SammyGuru with Jeff Springer
SammyGuru with Jeff Springer
Samsung Dominating Hardware in 2025 + One UI 8 Stable 2 Weeks Away!
The Sammy Guru Podcast returns with episode 40, diving deep into the upcoming foldable showdown between Samsung and Google. We unpack why Samsung's Z Fold 7 represents such a leap forward with its sleeker design, wider cover screen, and practical form factor, while analyzing Google's strategy with their rumored Pixel 10 Pro Fold. Will Google's IP68 rating and Qi2 charging be enough to overcome Samsung's refined design?
We also explore the latest One UI 8 Beta 5 release, highlighting the adaptive lock screen clock feature that's finally arrived, along with persistent bugs that still need fixing. Samsung continues pushing boundaries with rumors of "FlexMagic Pixel" technology coming to the S26 Ultra, essentially creating an on-demand privacy screen through AI-powered display manipulation. Combined with faster charging and camera upgrades, the S26 Ultra is shaping up to be a significant upgrade worth considering.
The podcast takes a fascinating turn when we tackle a listener question: what would make an iPhone tolerable for die-hard Samsung fans? We break down the three critical changes Apple would need to implement: overhauling their notification system, adding a universal back button/gesture, and introducing meaningful customization options. It's a candid look at ecosystem differences that goes beyond specs to examine how these devices integrate into our daily lives.
Join us for these discussions and more, including Jeff's announcement about expanding his YouTube content beyond Samsung to include more general tech reviews. Whether you're a Samsung devotee or just tech-curious, this episode offers insightful analysis of where mobile technology is heading in 2024 and beyond. Subscribe now and become part of the conversation!
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Welcome back everybody. This is episode number 40 of the Sammy Guru Podcast. My name is Jeff Springer. With me, as always, my co-host, torrey Torrey, say hi, hey, how's it going? The big 4-0. Yes, actually, that's how old I'll be turning next year. I just realized that by saying that Pre-early, I'm close to as old as many episodes of the podcast we've done, so I'm not sure I'm really excited about that 40th milestone, but this 40th milestone we are excited about.
Speaker 1:Yes, we are Took a break, but hey, we finally got to 40. People were like, hey, those guys were gone, they'll probably never come back, the podcast is dead, it'll just be another podcast that never has another episode. And those people were wrong. Here we are, so we're back. We got a lot of news this week. We're finally going to be back to like doing some news. I mean current news. We kind of spent two weeks catching up on what me and Tori have been doing for the last few months and then also what Samsung has been doing for the last few months.
Speaker 1:But before we get into what's a pretty busy news week, Tori, how's your week going?
Speaker 2:So far, so good. I mean it's Tuesday, you know we're starting to make up. Let's see we're doing a whole bunch of diagnostic testing, so I get to chill for a little bit.
Speaker 1:You got to test the diagnostics. Yeah, yeah, yeah, kick the tires on the students a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, see if they got any skills. I know yeah, you know yeah, so far, so far, it's been pretty chill, napoleon, dynamite, ladies love, of course, and that's what they say.
Speaker 1:What's he been?
Speaker 2:doing oh, I've been building, I've been trying to do like Legos more. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Jonathan's getting into that too lately, okay. Yeah, we've been buying a lot. You can assume which sets we're doing. Oh yeah, All the Jurassic sets. Oh yeah, All the Jurassic sets.
Speaker 2:There's like 50 of them favorite toys when I was like it's kind of a chill way to relax. I enjoy doing them, with them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I really enjoy it because you know you just take your mind off of it because you're just focusing on that next piece that you need to to get like and figuring out how it fits in there. Yeah, and then you're like oh damn, four steps ago I put that piece in the wrong spot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go back and do it. Yeah, well, they have. They have that tool now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that tool is very helpful, yeah, yeah, yeah, they didn't have that when I was little.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember I had to find things to pry it apart or use my nails Back then you would have to get a soda can tab and pry it up, pry it off. Now you know the kids rage out.
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah it's good to deal with disappointment because like, oh, now I gotta, I just wasted five, five things. I'm like well, in your adult life, they'll be off and you'll do something.
Speaker 2:You'll waste a lot of your time oh yeah and get nothing out of it.
Speaker 1:Nothing, it's worth learning to deal with now yes you know, early in my youtube career I would record a 30 minute video and then I'd go to edit it and I'll be like, oh wait I forgot to turn on the audio. Who turned on the microphone? Anybody there's no one here but me, never mind I gotta go back and record that whole 30 minute video.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because people can't hear what I'm saying no and nothing makes you want to rage like that, because you're like wow, I got the whole 30 minutes in one take because I used to do hardware reviews and it was really good, and now I have to figure out how to do that again with the same level of enthusiasm, which is hard because you're pissed off that you just wasted 30 minutes of your time and a pretty good take. You're not feeling as bubbly as you were when you first started, that first take.
Speaker 1:But you have to pretend you are because the people don't know that. It's very frustrating. One of the most frustrating things about YouTube is occasionally you're going to do that, it doesn't matter how good you are. Even MKBHD occasionally probably starts a video and forgot that he was not recording audio. It happens to everybody. It does, Otherwise how are you doing Any other things going? When does football season?
Speaker 2:start for the high school, uh, next week. So I am super excited. Um, I I think it's a, it's an okay school. I I think it'll be a good game. It's a home game, um, so, uh, we're we're gearing out for it a spirit week. One week is uh one day early for spirit week isn't it uh, well, uh, because uh the game is next friday, so they try to do?
Speaker 1:oh, they do a spirit week every home game. Uh, no, I thought you meant homecoming. My bad, yes, it's not homecoming yet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like the first big one. Homecoming is later in the year, after they go for like a road a long road trip, or whatever oh yeah I mean, that's the idea of homecoming anyway.
Speaker 1:Sometimes they don't really do that, but that's what it's supposed to be. Yeah, alabama football starts soon a couple weeks away. We're both very excited about that, very excited. I'm going to try to put together. Maybe this fall I can manage my schedule, but if not, definitely next year. Me and Tori are going to live episode of the Sammy group podcast after or before an Alabama game. Yeah, Hopefully, if they're winning, you know we can go it'd be nice if they were undefeated and we go to like an Alabama LSU game or something like that.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, this would be a day for second.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, last year, you know I didn't want to go, cause I knew it was going to be bad. The year after Saban leaving was going to always be bad. I mean, I actually think the guy deserves a chance. People were down on him last year, but you can't judge anyone by what happens the year after Saban left.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because there's going to be a lot of transition, a lot you know, it's just like right now we're moving.
Speaker 1:We're moving into a new house and there's a lot of transition, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, trans, you know everybody's got to get used to it Just like moving to a new coach.
Speaker 1:You've been in a house or you've had a coach for so many years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how long was he there for again? 17 years, 17 years, like you, if you're used to doing the same thing. 17 years, yeah, I mean I was.
Speaker 1:I had. Just, I had not even graduated undergrad yet when he was started. I was year of undergrad when they took over alabama, so it's a long time ago, long time ago. Uh, anyway, let's jump into some samsung news. We got an interesting week. I mean it's gonna be samsung and some google. So if you guys don't like google I know some people the google triggers you. This is a trigger warning. Don't get triggered. I mean google. Again, as I've said many times, the podcast they make android and android runs on samsung phones, so it's worth talking about. In addition to that, they are also one of the main competitors in the US for flagship smartphones for Samsung, and so tomorrow they're going to take the wraps off of their 2025 lineup of smartphones the Pixel 10, pixel 10 Pro and no one yet knows what they're going to call the foldable. Last year it was the Pixel 9 Pro Fold and you might remember Toy.
Speaker 1:I gave them a lot of crap about it because it was only the second foldable they released, so how could it be the ninth one? They just named it that to bring it in line with the other slab-style Pixel. So now there's apparently some leaks that are saying it's going to be the Pixel 10 Pro Fold or the Pixel Pro 10 Fold but where's the obvious name?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's the pixel 3 pro fold.
Speaker 1:Why don't we go back to what it actually is?
Speaker 2:yeah, where's that name?
Speaker 1:you know what I mean. What's going on there, um, and so there's quite a bit to talk about here. Um, there's there's not as many big overhauls as what samsung had with the z fold 7, z flip 7, so they're not offering like any huge overhauls as what Samsung had with the Z Fold 7, z Flip 7.
Speaker 2:So they're not offering like any huge overhauls of their phones this year, but there are some polarizing changes and did you get the? Fold last year for Google. Yeah, I did. And now that you've kind of had now the Fold 7, or I mean you also have the Fold 6 as well, you know, like, based on that, what will be some things you're kind of hoping to see on this new Fold?
Speaker 1:Well, last year Google had a much bigger selling point because last year they had the wider cover screen than Samsung. It was much wider than the Fold 6 because it was closer to like a slab style cover screen. But the downside was and I think I might've shown it on one of the podcasts to you, but it's been a long time- and it's been a while since I've used the Pixel 9 Pro Fold as well, probably because I was so mad that it wasn't called the Pixel- 2 Pro Fold.
