SammyGuru with Jeff Springer
SammyGuru with Jeff Springer
The Ugly S26 Edge Camera Hump + Pixel 10 Pro vs S25 Ultra Hot Takes
We dive deep into Samsung's latest hardware offerings while discussing what the future holds for the S26 series and other upcoming releases.
• Leaked dummy units of the S26 series reveal Samsung's design strategy with significant changes for the Edge model
• The Edge model has a controversial camera design similar to the upcoming iPhone 17
• Trifold release dates keep changing with potential delays until late 2025 or early 2026
• One UI 8 is coming in September but not all devices will receive it simultaneously
• Google released Instagram for iPad after 15 years, creating more challenges for Samsung's tablet ecosystem
• The Pixel 10 Pro XL impresses with its design and camera but suffers from overheating and excessive AI features
• Tab S11 series introduces an Apple Pencil-like S Pen and expensive pricing for the Ultra model
• Samsung's Pro keyboard for the Tab S11 Ultra won't be available until January 2026
Check out sammyguru.com/preorder to get a free case and screen protector with your Tab S11, Tab S11 Ultra, or S25 FE purchase through our affiliate links.
S26 Ultra Mystery Box Sign up: https://laylo.com/springer/8g0gnSvT
Video Podcast on Youtube: https://bit.ly/3yBw3Ro
Follow Jeff on X (Twitter): https://x.com/jspring86az
Follow Torrey on X: https://x.com/T_Martin_23
Check out our website: https://sammyguru.com
Welcome back everybody. This is episode number 42 of the Sammy Guru podcast. My name is Jeff Springer. With me, as always, my co-host, Torrey Torrey, say hi. Yeah, how's it going and we're back. It's September, it's theoretically fall everywhere, except basically Arizona, where it's still summer.
Speaker 2:Hey, but that monsoon weather has been very good it was actually below 100 for most of today.
Speaker 1:And for the next few days it's supposed to be so it kind of feels. You know, people think of fall weather in other parts of the country. It's like 70s, 60s. We're like, oh, it's in the 90s.
Speaker 2:Well, fall is here.
Speaker 1:Let's go get a pumpkin spice latte If it's below 100, it's basically time to start getting on all your fall clothes. Time to put on the hoodies get the pumpkin spice out and get ready to start picking out your Halloween costume at a Spirit Halloween store.
Speaker 2:Hey, they're like everywhere right now. They're everywhere man, yeah, spirit Halloween is like— they opened so much earlier. It's infested the Valley now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it has been, I feel like they open like after the 4th of July.
Speaker 2:They're like like it's time. I saw a few open like two weeks ago and I'm like man, we, we haven't even gotten to september at that point I was like you guys got to calm down.
Speaker 1:I know damn, I mean soon they'll be putting out all the christmas stuff yeah, like it's still a while till october.
Speaker 2:Oh no, actually we went to uh, me and my girlfriend. We went to a dollar tree over the weekend and one aisle was halloween, the other aisle was Damn man.
Speaker 1:Already. You guys got to calm down. I know Give people a chance to breathe on the retail holidays.
Speaker 2:I know people got to make their money. Yes.
Speaker 1:But we just got to chill out, mellow it out a little bit. It's going to be OK, we're going to get there, I promise. But the good news is football is back. If you're an Alabama fan, it's not good news, but it's good news for some people, yes. Not for us. Uh, it was a disaster. Luckily I was finishing moving the last bit of stuff out of our old place and cleaning it up, so I didn't see much of it.
Speaker 1:I just kind of checked in on the ESPN app but uh, I'm glad I didn't see much of it from what. I hear it was a really brutal, um, basically low effort showing I don't care. I mean I do care about, but I care more about the fact that apparently the team I saw highlights. The team did not look inspired.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Did not look like a Nick Saban era Alabama team at all.
Speaker 2:I think that is long. The team just looks really soft now.
Speaker 1:That's you know. That's my main complaint with Kalen DeBoer. I saw an interview of Paul Feinbaum radio show. Kalen DeBoer was on it. He was just talking to Paul Feinbaum and a guy called in and he said I just have one thing to say Hit the road, deboer, don't you come back, no more, no more, no more, no more.
Speaker 2:Hit the road, deboer, don't you?
Speaker 1:come back, no more. And then he hung up. What you say, yeah, and so that's how people in alabama are feeling about, uh, caitlin deborah. I don't know if he's gonna last this whole season.
Speaker 2:I don't think he is yeah, yeah, yeah, I I don't think he's the coach I think he has to.
Speaker 1:I really think he has to beat georgia to save his job. If he doesn't beat georgia, I think at minimum at the end of the season he's gone. Yeah, if not before, I mean I think they probably will wait at the end of the season. He's gone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if not before.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think they probably will wait to the end of the season, but still Well also.
Speaker 2:Then, joe, do you think there is any coach that can even come close to replicating?
Speaker 1:There's only one coach in college football right now who I think could take Alabama back to where Nick Saban had them. I think he's a guy that I don't know if they can get, because I think he likes his current situation, but he was at Alabama for a while. I think it's Lane Kiffin at.
Speaker 2:Ole Miss, oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:If we could get Lane Kiffin back, I think he's matured. When he was younger he learned a lot under Saban. He had a lot of respect for Saban. I think if he came back he could get us back to the playoffs and playing good football. And he just told Lane. Giffen said he wanted to talk to him in his office and he just said I'm not ready to talk to you yet. I'm working on my mental health. And so when he finally came back, nick Saban said you're off the team, yeah. He said get the F out of here. And the kid's like well, you don't have to be so rude about it. He's like you don't tell the head coach, the head football coach, that you're not ready to talk to him.
Speaker 1:If you have stuff to work on, you come and talk to me about it. Just be a man. He's like we can't just not show up for work for four weeks. No, Even if you are working on your mental health, that's not how it works.
Speaker 2:You got to let people, you got to be able to talk, you got to talk.
Speaker 1:Yeah, anyway, football. I'm excited about football. The Steelers play on Sunday, so Nicole already still has some hope that her team might not be terrible. We'll see. I hope they are good, because I have a really long season of watching Alabama get their butt kicked all over the field on Saturday.
Speaker 1:So at least if the Steelers are good, we can watch some good football in our house on Sundays, and tonight is the first game of the season. We're recording this. On Thursday, you've got the Eagles-Cowboys tonight. I got some prop bets on that, so we'll be watching that. This little parlay is set up for the first time of the season Should be kind of fun, but we do have a lot of tech news this week, and I do mean a lot. This could be a long one.
Speaker 1:We started late, but who knows me and tori could be here till 10 o'clock yeah, probably not, that's 4 48, but hopefully we you know we'll be here maybe another hour and a half a lot of stuff this week. Let's start with the galaxy s26 series dummy unit leaks because we've been talking that. We've been talking s26 series every single week since we came back and that's because there's been stuff to talk about every single week, like I said, a few weeks ago this is where all the leaks start flowing. Like you know, everything just starts flowing like a river. It's like leak me a river, you know little Justin.
Speaker 1:Timberlake action. Anyway, these dummy units came out today. I'm showing them to Tori and you guys can check them out on the website. I'll put it in the show notes. It's an article we wrote up. A user over on X claims to have attained some dummy units of the S26 Pro, edge and Ultra. And what do you notice about this lineup? First and foremost, tori, what really doesn't look, what looks out of place here.
Speaker 2:I'll say there's two things that kind of look out of place the little circular parts in the center, which I'm assuming is the Chi-Tu, that's a good guess yeah you're right, we can talk about that more in a second, but yeah, that's one thing. And for the edge, I really am not quite vibing that little top stick out part, yeah.
