a got unveiled
00:32:22
I guess is the word because they always do like several different unveilings. They showed us the design for the first
00:32:27
time uh and confirmed exactly one spec because they mentioned the periscope camera. So for those of you who are on
00:32:35
the edge of your seat about what type of telephoto lens they would be using, confirmed it's a periscope camera. It's
00:32:40
a tetra prism lens. Anyway, I think it looks pretty good. It's a it's desaturated red.
00:32:46
>> Understatement of the century. >> You guys seem really into the aesthetics
00:32:49
of this. >> I think it's really nice looking. >> It's the best nothing.
00:32:52
>> It's the best nothing really. Okay. So, I think the 2A was probably their best
00:32:56
so far. I think it looks as good. >> It's a better version of the 2A. >> It's like less aggressive than the 2A.
00:33:02
>> Sure. And it's desaturated red. >> It's got nice Okay. So, the Yeah, it's
00:33:06
got a lot I guess I'll try to describe it. It's got a lot of the same silver,
00:33:10
white, and red aesthetic, the clear with the like textures and text underneath. And then it has the glyphs on the top
00:33:18
right side, which is just a stack of seven large boxes. I like this part a lot. I do. the bottommost uh box is red
00:33:26
and then each one of the boxes above it is white. And so they played with different animations of things they can
00:33:31
indicate uh whether it's a timer or a notification where those boxes moving and stack recording light is the red one
00:33:37
blinking. >> Cool stuff there. >> Every phone should have a red blinking
00:33:41
recording light >> and they what I was thinking watching this I was like this is important. I
00:33:46
feel like everyone needs this. >> Even harder agree on glasses. Like every
00:33:50
pair of smart glasses when it's recording should be blinking red. It's crazy that it's not. I think why I like
00:33:56
this better than the 2A is >> the 2A had the two cameras in a little cutout with a big circle around it where
00:34:02
this is the longer bar more like a pixel and the like silver lining around it matches it.
00:34:09
>> It does give me pixel. It's kind of like nothing X pixel. Yeah, >> it's got the bean. That's the bean.
00:34:15
>> It's back. >> It's got that bean. >> The the bean is back. dual cameras. Uh,
00:34:20
yeah, it looks it looks good. It does look good. >> I think it looks really good.
00:34:23
>> The LEDs, like you said, are awesome. It's a 7 by one vertical to the right
00:34:27
side of the camera bar. Bottom one is red. Um, >> there's some pretty cool ways of like
00:34:34
using it. Like if there's a timer on the Nothing Phone 3 when that had the stupid
00:34:39
little spin the bottle thing, that would be like sand falling into an hour. That
00:34:43
was cool, though. So, this is just like slowly it it'll blink at the top and
00:34:47
then slowly fall down to the bottom and stack up as a timer. Um the camera shut like if you're doing like a camera
00:34:53
timer, it'll blink and then when the shutter goes off Yeah. like top and bottom connect like a shutter.
00:35:00
>> Um >> it's really awesome. I wish >> and this is probably not a wish for a
00:35:05
This is you know the A series so the cheaper one if all of those were different colors.
00:35:10
>> That'd be great. That would be awesome because then my like we all want with
00:35:13
notification LEDs. My emails are blue, my text messages are green, my whatever like having that this I think you can do
00:35:20
stuff similar but you're learning like patterns of how the glyph works >> which is harder.
00:35:26
>> Do you guys think this will be cheaper cuz it is the a but he also made that
00:35:31
announcement about >> cheaper. I don't think >> I don't think it'll be cheaper. He made
00:35:36
that big blog post a few weeks ago about how all phones are going to be more expensive this year. So,
00:35:40
>> no. No. I think it'll be cheaper than like the three >> the three series
00:35:44
>> because there will be no 4 series, but that's also in the A series.
00:35:48
>> Well, there won't be four series this year. >> This year? Yeah. Sorry.
00:35:51
>> That's true. >> Yeah. >> Um, >> but I mean, he made that big blog post
00:35:55
about how all phones are going to get more expensive. Um, which has not really true yet.
00:36:00
>> Was the 3A when it came out? >> Which one? >> Bam. You're right.
00:36:04
>> 3A glow-in-the-dark edition. >> The light or the the 3A? 3A light or the
00:36:09
3A Pro? >> 3A was 37. What's >> the 3A Pro? >> What about the CMF Pro Light
00:36:15
Pro launch price was49? >> I think it'll be in between those. >> That's Yeah, that's about right.
00:36:21
>> Yeah. >> Like a clean 400 425. >> Do you think the launch of 4 Pro?
00:36:26
>> Yeah, >> I think if you're not Yeah. >> I was going to say if there's no 4
00:36:32
series, do you think this is going to be nothing's only phone launch of the year?
00:36:35
>> For the year. That's what they said. I feel like unless they do a pro. Yeah,
00:36:39
>> I feel like I can also just based on how they've done this in the past like kind
00:36:42
of guess the rest of how this phone's going to go. >> Like you can see the triple cameras on
00:36:47
the back, right? It's probably going to be a solid Qualcomm mid-range chip. It's
00:36:53
probably going to be it's probably going to be 120 Hz OLED. Probably 1080 OLED or
00:36:58
something at the front. It's probably going to have this nice quirky nothing
00:37:02
OS with a couple new features in there. Maybe some AI stuff. Maybe not. doesn't
00:37:06
seem like they lean into that much. >> A new AI thing. Yeah, >> they haven't leaned super super in like
00:37:11
Samsung, but they do have maybe like Mind Space or a couple things like that. I expect that to happen again.