Speaker 1:I just stopped using it at all on principle, but it's in there. I'm going to trade it in for the new one so I can do a comparison. But yeah, the inner screen, when you unfolded it, it was all square aspect ratio, because if you make the front cover screen too wide, the inside is going to be more square than tall. Right, it's not going to be a rectangle that's taller than it is wide. It's going to be more square or it's going to be wider than it is tall, which has some downsides, because then when you watch a video on there, right, you get that weird letterboxing effect that you get when you watch it on some tablets.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like, you have that bars on the top and the bottom, which annoys some people and a lot of the apps, like your Instagram and stuff. They don't fit the full screen on the Pixel 9 Pro Fold and you can't really stretch them in the same way you can easily. It doesn't look as good as you can on like the Fold 7. So last year Google had an advantage because the front was wider and the Fold 6 was way too narrow. That's my personal opinion. This is not fact. This is just what I think.
Speaker 1:But this year they're losing all their advantages, because last year the Pixel 9 Pro Fold was really not any thicker than the Fold 6, because the Fold 6 was still a brick. It was really thick. Samsung didn't really do anything. We've given them crap about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we have, even though this is a Samsung podcast.
Speaker 1:We've given them crap for releasing the same phone twice.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, we told the truth here.
Speaker 1:They deserve that too. I mean they did. They released the same phone twice, basically the Fold 5 and the Fold 6, as I said last week, basically just change out some colors, just a little tweak here there. Let's up the price somehow get some crazy margins and see if some people will buy it. And millions of people did, and we feel bad for those people.
Speaker 2:They should have waited one more year, I guess.
Speaker 1:I mean, I didn't tell anyone to buy it last year, so no one can say to me I said to go out and buy it, go back and listen to the podcast, listen to my videos. I told you not to buy it because I knew the Fold Special Edition was coming and I knew what would happen this year. So I never said buy the Fold 6. But you know, you do what you want. You're your own person. Yeah, no, it's your money Exactly. But the thing is last year they had all these advantages. This year they're all pretty much gone.
Speaker 2:Fold seven wider cover screen I know I I still impress with it. I mean it's just it is impressive.
Speaker 1:I mean I'm still using as my daily driver, which is saying a lot, because the last few years man.
Speaker 1:Like every time I would review the fold, I'd be itching to go back to my s20 s line phone, like last year when I reviewed the z fold six, I was like, let me get off of this thing. It's's just way too narrow. I can barely use it in my daily. I can't type out emails, I can't even respond to messages from my wife, because it's just, I mean, people can say, if you want, that I have fat fingers. Okay, I have fat fingers. I don't care. But it was not usable. I don't, I didn't like it.
Speaker 1:But this year it's like this is a great phone because not only can I use use it to do my daily stuff, but when I need to do more multitasking, or when I want to game or when I want to watch media, I just flip it open and I got a miniature tablet I can read on it. I can use it to basically do three things at once because I can have three windows and they're all usable. And it's not super thick. It's actually thinner than my S25 Ultra with a case on. If I slap a case on the S25 Ultra we've already talked about, it's thicker than the Z Fold 7. So Google's losing all their advantages this phone is wide enough, so no one's really going to be looking at the full 10 pixel, whatever they call it.
Speaker 2:Whatever?
Speaker 1:poor decisions they make. They're going to look at it and be like well, it's a little wider still, because it will be a little wider, because they're sticking with like they're basically taking it and making it like the front of the pixel.
Speaker 1:10 pro fold would be like an s25 ultra style in terms of the width or whatever and then just slap another screen yeah, yeah, yeah but then people are gonna think they're gonna be like well, it's not that much wider than the fold 7 and it has the drawback that when I open it it's got this square aspect ratio, whereas when I open the Fold 7, it's got a nice kind of vertical aspect ratio. That's more balanced.
Speaker 1:So I can enjoy media gaming and I still get like that ebook reading, pdf reading multitasking that I want Because obviously, like we've talked before, if you spend 2K, which the Pixel 10 Pro Fold is going to cost 2K as well, they're not undercutting.
Speaker 2:They're not trying to undercut Samsung on the price.
Speaker 1:They're trying to charge the same price, so don't expect it to be cheaper. You want to be able to get productivity for your work and your play. You want your gaming, your Netflix, your YouTube, but also you want to be able to probably do some multitasking yeah on it because it's a lot of money.
Speaker 1:A lot of people will buy it. Presumably they're going to maybe use this as a work and a and a personal phone. That's one way you could justify the cost of a foldable and maybe I'm going to use as my tablet and my phone, which we talked about last week. So they lose the advantage of the screen. If you're looking at the two side by side, Google didn't slim down the Pixel Fold at all this year. It's the same. In fact, by some leaks from what we've seen, it's actually a few grams heavier than last year. Oh no, so now this phone's going to be like 40.
Speaker 2:Opposite direction.
Speaker 1:It's going to be like 40 grams heavier and several millimeters thicker than the fold 7, so you're going to be looking at those two, like if you're in verizon, and you'll be like which fold should I get well, this one feels like a cinder block in my hand and this one is lighter than even the slab phones and people are just gonna be like I give me the fold 7.
Speaker 2:Yeah because, like, I'm not gonna carry this, it's the same price, right? If?
Speaker 1:there's not, like, even if there's, if there was some, there'd have to be some amazing advantage of the pixel 10 pro fold for you to choose it over the fold 7, because just the design of it is going to awe people. You know what I mean. Yeah, right, like, even if, even if all things else being equal, let's say they all everything. We'll talk about the other things too, the other specs, but everything else was equal. The z Z Fold 7 just like jumps off the page when you see it because of how it looks. It's just a sexy design, very sexy, and that does matter.
Speaker 1:When it comes to, like, the carrier stores, best Buy, and you know, despite what people think again, we talk about all the time on this podcast, but it bears repeating the enthusiast versus the average user is a vastly different experience. That's why Tori is on this show, that's why I chose him as the co-host. A lot of people who are every day reading tech blogs and in this hobby of smartphones, we don't think about the fact that most people still buy their phones from the carrier store, from Best Buy, yeah, like they're not buying their phone from Samsungcom unlocked, or from Googlecom unlocked.
Speaker 1:No, they're going to the carrier. Those are like the super fans that read the blogs and listen to this show and all that stuff. But your best friend, think about your best friend who when they buy their phone, they go to at&t verizon team or they go to best buy and they're like let me look at that best buy, let me feel it. They're gonna see these phones and be like oh man, the fold seven is like a clear winner, because it's just the aesthetics and the look, but there's that's not even where all the advantages actually are.
Speaker 1:Because there's another problem in my mind with the Pixel lineup this year. Google is getting rid of the physical SIM slot. Just like the iPhone, they're going eSIM only. This is leaked out. There'll be dual eSIM ports on the pixel series this year dual e-sim profiles, no physical sim slot. So basically, if you like to travel, google's giving you the double bird. They're rolling down the window and giving you the double bird like you're driving out in the phoenix traffic.
Speaker 2:You cut somebody off a lot of people I mean I mean, uh, you know my, uh, my girlfriend's, um, uncle. I mean like people, like especially a lot of like retired people who you know, like they like to travel. Now, you know in their age, like like the, the things that they're looking for and first thing he always asks, like before he gets a phone, is hey, like, is it an eSIM or a physical SIM? Because I want to be able to travel and still have access to you know, call or do whatever I want to do on my phone. So, like this move to this eSIM, I just, I don't know, I feel like you're kind of blocking out people, but I know it's the push, now it's coming. Do you feel like this eSM only is going to eventually come to Samsung?
Speaker 1:I do. I was not wanting to say that. Oh, never mind I certainly think, unfortunately hey we have to give Samsung some credit here. Right, they've held off longer than anyone else, but at the end of the day, this is an industry where there has to be uniformity, and the carriers are going to want some uniformity at some point and the carriers, in the US at least, still have some say, even with Samsung and Apple.
Speaker 1:And since Apple and Google have done this, now that's going to put pressure on Samsung and they're going to be like well, why do we have to have a separate activation flow only for samsung phones? Everybody else is now esim only, so why do we have to come? Why do we have to have this extra help section about physical sims? But why do you really need help physical sims? Everybody knows how to use one.
Speaker 2:That's stupid. Put them in, that is a stupid argument.
Speaker 1:But some ceo or some tool and all it pops out, yeah, some executive at Verizon will be like, yeah, people can't, we have to still, you know, do support for physical Sims.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:The physical sense has been around for 20 years. We have to support yeah, everybody knows how to use it. Who's an adult I mean, it's stupid, I don't, but someone would probably say that and also, there's also the argument, and so we can flip to the other big selling point, and there's only one in my mind. We'll talk about some of the battery and the processor and stuff too. There's only one big selling point of the pixel line, a pixel fold this year, and that is that apparently it's leaked. We had them. Google hasn't confirmed it yet because it's their events tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That it's going to be the first ever IP68 certified dust and waterproof foldable which even.
Speaker 1:Samsung hasn't done that hasn't happened on the Fold 7. And one of the reasons they've been able to do that at least according to the leaks is because they got rid of the physical SIM slot. I somehow don't believe that if Samsung wanted to, they could probably still get the 68 rating with keeping the SIM slot, but certainly it is an extra hole in the phone, so it probably does make it a little easier to get that rating. But the question is is this really going to be? I mean, I don't know. It really depends on how hard they go with the marketing. People are still worried about durability on foldables.