Speaker 1:So if you look at these three phones, if you guys check out the article in the show notes, essentially the Pro and the Ultra look just like the usual Samsung design language. Now they have changed something in that the camera rings are not all separated. There's like an island that connects the three main camera lenses, uh, which there's only three on the pro, but I mean there's you've got five cutouts obviously on the ultra, but the three larger ones are all on a camera island, but those two still look distinctly samsung.
Speaker 2:You would say right, they don't look they don't look out of place.
Speaker 1:However, the edge has a huge rectangular or squircle, I think square like rounded, rectangular, uh camera bump island that houses its two camera lens, uh cutouts, which are also still separated, but they're on top of this huge bump and it just doesn't look good. No, I don't think it looks good. A couple of things. One, this is the exact same design that Apple is going to release next week for the iPhone 17. So people are not happy about this because this is Samsung kind of copying Apple again. But the second thing is, the whole reason they have to do this is because they're trying to go ultra thin with the iPhone, I mean with the S26 Edge.
Speaker 1:I almost call it the iPhone 17 Air because that's what the S17 Air looks like as well, but this is why they have to put this huge camera hump, because the phone is supposed to be 5.5 millimeters thin, which we talked about.
Speaker 2:I mean that's still.
Speaker 1:That's 0.3 millimeters thinner than the current edge, which is already paper thin. So you basically have nowhere, if you want to maintain that thinness, to put all that camera housing in the chassis itself. So that necessitates putting a massive camera hump. But my question is, if it has a massive camera hump, is it still 5.5? Because, that's still. That should count for some of the thickness. Yes, I agree, like I mean, you can't say something like it's 5.5 millimeters. Then if that takes up, what do you think, tori, if we look at that, about 20?
Speaker 2:of the area of the back.
Speaker 1:It really does 20 of the back area. If you look at that, that has a thickness of maybe because of the camera, but it might be like 7.5 millimeters. I don't think you should be able to say it's 5.5 millimeters thin. I don't think so. Uh, I'm just not a fan of it at all. I don't think it looks good. A couple of problems, one one I just don't like it I don't think you like it either from your face when you saw these, when I just showed them to you yeah, like I it.
Speaker 2:Just you know, when you think of when I hear s line and I look at what we currently have for the s25, that really does look like a line to me.
Speaker 2:You can see the gradual exactly that's what I was progression of like tech, technological continuity yeah, continuity within each of the phones and you can clearly see, just from the presentation, because that, because, like that's what like people want, like you know people care about that presentation um, you can see as you go from the regular to the um, uh, to the ultra, like man, all right, I really am getting and getting a samsung, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got that brand identity, yeah but that the middle tier people are like what is that phone in the middle?
Speaker 2:I mean like it, like will. Will the edge truly be enough to to replace the pro? Yeah, you know, I mean the plus.
Speaker 1:Oh, sorry, but yeah, but here's the thing, yeah it's a good question, right, because a lot of people don't realize is, even though the Plus I've talked about it kind of being a weird device because it's close to the Ultra but it doesn't offer Ultra features it was actually the second best-selling model. The base model actually is the small one is the distant third place. The Plus sold more than the base. Third place the plus sold more than the than the base. So they're basically gambling that people are going to like the edge enough to keep those plus users, and there's not a negligible number of them. I mean, obviously the ultra sounds far and away more than anything, but between the base and the plus, for the s25 series, the plus outsells the base by quite a lot. I think it's like two or three to one and that's. That's substantial and those people obviously want a bigger phone and so their only option now will be the edge or the ultra.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I don't know, man. I mean, yeah, the brand identity is the bit is one big problem for me, because when I look at these phones from the back, I mean obviously these are dummy units that just uh, obviously they've cut out of some material or whatever that they've formulated based on some specs that they have. They were probably from some case manufacturers or some other accessory manufacturer. There's going to be a Samsung logo at the bottom eventually, but if you didn't have the Samsung logo there, if I was looking at the middle phone I'd be like who the hell made that phone?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Because it doesn't look like a Samsung phone. It does not. I mean.
Speaker 1:I guess, you could argue that it looks like some third party.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it looks like a Chinese phone, honestly. Yeah, like Xiaomi. It looks like one of the Xiaomi ultra phones, which you know. I'm not against Xiaomi, I've reviewed some of their phones but you want your look at your product and say I know who made that product. Yeah, you know. And apple is gambling this year too, because they're completely changing the iphone design next week, basically making it look like this, which is why people are going to really call samsung out, because they're gonna be like you guys, ripped off the iphone 17 design.
Speaker 1:But now let's talk about tori's other point, which is that big circular cutout. So a couple of people have questions about this, and there there are two things. One is that for the chi 2, and I think the answer for that is almost certainly yes. But the question is apple also has like a cutout on the back of their 7 iphone 17 units, which they'll unveil on the 9th september 9th next week. That's a glass cutout. So they've got their phone made out of metal like it has been, but there's a glass cutout. So they've got their phone made out of metal like it has been, but there's a glass cutout in the back, and the reason for that is they wanted to maintain the mag safe while also having also having reverse wireless power sharing we talked about that last week remember.
Speaker 1:Samsung, though, is rumored to be cutting reverse wireless power sharing to get the g2. So a lot of people have asked me this morning we saw these this morning, a lot of people have been talking about them. I even made a video about it on YouTube Is that cutout going to be like a glass cutout with the Samsung logo, like Apple is doing? I think the answer to that is no, yeah.
Speaker 1:I just think that is a spot where they're just saying that's where the G2 magnets will be and that's where you will put things. One problem that I have, too, though, is like, if you look and here's the thing, even though I like the brand identity that they have with this camera design on the Pro and the Ultra if you look at where the magnets are and this is a problem on this phone as well, on the S25 Ultra I don't know if you've tried attaching any magsafe cases or anything, have you?
Speaker 1:uh, yeah, I mean just the this one yeah, if you attach a magsafe case or like a wallet sorry to the back here a wallet it actually covers this bottom camera lens because where the magnets align for the case, they actually this is too far up where the magnets end up snapping into place yeah, so it actually ends up covering this. This also looks like, if you look, if you place a wallet in the center, that's probably going to slightly cover the bottom of that.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you can definitely tell, depending on how big the wallet or the battery pack is so this is a problem I've had in testing some of the MagSafe stuff on the S25 Ultra with a case because obviously it doesn't have magnets in the phone, but then that would completely like piss people off.
Speaker 2:They'd be like oh, we have G2. Yeah, I'd be like, yeah, yeah, exactly, if you put it in the middle, it's going to gonna.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've tried it on several different wallets and stuff. It doesn't sit below the lens. And so if they get rid of reverse power sharing at the same time that apple is introducing it, and they're like oh, but we got chi too and like oh, apple has that too. Yeah, and oh yeah, by the way if you put a wallet or battery pack on the back of the ultra now, you can't use one of your cameras.
Speaker 2:I know like I hope that doesn't.
Speaker 1:Somehow. This is actually lower and that doesn't be into being a problem because, right now. I mean, obviously you need a magsafe case to use it, so not as many people are thinking about it. Yeah, because samsung, they don't really spend a lot of time. If you remember the s25 ultra event, there's like, oh yeah, you could put magsafe stuff on the back if you have a case, and they didn't talk about it very long.
Speaker 2:They were just like, oh, yeah, by the way, you can do this?
Speaker 1:blah, blah, blah Boom. They didn't say much about it because, of course, they didn't really want to focus on the fact that it didn't. It'll probably be in the ads in january. Be all the movie theaters and we go see all the movies. Then people are gonna be thinking about it and they're gonna, they're gonna go out and try and they're gonna be like what the hell yeah, this wallet covers the bottom of my.