00:37:16
>> Space >> and then Oh yeah, that and then yeah, maybe a couple I mean average speakers
00:37:20
probably, probably some fun uh vibration motor stuff. Uh decent. Yeah, I don't think anything else too
00:37:28
crazy. Yeah, they do have that like instant app thing now where you can describe the app you want and it kind of
00:37:33
makes it for you. >> Whoa. Right. They have that in the sun, didn't they do that?
00:37:37
>> What? >> I do not remember that. But the nothing lineup couldn't be more confusing in my
00:37:42
eyes. I'm looking at like their lineup right now and the 3A, the 3a Pro, and
00:37:47
the 3A Lite are three completely different phones. None of them just look like an offshoot of one of them. Like if
00:37:53
we're talking about how Samsung, you know, the Ultra Plus and regular all look exactly the same. This is the exact
00:38:00
opposite of this. These are three completely different phones. >> That's true. Fairly recently, they
00:38:04
released the essential apps, which is where you can describe an app or widget, and it will it will make it for you. Um,
00:38:11
apparently, it's pretty limited right now, and you can have up to six of them,
00:38:15
but I I know that some people had played with it, and it was like semi-useful for
00:38:19
extremely basic things. Um, but for anything, you know, more complicated, it's going to be a few years down the
00:38:24
line. Didn't I was gonna say I could see them making any app in their little dot
00:38:29
matrix thing because it would be the easiest thing possible, but didn't they
00:38:32
ditch the dot matrix uh like whole design vibe >> from the three? >> I just thought like nothing in general
00:38:40
is not doing the like >> I think they're doing >> dot matrix anymore.
00:38:44
>> I thought they were still doing that in the software like still have dots and
00:38:47
like boot animations and random things still have dots in there. >> Yeah, >> they is this right? They changed the
00:38:53
logo. There's a cool essential apps store you can go to now with the essential apps that people have made
00:38:59
where you can try different ones and it is kind of interesting and fun and cool.
00:39:03
>> Uh I think once this gets better and builds out, it'll be more interesting.
00:39:06
But >> a lot of dots. >> They'll probably have that. A lot of dots. A lot of dots. They'll probably
00:39:10
have that on this phone, I'm sure. >> Gotcha. So they have a 5-second rule
00:39:14
one. So I guess you have to start it once you drop something. Tells you whether or not you
00:39:19
This is where >> Wait, get your phone. I get your phone. >> Don't pick it up off the floor. start
00:39:22
the timer on your phone, >> but then it's been like 10 seconds by the time you do that. Yeah. Anyway, um
00:39:28
yeah, it's pretty simple. Unfortunately, today is Wednesday. We're recording on a
00:39:32
Wednesday, and tomorrow morning is the time at which everything about this is revealed. So,
00:39:37
>> uh no, isn't it next? Isn't it March 5th? >> It's next week, March. Never mind.
00:39:41
>> The day after the Apple I actually think they're doing this because they saw,
00:39:44
>> oh, we're a day after Apple stuff and a week after Samsung stuff. Let's get
00:39:50
something in before Samsung. >> Nothing mogs Samsung. >> Oh, no. They But they always do this
00:39:55
long drip drip like new feature, new spec. They'll next tomorrow they'll tell
00:39:59
us the processor and then the next day they'll tell us what the camera specs
00:40:03
are and then the next day they'll tell us the battery size and then the next
00:40:05
day they'll tell us the materials and they just keep going. >> This is one of the best pieces of
00:40:09
content I've seen nothing put out. I thought this was informative. I love the
00:40:14
video was great. I learned what a tetroprism periscope lens was. The presenters did really well. I loved
00:40:21
the shot at a pink phone just being desaturated red. So, >> yeah, the like there was some funny
00:40:26
stuff and the pink >> I think we opened this up with the pink and then didn't talk about it. The pink
00:40:31
looks >> really good. So good. >> I want to wait to see it in person.
00:40:36
True. Cuz I have seen pictures and video of it and it looks amazing. But that always like it comes out the box and
00:40:42
you're like, "Oh, so that's what looks like." Yeah, exactly. So, I'm I'm
00:40:45
waiting. But I am excited for it. It does look gorgeous. >> Yeah. I got to see it in person.
00:40:50
>> Nothing's mostly design, right? We saw the majority of what we care about of
00:40:53
this phone. >> Just need a price tag now. >> That's Yeah. >> Yeah.
00:40:57
>> Yeah. >> The last thing we'll probably find out. >> Yes.
00:40:59
>> It has G2. >> No. Absolutely nothing. >> You think this transparent phone has G2?
00:41:07
>> Yeah. You'd see you see those coils. Okay. Another quick story that popped up
00:41:11
yesterday which is quite interesting. Apparently, later this year, there's going to be a touchscreen OLED MacBook
00:41:18
Pro with a dynamic island and redesigned Mac OS controls. So, crazy enough, in one week, Apple is rumored to release
00:41:26
the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros, which are really nothing more than just spec upgrades to the current generation
00:41:33
of laptops. >> Yes. But uh reportedly near the end of the year, probably around late October,
00:41:38
November, which is when they usually do this kind of stuff, they're going to
00:41:41
release this whole new generation of MacBook Pros with M6 Max and M6 Pro. Uh yeah, it's a big deal because they're
00:41:50
going to be getting rid of this um notch, I guess, that you could say in the current design of MacBook Pros.
