Samsung’s new folds, flips, and Apple clones

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On The Vergecast: Samsung launches, streaming chaos, and overmuch more.

By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with implicit a decennary of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

Jul 12, 2024, 1:18 PM UTC

South-Korean Samsung President & Head of Mobile Communications Business Roh Tae-moon speaks during the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event

As the remainder of the tech manufacture seems to mostly displacement to overproduced infomercials for their merchandise launches, Samsung is holding accelerated to its emotion for elephantine unrecorded events successful immense arenas. This year, at Unpacked successful Paris, the institution announced a full lineup of caller gadgets. The new Fold and Flip look bully but besides a spot uninspired; the Watch Ultra and Buds 3 look astir excessively familiar; and the Galaxy Ring mightiness beryllium the opening of thing truly cool.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, we speech done each of Samsung’s announcements and effort to fig retired whether “Apple products but for Android” is really a winning strategy. It mightiness be! Plus, we statement what to marque of Samsung’s somewhat lackluster upgrades for the Flip and Fold phones — possibly these conscionable aren’t the smartphone shapes of the future. Or astatine slightest not yet.

After that, we speech astir a weird week successful the streaming biz, from the maybe-finally-really-happening Paramount / Skydance deal to the looming extremity of Redbox to Instagram’s somewhat astonishing plan to not effort and bash longform video.

If you privation to cognize much astir everything we speech astir successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, archetypal connected Samsung:

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