Speaker 1:It doesn't sit flush with the camera module and I'm losing a camera, and then they're also going to be thinking like, well, why did I lose? Was something this we talked about this week? I don't think that many people use wireless power sharing, so not that many people are going to be thinking this, but some of the enthusiasts will be saying, well, now I can't use wireless power sharing. And also, this is magnets terrible spot. It ends up covering up part of the lens. And Apple users now have wireless power sharing and G2. And even though and I will say this this phone looks better than the iPhone 17. The iPhone 17 is ugly as all hell. Man. The renders.
Speaker 2:Have you seen the renders? I have not. I got to show them to you.
Speaker 1:We're going to talk a lot of iPhone next week so I was trying to stay away from it, you know this week because you know this is a Samsung podcast. But Tori's got to see these. They look so bad man from the back. In my opinion, these look so ugly yeah me too, look at these phones.
Speaker 2:No, these are them right here. I don't like that.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. They've got like. This is like the big cutout, but in their defense, if you look at it, what do you notice about this design? There's a large enough surface area to put the wallet or the charger.
Speaker 2:So my initial thoughts when you showed it was I don't like where they put the third lens, but I do like the placement for having that wallet and you can kind of see why people are saying this looks like the S26 Edge design?
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, because obviously it has that big giant bump at the top. I mean, if they want, they should market, make everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, market the Edge with. Hey look, you know the wallet and stuff. I don't know to make it. You know a?
Speaker 1:little bit more competitive. I think eventually, if that ends up being a problem, they're going to have to go to the Apple design across the whole lineup.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, Maybe they're trying to push their camera up for sure, yeah, no, there's no way.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately you can do with three camera lenses it's going to end up looking more like the iPhone. People are going to be like calling Samsung even more than iPhone copycat.
Speaker 2:But I do think the iPhone 17,.
Speaker 1:I do think it just doesn't look very nice though.
Speaker 2:Plus.
Speaker 1:You can see like the difference between the glass part, this part that's, I guess, supposed to be glass. It looks like it's two-tone because this part's lighter, obviously, than the metal part. You know what I mean, which I just I don't think it looks very visually appealing. I mean, I guess if you're gonna slap a case on it, it doesn't matter anyway. Oh true, yeah, because you don't see it.
Speaker 1:But then you could say well, if you're gonna slap a case on it anyway, then why do you need g2 inside, uh, inside the device? But you know I dig. Anyway, I think the S26 Edge is going to create a lot of confusion in terms of brand identity. But, as we just said, in terms of G2, it might be the most usable out of all three of these.
Speaker 1:Because the camera module, I do think, creates a bit more of a problem on the Pro and the Ultra, because it's just in that weird spot where you might not be able to attach something flush.
Speaker 1:So that is the leak that has to do with that. We got some more spicy trifle news the trifle I don't think anybody knows what's going on with Samsung's trifle. There's been like tons of different leaks. The first leak came out that there was going to be an event next month, or this month, september 29th, uh, to unveil the trifold it would release in korea and china on september 29th. And I was like, okay, well, that's fine, september 29th, that's what's going to be the the date.
Speaker 1:And then someone else was like, oh no, now it's delayed till october or november and remember there was going to be no global release yeah but then we got a leak last night that said oh well, it's going to be in october, november, because it's been delayed for china and korea, but then they're going to release it globally in early 2026. So now, apparently, there could be a global release just way after the Chinese and Korean release.
Speaker 2:I mean, but why would you want to do it so close to the S26 launch?
Speaker 1:I think the main reason is I mean, if they do that, I think the main reason is the Freifold's not a utilitarian smartphone? Most people who are thinking about buying an S, ultra or Pro or Edge are not going to think about buying a trifold only the hardcore fans or people who have a ton of money to waste are going to be buying that um for the first generation consumers will not be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, the average person who's looking to buy a new smartphone, so samsung's not going to lose any appreciable number of sales. Most people who can buy the trifold will just also buy an s26 in addition to the trifold, because if you're spending $3,000, $4,000 on that, you probably will buy the Ultra as well.
Speaker 1:But then there's another leak today that says Samsung suspended the trifold certification in China, one of the regulatory bodies in China because they have supply chain issues. So you have to get it certified just to do like the FCC and stuff in the US.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They suspended the certification process, which means September 29th doesn't seem likely, so that first one we heard a few days ago.
Speaker 2:I think that's out yeah.
Speaker 1:These have been coming fast and furiously. It seems like October, November, late October, early November in China and Korea seems like the earliest. They said it was going to release by the end of 2025. So the clock's kind of ticking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, tick tock, you've got less than four months to release it if you want to meet that goal. It's not like Samsung's ever set a goal and then changed it. That happens all the time. Yeah, so I mean it wouldn't surprise me one bit if it didn't launch until early 2026 in all the markets. Maybe there's like, oh well, if we're going to release it in December in China and Korea and then January, february in the US and Europe, why don't we just wait and do it at all the markets now?
Speaker 1:since we got delayed so much, I wouldn't be surprised. That wouldn't surprise me at all if they did that.
Speaker 2:No, it sounds reasonable.
Speaker 1:It seems like no one really knows what's going on there. Huawei released their second tri-fold, so Huawei released their second trifold, so that Samsung is already behind quite a bit. Huawei's like. We already got two trifolds, that's a sixfold.
Speaker 2:You can get two of them and lay it out.
Speaker 1:Six folds across there, two times three, and they're like Samsung. Where's your first trifold? Didn't even have one, and Samsung is just like Huawei. Who, who?
Speaker 2:No one knows who we about to enter the chat outside of China at some point but yeah, I mean, there's been a lot of interesting information come out about the trifold.
Speaker 1:We shared some information kind of, about how the way that it's actually going to work for your cover screen mirroring, so, like on the fold, where you can mirror your cover screen to the inner screen, the bigger one, you'll be able to do a similar thing on the trifold as well. Um, basically, if you, this rifle is kind of weird because, unlike huawei's, which folds like accordion style, yeah, samsung has a front cover and then it unfolds like this and the front cover is still there as well, so you have a cover screen here. You've got multiple different screens. Like it doesn't? The cover screen isn't necessarily like. Unlike huawei's, it's not used to create the larger screen on the inside.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah that also means, you can only fold it in one direction yeah if you try to fold it the wrong direction, you'll break it so apparently they have some like materials inside the phone that gives you a tutorial, before you unbox it, on how not to break it which was also very common on the first foldables. You know they had a bunch of materials with red exclamation points that said do not take the screen protector off your Galaxy.
Speaker 2:Z Fold.
Speaker 1:I remember people doing that, do not put it in sand, do not put it in dust, do not put it in your pocket.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Do not put it in dust, do not put it in your pocket yep, do not put it within 50 meters of water and you're like but I'm always within 50 meters of water.
Speaker 2:Yeah, always like how am I supposed to use this phone? And they're like just don't do it yeah, stay in a hermetically sealed room at all times when you're using inside that room, stay in your galaxy z fold that's what you paid three thousand or twenty five hundred dollars for at the time.
Speaker 1:I'm like all right, so apparently they can have that kind of information as well. The cover screen mirroring is is definitely uh kind of interesting. I mean I think that will be will be kind of fun to see how that goes. Uh, the dry hold. I mean it has a lot of potential.
Speaker 1:It's just gonna be so expensive on the first, oh, for sure it's so expensive on the first one that I I just don't think. Obviously they they. They even released a report. We did another article where samsung's saying they don't expect hardly anyone to buy it yeah it's like only a few thousand buyers here and there, for two reasons not only will be not only will it be very expensive, it's also going to be very limited because of these supply chain issues that they're apparently having. So there might only be thousands of units. So we'll see if I can even get one.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 1:I got one of the Z Fold special editions last year and there were only a very few of those units. So you know, I feel like there's a chance. You know, so you're saying there's a chance.