Speaker 1:Yeah for sure, we talked about that.
Speaker 1:But if they're like well, it's a little more durable, but it also weighs twice as much, Not really twice as much but 40 is also a brick and the screen is not really as good because when you unfold it you're not getting as usable of an aspect ratio and in my opinion, this is again opinion, not a fact. You're not getting one UI, so you're not getting all those extra multitasking features. Google's pixel experience software for foldables of course they haven't unveiled it yet, so maybe they have some tricks, but it's still limited in multitasking compared to what Samsung offers in One UI. So I don't know, tori, what do you think? Is IP68 enough of a selling point for people to purchase a thick Pixel 10 Pro Fold over the very slim and light z-fold seven?
Speaker 2:I and from the average consumer. I mean, it's kind of interesting enough. We're having this conversation because over the weekend I was at a friend's birthday party and I was talking to other, um, like other people, um in their 20s and some, some of them, have samsung phones, some of them have uh iphones, and we're kind of talking about like, well, like you know what would we ever switch over? Uh, or is someone with iphone would ever switch over to samsung and vice versa, um and like, when I kind of think about it, I'm like I know very few people who have Google phones, um, handful, uh, most people have Samsung but, you know, getting into the foldables, that is even very niche among uh average consumers, because there's not that many average consumers who are going for the fold.
Speaker 2:But if they were going, either they're going all in and that's going to be their phone for about three years or they're going to go for the flip. And so you know I, if I'm going into a carrier where most people are going to be going uh, and I look at the fold and I look at you know, because it's all about appearance, like I'm going to want the sleek phone, I'm not going to be compelled to go to Google just for the sake out of durability, especially if it's also going to weigh more. But again, you know, people want battery life. People want how sleek it is Way more. But again, you know, people want battery life. People want how sleek, it is Thin.
Speaker 2:I mean, thin is just thin. We talked about it before. Thin is thin. Yeah, no, thin is thin. And when I'm at Target or Walmart and I'm looking at you know, every now and then I pass by and I'm looking at the Google, Except in some scenarios.
Speaker 1:the ladies know what I'm talking about oh yeah. Know what I mean. Tori, yes, no. I know what you mean, as Flossie Carter would say ladies, you know the procedures.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I do, but you know, because whenever I go to Target they have a plethora of Google stuff out those phones just look bulky Plethora.
Speaker 1:That's a great word, you know, I like that one.
Speaker 2:Oh yes, I sneak that one in on occasion.
Speaker 1:Tori's like, let me pull that out of my bag of chips.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got a few bags of chips. He's like you can't let.
Speaker 1:Jeff, have all the fun here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I can't. He's like.
Speaker 1:I got a few words in the old thesaurus the dictionary.
Speaker 1:But I chip in it. Um, that's another concern for a lot of buyers because, if you pay attention, I'm talking about enthusiasts now but if you pay attention, the tensor chip has had efficiency issues, like with cooling, and it's ran hot and also it's not as powerful as a snapdragon. It doesn't have a snapdragon chip in it. I don't know if you knew this. Yeah, google's do not. They have their own in-house chips, um that are made by tsmc. Um, and this is going to be, I believe so, only so, only Samsung has the Snapdragon.
Speaker 1:No, no, a lot of other Android phones do too, but Google decided to make their own in-house chip, they say, because they want it optimized for AI purposes. Yeah, it's the Tensor G5 this time and it does AI tasks really well, but it doesn't do things like gaming and multitasking as well. So that leaves some enthusiasts a little bad taste in their mouth. It's like, well, yeah, it does AI stuff well on device, but if I don't care about that, if I'm a gamer, I don't want to buy, then maybe, so we'll see. Supposedly it's got a little better efficiency, but there's no guarantee there.
Speaker 2:But I don't want to if it's running hot, I mean, especially if I live in Arizona.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't want to run it hot because that means your battery life's also going out.
Speaker 1:The going down the pooper, going down the poop shoot, um, the other big selling point, um, which I would say actually is appealing to me, so that the ip68 on the foldable, I don't care too much about that. To be honest with you, just from my personal experience, I'm someone who's used almost every foldable. I've used every foldable samsung has. I've used every foldable google has and I've used every foldable Google has. And I've used a bunch of Chinese foldables, probably about a handful, maybe 10 of them. So you know, I'm not the number one most experienced foldable user Probably some of my guy like Flossy Carter would be, because he's used every single one that's ever existed.
Speaker 1:But I used a lot of them, way more than your average bear. I mean I've used probably 30 different, probably 25 or 30 different foldables over the last, you know, eight, nine years. I would say I don't care, because the Z Fold 7 is already plenty durable and I really don't worry too much about dust or even water droplets, like I'm not going and dunking my phone in the ocean and technically, even if you drop it in water for a second, it should still be fine. I've seen some people do this and it's not really a problem. Now don't take it to the beach and throw it in the sand. Don't build a sandcastle with the Uzi Fold 7.
Speaker 2:It's still a luxury phone. I mean, I'm not doing that with my slab phone.
Speaker 1:Because, as I said, sand can scratch the display on your slab phone. So I'm not building a sandcastle with my S25 Ultra either. So it's not like I change my life habits because I have a Fold, but they're supposedly going to have Qi2 magnets built into the phone which, as you remember from the S25 launch, Samsung decided not to do. On the S25 Ultra they're like here you can have Chi-2, but only if you buy this special case, not if you just want to slap something on the back without a case and that really made people mad because they're like well, that's not really Chi-2.
Speaker 1:If I can't just go buy, buy a Chi 2 charger and slap it on the back of the phone I got to buy a case to do it? Yeah, because like this yeah, that one you can. Yeah, there's UAG, uag. I gave you.
Speaker 2:Because I got one of those charging stands now.
Speaker 1:It's very nice, it's great. Boom, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's charging.
Speaker 1:But people gave you that one, so it's good. But people don't want to buy a $1,600 accessory to enable a feature. Yeah, I understand that, because you just bought $1,300 phone, so that is appealing. You know that's a win for google to be said. You know to say hey, no one else. We're the first on android to have real chi 2 and they'll. They'll be able to say that legitimately because samsung decided to do fake, fake chi 2.
Speaker 2:Basically yeah, on there, like it's there, but it's like it's there but it's not.
Speaker 1:It's like you know if you get a chi-tu compatible case, we'll get a little chi-tu charging on that, you know.
Speaker 2:Buy one from us sixty dollars, right here, yeah, right here, right now upsell you know, yeah, add to cart just yeah, and they ask you like two times before you even check out. Are you sure?
Speaker 1:because if you don't buy it, you won't be able to get this great feature yeah but well, that's not a feature of the phone then, because that's a feature of the case, yes, so google will be able to say that I mean, that's appealing. But I mean, and talking about the other phones, we mainly talk about the fold, the pixel 10, pixel 10 pro. There really is nothing new about them at all, I think the fold, the pro, fold xl, no, the Fold the Pro XL, pixel 10, pro XL. Really weird naming scheme, even though it does convey the size and stuff it's just got. It's a mouthful to say you know the Pixel naming. It's supposed to be heavier as well. So the Fold's got heavier. Oh, no, they look good, like the colors. I'll show you some of the colors.
Speaker 2:Let me see if I can find them.
Speaker 1:Oh, they're over here. The colors look nice. I actually like this lime color. They got like this green. See this color right here. Oh yeah, this is a nice color and this blue-gray is called Moonstone. They're both nice.
Speaker 2:It's like a pistachio green. That's probably what I'm going to get if it doesn't sell out tomorrow.
Speaker 1:I personal one the colors look nice but really there's no new hardware features. Like they've tweaked the camera a little bit doesn't look like a massive overhaul. You got the new processor. It's gonna have the g2. Of course, ip68 that's only new to the fold because this already had. All the slab phones have already been at least ip68 certified for years now. Like that's not a new slab phone feature, it's gonna have a few new software features. Uh, the supposed I think it's called pixel sent assistant, which is going to be like a specific. It's like a specific big kind of gemini specific to the pixel that you won't be able to get on any other android phone, so it might not come to samsung yeah which is how they kind of try to sell their phones, is like exclusive software stuff.
Speaker 1:But I don't know, I still think kind of a hard sell if. Even if I was like a pixel fan, like obviously I'm a samsung guy, yeah, but even if I had a pixel 9 pro and it was my main phone and I was like looking at this and I'm like man, I like google, do I really want to spend because they don't give you the same trade-in value samsung does?
Speaker 1:yeah like you know, samsung, next year if you buy an s26 ultra, they're going to be like here's $900 for your S25 Ultra, $800 at least. And that makes it a lot easier because then you only spend $499 to upgrade, but Google, you know they'll be like. The Pixel 10 Pro XL is $1,100. Here here's $400 for your 9 Pro XL and you're like what the heck?
Speaker 2:So it's still $700 to upgrade.
Speaker 1:That makes it a little harder. The difference between 400 or 500 upgrade and 700 or 800 upgrade is a pretty massive deal no very because for the two-year-old phone sometimes they only give you 300 and for, like I have, a pixel 8 pro excel.
Speaker 2:I'm like I don't know yeah, I don't know if I'm feeling it, so to speak, like that's a lot of money for not being like people wait for the carriers, because then they're like, well, they'll just put it on those, uh installment plans yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:It's only gonna be 22 dollars a month for 60 months, yeah, and then they're like what did you say?