00:41:55
They're going to be having the dynamic island similar to the iPhone. what that
00:41:58
says about whether the iPhone is going to have dynamic island for another few years as opposed to just, you know,
00:42:03
making it transparent, I'm not sure, but apparently when you touch different
00:42:08
aspects of Mac OS, it is going to expand to be more touch friendly. So, it'll be
00:42:12
able to be used with both a keyboard and your hands kind of like whenever you want and it will change a little bit for
00:42:19
that reason. >> Mac OS has been sort of being slowly restructured to be more like iOS and
00:42:25
iPad OS in general. They look very similar right now anyway. So, I think the main things Apple's going to really
00:42:32
have to um kind of focus on are making sure that it doesn't wobble every time
00:42:36
you tap it and then maybe also making the screen a little more fingerprint resistant. Uh Quinn at Snazzy Labs put
00:42:43
out a pretty banger video this morning about maybe why they're doing all of this stuff and he was talking about like
00:42:48
the RAM shortage and everything like that and they're keeping the prices the
00:42:52
same for a lot of these things. So he was estimating that these the reason they're launching a M5 Pro and an M5 Max
00:43:00
and the M6 Pro and M6 Max in the same year is so they can create huge product line differentiations where they still
00:43:06
sell the M5 Pro and M5 Max computers, but then the M6 Pro, M6 Max are way more expensive because they have a way better
00:43:13
display, touchscreen, and they're more powerful. >> So that's that would be one reason to
00:43:18
release two lines of laptops in one year. >> I see. Yeah. >> Yeah. I and I I might just be one of
00:43:25
those p people that like kind of is along for the ride for the better specs and better display even though I don't
00:43:29
want a touchcreen and I wonder what that does to the rest of the Mac OS experience. Hopefully not too much. I'm
00:43:36
kind of cuz like Windows right now you can either get a touchcreen or a not touchcreen computer and Windows is the
00:43:40
same. >> Yeah, >> it sounds like you're saying there's maybe going to be some differences to
00:43:45
the touchscreen version of Mac OS potentially. Well, the rumor is that it'll be about the same, but then when
00:43:52
you go to touch it, it will sort of like reformat itself on the fly to be more touch.
00:43:57
>> Okay. So, I don't if I never touch the screen, it would just behave exactly the
00:44:00
same maybe as a regular >> maybe a slightly a slight redesign. I'm sure we're going to see more of this at
00:44:04
WWDC in uh June. Yeah. So, >> yeah, I I'm on So, I've said for years
00:44:10
I've never really wanted a touchcreen on my laptop. I've I've had laptops with a
00:44:15
touchcreen. I rarely ever touch the screen. Uh, anytime there is the ability to touch the screen, I'm annoyed by how
00:44:21
much it wobbles and how many fingerprints stay on the screen and I wish I never touched the screen.
00:44:25
>> So, I don't know. Were you guys on touchscreen on the laptop? I'm sort of
00:44:30
in between. I mean, now that we have these enormous trackpads, it's less of a
00:44:34
problem. Laptop, I don't know if you guys remember, but laptop trackpads used
00:44:38
to be really small >> and really annoying to use. And so now that they're that much bigger, I I
00:44:42
really do think that they should have just like added Apple Pencil support to the trackpad and that would have solved
00:44:47
a lot of problems. >> Um I will say in Photoshop it's really nice to be able to like pan and zoom
00:44:54
with your fingers and I used that on my Surface Book 2 back in the day when I had that a lot. But besides that, I
00:45:01
don't need it. You know, I'm not really sure why they're doing it. Maybe it's
00:45:04
just because OLEDs at this point are cheap enough to be able to make them >> touch capacitive. I don't know.
00:45:11
>> David, such a good point. Like all the cool parts of the touchscreen experience
00:45:16
which are gestures >> you can do on the track. >> It's built in.
00:45:20
>> Yeah. >> On the trackpad. Also, who is it for? Like I'll be like, no one if you're
00:45:25
buying a MacBook Pro as your like cuddle up and watch some Netflix on the couch computer. Like,
00:45:32
>> no, no, no, no, >> dude. Chill out. >> Well, that's >> you know what I mean? And then it's like
00:45:36
>> it's iPad. >> Yeah, exactly. So, if you're buying a MacBook Pro, you're intending to do
00:45:39
something professional with it. I would assume >> you don't have to only do professional
00:45:43
things with it, though. If you're spending that much money, it still should be able to function as your curl
00:45:47
up and watch a movie. MacBook. >> It is going to be thinner, too, apparently, which scares me.
00:45:52
>> Have you all ever sat on the couch like this? Hold on. >> Mhm. >> Oh, yeah. Oh, let's go.
00:45:59
>> Like this. Do you know how hard like knees up, you know, on the couch? >> Andrew's feet are on the chair, knees
00:46:05
up, computer wedged in between screen at an obuse angle. >> Look how easy it is to scroll like this.
00:46:11
>> Oh, true. >> Oh, cuz you're >> And then you look how hard it is to
00:46:14
scroll like this. >> That's crazy. >> That's you. I just got proven wrong.
00:46:19
>> Y'all just need some more comfy positions. >> No, no. It's It's because my computer
00:46:23
spends probably like 80% of its on time in clamshell mode, like in a dock. Oh, >> the other 20% are between my knees and
00:46:30
my chest. Just like that. >> So, um if you're reading Yeah. being able to
00:46:35
just kind of like flick with your thumb potting like this, >> my thumb's sometimes right here and I'm
00:46:41
just like scrolling on that. I know I can scroll too. Listen, I I do it on both, but when I used my Surface for a
00:46:47
long time and I got really used to just occasionally like doing this scrolling or like Yeah, I use and then I come back
00:46:54
and not have it and I'm like, "Oh my god, I do that way more than I thought."
00:46:57
>> Yeah, scrolling is not a big deal if the main place you use a laptop is your
00:47:01
desk. I think every time I'm on the couch, when I'm on an airplane, when I'm
00:47:05
in the backseat of a car, scrolling like that in a touch screen is so much nicer.