Speaker 2:Saying there's a chance, saying there's a chance, I'm saying there's a chance we might be able to get one. We just have to see. Do you think, like once the trifold is out for like a few years, do you think the folds will ever go down in price?
Speaker 1:I think the regular folds will go down in price. Yeah, I see the fold. Like I don't know, I'm going to think like maybe the fold, uh, $9,000, maybe going down around $1599, $1499 even. They've got to keep it higher than the regular S Ultra because you're getting that extra folding form factor.
Speaker 1:You are, yeah, and that does require more to produce. The amount of tech and cost to create the device is actually way more than a slab phone. Oh yeah, so it's not like they can just make it as cheap as a slab phone. Oh yeah, so it's not like. It's not like they can just make it as cheap as a slab phone. If they wanted, they'd be losing profit margins because the hinge the hinge actually takes quite a lot to manufacture and test and they have developed that so well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, years, yeah, yeah it now withstands like 500 000 volts, which no one's going to do over owning the phone, but developing that and also quality testing. It is expensive, yeah, and you don't have that expense with the slab phone. You don't need to fold, test it or, you know, do any kind of stress testing of the hinge or any of that stuff. So it does cost substantially more to make the fold. So I think it's always going to be more expensive. But $1599 maybe I mean that's $400 less than it is now That'd be a big price drop.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, I think you know $1599 on the regular Fold and then maybe in two or three years $2299 on the Tri-Fold and then eventually obviously that will maybe come down a little bit more, but I think they'll settle in maybe $1499 and $1999 for the regular Fold and Tri-Fold. That way they still have some distinction between the slab phones, because the S Ultra is basically $1299. So you're still a little cheaper on the slab phones. You still get that profit margin. But yeah, I mean the Tri-Fold should be interesting.
Speaker 1:So I don't know if they're really going to release it on the September 29th or not, but supposedly they are going to hold some kind of event on the 29th. They just held an event today for the tabs and this 25 FE over in Berlin in IFA and that one didn't have any surprises. We'll talk about those devices in the second half of the show a little bit, but there was no surprises. Everyone thought maybe they would unveil or sneak peek the trifold or the XR headset or their XR glasses. They did none of that. They're just like we're just having a boring day.
Speaker 1:We're just going to show you guys some tablets show you, guys, the S25 FE, which you already knew was coming. Get you the heck out of here, enjoy some snacks, some coffee and lemonades on the way out, have a nice day. And so that's what they did. I didn't see it live because it was a 2 30 am Arizona time and I fell asleep. I thought about doing it, but I was tired and I went to sleep, unfortunately. But the guys covered it, of course, to me, all the guys on the site. They covered it in real time. Everyone thought maybe they'd be like oh, one more thing, we're going to show you the trifold teaser, like they did for the S25 Edge in January. But they were like no no surprises today, guys.
Speaker 1:Hate to tell you, but it is what it is. It is what it is.
Speaker 1:But we got a lot of other software news People have been wanting us to talk about. You know the old software news when UI 8, it is September and you knowsung said september is when it's coming. So here we are in september, here we are, september 4th and uh, so we got the clocks counting down 26 days left. People keep asking me like 20, 30 comments a day when is it coming for the s25? I don't know. September, that's what they said.
Speaker 2:I mean, your guess is as good as mine they released the sixth.
Speaker 1:They put a date on it? Yeah, they released the sixth beta and it seems like it's pretty stable. They got most of the new features in there. This adaptive clock still doesn't work for crap. It's complete, just a cluster of garbage. I don't know what they're going to do with that. I don't know if they should have released that feature because it's so bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I showed you the adaptive clock, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but look now it reverted back to the regular one.
Speaker 2:On its own.
Speaker 1:Yeah, on its own it's a bug.
Speaker 2:It just doesn't work with.
Speaker 1:like anything, it doesn't work with the GoodLock modules.
Speaker 2:A lot of times you like right away or randomly, like 10 hours from now, it'll just change back.
Speaker 1:It's like no adaptive clock today. I'm a little tired of performing, so I think I'll just go back to the regular clock. Hope you like it. And it also moved it. I had the clock up here by this cat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember that. Remember that was last week.
Speaker 1:And now it's down like in the right in the spot, can't even read the date because the cat's holding this white cup. What the hell is this? I don't understand it. I mean people are saying like, oh well, you got to do this and that this feature's been out for three months. I mean I'm like not the average user who knows nothing about their phone. You can't tell the average user like, like. Oh, you need to read like a five page manual uninstall lock start.
Speaker 2:You can't use any of your good lock modules to use this new feature.
Speaker 1:You can't do that to average people. They're not going to do all that no like can you imagine if apple's like look, we have this really cool new clock, but before you use it, there's a few things you should know, actually about 15 things, about 15 things you know, pdf on how to do it. Yeah you guys are gonna need to take a quiz. Yeah, it's gonna be kind of like the title nine training that I did when I was at the university oh yeah, it's a 37 question quiz and it's about how to use this clock.
Speaker 1:So you guys go ahead and do it. There's a lot of exceptions. It's kind of like conjugating you know verbs in english. You know, very confusing, but once you use it, your reward is do you get to use this clock? Yeah, and then you take the whole quiz and then the clock still decides not to work like 10 hours later, because I thought I knew what was wrong, but it still doesn't work.
Speaker 1:So yeah, one ui8 should be out this month, but only for certain phones. I'm not even convinced it's coming this month for the s24, because if they had released it like September 1st Well, september 1st is that Labor Day, it was. If they had released it September 2nd for the S25 series, then I'd be like, okay, maybe there's some hope.
Speaker 2:The.
Speaker 1:S24 might also get it this month, but if they don't release it for the S25 until like the middle of the month or late, second half the. S24 is probably not getting it, so my guess is the only phones that are going to get it is the S25, s25 Plus, s25 Ultra and I would guess, because Samsung usually does this, which is very annoying, I bet the S25 Edge won't even get it this month because they will consider that not part of the S25 series because it wasn't released until May.
Speaker 1:Even though it technically is. You're like what do you mean? It's not part of the S25 series, it's right in the name.
Speaker 2:Did you guys read the?
Speaker 1:name. You put S25 in the name, they're like, uh, nah, because it doesn't even have a beta yet. There's not even a beta yet for the S25 edge. So when you see the schedule. When they publish it on their little developer blog they're gonna be like oh yeah, come into the s25 series, asterix, s25 edge coming in october, yeah, and you'll be like way down the line.
Speaker 2:It's in the s25 series.
Speaker 1:It costs more than the regular base s25 and the plus with the s26.
Speaker 2:Yes, there you go, yeah, yeah, because then the s26 edge will now be part of the series.
Speaker 1:You bought yeah. Yeah, Because then it'll be a part of the line they're like. The S26 Edge will now be part of the series. You bought the wrong Edge, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know Sorry, you just bought the wrong Edge, sorry.
Speaker 1:We didn't put that in the ads when we were trying to get you to buy it in May, but you guys bought the wrong one Should buy next year's Edge.
Speaker 2:And then they're like you didn January.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:This is not part of the real series. It's a separate phone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is the S25 and a half series.
Speaker 2:Yes, which means?
Speaker 1:you got to wait an extra month, potentially six weeks.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Maybe you'll be able to enjoy one you ate with your Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 2:Maybe Potentially.
Speaker 1:Or maybe as a Christmas gift, but I would guess, maybe by no, I would say probably by Thanksgiving. S25, s24, s23, fold 6, fold 5, flip 6 what was that. Oh, this is your phone, okay. A little Samsung song it's fine. We like the Samsung music on this show. Yeah, we do I like that notification sound.
Speaker 2:Actually I didn't really care for the s24, but this one's nice though, yeah that's right, that's 22, but this one, like a, when I hear out and about, or even like in the commercials when they were showing, and even when I got the phone, I was like I was so tempted to just keep it on, like, yeah, all the time.