Speaker 2:uh, nothing. Uh, would you like that bagged, or are you just going to carry it out?
Speaker 1:It's only $17 a month for 96 months. I thought it would be in about five years $17 a month, but for 96 months People will be like wait, how many years is that? I didn't pass high school math? Only three years. That's a good deal. Yeah, that's a really good deal. $17 a month for three years, I'm good deal. Yeah, it's a really good deal. 17 a month for three years I'm gonna buy this right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right now they're like go ahead and put it in the bag. Yeah, I'll take two. Yeah, bag it and tag it, and tag it, okay, so we'll see what happens. Tomorrow, google, they're gonna release the pixel watch 4 as well. Um, you know, I want to talk about it a little bit. Obviously, everything we're saying right now is based on leaks. I figure figured we'd just preview it because it is a big event tomorrow. I'll be live-tweeting it and we'll have some coverage of it, of course, because they're our main competitor once we find out the confirmed specs.
Speaker 1:Our good friend, michal Rahman from Android Authority, who's Android expert extraordinaire and we really enjoy his work at Sammy Guru, he's going to be doing a live stream on YouTube for the event on the Android Authority YouTube. I'll put it in the show notes because this will probably go up before the event goes live. You guys can check it out. I also have a link to his thing. We wrote an article about it letting people know he'll be doing it. I highly endorse checking out his live stream because he's like the foremost expert on everything Google, so like you could consider him the Android guru. So anything that's general Android, definitely go check out Michal. He knows everything about it Android.
Speaker 1:So that's what I have to say about the Pixel event for now. We'll have some more commentary next week, once we get the real word from Google and we'll see what happens. I mean, obviously, as you guys know we already talked about last year, google has decided to stop sending phones to tech influencers, so you know they're not sending me a review in it. I'll have to buy my own units to to make content. They're all about the beauty and uh lifestyle influencing. Unfortunately, I did not start my makeup or running vlog this year it was on my list yeah, it was right there.
Speaker 2:It was on the start my makeup and gym vlogs but I just did not get to it.
Speaker 1:I had a lot of stuff going on. Maybe next year We'll see you never know, what else? One UI 8 news. We always get to talk about the One UI news. People come here for the Beta 5 drop today so you got the Beta 5.
Speaker 2:Man, I've been getting updates. I got a Watch update, I got a Buds update. It's been update city.
Speaker 1:Update city.
Speaker 2:Over the weekend.
Speaker 1:It's been a city of updates.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it has been.
Speaker 1:I love that. Oh, you got a watch update. Yeah, I did hear they were rolling out the watch update.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and actually it changed. One thing I noticed pretty quick is like anytime I am listening to music or something, usually it would just be like, uh, kind of like a purple, you know like music button that would just appear at the bottom for me to tap on, but now the actual app icon appears when, um, oh, yeah, yeah, they added that with one new, the new version, the new update for one ui.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is that when you? That's not when you i8 watch, is it? Or is it when you i8 watch? I don't know how did you get? It. I don't remember if it came to the Ultra or not.
Speaker 2:You can go? Oh yeah, I should probably go there.
Speaker 1:You could go in there and check it in the Galaxy Wearable app and see I do know that it was supposed to be rolling out to the old watch Ultra, I believe as well, I think update. So that probably is what you got. Actually, now that I think about it. Oh yeah, so you did get. You got the big update. That's the one that rolled out on the watch eat classic and all those devices that I was checking out when I went to the unpacked in new york so you got the big update.
Speaker 1:So that's part of when you ate watch. I thought I thought that that was part of when you ate watch. I was like, did they do that in a smaller update? But no, that one's rolling out to last year's ultra. I think it's the only device outside of the new watches that's gotten it yet.
Speaker 1:So far okay it's kind of lucky for you, um, but the s25 ultra got the one ui8 beta 5 which finally enables the uh lock screen adaptive clock. You can see right here you're not on the beta, I don't think for it. But but yeah, you can see that beautiful adaptive lock screen clock. It adapts to your wallpaper so it adapts to the ears on the, on the bunny there that I have you know it's cool.
Speaker 1:It's still buggy. You know it's still very buggy feature. It's one of my favorites, but samsung just cannot seem to perfect it 100 percent. Um, people are still asking me when one ui8 is going to come to their device, and this is supposedly the last beta for the S25. So my best.
Speaker 1:I want it, yeah, so the best guess to tell you and others is the first week of September. We should hopefully see it on the S25 series and then Samsung, hopefully with the one UI seven update. They posted a schedule on their blog when they started rolling it out. They had like a list of when each device would get it.
Speaker 1:Hopefully they'll do that like by september 1st and hopefully it's not going to extend for like months because like yeah, that was the one ui7 rollout it was like a two month rollout, which I know was a major overhaul, but they posted like started in april for the s24 series and then it's like man, like the a series phones, they didn't get it until June or something. It took forever. One UI8 is much smaller, so hopefully it doesn't like linger for everywhere for you know, for so long, because that's just kind of ridiculous. But there's not a lot in here other than they added the adaptive lock screen clock. They added suggested wallpapers. So now when you go into your, if you try to set a wallpaper on your phone, you're going to get suggested images. Do you see them down here?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah down there Of what you could use. Obviously, I take a lot of pictures of my kids so there's a lot of pictures of my kids there.
Speaker 1:And then there's still two features missing, which one of them we talked about that you said you liked, and I also like the NowBrief, where it reads your NowBrief out loud to you yeah, yeah, that's not on this beta, it's on the Z Fold 7, but it's not on the beta on the S25 yet. And then also the call captions, which is on the Z Fold 7, z Flip 7, but not on the S25 beta. That's where you can get captions of what the other person's saying. When you're on a phone call, it'll actually show you the text on the screen. It's like if you're in a place where it's too loud and you can't hear, you're going to be like what did you say? You can see it on the screen and you can still respond to them, which is a nice feature.
Speaker 1:That's not present either. So it's kind of weird, though, why they didn't put those features in here. If this is the last beta, supposedly this is supposed to be the last beta. That's what everyone has said, and it seems very stable. So I would think so. Maybe those features just going to come on the stable release, or maybe they're just exclusive to the fold 7 for a while.
Speaker 1:That's going to make me really mad no, for sure um I the now brief read aloud is a pretty nice little feature. I don't really see why that has to be exclusive to anything. I mean it doesn't require any skill. There's no super powered ai and also these phones have the same processor basically anyway. So the whole excuse of it doesn't have a powerful enough processor is not going to be valid for this one.
Speaker 2:But no, that's what's going on.
Speaker 1:So once one ui8 comes out and stable, of course we'll do like a full show on one ui8 when tory gets it and we can get his thoughts. There's definitely not as many big changes With One UI 7, we spent like two whole shows going through the changelog and discussing there's. You know there's six big features. In fact, our good buddy Sumit, our editor-in-chief at Sammy Guru, he wrote an article called From Samsung Decks to QuickShare One UI 8's six big upgrades. So let's actually read those really quick.
Speaker 1:The new Samsung Decks which I know, tori, you don't really use Decks, but for those of you who use Decks and I use it occasionally the Decks desktop mode has been overhauled for power users and instead of getting completely custom implementation, it's now based on Android 16's native desktop mode which Google created, which means you get better window scaling. You get a lot of nice changes, app compatibility. The fact that it's all built by Google and the underlying Android code base makes it a lot easier to use it. And this is a great feature because if you don't need a desktop, a separate laptop, you can use dex as your laptop. You just connect your phone to a monitor and it basically turns into what it's kind of like windows, where you have a word you have, where you can do word processing and everything.
Speaker 1:Dex basically turns your phone into a pc and if you're not a power user like if you don't have a job where you need to do a bunch of spreadsheets and stuff it's fine. It's definitely not like if you have a job where you need to do a bunch of spreadsheets and stuff, it's fine. It's definitely not like if you have a job where you need to do a lot of word processing or spreadsheets. I would still recommend getting a Windows laptop because it's better for doing heavy lifting, but if you only need to edit the occasional document you mainly do a lot of web browsing, stuff like that and you just want a bigger screen. Dext is great for that. Knox Matrix and the quantum-resistant encryption Uh-oh, back to our mathematics.
Speaker 1:Yeah, samsung putting quantum resistant encryption in one UI eight. I forgot about this, but it's very important because we're close to getting quantum computers and when we do, all the encryption we have now is basically useless. Yeah, so Samsung has been working on encryption that is resistant even to quantum computer breakage. So that is now being applied in one UI eight. So once the first quantum computer breakage, so that is now being applied in One UI 8. So once the first quantum computer comes out, you don't have to worry about someone getting in there and hacking all your personal data on your smartphone, which is kind of an important thing.
Speaker 1:The enhanced secure folder that's a big one as well. They changed secure folder so that it now uses Android's private space feature.
Speaker 1:Previously there was a bug in secure folder which talked about before, that if you did something wrong it could leak all your private photos and stuff like if you turned on, the uh stories feature in gallery, someone could just be using your phone and be like, look, check out this story. And it wouldn't be your regular private public gallery. It would be photos you saved inside your secure folder which presumably, if they're in your secure folder, maybe you don't want people to see them. Yeah, and be like what's this? Check that out. You know you see some scandalous stuff there. Yeah, and the old secure folder stories be like whoa, that was not the story I was trying to see today, not the story, you know so that they fix that.