00:47:10
>> Yeah, >> you don't have to use it. It's >> Yeah, it's optional.
00:47:13
>> If I see an onscreen keyboard pop up in my Mac OS experience, >> that's
00:47:20
straight to jail. >> Terrible. >> That's where I draw the line. Yeah, I
00:47:26
don't know. I think Apple needs to release some sort of display coding that stops fingerprints.
00:47:30
>> Yeah, fingerprints are going to drive me insane. We We should come out with like
00:47:33
a special finger like What did Quinn do? He has like a cloth. He's like the polishing cloth.
00:47:38
>> Yeah, he just launched >> like XXL or something. It's like the
00:47:40
bigger version. >> Polishing cloth market's about to go crazy. >> Yeah. Oh, true.
00:47:46
>> About to go crazy. >> Oh, that's smart of him. That's smart of
00:47:48
him. >> Corner the market early so when everyone's touching their computer
00:47:52
screens >> Yeah. you know where to clean it. Yeah. >> Um I will say >> touchscreen with a kid is awful cuz I'll
00:48:01
just be like >> they don't clean their fingers. >> Oh well not no it's not even that. It's
00:48:04
just like every time I have my computer open, Lane like runs over and she wants to play with it. And it's easy enough to
00:48:09
defend the keyboard with one arm. But then she just and all my windows are all over the place now. Lord knows where and
00:48:15
I'm just like, "Oh no." >> So it happens to Claire more often cuz
00:48:19
she's using a Lenovo. But um >> yeah, it screws that computer up all the
00:48:24
time. >> When I was teaching, would happen to me all the time where a student would be
00:48:27
like, "Can you help me like figure out this Ableton thing?" And I'd go and I'd
00:48:31
sit down and be like, "Oh, you just click right here. What have I done?"
00:48:38
>> Yeah. So, I guess we'll see how expensive that ends up being. Um, >> I mean, you got me wondering, David,
00:48:44
now, do you think that they'll do gestures on the screen cuz they already have them all
00:48:49
>> like being able I mean, yeah. Yeah. Like an iPad. Yeah. Like an iPad. >> Like on the iPad, you can like take all
00:48:54
of your fingers, swipe across, and it moves you to the next app. But not like the gestures from the trackpad gestures.
00:49:00
They're strikingly similar. Yeah, they are quite similar. >> All fingers does. Yeah, it's very
00:49:04
similar. >> Can you tell he has a Galaxy Tab? >> It's funny. I So, I have an iPad and a
00:49:10
MacBook Pro and I I very distinctly use them differently for different things and I just feel like a touchscreen
00:49:16
laptop would blur that line. This has always been the argument like why would you need both? I guess it's for people
00:49:21
who don't have both. It's for people who don't have an iPad and don't want to buy
00:49:24
two things. Now you have one thing that does both. I wonder how much of this is just that the technology is so much
00:49:28
cheaper now. >> That's what I keep wondering. You know, >> it's been true for a while. It's just
00:49:34
there's been such a philosophical argument against a touchscreen MacBook. Yeah. For
00:49:39
>> Well, there was that famous like Steve Jobs keynote where he says that your
00:49:42
arm's going to turn into a gorilla arm if you do that and you're going to like
00:49:45
break your screen or something. >> He said a lot of things that they've
00:49:47
gone back on though before. >> They Yeah. Sty Who wants a stylus? >> Remember that? He hates styluses. 10
00:49:54
perfectly good styluses right here. >> To be fair, I think that was for phones
00:49:57
mostly. >> Introducing Apple Pencil. >> Yeah, >> I guess to the iPhone, honestly,
00:50:01
>> but yeah, we'll see how this goes. Uh, yeah. So, that's a rumor mill thing. We
00:50:05
all know, well, we all expect a whole bunch of new laptops and a bunch of other stuff that we talked about last
00:50:09
week. >> Next week. >> Yeah, we're going to get that cheap MacBook next week.
00:50:12
>> So, if you haven't already subscribed to Way Formise, get subscribed. Uh,
00:50:17
>> my uncle said that it is. >> We'll get all we'll get all that info
00:50:20
very soon for you. >> Okay. >> Damn Quinn's. called uh sorry going back
00:50:24
to that cloth pro max. He really went all out though like packaging itself really feels like
00:50:31
>> an Apple product. >> It also has a compatibility list. >> That's
00:50:34
>> that has a bunch of iPhone stuff and then says uh there's also dusty Nintendo
00:50:39
Switch. >> Nice old cinema display CRT TV. >> Nice. >> This is awesome.
00:50:45
>> Very cool. All right. Well, um, we're going to wrap it up with a couple more
00:50:50
stories after the break, but before that, we have some more questions to ask us and potentially not get any points
00:50:57
like usual. >> T for trivia. >> Oh, I thought you were going to say timeout.
00:51:01
>> That's what I >> trivia. >> Trivia. >> That's what that means.
00:51:05
>> Samsung, >> the one, the only. >> They have a lot of products.
00:51:11
>> Oh boy. Is it a tractor again? like a >> no this question is about is about two
00:51:17
Samsung products that we uh know and love specifically the Galaxy Buds and the Galaxy Z Fold.
00:51:25
>> These are both staples of the Samsung lineup. However, which one came out first? And
00:51:34
I'm talking original buds or original fold. >> Interesting. >> Would we call them staples?
00:51:41
>> They're both products that Samsung sells. staples. >> The buds are I think
00:51:45
>> buds can probably be in a staple. The fold is it's starting to get there. It's
00:51:51
a stapler. >> It's out there. >> Yeah, >> the fold. We're on the ZFold 7 and we're
00:51:56
only on the buds four, but that doesn't mean anything. >> Yeah, >> it could be.