Speaker 1:It was just such a nice, keep it on while you're teaching your math class. Like what the heck is that? You just such a nice little Just keep it on while you're teaching your math class. Like what the heck is that? You're getting a lot of notifications. Mr Martin, you want to turn that off? You're like nope.
Speaker 2:Nope, I like it Relaxes me, so you guys are going to have to deal with it while we're doing these side angle, side proofs Just sit back, relax of the.
Speaker 1:Over the Horizon song.
Speaker 2:Over the.
Speaker 1:Horizon. They release that ringtone every time, but the notification tune is part of the Over the Horizon song.
Speaker 2:They make a new one every year.
Speaker 1:So when the Unpacked event starts for the S launch, you'll hear a new Over the Horizon. It's like a tradition for each Unpacked. That's the kind of inside information you get on the Sammy guru podcast. Oh, yeah, um. But yeah, I mean, people want me to give them the exact date. I'm just thinking by the end, by the, by Thanksgiving, the last, like three generations will have the update. Um, I, I don't know about any other phones, but I I'll say those phones probably have it. I don't know about any mid Rangers.
Speaker 1:If you have a mid-range phone, you know you might be waiting to celebrate the new year getting One UI 8 in January, because you know they did take their sweet time with the One UI 7 roll. Hopefully they won't do that because it's not as big of an update. Another thing I saw hey, our friends at Sam Mobile. You know we like them. They've been trying to make amends here, giving us some credit for our work. I appreciate that I do. But I saw they wrote an article saying the Z Fold 3 and the Z Flip 3 are ending their software support. I was like what.
Speaker 1:That's definitely not true. The Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 are only four years old. Yeah, that's not. They only have four years of software support, so I don't know where that came from.
Speaker 2:Some other blogs reposted it to still get the seven years? Yeah, well, that I don't think it was seven years, then I think it was six.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was back then because they've extended over time. It was either five or six, but they they're still supported, okay for at least another year and I saw that I was like that's not right.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Some other blogs also just like re-reported that, but I was like me and Samit saw it. I'm like I don't think that's true. So, yeah, I think you have to worry about it. If you have a Z Fold 3 or Z Flip 3, you should have at least one more year. I'd have to look up the exact number, but obviously they've increased the number of years of support over time. 't always been seven years, but it has been five years, I think, for a while now. It's been quite a few generations since they went to five, so don't have to worry too much about that. Um, yeah, so that's what's going on, with one ui8 trying to think, what else did they do? Oh, this, talk about this, talk about the tablets in the next half, but Samsung, not Samsung. Apple released Instagram app for the iPad, which is like a dagger in Samsung's heart as they release new tablets, because it's like well, every app is optimized for the iPad and nothing is optimized for Android.
Speaker 1:The only app that really wasn't optimized on the iPad was Instagram. There's never been an Instagram specific iPad app for 15 years of the iPad.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:And Instagram finally did it, like yesterday or two days ago, oh what. So, they're like oh, samsung, you guys are releasing a new tablet. Well, here's another reason for everybody to buy an iPad instead of the. Tab S11.
Speaker 2:Just daggers. Sounds like Samsung's like hey that's not very nice, guys.
Speaker 1:I don't think you should be doing that. Yeah, no, you're not playing fair. Oh, and here's a couple other things too the US ruling about Google, remember we talked about.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, so then the news yeah.
Speaker 1:Remember, we talked about the fact that Google might have to sell Chrome.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, it turns out, they're not going to have to do that.
Speaker 2:There's a ruling.
Speaker 1:But they do have to share search data with their rivals some capacity, not all their search data. But they're not going to be forced to sell Chrome, which we talked about this last year on the podcast and I was like this is very unlikely that Google will be forced to sell Chrome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right At the time I was like I don't that this actually ends up occurring, but it's definitely now kind of over, it's over and done with. So that's definitely a big story because some people thought for some reason that that might actually happen, but I didn't really think that was going to happen at all. Oh, and this was a good article that Sumit wrote. Talk about this really quick. He wrote an article about five Pixel 10 features that Samsung should copy and I thought some of these were kind of interesting. Because I have a Pixel 10 now, which the second half of the show I'm going to make kind of all hardware today, because I've got Pixel 10 Pro XL to talk about. Yes, I've got the Tab S11 and Tab S and Ultra to talk about too.
Speaker 2:We'll talk about both.
Speaker 1:So there's five features he wrote in here and I like a lot of these from my Pixel 10 Pro, so I'll read them really quick. The first one was the smarter extra dim brightness control. So on the Pixel 10, google integrated it directly into the brightness slider. So if you drag the brightness sliders to its lowest level, it automatically enables the extra dim mode, which Samsung doesn't currently do On Galaxy phones. You have to go into the accessibility settings and turn on extra dim. You probably didn't even know it existed. No, I did not. That's why we love having Tor here, because I told Tor about this feature and he's like I didn't even know that existed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't know you could do that. Yeah, yeah, so you can get extra dim mode, like if you're in the dark and the brightness is bothering your eyes because it's like completely dark where you are, it's like pitch black. Go into accessibility, turn on extra dim. You can get it to like the lowest, lowest brightness, below what you can even get if you turn the slider all the way down.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, because I try to do it sometimes and it's like nope, you can't do that. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But on my Pixel 10, if I slide the brightness slider all the way down, it automatically will turn on the extra dim mode, so I don't have to go into accessibility settings.
Speaker 2:I just slide this all the way, see how it goes.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, yeah, whoa hey how are you it'll?
Speaker 2:go all the way down and it's basically that's a very nice feature, yeah you can't see it here because it's obviously not pitch black.
Speaker 1:It'd be really weird if we were doing the podcast in a pitch black room, because I wouldn't be able to see Tori.
Speaker 2:He wouldn't be able to see me.
Speaker 1:And we wouldn't be able to see the microphones. But you know. The second feature was G2 wireless charging with built-in magnets. We know Samsung's going to do that. That is a nice feature to have. Still not sure how I feel about sacrificing the wireless power sharing and also how it's going to make the phones look potentially uglier or mess up the camera module situation. We already talked about that earlier, but it is a nice feature. Five times optical zoom for every model, and this is a big one. Samsung definitely should bring this, because right now you only have five times optical zoom on the Ultra, but the base, which will be the Pro, and the edge do not have five times zoom. So if I open up my S25 Edge, I cannot use five. There's no five times optical zoom on it, it only goes up to 3x. So the pixel 10 uh and the pixel 10 pro fold and pixel 10 pro xl they all have five times zoom on all the models, not just the top model, which is nice.
Speaker 1:I really think samsung should definitely do that uh, pixel 10 pro and pro xl have a higher resolution selfie camera. That's the fourth thing. He listed 42 megapixels on the front instead of just. You know, I think Samsung has a 12 megapixel still, so they should boost up those megapixels a little bit. Apple's also rumored to boost the iPhone 17 pro pro max at 24 megapixels, so Samsung's kind of falling behind a little bit there.
Speaker 1:Um we do we do kind of expect um behind a little bit there? Um, we do. We do kind of expect um the s26 ultra to potentially up that. So hopefully that does happen. It gives you nicer detail if you're taking video calls because people you use you know, think about it. Some people say, oh, I don't take selfies, I don't care about the selfie camera. Well, a lot of people may not take selfies, but you might use for video calls.
Speaker 1:Yes, and if you use it for video calls, well then that's obviously something that's important and something that you do care about. The higher resolution. And then the fifth one let me scroll down, find it native journaling feature. This one I've actually used on the pixel 10. So far a little bit probably as big of a deal, but I do think it's pretty cool. Um, it's called the pixel journal and what it lets you do is it basically lets you go through and just keep a journal of your emotions and thoughts for self-care and revisit them, and it can surface through them throughout time of day and on various other, various other google apps. It'd kind of be nice for sam to have this. Of course, they already have notes calendar reminder yeah and health.