Speaker 1:That's now fixed. You can also now access. What I really like is for secure folder. You can access it using different fingerprints than your regular fingerprint login, so you can set up a fingerprint that only works in secure folder. Previously, if you had, like, your thumb registered to get into your phone, that would also work to get into secure folder, but now you can register your thumb to get into the phone and your pinky to get into secure folder. You can register your thumb to get into the phone and your pinky to get into secure folder. That way you know like if you got one of those you know significant others trying to use your thumb while you're asleep they'll be like oh, why doesn't it work to get?
Speaker 2:into this folder.
Speaker 1:They of course could try all your fingers and then in the end that would be bad for you.
Speaker 2:But if they're not very smart, or you should probably use like a finger on your other hand. Yeah, yeah, that way, if you're laying this, way.
Speaker 1:Presumably they won't twist your arm off to try to do it, but they might if they're really that, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:If they're really that concerned about what you're doing, get up in there they might try to get in there, you know and hopefully, by then you wake up. Oh, by then you wake up, you snatch the phone back yeah, you're like, give me this phone. You're like look.
Speaker 1:Secure folder separate fingerprints in 108.
Speaker 2:Save my life and that's how we roll a paid, paid spokespersons uh, the now bar and live updates.
Speaker 1:So live updates and now bar have had some changes. Um, those are now integrated with android 16's live updates, which means we're going to get more apps that use the now bar. We talked about this before. We're gonna have like uber lift on the now bar. We talked about this before we're going to have like Uber lift on the now bar. Yeah, One day maybe. My dream is maybe we'll have FanDuel and DraftKings on there. I can follow my parlays.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know I can drink.
Speaker 1:Get in touch with me If you guys want me to do some advocacy for you? Fanduel just email me. Promotions at Sammy grewcom yeah, particularly since I know FanDuel and DraftKings have a lot of money. Yes, they do $100,000. I will lobby to Samsung on your behalf. I have their PR contacts.
Speaker 2:I will lobby. You'll definitely really put in the work.
Speaker 1:I'll put in the work daily to get in their PR people's ear about getting FanDuel and DraftKings on the Now Bar. It'll make you guys a lot of money. Think about it. It's on the nail bar People are more likely to place more bets.
Speaker 2:One small step for them, one giant leap for them as well.
Speaker 1:People are more likely to place more bets, and then you can just take a small percentage of either of those bets and pay me my fee. It'll be worth it. Just get in touch. Anyway, the redesigned Quickshare. So Quickshare is brand new.
Speaker 1:Redesign it has app-like full screen interface that separates the send and receive so you can now see which files you've sent and received from QuickShare. Previously, anything you got in QuickShare was just lumped all together in one big giant cluster F of the list and you had no idea what was what. But now you have a tab that shows which files you've sent and which ones other people have sent you in QuickShare. And then seamless multitasking with an improved split-screen view. It basically brings the feature developed by OnePlus and integrated into Android 16.
Speaker 1:The new split screen lets you use two apps simultaneously with a 90-10 split. So you can now have multitasking where you have 90% of one app shown and 10% of the other. In case you need to do like a little peek. So like, say, I have 50-50 split but I need to make this app bigger for one second, I can do that. That's very specifically useful on like a foldable, where you can use that large screen real estate to do something and then go back to split screen mode. So, tori, of those six features, which one do you think is the most interesting? This is Sumit's list of the top six and I would agree with him. But I would say, for the average user, when they see the update, they're going to be like this is cool, pretty cool too the adaptive lock screen.
Speaker 2:I think that's probably going to be like the big thing, because obviously this is not a big uh overhaul people are going to like the adaptive lock screen. I think most people want something done with the um or sorry, the before you or the lock screen. So I think most people are probably going to gravitate to that, just because people are like constantly changing their lock screens and like kind of moving them around to kind of adjust for the other stuff that are like the clock and the time and the calendar.
Speaker 2:Just a more user-facing feature too, yeah yeah, I think people are going to like that.
Speaker 1:Now the problem is this feature is still very difficult to use, so samsung needs to explain it to people.
Speaker 2:I've made like three videos on this because it really has a lot of like, not just like automatic or no. The problem is that one.
Speaker 1:You have to have a photo of someone or an animal. First, because it doesn't work with anything else, just people or animals. Two, you have to set the wallpaper using the gallery app you or the lock screen, samsung's gallery.
Speaker 2:You can't use a third-party app, so if you use, like thematic or one for wall, or a lot, of, a lot of people set their wall, especially especially the ladies, the ladies, yeah, exactly just go in there they find like a cutesy wallpaper, like, look look at this wallpaper of a unicorn yeah, and they're like oh, I saw something about a new feature in samsung.
Speaker 1:I can get a cute clock and they go and try it.
Speaker 2:They're like oh, this doesn't work yep, samsung must be garbage company.
Speaker 1:I'm switching to apple, but people don't believe me. That this is what people will think. But it is how people will think. People will say, hey, why doesn't this feature work? They're going to be like this must be a problem with samsung, because I did everything correctly. Um, you know, this must be a Samsung issue, but it's because they're doing the computation for this clock inside the gallery app, so it doesn't work if you set it from another app. But they need to fix how this is done because this is going to make people angry.
Speaker 2:Guaranteed no, for sure yeah.
Speaker 1:Because if you tell people about this in the tips when they download One UI 8 and then they're trying to figure out how to get it to work, it took, and then they're trying to figure out how to get it to work.
Speaker 1:And it took me a while to figure out why it wasn't working, cause I use one for wall and thematica and I set my wallpapers through there. When I first got the beta I had to figure out why it wouldn't work and then I realized, oh, they're doing the computation to figure out where the adapt you know the adaptive element should go in the gallery app. So if you don't use it, the stretches should go. You know, you know transformations, dilation, stretches, whatever to the numbers, and so it doesn't figure out like where they should stretch the four and the five on this one that I have with the bunny, yeah, if you set it with a third party app, because it doesn't do that math. But no one's going to figure this out. They're not like a hardcore fan If they don't follow us or someone who knows about this, they're just going to be like this feature samsung said work. It totally doesn't work at all. It's broken because most people don't download the wallpaper and then set it.
Speaker 1:They just set it directly from the app yeah, I know tons of people use wallpaper apps.
Speaker 1:Unless they download it from the internet which some people do that then they'll set it from the gallery. But if they have an app they use, it's like their go-to wallpaper app. They're just setting. There's always an option to set your wallpaper from the app and they'll just do it from there. So that's my feedback. Samsung, you should fix that because you're gonna have a lot of late angry. You know average users who don't really read anything. Being like this should be an easy feature to implement, because if you think, would apple ever push a feature like this and then it wouldn't work like easily.
Speaker 2:No, no, they'd be like we're not going to make it complicated because our users are complete idiots.
Speaker 1:That's how they think. We need to make this as simple as possible, and even if your users aren't idiots, you should think that way, because for the people who don't have the technical knowledge, that doesn't mean they're idiots. They just don't want to spend their time reading pages of how to set a clock.
Speaker 2:They're just like, really Like, we just want things right out of the box.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just but that part of Apple is good, like it just works. The only problem is their stuff doesn't just work anymore.
Speaker 2:Like they have more bugs than Samsung half the time their betas are just as bad, so I don't know. The whole thing doesn't. It's the presentation, the way it's rolled out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, steve Jobs' idea of it just works was good, but Steve Jobs doesn't work there anymore.
Speaker 2:So it just stopped't work anymore. Anyway, so two big topics there no-transcript.
Speaker 1:Also, we have when you I ate. Beta five should be coming out and stable now, beginning of September. Of course I say that and they'll make me look like an idiot Cause they'll be like it's been pushed October. Guys, I'm sorry and I'll be like well, you know, I don't make, I don't make the choice to release it. Sorry, guys, you got to complain to Samsung about it, but that's what they said. They said September. They put it in their blog. So I'm just going off what they said. You know I don't make the rules, I just report the news here. Anyway, in the second half of the show, a little teaser, and that's what they call a teaser in the industry.
Speaker 1:We had a great question last week. Someone asked us continuing to talk about Apple. It's a good segue. If you had to switch to an iPhone, I've always said I could never do it as your daily driver what are the changes that Apple could make to the iPhone that would make it tolerable? I don't remember who said this. It was on one of my posts, I think on X, when I posted the podcast last week. And this is a great question what would make it tolerable? Because right now I feel like there's enough things that I couldn't tolerate it. I would just have to go back to my Android phone. Even if someone was like going to pay me Unless it was a lot of money Then I would just put up with it and just use it as a dumb phone. I'd just be like I won't use any of the features that annoy me.
Speaker 1:But we'll talk about that.