00:51:59
>> That doesn't mean nothing. >> Yeah, we could have had many, many
00:52:01
>> We didn't even talk about the buds. >> Yeah, by the way, there's new buds.
00:52:05
>> I kind of like I wrote this question assuming we were going to talk about the buds and we
00:52:10
didn't talk about >> the buds are sweet. I have them actually. I'm going to start testing
00:52:12
them more. They look like uh I mean they all kind of look like AirPods from the front, but from the back they redesigned
00:52:16
them. They have new drivers. They have new features. >> The brush metal, >> the brush metal, the flat back. It looks
00:52:21
pretty sweet. >> It looks like if an AirPod had the clip of a pen glued to the end of it,
00:52:26
>> which I would I prefer a flat thing when I'm like controlling like a squeeze like
00:52:30
a round like barrel thing is it's kind of annoying actually to squeeze. >> Well, that's why they like chamered it
00:52:35
on the side. >> Yeah, but like a fully flat thing. I like that. I like that better. That's
00:52:38
just me anyway. Yeah, we'll be testing those as well. >> Anyway. Okay. Yeah. So trivia will be um
00:52:44
at the end. Answers like at the answers that be right back. The usual at the end.
00:52:58
All right, welcome back. We got to talk about weather a little bit more. I was waiting for someone to say the dad joke,
00:53:04
but whether or not >> I couldn't think of one fast enough. There are not.
00:53:08
>> Um, mostly because Okay, so I've talked about weather in the past on this
00:53:11
podcast. Mostly because I think a couple weeks ago I was comparing tech YouTube to weather YouTube and I'm I'm sticking
00:53:16
by that. There are so many parallels between the two, especially because we just had another blizzard. I don't know
00:53:20
if you guys are Did the weather stuff hit your feeds at all? It definitely hit. Am I the only one?
00:53:25
>> My feed's been filled with other garbage. >> Did you didn't go to youtube.com during
00:53:29
the great blizzard of 2026? >> The one two weeks ago or the one >> the one like 3 days ago? Uh, I did not
00:53:36
or I did not have it. >> My feed was full of all the YouTubers were live at the same time opening up
00:53:41
camera feeds showing the live precipitation totals in different places. >> Were they interviewing people on the
00:53:46
streets? >> Some of them. >> Yeah. One of them he had a feed of Ryan
00:53:50
Hall had a guy who was like he had a feed of someone who was just walking through New York City during a blizzard
00:53:55
just walking around in different stuff. It was It was pretty cool. >> Cool.
00:53:59
>> Um, I like the Blizzard. It was fun. >> Yeah. Anyway, >> wait, which Ryan Hall are you talking
00:54:03
about? Ryan Hall, y'all. He's a weather YouTuber. >> Ryan Hall, y'all. That's a great name.
00:54:08
>> That's his name. That's a YouTube name. >> Um, so shout out to Ryan Hall. He's got
00:54:12
a he's got a whole thing. But a lot of people when I talked about weather apps
00:54:15
on social media like to bring up that the founders of Dark Sky actually recently uh came out with a new app
00:54:21
called Acme Weather. And I just want to point out they emailed me right before it went live and they were like, "Hey
00:54:27
Marquez, this is uh I'm one of the founders of uh Dark Sky and we we actually got acquired by Apple and I
00:54:32
left Apple and we started this new thing and here's a link to the test flight."
00:54:36
And I was like, "This could be the greatest fishing email of all time because it's so specific to what I would
00:54:44
insta click." I clicked it immediately, downloaded it without even checking.
00:54:49
>> Clicked it so fast. >> You mean you mean your open quad bot? on your behalf. Yeah.
00:54:54
>> Yeah, man. I immediately downloaded it. Uh so it's called Acme Weather and uh it
00:54:59
is a similar in a few ways in some features, but it also has some some new aesthetics to it. Uh but it is a new
00:55:06
weather app. It's iOS only right now. It's paid. Many of the good weather apps
00:55:10
are paid. I'm just going to get it out the way ahead of time, just so you know.
00:55:13
Um but it is pretty good, I would say. And I've been playing with it for the
00:55:17
last couple days. >> I'm just upset that this is the first time I'm hearing about it.
00:55:21
>> Really? You had access to this before it even launched. >> Funny. I Yeah, we didn't. I dropped this
00:55:27
in Slack. >> Nobody. >> No, I kind of assumed that we'd all seen
00:55:31
the headlines. >> Yeah. >> And just were going to try it. >> Well, sure. But
00:55:37
>> I can't try it cuz it's iPhone only right now. >> Yeah, that's fair. That is fair. Well,
00:55:41
we'll toss a screenshot or two in the pod for those of you who haven't seen
00:55:44
what it looks like yet, but it kind of almost looks like Okay, I I put a ven diagram on Twitter of like there's the
00:55:50
pretty weather apps and then there's the accurate weather apps. >> Yeah.
00:55:54
>> The the pretty ones like the default Google weather app are almost always not
00:56:00
super accurate. And then the ones that have like their own data and that are like the the weather.com and ACU other
00:56:07
ones are really good information but are like horrible apps. And a lot of people
00:56:13
at that pointed out that carrot weather which is the one I use is kind of right in the middle because you choose what
00:56:19
source you have and it looks really good. Acme weather I think also looks like kind of like the Google weather
00:56:25
app. It's pretty good looking, but it has a dark sky timeline underneath. And
00:56:29
it has a pretty good uh radar feature uh or map feature, which lets you look at radar, but also things like current
00:56:37
temperature, wind maps, and uh accumulation totals for predict storms. >> Totals, predict,
00:56:45
>> I was just looking uh at this upcoming storm we're expecting in the next couple
00:56:48
days. >> And uh yeah, we're supposed to get some more when? >> This weekend,
00:56:54
>> Sunday, Monday. So, I never check weather. It's one of my many faults.