Speaker 1:But they could add this and allow it to kind of surface in here now brief and things like that. Oh yeah like if you could have a journal and like maybe you could give yourself some write down, some affirmations.
Speaker 1:And then later in the day, you know some people will say it's good. Like I said, mental health is important. You just don't take four weeks off from your position as a football player in a D1 school and then just think you're going to come back and be a starter. But it is important. And you know, if you could write down some affirmations and NowBrief would service them in the middle of the day, I think that'd be pretty cool. I think people would like that.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of people who would enjoy that feature. I think so.
Speaker 1:And it also would add initial flavor to the NowBrief which right now is missing some flavor.
Speaker 2:A lot of flavor. I think we should kick some mad flavor in your ear. Use some seasoning, kick some mad flavor in classic song.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I thought that was a pretty good list that Sumit had for the 5 Pixel 10 features. We're going to talk some Pixel 10 in the next part, here in the second half, and also Tabas 11, tabas 11 Ultra, various hardware stuff. But before we do that, as always, you've got to pay the bills.
Speaker 2:You do.
Speaker 1:Because if you don't pay the bills, there's no podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no podcast.
Speaker 1:This whole thing shuts down this whole operation because me and Tori, you know, can't work for free. I mean, you know we would love to, but the way my bank account's set up I can't, because they would take all the money from my bills and I wouldn't have any money to pay them and then they would shut off all my stuff.
Speaker 2:And that's just how life works.
Speaker 1:So, anyway, we're going to get into the hardware stuff after we hear from the sponsor of today's podcast. This episode of the Sammy Guru Podcast is brought to you by our partners at US Mobile. Us Mobile has wireless service on all three of the major carriers in the United States. You can get service on their Darkstar, their Warp and Lightspeed networks, and you can even switch between those on your plan at any time that you like. They have various different promos running right now, including their yearly promotions. They have a 30-day free trial if you bring your number to US Mobile, as well as three months of service for $45, which is $15 a month on their unlimited starter plan, and you can do that with porting your number in or getting a new number with US Mobile as well. They have some really amazing deals and the fact that you can actually switch between the three major US carriers is quite a great deal for a prepaid carrier and something that I really like about US Mobile.
Speaker 1:If you guys are looking for a great new wireless service, check out our friends about US Mobile. If you guys are looking for a great new wireless service, check out our friends at US Mobile. We appreciate them for sponsoring this episode of the Sammy Guru Podcast. Welcome back everybody. We are going to talk some hardware. You know everybody likes sometimes. Sometimes you like to slow it down and go nice and soft, but sometimes you like to do it hard.
Speaker 2:Where.
Speaker 1:Hardware, that is Hardware. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we got a lot of it.
Speaker 1:We got a lot of it today, so first we're going to talk about the Pixel 10 Pro XL. I've had it for a week. I made a video on it. This is the Moonstone color. What do you think? It's Moonstone.
Speaker 2:I actually really like that. It is a nice color, right, very nice color bluish like gray, with a hint of purplish.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bluish, gray, purple, and it looks nice. I do like it. I do like the pixel design language, like I like their camera bar yeah, I think it looks nice, like, very like distinct. You know like, yeah, theirs is very distinct, like they don't copy samsung or apple.
Speaker 2:They did their own thing and I like that yeah, I think, like you know, uh, if they that bar thing kind of like what we're seeing on the Edge, like you know, you just got to make it like your own and I just really appreciate that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, google's been doing this for like five years now with the Pixel camera bar and it looks really good yeah.
Speaker 2:I do like that and it looks very simplistic. Yeah, and it's just a nice little G logo.
Speaker 1:Yeah, now let's talk about the things I like first, because you know optimism is great, people like optimism. So I talk about the build. I like the build. I think the build is great. It does have polished sides. I kind of sometimes wish that the sides were matte, just because if you don't use a case you get fingerprints all over the polished sides. Yeah, it doesn't bother me entirely. I mean, it certainly looks nicer Like if you're just looking at the phone, like a piece of jewelry. The polished sides look good. But in actually using it sometimes they get a little fingerprinty, they feel a little oily, a little slippery. This is not a phone I would use without a case, because it is a little slippery because of those sides.
Speaker 1:But most people aren't using it without a case and I have the official Google case, and I just I like that too yeah and their color matches Yep, and the case has got a nice, you know, silicone feel.
Speaker 1:The inside is nice and soft and I do like that. It's great, fantastic. The Chi 2, they got the Chi 2 in here as we talk about. You know Samsung's going to be doing that too, but got to give Google their props. They were the first Android. You know, I made a TikTok where I'd said it made of TikTok. I've been making more shorts. I made it on YouTube as well, where I was talking about how Samsung is going to basically put she too in the S26, you know, just like a news, like an update video or like, yeah, samsung is going to do what Google did with the pixel 10. And these people on TikTok are like, oh, you know, apple did it first. I'm like I'm talking about Android here Like why did you feel the need, as an Apple fan, to come here and tell me that Apple did MagSafe? There's about 50 things that Samsung did first that Apple took from them and that Android and Google did.
Speaker 1:I didn't say Samsung is borrowing this original idea from Google. I said they're using the Pixel 10 G2 feature in the S26 Ultra. That doesn't mean that someone else didn't do it before them. I said they're using, they're adapting this Android feature. This is they were the first ones to do it on Android and they're now going to put it on the S26. End of story. Anyway, that just kind of pissed me off, so I think it's my podcast, I can talk about it. And so I told those people like, like, this is not a misleading title. I'm not talking about apple. I don't. I want to talk about apple in this video. You know, I'll talk about apple next week when they have their event. Yep, anyway, the chi 2 is great. The magnets work pretty well. Um, this lost wireless power sharing too. The pixels also had power share up to last year and they took it out to put the chi 2 in yeah, so it's not just samsung, let's be doing that.
Speaker 1:And the reason is because, obviously, as you can see, there's no like cut out, like the iphone has, which makes this look more beautiful in my opinion. So if they do decide to, bring the wireless power sharing back with the g2 is going to mean that you're going to have to get rid of the nice design. In my opinion, Google made a lot of nice first-party accessories. They got a PixelSnap stand that you can snap on it.
Speaker 1:It looks like a pop socket, but it's got a little stand that you pop out. You can do portrait and landscape. They had some first-party like wireless charging accessories, a G2 charger that you could buy. I like all that. The G2 works great.
Speaker 1:A lot of people are going to put a case on it anyway, though, so I really don't know that the average person. It's kind of been hyped up because Apple hyped up MagSafe as being like oh, you could slap a wallet on the back of your phone, you don't even need a case. But the reality is most iPhone users use a case too. They just buy a MagSafe compatible case. Well, in that case, the S25 Ultra is just as good, because you could buy a. This is a MagSafe case right here. I can slap a wallet on the back of my S25 Ultra as long as it has this case on it. So you know it's good, but it's not like the most revolutionary feature in the world.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the next thing that I do like a lot about the Pixel I like the software. It's not One UI, it's not One UI 8, which, of course, obviously I'm a Samsung guy. I love One UI and the customization, but it is a nice simple interface and if you're someone who likes you know. If you like a simple interface which you know I like a simple interface, you can appreciate it. A lot of people have said the Pixel is like the iPhone of Android and in a way it kind of is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can see that it's not as focused on customization being in your face as one UI. And so from a general consumer's perspective, you know there's different types of people in the world and there should be different types of phones to suit the different types of people. The Samsung phone may not be for everybody. If you don't want all that customization options to necessarily bombard you, then maybe you want something simpler. And the Pixel is that the interface is nice. One thing I don't like I mean there's other software things I don't like One thing that I loathe about it, so I have to talk about it now. When you swipe down the quick settings, you notice how on the Samsung phone, if I swipe down my quick panel here, I can get right into the settings menu because the settings cog is right there. I don't have to swipe again. If you swipe down on the Pixel, you've got to swipe down again and the settings.