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Speaker 1:I thought that we would talk about one other piece of news because I forgot something very important. Today a very exciting leak came out about the Galaxy S26 Ultra, and you know we love a good Galaxy S26 Ultra leak. We talked last week or a couple of weeks ago about what's expected for the S26 Ultra and we talked about some exciting features like faster charging, primary camera upgrade, and now we have a new one. Samsung is taking it to the next level with the screens. You know, tori, that we already have the anti-glare screen on the S25 Ultra, which they started with the S24 Ultra, and I love the anti-glare screen. Don't you love the anti-glares? I do, if you look at my two screens here, as much as I love the z-fold 7 look at the difference.
Speaker 2:Look how much more reflective the z-fold 7 is. Oh, yeah, yeah it's super noticeable. Yeah, I mean, the z-fold 7 is great, but it doesn't have the anti-reflective coating, and, like you, even when you open the box for um the s25, like you could just tell, like right off the phone you can compare it to any phone, like if I said other phones in my desk, like the iphone perspective, you know, especially not.
Speaker 1:You know not to hate an apple, even though we do like to do that here. Uh, the iphone is like way more reflective than the s25 ultra. It'll blind you if you've got like studio lights when I'm shooting videos, whereas the s25 ultra very nice. But now samsung's got a new trick up their sleeve. Leaks suggest that the Galaxy S25, sorry, s26 Ultra will adopt FlexMagic Pixel technology. It's technology that implements an AI-powered privacy film effect digitally on the display to improve privacy.
Speaker 1:So think about it like a privacy screen protector that basically changes the viewing angle, like minimizes the viewing angles of your phone, if you want it to. So let's say you're reading something you don't want other people to see, or you're viewing some scandalous materials that you don't want people to see and you're on the light rail here in Phoenix or on the bus or whatever you know. You got some people around. You just turn on your boom right there Pixel magic, flex magic, pixel technology and then you know people can't really see what you're looking at. Basically, Samsung is trying to put an end to the privacy screen protector segment. I'm glad.
Speaker 1:I don't own a business that makes those privacy screen protectors the ones that make them.
Speaker 2:Who's going to take them on out?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they're like well now you can just do that digitally with a button in the software. Ai will just change the viewing angles using the pixels and then people won't be able to see your stuff. But this is a very appealing feature.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I think a lot of people would like this. Even the name sounds appealing.
Speaker 1:It sounds it's not just magic, it's actually flex magic. Yes, not just magic, flex magic, flex magic. A little jingle for it, but I could see this being a big selling point. I mean, samsung is already way ahead in display space.
Speaker 2:Obviously they have their own.
Speaker 1:They have their own. You know they make displays for most other companies. Even Apple buys displays from Samsung for the iPhone. That's how good Samsung is at displays. But you know, with the anti-glare they're already ahead of everybody because nobody else has this yeah.
Speaker 1:If they add this FlexMagic Pixel-changing technology for privacy on the S26 Ultra, like the display games, go into the next level for Samsung. I think this makes the S26 Ultra a massively appealing upgrade for a lot of people. Oh yeah, I mean faster charging, which we haven't gotten in years. Better primary camera upgrade, which we haven't gotten in years Years. We're seeing this, which is a feature that we didn't even expect. This is a surprise feature. The only thing that could really kill my vibe about the whole thing is that they're like yeah, we got all these really cool new features and then at the end of the keynote they're like but you guys will notice they're on the bottom. There's no more slot for the S pen. No, why is that? Cause the S pen has been murdered.
Speaker 1:And I'd be like oh man, that killed my vibe. You know, like Kendrick Lamar. I know I was already singing it in my head, that's what I'm going to say to you know, my guy TM Rowe, if I show up, when I show up for the event you know, for Unpacked, I'll be like don't kill my vibe TM don't kill my vibe. I'm just trying to get the S Pen for one more year, with all these features on top.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:You know, it would be nice if they had been able to get a bigger battery too, but I mean, I'll take it Faster. Charging, primary camera upgrade those are two things I've wanted for a long time and this cool feature. And we're not even done seeing the leaks. I mean there's still probably some surprises to come. Plus, they're going to slim it down a little bit, yeah, but if the S Pen's gone, that's going to make it a little less exciting, because people are going to be like they did all these cool things, but then they also ruined the S Pen.
Speaker 1:It's gone. They took it completely out, and I will have to agree on some level about it. If they do all this but then take the S Pen out, that's kind of disappointing. So we'll have to see. Oh, and then also the other thing, a small thing. Remember last week we were talking about the S26 Pro and we were debating what screen size it would be. Well, that leak came out this week and it's going to be the same size as the base model. So our speculation was point on. Some other people were telling me it's going to be the same size, like the Plus. No, it's not.
Speaker 1:The Edge is going to replace the Plus, because it's already the same size as the Plus. The same size as the plus, this one will be around 6.2 to 6.3 inches, and it's going to replace the base model. So our question from last week still remains, though, because there's nothing else that's really leaked out. What's going to be pro about it? Yeah because they're not changing the screen size. Are they putting a better camera in there? I?
Speaker 2:hope so because if there's not a better camera in there, like if they don't put a better camera in the bit in the pro.
Speaker 1:Putting pro in there is basically just you know, putting in words where they don't belong.
Speaker 2:You know like call anything pro.
Speaker 1:You can call a turd pro, it doesn't make it pro. What's pro about this turd? You know?
Speaker 2:Sell me on this turd. Turds are not pro.
Speaker 1:That's the thing. You can put pro on any product, but it doesn't mean it's pro unless there's really a feature that makes it so. I it has to have a better camera, the main camera has to be upgraded this year or it's just a completely BS name Just renaming the base. So it doesn't seem so because just vanilla S26 doesn't sound good. So like what's a good word guys? Oh, I know the other Apple they use pro. Let's put that on there and people are like but what's pro about it? Yeah, I don't know, just just call it pro. You know people like that word. It's got three letters, you know now we've got three letters on the base model pro, four letters on the mid model edge, five letters on the top model ultra.
Speaker 2:it's perfect three, four, five boom.
Speaker 1:See, it's like I'm inside these marketing meetings yep and product development yes, they have spot on, but okay, so we'll talk more s26, of course, in the next five months.
Speaker 2:We got plenty of time to get there, but those were two very interesting.
Speaker 1:The uh flex magic pixel got me very excited though. So s26 ultra is shaping up to be a pretty big upgrade. I would say for anybody s24 and uh s24 and older, it's probably a good year to upgrade s25, though it might still be appealing if you're an enthusiast, because we're getting some big changes this year. You know I'm gonna make sure I get tori and upgrade. He's gonna do that year over year and see how he feels see if it blows his mind. Yeah, he'll be like does it blow my mind or not?
Speaker 2:that'll be the question for tori from the s22 to the 25. It definitely was a mind-blowing, but I still miss that S22.
Speaker 1:Because you love those curved edges, you know.
Speaker 2:I did. That was a solid phone and just the back, you know, it just felt like it was very nicely.
Speaker 1:That bronze color. You can't beat it. You can't beat the bronze color sometimes Hopefully Samsung or burgundy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, burgundy.
Speaker 1:Bronze was on the Note 10, I'm sorry, but an 020. People, bronze was on the Note 10, I'm sorry, but in 020. Oh, in 020. People are going to be like Jeff, this guy doesn't know anything about Samsung. You know it's hard to get it straight. They got so many phones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they got like hundreds of.
Speaker 1:SKUs across the globe. Like it's hard to remember all of them when you deal with them every day.
Speaker 1:We don't just write about the flagships at Sammy Guru we do all the lines, MFS, note, fold, flip so many different phones to remember, Like I mean, yeah, I enjoy it, but sometimes it's hard to remember these things. Okay, let's switch gears to our question. We can talk about this for mainly the rest of the show. Someone said to me if you had to use an iPhone daily, let's. They didn't put a limit on it, but let's put a limit on it. Just to cap the length of this conversation, what are three things that I, that Apple, could do to the iPhone that would make it tolerable? Where you could like use the iPhone and be like okay, this is not bad, I could do it. You still might prefer one UI.
Speaker 1:This is not to say that this would. This is not to say what could Apple do that would make the iPhone your daily driver? Because for me, the answer to that right now is nothing. I would never use it as my daily driver over at One UI. There's nothing really they could do, because there's a lot of things I don't like about Apple and the way their business model operates. They would never be able to feasibly change enough things that would make me want to use it over Samsung at this point, just because of the way they do business. Their business is all about their ecosystem.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And that prevents them from doing a lot of things that would make me want to use it. But I'll let you go first, tori. What are three things that Apple could change or add? Change or add to the iPhone that would make it at least usable on a daily basis for you?
Speaker 2:You know, as I kind of think about this, I'm reflecting on this conversation I had with some friends of mine over the weekend and they actually brought up the same thing you were talking about. They got the what was it? The desert, what was that color you got.
Speaker 1:Rose, gold, yeah, I mean he's like man.
Speaker 2:I really hate this color that I got because it looks like.
Speaker 1:It looks like rose gold and I'm like hey, my buddy jeff literally said this the exact same thing, yeah you really shouldn't market rose gold under different names, because you're going to get a lot of people who wanted a more rugged color. Yeah, that's your titanium. I don't care if there's men who like rose gold I'm not saying that like rose gold. Rose gold is not a woman color but you're going to get a lot of guys who don't really want a pink or rose phone yeah, and they're going to want something different and they see the name Desert Titanium and it looks a little different online in the images that are in hand, and they're going to buy it and they're going to be like man, they get it, they're going to be upset. That's what happened to me. Thankfully, this year the special color is orange. Okay, from the renders it looks orange. It's kind of hard to be. I mean, of course, they'll probably call it something like you know, like uh, mojave orange or something, but as long as it's orange and not rose gold.