00:56:59
>> I always learn about upcoming storms in this room when we sit down and Marquez
00:57:04
is like, "Are you ready for this storm?" And I'm like, "What are you talking
00:57:07
about?" I think we need to enact a uh an app time limit on weather apps on Marquez's phone because it's getting to
00:57:14
be a lot this weekend. I was like, "Sunday." I'm like, "I really hope it
00:57:18
doesn't snow that much." Oh, hey everyone. It's like it's pretty warm
00:57:21
outside. There's probably not going to be any weather. He's like, "Wait till
00:57:23
the low pressure system comes in." And I was like, Mar, >> don't worry. It can't it will get worse.
00:57:30
>> That's my bad cuz it was like during the day and you guys were all like, "There's
00:57:32
not that much snow." I was like, "Don't we all know it's a nighttime storm?" But
00:57:36
nobody knew. So, I just sprinkled some information. >> Google it as fast as possible.
00:57:40
>> Unrelated, but related. Your ven diagram that you posted. >> Yeah.
00:57:44
>> I was curious. How did you make that? >> I Googled ven diagram creator and I
00:57:49
opened a Canva template and I made it in Canva. No, I was convinced you were going to say Final Cut Pro, but that's
00:57:56
>> that's actually probably >> two circles on his >> It should have been faster if I It would
00:58:00
have been faster if I didn't cut. >> Uh Acne says that it is focused on
00:58:04
hyperlocal hyper accurate forecasting combined with transparency about forecast uncertainty, which is nice. So,
00:58:10
so hyper local weather is is neat because kind of like ways is crowd sourced where if you if something
00:58:15
happens and someone reports it in the app, if it has enough users, that's like
00:58:20
really useful information. So, some truck dropped something on the road and you are literally 60 seconds behind that
00:58:26
truck, you'll get a notification that says object on road ahead because somebody reported it. Similar thing with
00:58:31
weather. So, you'll literally like Dark Sky did this really well. you would get
00:58:35
a notification that says like rain starting in 3 minutes and 3 minutes later the front would pass and it would
00:58:42
start raining and it feels like kind of this this magic moment. Maybe I'm just a
00:58:46
little >> into weather or whatever but like I thought that was pretty cool that uh
00:58:51
they're also bringing that feature. So they have a like a report feature >> uh where you can report like yeah uh it
00:58:58
just started raining and >> a bomb cyclone. >> Well, it'll probably be like a smaller
00:59:02
thing like frost or ice or whatever. community. What's happening right now? You hit lightning and then everybody
00:59:07
knows there's lightning nearby. >> You create lightning. >> I kind of assume that multiple people
00:59:13
need to report it so that it's not like one person saying >> I don't know how many people are
00:59:17
reporting things. >> Uh similar to ways >> just Marquez is the number one on the
00:59:21
leaderboards right now. Just >> I mean I do use the ways reports. I would say that it would be uh awesome if
00:59:27
a lot of people use this app and reported it and it got good because hyper local weather is sweet. Yeah, it
00:59:31
says it has an alternative possible futures feature because that they don't want to assume that the weather is going
00:59:38
to be perfectly accurate every time. So, it shows it shows like possible different variations. It's got the black
00:59:44
line which is what they think is going to happen and it's got these gray lines
00:59:47
which is what might happen. >> Multiverse confirmed. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. They're just plugged into all the
00:59:53
different versions of uh Carne New Jersey. So, >> I just want to throw it out there. Their
00:59:57
logo is really bad >> and I would love if somebody redid it. >> It's like the umbrella from Acme Looney
01:00:06
Tunes. >> That blue gradient. It looks bad. >> What? >> Well, it's an umbrella.
01:00:11
>> Wait, what? >> The the umbrella's >> Oh, is the icon different than the
01:00:16
>> It's like the wy coyote. >> The blue the blue. >> Yeah, it's like a blue gradient on the
01:00:20
>> We were We were looking at just like the black and white logo on the website.
01:00:23
>> Oh, no. It's It's not my favorite. I will I will say that. It's not great.
01:00:26
Definitely my favorite. Um, but it's cool. >> Yeah, >> it kind of looks like if Claude and the
01:00:31
New York Times made an app together >> because Andrew said it was a New York
01:00:34
Times looking app and it has like the color palette. >> Everyone needs to stop using the Chabani
01:00:39
font. I don't know what font it is. >> But like look up Chobani Yogurt like
01:00:45
like the font. Knock it off. >> New York Times loves Chabbani. >> I kind of see what you mean.
01:00:52
>> No, it's it's everywhere. It's like all the millennial ass DTC companies.
01:00:56
>> I think it's the off-white background that makes it >> like the Chabani packaging. All right.
01:01:02
Well, >> we just make our own weather station so we can just have hyper local weather for
01:01:06
the >> That's actually a thing you can do. >> So, wait, that was a question I kind of
01:01:10
had. >> That's what I'm saying. >> I can't tell if this is a real thing or
01:01:13
I'm remembering it incorrectly. So maybe one of you heard of it or an audience
01:01:16
member has, but I swear my cousin told me about this >> thing that he bought that he puts up on
01:01:22
his garage and a lot of people in the area buy have them and are connected together and it's like wind and
01:01:28
barometer and stuff and it it takes down what's happening outside. >> This is a whole localized weather.