Speaker 1:cog is down here, you can't just swipe down one and see the settings cog, I do not like I appreciate that settings.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's very annoying because I I mean maybe the average person wouldn't care, but I I use settings a lot because obviously I make tutorials and then I gotta do another swipe. That's just annoying to have to do an extra swipe. I don't know why it can't be in the top right corner or whatever. It just doesn't make any sense to me. I do like the fact that they improved the camera setup, like I said earlier, with the 5X camera across the board. I appreciate that. I still think this is one of the better camera phones that there are in this. You know day and age Really good camera phones. I still think the pixel is probably leading charge. I think there's still maybe a little bit of head samsung in terms of photo quality. For a lot of reasons and I talked about this last year. I did the pixel 9 pro review on the podcast it does a really good job with skin tones.
Speaker 1:You know, like samsung does not do amazing job with skin tones, and obviously you know my kids have a little bit darker skin and so it really brings out like the exact skin tone of every person no matter if you're light skin, you know if you're, oh, this is me singing, but it brings out, you know, the exact skin tone of my kids of my wife, it really does.
Speaker 1:And so if you do have you know or significant others that you care about, that you want to capture them. Some cameras still don't do the best job of doing that, Like they kind of whitewash or tint the skin tones if people have darker, like brown or black skin tones, whatever, and they just don't do a good job of representing that.
Speaker 1:And that's kind of important. Google made a big deal about that a few years ago when they did their event, I think, for the Pixel 7 or Pixel 8, saying they were trying to get better representation in their computational photography of showing the skin tones accurately as they actually would be. If you saw that person you know face to face in real life. So you know, not trying to make everybody who's not light-skinned some shade of gray is nice and I really commend Google for doing that. So I do think their camera is better than Samsung. Samsung does some work to do in the camera department.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1:I've been honest about that since the S25 launch. It's a travesty that we have the same primary sensor now for like four years in a row. We're supposedly going to get a change with the S36 Ultra. We can reevaluate. But I do think that Samsung could also give themselves an opportunity to, you know, look into the computational software side and make sure they're doing some of these things that Google's doing as well to make sure skin tone is accurately represented, because that's not, that's not necessarily a hardware thing. They're basically using computational photography to say okay, you know, let's make sure that these highlights, you know, or shadows, are particularly represented.
Speaker 1:So I like that I think anybody could appreciate that I'm trying to think what else? What else do I like about this phone? So the camera, definitely the build, the software I mean again, I still like One UI8 more. On software, I'm not going to say this is my favorite software, but I can see the vision Google has, a unified vision on their software, their design, their hardware and their camera, I think is still above Samsung. They did increase the wire charging speed, which I think it's still not fast and still I think it went to 45 watts, just like samsung has. Samsung's gonna best them with the s26, yeah, but the pixel was like painfully so I think it was like 25 watts before. Like man, if you need to do a s shave, wait s shower and shave, then you weren't going to be doing it.
Speaker 2:If you had a pixel, you'd be, leaving your phone at home yes, because you plug that in at the beginning of your s by the time you're done shower and shaving.
Speaker 1:Your pixel have gained like five percent battery and you'd be like man, I'm still at 20. What happened? I was supposed to be going out for an end of town yeah, even the samsung phone would be charged to like 60. I mean it's not like 100 watt charging like the chinese phones, but yeah, it's 45 watts. But now this is 45 watts and so that's good, so yeah, chi 2 faster wire charging.
Speaker 1:They improved the camera, which was already probably my favorite. An android software, cohesive I can see the vision, the build. I like it. Unique pixel they're not trying to copy anybody, they've stuck to their guns. They're like. You know, this is our design. We're not just going to change it for the sake of changing it, which I like, because too many people just like just change it for the sake of changing, I just gotta change which I kind of feel like people like change people.
Speaker 2:What we saw with the s26 edge.
Speaker 1:Like samsung feels like they're kind of doing that with this. It's like let's just change, just see what people like it, and just you know people don't like the same thing every year google's, like you know, what. This is what we got. Yeah, you like it or you don't, and I think that's good in some sense, because if the phone's not changing so much in the internal hardware, why do you need to change the outer part of the phone every year? Yeah, that also gives also gives you more brand identity.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that's what I like about the Pixel. Now let's talk a little bit about what I don't like, and there's also a laundry list of things that are not great about the phone, so let's talk about that. First thing is, when I did my unboxing and impressions video, some people got pissed about this, but I don't care. The Pixel has had a history of overheating issues because google makes their own chip. They made it with samsung for a while, the tensor chip. Now it's made by tsmc um and basically their chip has always been underperforming compared to the snapdragons from qualcomm and it weren't ran a lot hotter. And there's a couple reasons. One, google's not trying to make the highest performing chips because they're not really focused on that as much as Samsung and other brands. They want their chips to be good at on-device AI, so they optimize the tensor for AI and we'll talk about that more in a second Cause.
Speaker 1:The AI overload on this phone is another thing that I do not like. We'll get to that in a second. We've talked about AI overload on this podcast quite a bit. This phone takes it like to the nth level of everything has to be AI, Like we live in an AI alternative reality with the Pixel 10 Pro. But yeah, I mean, it's just the processor runs hot when I set it up out of the box and I did my setup and I was loading up all the apps.
Speaker 1:It's like super hot on my box and I did my setup and I like loading up all the apps. It's like super hot on my hands and I said that in the video and other people on Reddit. It's not just me, you can read it, it's all over the internet. I'm not lying to you. And people are coming like well, jeff, you know like when you set up the phone, that's one of the most stressful periods. Every phone gets hot. I'm like man, I set up like 20 phones this year, you think I don't know that. It was like five times hotter than any other phone I set up. I just set up a fold seven, a flip seven, a flip seven fe. None of those phones got anywhere near this hot. I should have got the thermometer during the video and measured it, because I guarantee you it was at least 20 degrees fahrenheit hotter, yeah, than those phones.
Speaker 1:And people like well, maybe it's only the setup. And some people have said that. Well, no, I've been using it for multitasking and gaming. It gets warm when multitasking and gaming as well. Not only that, there's micro stutters here and there when you're doing certain multitasking actions In gaming. It also throttles if you play high-performance games for a long time, because its performance is not as good. It's multi-core compared to the Snapdragon that's in the S25 Ultra. If you play a session like Call of Duty or, you know, riptide or one of these other high-performance games where you need the processor's raw power, it throttles and it gets hotter. That's why it's throttling. The Tensor is not still the best processor out there now. Does it do ai tasks fast? Sure, but that's my other problem with this phone. There's too much ai. I know that's what. What google's whole presentation is about? Right, but it has too much ai. And let me tell you the one feature that is, in my opinion, the the most annoying AI feature. Google made it so that their phone can now do 100x zoom, you know how.
Speaker 1:Samsung can do 100x zoom, but instead of doing regular zoom on the 100x, they're not doing the regular zoom on the 100x. They're basically making it so that when you do the zoom, you have to. Well, don't have to, but you can use AI to enhance the photo.
Speaker 1:But from 100x it's basically just recreating a different photo. It's not even the same photo at that point, right, because it's so far away. Samsung, sure, when you take a 100x photo, it looks like crap because it's 100x and obviously it's not optical zoom. They do computational photography, but now Google is taking it to the next level and actually using generative AI to take the image data and then generate an image that it thinks it should be based on that, so like you could take a picture of a sign.
Speaker 1:You could take a picture of a sign from 100x and it recreates it so that you can actually read the text, but the text could be completely not what the sign says so you might get a sign that says that it says something.