Speaker 2:I'm okay with it, but go ahead, you can, yeah, yeah, uh, okay, yeah, I mean overall, uh, I think, um, obviously they can't be Samsung, but okay, like a key thing to me, that, and actually I kind of want to start off with this and then it'll all make sense. I think in the end I really enjoyed their ecosystem, that they have their ecosystem, that they have um, but like when I, whenever I use an iphone, um, everything just kind of seems like boom, the presentation is nice, but then it's like I, you know I in terms of the using, like the camera, I feel like I I would like you know a better camera um, just like the feel in the hand, like like whenever I hold an iphone, to me it just seems a little bit more bulkier. I wish it was kind of a more of a slimmer fit um to me, like in my hand, like with the samsung slabs.
Speaker 1:so you're saying like the weight yeah, because I think the iphone is heavier than the S25.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. And every time I hold an iPhone it feels heavier in my hand and just like the icons. I never liked their icons. What don't you like about their icons? I'm just curious.
Speaker 2:So like to me they're all like very bright color poppy, which I know, like we're kind of getting that way. You know some aspects uh with samsung. But like when I look at the samsung icons, like like my phone just, or when I look at it, the icons just kind of just seem like nice and like I'm not getting blind with like a bright red here or a bright, bright pink here right, you know, green here, like I, um, everything just kind of feels like an old-timey phone, I, I, if I guess you know for like older people uh, but like when I look at samsung's, like everything just looks like nice and sleek, and so you know, I would kind of want that for iphone to be a little bit nice and sleek so so far the weight and the ui.
Speaker 1:Yeah it, weight and ui and what's the last one?
Speaker 2:uh, see the last one. I like how samsung has like more options for entry into getting you know a samsung phone and I feel like apple like that.
Speaker 1:How many options they got like two yeah, I mean, well, they got the pro and the pro max, they're just different sizes, and then they got the Pro and the Pro Max. They're just different sizes and then they got the base model. So, essentially, but yeah, I mean, samsung has a lot more options.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot more options, yeah, yeah, and as an average consumer, I would like to see more options from Samsung and not Samsung, but from.
Speaker 1:Apple.
Speaker 2:Just for different levels of entry, for different levels of people. I like to see that a little bit more For sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they definitely don't cater to the more mid-range segment. I think they could definitely. They've tried a couple of times with, like their mini, their iPhone minis or their SEs. Yeah, and there's supposed to be a new SE coming, but they don't have nearly. Samsung has like 40, 50 different mid range across the M, the F and the a series. Yeah, and Apple doesn't try to dip their toes in that too much.
Speaker 2:And also, if I can add one more. I just kind of came through you know, really, with everything being like Google now, like and it's been like forever since I use like an iPhone, you know, I I don't know how much of an integration you can have with Google, but you know, with Google just being literally and like just about everything that I do and use, just being able to have like a good integration with Google in certain levels. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Not having access to, not having that persistent integration with your Google account is definitely a downside, I think. Because they force you to use Apple stuff, if you're from the Android side and thinking about switching to iPhone. It's a downside. If you're already on the iPhone side. Of course it's not a downside to you, but if you are thinking about going from Android to Apple, that direction, losing your Google integration and across Google services is, I think, a downside For me. The first one is definitely the notifications. Their notifications are just awful in my opinion.
Speaker 2:They don't bundle them and they just kind of slide up from the bottom and once you view a notification, it's gone.
Speaker 1:You don't really have an easy way to archive that notification. They've tried to make some changes that do some of that a little bit, but it still requires a little too much triaging for my liking, whereas in my samsung phone, if I want I can just leave the notification there I can. I can look at it in the notification shade, leave it there and I have to do nothing. It'll still be there when I come back and I can triage it and do something with it.
Speaker 2:Now for iPhone. Does like all the cause I noticed on, like my girlfriend's phone, all the notifications just appear like on the lock screen and they just kind of stay. And I'm like I don't want all that, like even when Android had them on the lock screen.
Speaker 1:you could still minimize them to icons and then expand them, and that's a huge thing that I really like. I could triage them from the lock screen, but I didn't have to have them all visible. And also, they were there if I wanted them, but not if I didn't. It's just a really bad in my opinion. The notifications are unbearable. It's the number one reason why, whenever I have to use an iPhone on a daily basis, I've never had to, but if I ever do like I say, I'm out and I just have my iPhone because we're traveling and like it's on AT&T and wherever we're at, AT&T has the best service.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I end up using it. I just get infuriated with the notifications. I don't like them. I don't like the management. It's usually okay if I'm taking it on vacation and I have to use it because I'm not really triaging a lot of notifications yeah. But if I had to use that for a workday, I'd be really upset because obviously I'm archiving stuff and trying to deal. I get a lot of email and so I'm trying to deal with all that stuff in real time while I'm doing other stuff, and that's just very annoying because their notifications are not conducive to that, in my opinion. The other problem the second one for me, so that's the first one notifications. They'd have to overhaul the notification system. They'd have to blow it up. It'd have to be a little more similar to android for me to deal with it on a day-to-day basis actually can I give a shout out to samsung on that?
Speaker 2:uh, at first, when I got this 25, uh, I didn't like how the notifications were like on the corner one side and then, like you have the settings and stuff on the other, like and saying all that too and reflecting, I'm like, yeah, I actually really like that. I can just swipe away from the notifications and it's still there at night and I can still just do my own stuff at the end of the day samsung gave you the ability to combine that again.
Speaker 1:If you don't like the new, the change that's. The thing I like about samsung is usually, if they do something that's going to upset their users, they at least do give you a way to change it. Um, they don't also always necessarily make it that easy. This time they did they actually told you, but sometimes you have to go and find a guy like me, which is good, because that gives me a job.
Speaker 2:You go find Sammy Gurr.
Speaker 1:You go find my YouTube channel and you watch a video and you learn how to change it back to the way you want it, but they do at least usually give you an option. Sometimes Apple changes stuff and they'll be like, oh, you're just going to live with that just the way. We know what's best for you. You don't know what's best for you.
Speaker 2:In story.
Speaker 1:Tim Cook will tell you what you need. You won't tell yourself what you need. Tim Cook dictates what you need.
Speaker 1:But Samsung usually doesn't do that. There's, of course, examples where they have and of course they're a big company. Sometimes they have to make a decision for business reasons, just like Apple, but they try their hardest I would say at least 10 times harder than Apple to, if they make a change, not to alienate users and give them an out to go back to their old, you know UI. The second thing for me is a dedicated back gesture or back button. The iPhone does not have a back button. That's a universal back button and on Android we take that for granted.
Speaker 1:If you're on any screen, you can hit a button or do a gesture and go back to the previous thing On an iPhone if you're on a window, you've got to go all the way back to the top and hit that little arrow that goes back In Safari, wherever you are. Now they have a little thing where you can swipe along there to get between windows and certain apps, but it doesn't work in all of them. It's not a universal button. Sometimes the iPhone people tell me oh, but there's a way you can do it. It doesn't work on all of them. I know all the little iPhone things. They don't work in every app. They're not universal. It's not built into iOS. That's another one that's just like notifications, where it's like absolutely infuriating. If I had to use it on a daily work basis because I'm going back between so many different apps and because I'm doing a lot of stuff for email, for spreadsheets, for whatever I really get tired of not having a, not having a back button. What?
Speaker 2:do you think about that? Wouldn't that, doesn't that would not be upsetting? I even know again, you think about it. I I haven't touched it.
Speaker 1:I think the last time I had an iphone was iphone 3 that I got from like a game stop so you don't even think about it, you just take it for granted. As an android user, it's like I'm to have a back button when I'm using my phone.
Speaker 2:I know, and actually yeah, Now that I'm even now I'm looking at my Samsung, it's so nice that we do have a way to just kind of I can look at all the things I have running. I have the back button, I can get back to home. Like all within a thumb's reach? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:That's actually really nice. Yeah, that is actually part of it. This is probably the biggest one is the back button, but that goes along with the other thing that I miss when I leave One UI to go to the iPhone One UI in its name. The goal is to be good for one-handed use.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the iPhone, for whatever reason Apple decides to keep designing iOS is not very good for one-handed use it's very much a phone that's hard to use with one hand, and that's one of the reasons why I get inferior. When I use it, uh, for a long period of time is because I'm like, well, I frequently feel like I need to use my other hand, especially for the back gesture, because, like I mean, it's a big phone and yeah I have big hands I can stretch to reach.
Speaker 1:But it's like that's just easier just to pull my left hand over and tap the back in the back arrow or whatever in that top left corner. It'd be way better if I could just do a gesture or tap the button on the bottom like I can in a samsung phone.
Speaker 2:Just, I know that I'm always going back to the previous screen yeah like that button always does the same thing and, uh, I'm writing in it, but I mean, like for the back button to be on the. I don't know if you can flip it.