01:01:33
>> Do you have this? No. >> How do you not have this weather boy? >> I should I should I should just put one
01:01:38
up. Yes. I and when you have a weather app or like even like some people have like a dedicated display where it's like
01:01:44
you can plug into the data or you can plug into the data from your own weather station. So instead of getting a local
01:01:49
report from the Newark weather station about like what pressure and temperature and all that are, you'll take it from
01:01:54
your actual weather station. >> So you'll get your actual location. >> You can have MQTT weather.
01:01:59
>> For every bit of data you upload to the weather network, it mines part of the
01:02:03
hash of a crypto cryptocurrency. >> Weathercoin. >> Weathercoin. Well, no. Then then it
01:02:08
would actually have some utility. >> Let's do one. >> Yeah, we should.
01:02:13
>> Yeah. >> How much are they? >> What do I search? >> Andrew, remember when I was like, I need
01:02:19
to find this weather thing. >> It's sort of similar. >> No, it is that. It's just a thing you
01:02:23
put on your roof and then it tells you the weather. >> I thought yours was just the display. I
01:02:27
didn't realize it was the roof thing. Couple hundred bucks. >> You can only get the display with the
01:02:31
roof thing. You cannot get a display that just 3Gs or whatever. I mean, now you can now that terminal exists. Okay.
01:02:37
>> But right. >> Yeah. I don't know. My cousin seemed everyone I've ever heard talk about this
01:02:41
seems super popular. >> No. If you go on Amazon and just type in weather station, they're made by They're
01:02:45
like 30 bucks and everybody makes them. And I'm sure they're all I think it's
01:02:49
dumb. >> Tell us a good one. I want one. >> They It's just like what's the point of
01:02:54
knowing what the weather is where you are? I need to know what it's going to
01:02:58
be. I can go I can go outside and can't you link up with other people and then
01:03:03
if you get enough people in a localized region >> how does that tell you what it's going
01:03:08
to be that just tells you >> because then when it's coming from the the west my homies to the west are
01:03:13
information my weather homies so here's the other thing about weather is there's
01:03:17
all these different models that are that are aggregated and computed by different
01:03:21
computers and regions or whatever. So those are based on the weather stations that they use. So then if you have your
01:03:27
own weather station that's maybe a little like like we're you know Newark
01:03:31
is close by but we were 50 mi away from Newark or something then you can adjust yours based on how far you are from the
01:03:38
weather station that you're getting your information from kind of interesting.
01:03:42
>> I think you should buy me one of these because >> I'm on the west part of New New Jersey
01:03:48
and you're on the east part of New Jersey. So it's only beneficial for you
01:03:51
if you get me one. >> New Jersey is a pencil ass state. You're like 3 minutes away from me. No, but the
01:03:56
coast to my >> distance from distance from the coast is crazy. You got half as much snow as we
01:04:01
did. >> I know. Usually I get more snow than you guys, dude. Both times this time I've
01:04:06
gotten significantly. >> This was a coastal storm that dropped 22 in here and 8 in there. Like that's
01:04:13
>> that's because the weather stations. You know, I know neither of you are in the
01:04:17
dating world right now, but you would be killing it talking about the weather on
01:04:20
your dates. You'd be like >> the weather. Oh, let me tell you, this would not be a dull conversation.
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>> Um, we got to move on, guys. This is insane. >> I feel it. I just want to shout out
01:04:34
weather committee. Uh, >> I appreciate it. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Just saying. We could start one,
01:04:38
Marquez. >> I I'm not against it. I'm I'm going to start googling weather stations.
01:04:41
>> I'll use the company card. >> All right. Well, we Yeah. >> Let's Let's sum up the story. We'll
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alternate words. >> Okay. Individual words. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Oh god.
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>> All right, here we go. Ready? >> Yeah. >> Do I start? >> Yeah, you can start.
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>> Okay. Discord >> is not >> gonna >> scan >> your
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>> face >> or >> other >> children's >> faces.
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>> Yeah. >> Until later. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Uh almost good news.
01:05:16
>> If you guys Well, yeah. If you guys remember our Super Bowl episode, uh,
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technically true. It was after the Super Bowl. Uh, Discord gotten a lot of heat because they decided that they were
01:05:28
going to do age verification via scanning your face if you were a child if it if their algorithms decided that
01:05:35
you were probably a kid using various different factors. One of the ways they were going to verify that you were not a
01:05:39
kid actually was to scan your face. Um, they got a ton of push back on that. A lot of people went back to the good old
01:05:46
team speak back from you know the 1900s >> and um >> they said oopsie that was a bad idea. So
01:05:55
they are now delaying the age verification functionality until the second half of 2026 before it rolls out
01:06:02
verification. It's going to add more ways to verify like adding a credit card
01:06:05
to your account because that basically just tells you them how old you are etc. It will also include documentation for
01:06:12
every verification vendor that they've used. It will add a a spoiler channels
01:06:16
option and publish a technical blog explaining how all of their age verification systems work. So, they are
01:06:22
trying really hard to win back the trust of people of the kids um and the adults
01:06:27
because nobody wants their face faces scanned especially since there uh they had like a data breach before this in
01:06:34
which everyone's data was like leaked and it was not good. So, >> worst nightmare. Uh, now we can do
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trivia. >> Trivia, dude. Quick update on the score. >> My chair is so loud that you got to do
01:06:49
it again. >> I'll keep it. Now you know what we deal with, people. Uh, Marquez with 14.
01:06:55
>> Yeah, >> Andrew with 17. David with 16. >> That's the same as last week.
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>> Same as the past four week before and the week before and the week before.
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>> Can you guys please let me update the graphic this week? All right. So, were you guys paying attention?
01:07:10
Towards the end of the live event, they showed off an expert RAW mode that ensures efficient and highquality images
01:07:16
of underwater coral and fish and stuff when you're swimming or diving in the
01:07:20
ocean. What is it called? >> Realistically, Samsung when you're at the aquarium. Yeah,
01:07:26
>> that's mostly what >> or the one time you go snorkeling and you're like, isn't this thing
01:07:29
waterproof? >> And then you >> and then it's sea salt. >> Was this water just the example they
01:07:35
used? It's not specifically for water. >> I think it is for water. >> It's a mode for being underwater.
01:07:41
>> Yeah, it's not >> Well, things that are underwater. >> Exactly.
01:07:45
>> So, like a fish tank. >> It'll like pump up the vibrancy and stuff.
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>> All right. Flip them and read. What do you got? >> We all combined our
01:07:54
>> Okay, Marquez, what did you say? >> I wrote ocean pro. >> We only wrote three.
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>> Oh, wow. We We have the entire combinatoric of both of these words. Just everyone say what they wrote one at
01:08:06
a time. >> Oh, I wrote one at the same time. >> I'll go first. I wrote ocean pro.
01:08:11
>> Dang it. >> I wrote pro mode. >> I wrote ocean mode. >> Correct.
01:08:16
>> Ocean mode. It is. >> Ocean mode. >> Ocean mode by one. >> Oh, that's tied for the lead.
01:08:26
>> Yeah. >> All right. Well, this next one >> I was paying attention.
01:08:29
>> 50-50 shot. >> Okay. Fitty. Unless you somehow get it wrong. >> Well, isn't
01:08:36
>> that's part of the 50/50. >> Yeah, that's one of the 50s, isn't it?
01:08:42
>> That's not how that works. >> Big M. >> That's why we're podcasters
01:08:47
>> and not not mathematicians. >> Never thought of it like that. >> It turns out I've just bodied every
01:08:55
50/50 shot I've ever had. I didn't know losing it was an option. >> Oh, shoot. I like that.
01:08:59
>> Guys, what came first? the Samsung Galaxy Zfold or the Gam >> the Samsung Galaxy
01:09:09
or the Samsung Galaxy Buds. There's no letter with the buds, right? It's not like the P buds
01:09:17
>> cuz they have the the number after >> Galaxy Buds number. >> There's a Galaxy, but there's numbers
01:09:21
after the fold, too. And there's a letter there. It's the Zfold five. >> That's just cuz they have so many
01:09:27
phones. They got to separate them with letters. >> Oh, wait. I thought the buds did have a
01:09:31
number. >> No, they do have a number. They don't have a letter. >> They don't have a letter.
01:09:34
>> It's not like the Samsung Galaxy J buds. >> But imagine Z. >> Well, it's actually the Samsung Buds.
01:09:44
>> Wow. >> All right. >> Okay, >> guys. Who would like to read their
01:09:49
answer? Did you guys all write the same thing? >> No. >> Who Who has the different thing?
01:09:53
>> It would be really sad. >> I really like the font that has different thing.
01:09:56
>> Thank I don't know why your writing looks different in that, but like I'd
01:09:59
buy that as a font, not going to lie. >> Impact font. >> So, I said the buds came first.
01:10:06
>> So, sorry, Mark has >> I know the reason. >> I'm so sorry.
01:10:10
>> Can I say the reason? >> You can say the reason. >> It's cuz they didn't used to be called
01:10:12
the Galaxy Buds. >> That was my guess also. >> Yeah. >> Wait, what?
01:10:15
>> The Samsung earbuds used to be called like something else. >> What do they used to be called?
01:10:19
>> Do you remember, Adam? >> You were the sound guy. >> I do not remember.
01:10:23
>> They were called something else. I picked this because it felt like the budge is the obvious
01:10:29
answer. >> I know the watches used to be called Gear. >> Gear. Gear. Galaxy Gear Live or
01:10:35
something. Galaxy Gear. Ear buds. Galaxy Gear butts. >> As far as I'm aware,
01:10:41
>> they've always been Galaxy Buds. That's the beginning. >> Gear Icon X.
01:10:44
>> Oh, yes. That's what it was. >> Yeah. >> The Icon X. >> The Fold came out on February 20th,
01:10:51
2019. >> I remember that. The Galaxy Buds came out on March 8th, 2019. Oh,
01:10:56
>> but the Galaxy Gear Icon X >> Well, that wasn't what I was asking
01:10:59
about there. >> Yeah, it's fine. I didn't want any points anyway. >> Worked out for you then.
01:11:05
>> Damn. >> Yeah. >> Nailed it. >> The race is on. We We feel like we need
01:11:11
to do a a Trudy extravaganza soon. >> We really do. >> The points aren't that high, though.
01:11:16
It's just been a long time. >> Yeah, because your questions are really
01:11:19
really hard. >> Are they? >> Yes. We never get points anymore. >> Honestly, the fact that Marquez got the
01:11:23
excavator one. >> Yeah, that was crazy. >> Probably we should have just ended my
01:11:28
>> I think he deserved to win. >> That's true. Yeah, >> I think that's my only point.
01:11:31
>> At this point, we've written hundreds of trivia questions. Like there's
01:11:34
>> I'm doing the best I can. >> Anyway, uh yeah, thanks for watching.
01:11:38
Thanks for listening. Like I said, get subscribed because you already know that next week we got to talk about all the
01:11:41
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because somehow you still can. >> Yeah, >> YouTube definitely forgot about that.
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apparently did not hard code that. >> Yeah. Yeah. You can just hype channels
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with over 500. >> They were like, "This isn't going to work at all. No one under 500 is getting
01:11:57
over 500." >> Hey, we did it. And we're still we're still hyping ourselves. It's amazing.
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So, yeah. Hype. See you on the see on the hype train. See you next week. >> B. See you later.
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