Speaker 2:You can, you can't oh see, boom, there you go. Samsung thinks of everything, yeah, um, but like it's really nice to just be able to, because I feel like it's more of a reach to get over to the left side of the phone but to have it just so readily available on the right hand side, especially when you're out and about as my daily driver, walking around, it's just really nice to be able to boom. I don't even have to reach or do a whole lot of that.
Speaker 1:I do think they should make it a little easier to change it to the left-handed side, because there's a lot of left-handed people. It's obviously not the majority, but they don't make it as easy. You can go in settings and do it, but they should make that an option really in the setup walkthrough. I agree, I'm sure that would make our left Like when you go through.
Speaker 1:It'd be like, if you're using gesture I mean if you're using buttons would you like to flip the buttons? A lot of people with their left hand it would probably say, yes, I want to flip the buttons, or even just say are you right-handed or left-handed? I mean, I think they've kind of went to the thought process of they just want everybody to use gestures, but not everybody does.
Speaker 2:I mean, I love gestures, but I still know a ton of people who uses the buttons. I use zero gestures. My mother-in-law uses the buttons. My mom uses the buttons. Yeah, Tori uses the buttons.
Speaker 1:Almost everybody else I know basically uses the button nav still. Yeah, I mean I've been using gestures since whenever they launched them which I don't remember what that was Like the Galaxy S8, I've been using for a long time, like nine years, but everybody I know uses Samsung, which is a lot of people, because if they know me, you know I don't. I'm not friends with people who don't use Samsung.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just kidding but you know they all use the three button nav, so you know that's that's kind of a thing that I enjoy. The last one. For me, the third one has to be the customization of Samsung. There's just so much customization. It's not just Samsung, it's Android as a whole. I mean, so you could put Pixel and other Android phones. I could easily use a Pixel daily driver, way before I could use an iPhone, because the difference is as much as I was talking about earlier some problems that Google has. There's much fewer differences between the Pixel and the Samsung versus the Samsung and the iPhone because, yes, there's not as much customization but I can still like change my icon pack. I still have a back button, yeah, back gesture. I still have good notification management. Um, I can still do a lot of those things.
Speaker 1:But when I go to an iphone, the customization is missing and everything like do you understand how hard it is? I? I know it's not like an essential folk feature of your phone, but I like to change my icon packs and you know how hard it is on Apple to change an icon pack. You have to change, you can do it, but you have to download all the icons as separate photo files and you have to go into their shortcuts app and literally change every icon on your phone one by one by selecting it from the gallery. I did it once on an iPhone just for fun to see how long it would take me. It took me like two hours and 47 minutes because I had like 127 apps. That's like the number I have on my S25 Ultra. You know how long it takes me to change an icon back on my S25 Ultra About seven seconds. I go to Theme Park, choose the icon back I downloaded, I hit apply and all my icons are changed and that's it, but not only icons. I mean, I know icons.
Speaker 1:People say, well, that's just a, that's just a superficial element and that's true, but it's something I like and in addition, there are other things I use a lot that are not superficial, that are key to my workflow that I don't have an iPhone like one hand operation plus the good lock module on the galaxy phones you can literally set like a diagonal gesture to open anything. I have a diagonal gesture that opens the Twitter app in a pop-up window because I tweet a lot, obviously for my business, send out a lot of social posts. I have a long swipe gesture that brings up all my email widgets so I can go through and triage my business email. I have a diagonal up gesture that opens Slack so I can go in and talk to my writers at Semigurup. All those things are not really that easy to do because there's not a lot of this customization to exactly what you want on the iPhone. I mean, we always say, well, there's something similar, yeah, but not quite as good. I've tried all of the stuff with Apple shortcuts and they do have some good stuff, but a lot of it's not gesture based stuff the way Samsung has.
Speaker 1:So that's the third thing that I would miss. So notifications they need to improve their notification management. They need to have a universal back button or gesture and they need to add more customization to iOS. Those three things I could probably use an iPhone and not be too upset about it. I'd probably still miss One UI, because there's a laundry list of other things that I like about One UI that's not on the iPhone. It's just those three things are the ones that bother me the most. And so for Tori Tori is saying the overall build of the phone. He kind of likes the Galaxy build better.
Speaker 1:The UI, just the overall UI look, and I agree I don't like the look of iOS. The new iOS 26, the new liquid glass is like you're going to love it or hate it, and I hate it I don't like what Apple did there. Yeah, I don't like it, Not a fan of it. Some people do. And then what was the other one? You said Tori.
Speaker 2:Was it the Google integration?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, google integration, so your services are Google. If you're onboard, you're thick in the Google ecosystem. It's kind of hard to leave Android Because obviously you can get Gmail on your iPhone, but it's not the default app, whereas the iOS Mail app is the default. You can get all your other Google apps but they're not the default. Google Photos on your Galaxy is the default photos app, where it's kind of baked in, whereas on iOS the Apple Photos app that's baked in.
Speaker 1:So it's all these little ecosystem things, whereas if you use Android, you really have Google kind of baked into that experience. So I thought that was a good question, an interesting question that we could kind of talk about for a while, and it's a question that people ask me pretty often, like what keeps you from using an iPhone, and those are the main things that keep me from using an iPhone. Of course, also, I run a business.
Speaker 1:That's really predicated on Samsung so if I started using an iPhone as my main phone, it'd be hard to keep running this business. That being said, I do want to say for everyone who listened to the end, I am going to be making some changes to my YouTube channel over the next few months. We're going to be. I figure this is a good place to kind of introduce it. I'll be kind of announcing this other places as well. I'm going to start doing more general tech reviews on my channel and start transitioning my usual Samsung updates and tutorials to the Sammy Guru YouTube channel, which has about 1400 subscribers. We've been trying to grow that channel and so, if you haven't yet, go subscribe to the Sammy Guru YouTube. I'll drop the link below.
Speaker 1:Don't unsubscribe from my channel please, I'm still going to be doing some Samsung stuff, of course, and I'm going to be doing more hardware. So I'll be reviewing the Samsung phones like I used to in the back in the day when I used to do 30, 45 minute reviews. People enjoyed those. I got away from that. But not just Samsung. I'll be reviewing other hardware as well. I might do a review of the iPhone this year to just kind of see how the other half lives. I'll be reviewing a ton of Android phones, like the Chinese phones, the Pixels, motorola's, all that stuff, just to broaden my horizons a little bit, and also be reviewing a lot of other cool tech like smart home tech. A bunch of AI tools are coming out these days all these kind of crazy AI tools that'll, you know, can clip onto your shirt and it'll transcribe everything you say and summarize your day or whatever. All that kind of tech I'll be reviewing on my channel. So I mean, I'm not going anywhere, but I'm just trying to have a little more fun because, as much as I love Samsung, if that's all you do, I do it on the website and YouTube. You know, eventually you're going to want to be like let me branch out a little bit. So Sammy guru is still all Samsung. We're never going to cover. We're never covering iPhone on on Sammy guru and we're never going to.
Speaker 1:Really that's not going to be our main focus here, but I am going to do more hardware on my personal channel. It's always been called Jeff Springer. It's never been Sammy guru. That's why I never called it Sammy Guru. That's why I made a new channel, that's why I made the website, so that I have the freedom to do some more reviews, because when I started my YouTube channel 10 years ago, the first half of that, the first five years, I reviewed every Android phone and I reviewed some iPhones and headphones and everything, and then five years ago, I had to flip it to be all Samsung, mainly software, which helped. It's great because it helped me, found Sammy Guru and had a lot of success the mystery boxes, and that's not going away. I just want to go back to doing some other reviews as well, which will benefit Sammy Guru, because I'll get a chance to see other hardware. We'll get to do more comparisons of Samsung to other stuff. What do?
Speaker 1:you think about that, Tori. What do?
Speaker 2:you think about that. I think that's a really good idea, I mean because we're it at Samsung central. But I mean, like the, there's a lot of people out there who also follow Sammy guru, who are interested in other tech things and Exactly, yeah, I think particularly the end.
Speaker 1:Other Android phones and like the accessories and stuff. Yep, everybody needs to buy headphones. So no matter what phone you use and if you're a galaxy user, that's still relevant to you. I enjoyed doing headphone reviews back in the day. I did quite a few of those. Everybody needs a laptop so you can review various laptops and things like that and general tech accessories and stuff. People need that stuff and you know, if I do an iPhone review on my channel, you don't have to watch it, it's okay.
Speaker 1:I just want to try to do something a little different but, like I said, still going to be a lot of Samsung content on my personal channel because I'm still a Samsung user, still my daily driver. That's not going to change. I highly doubt I'm going to switch to any other phone as my daily because I love One UI so much. And, of course, Sammy Guru YouTube will continue to be only Samsung, nothing but Samsung and all Samsung. Eventually we'll probably try to flip it to where I'm doing right now. I do a video every day that's on Samsung on my channel. Eventually I'm going to try to do five videos a week on Sammy Guru that are just updates in Samsung news and then my channel will probably have five videos a week. Maybe three of those will be general tech and two of them will be Samsung. So I'm not getting rid of the Samsung at Jeff Springer's personal channel, but just kind of mixing it up a little bit to give a little flavor. It's all about the flavor. You know, like a little flavor, Everybody does.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, everybody, anyway, I think that's pretty much it for the podcast this week. Any closing thoughts? Tori. I know just keep expanding your galaxy.