Speaker 1:In the photo it's not even what it says. Or you could get like an object that isn't even the object you took a photo of, because some things are unrecognizable, really from 100x. Now, sometimes it does a decent job, but sometimes it doesn't, and I don't want an AI imagining of what the object looks like. Samsung does its best with the computational photography just trying to smooth out what's there. I don't consider that an AI recreation that's just using mathematical reconstruction to smooth out some of those and some of the edges and things of the object. It's not trying to take the liberty of guessing what the object is and then recreating it in a completely you know complete object that may not even be what you took a photo of. I don't like that.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of other ai things that they did. Uh, magic q seems okay. It's like where stuff's supposed to show up when you're texting or whatever, because they're using your google account to get information, because Google knows everything about you in the history of the world, and so it's supposed to surface, like in messages and stuff. I've seen that a couple times. It works fine. The other thing is like the new AI image generation in the pixel. I found that, that one. I found this last year too. I talked about earlier how they've done better with skin tones. People have other you know ethnicities for the pictures, but they still have a white bias. When it comes to the photos, like AI generation, there are models I think all AI models have this but Gemini is particularly bad. Like anytime you ask it to generate like an image of people doing things, they're always white people.
Speaker 1:So I'd be like generate an image of four men having Guinness they they're always white people. So I'd be like generate an image of four men having guinness they're all super white and generate an image of 10 men playing basketball all 10 of them are white, which is definitely not realistic because if there's 10 men playing basketball, or, if it's competitive, at least eight of them are probably black yeah, so you know they're not doing very realistic job either, but anything I try like a bunch of prompts.
Speaker 1:I was like two men having coffee. All white is like zero percent people of any skin color other than white. When you generate ai generated images, um, and some, I think, some outlet, maybe the verge reached out to them and they're like, ah, blah, blah, blah. Something about how they're trying to look into it hopefully they do, because it seems like been a problem last year too. And what the hell are people doing up there? People are like geez man. We're having a knock-down, drag-out fight or doing some other scandalous activities above us here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hopefully they're not getting too freaky-deaky up there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, guys, come on, it's after work hours, but still. It is HR will get you for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Got you for that, yeah. So gotta run them up. You guys gotta calm down. Don't have to report you to hr. I don't want to have to do it, um. So those are some things that I do like, some things I don't like. Um, the heating and the just overload of ai everywhere are the main two things that I don't like about this phone. I think google just put the AI a little too much Like every touch point tries to like do you want AI to do?
Speaker 2:this. Do you want Jim and I to?
Speaker 1:do this. Here's some.
Speaker 2:AI suggested replies.
Speaker 1:Do you want AI to recreate your photo that you took from a hundred X? Do you want to insert some AI generated images? Do you want to put your? Do you want to have a AI imagining of what you would look like if you were a cartoon character? I'm like, not really. Guys come down. Oh, the pixel journal thing is okay too. I tried that. It's pretty cool in the software.
Speaker 1:Like that's not like doesn't blow my mind but doesn't really doesn't piss me off or anything like that. But thermals and the ai being everywhere are the two things that make me be like. Well, if I were daily driving something, I wouldn't want to pick this even if I wasn't a samsung guy for those two things. Those aren't small things. The thing is, you know they're not tiny things. They're going to make you, if you don't like the ai overload. It's going to piss you off on a daily basis. You could turn some of it off, but you can't turn all of it off, just some of it, can't turn all of it off. Some of it's baked into the phone because it's basically Google's whole vision for the smartphone. It's not like it's an AI phone.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And people are like, well, what about Galaxy Eye? It's there, but it's not nearly the same. Trust me, galaxy Eye is there, but for Galaxy Eye, you can really choose to use it or not. And in fact, for some of the more intrusive features, samsung turns them off by default, whereas Google has them on by default because they want to get more of that sweet, sweet data from you yeah, they do so that's the thing, right, it's like galaxy eye is there, but it's definitely not as in your face, as what google is doing with gemini and all the things baked into the pixel.
Speaker 1:So that and the tensor issue, which is not an imaginary issue, people can say whatever they want. It's not as bad as it was in the past. They improved it, it's a little cooler, but still throttles. It still doesn't perform as well as it was in the past. They improved it, it's a little cooler, but it still throttles. It still doesn't perform as well as a Qualcomm processor.
Speaker 1:If you don't care about gaming, then I guess you don't care about gaming. If you don't care about multitasking, then okay, but you're still paying $1,100, $1,200 for something that has lower performance, battery life, ultra. I'm not saying it's not a phone for anybody, I'm just saying you need to love ai and not care about gaming, maximum gaming performance, or if you have a few micro stutters here and there, if you're doing heavy multitasking loads, then I guess that's fine. If you really love ai and that's what you care about because tensor does ai pretty good, the ai stuff, it does it fast but then you're handing all your data to Google and you're going to deal with AI like running your life and doing all the things.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I'd rather be like let me selectively see what I want in my AI. Galaxy Eye lets me do that with more granular controls which that's what I want personally. So I don't know. What do you think, Tori?
Speaker 2:It's a good looking phone though. Right, I think the phone looks nice phone. Uh, you know, obviously I haven't used like actually used the phone, but in terms of I outward presentation, I really like what they have cooking right there.
Speaker 1:Uh, I don't know, you could also cook up a steak on the back of it, because, oh yeah, yes, you get especially if you just also just sit outside in Arizona, it'll get cooked on both sides. That's the other problem too is that since I am in Arizona, like I don't want a phone that runs hot naturally, because if I have a phone that runs hot naturally, well that's not going to be good for me because, then obviously I have a huge.
Speaker 1:I have a huge problem because it's going to get even hotter when it's outside in arizona. Yep, that's the problem that we have, and so obviously, you know, for me that's just not going to be a winner. I want a phone that runs cool in general so that when I'm in arizona it's super hot outside I don't have the two sources of heat, the internal heat and the external heat. You know working with it, but it does look nice right right, no, no, no, no, it looks really nice.
Speaker 2:I don't think I would like the AI all up in my face. You know, I would like to be able to use it when I want to use it, maybe like when I first boot up the phone and like I first go to something and it wants to say, hey, like you can use AI here? Yeah, sure. Like you can use ai here? Yeah, sure, you know, because it's supposed to be aiphone. But yeah, I wouldn't want to like in my face. I would prefer more of this.
Speaker 1:uh, how samsung went with, yeah, I mean most of the features they promoted in the event were ai. That's the thing it's like yeah, you could turn it off. People say, well, jeff, you can turn a lot of it off, well, sure, but then you don't get any of the new features because everything they promoted depends on ai it for maybe the well, I talked about the things. I like that they added the G2, a little bit improved camera hardware and then also the faster wire charging.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But those aren't really big upgrades, like a lot of the stuff that they talk about, like a magical 100x zoom. Well, that's an AI feature. So if you don't like that, you turn that off. Well then, you just lost that feature.
Speaker 2:I got it.
Speaker 1:You'll just keep like if you turn off magic q, well, that's another thing they promoted. It's like if you turn off all the ai stuff, well, you just got rid of 80 of the stuff that was in the keynote. So you might as well just buy the pixel 9 pro xl you save a lot of money too and it basically looks the same because they didn't really change the design so you know, that's just my point.
Speaker 1:Like I mean you're, you're really buying this because you like the ai. Yep, because if you don't, you could buy last year's phone. There's not a lot of upgrades. Well, I guess you know the charging. You'll be really slow. You can actually somewhat s shower and save with this and still get out of there with 60.
Speaker 1:But well, let's talk some samsung hardware now. Um, we talked about google a little bit, but uh, we got Tab S11, tab S11 Ultra in the house. I just unboxed the Tab S11 as Tori was coming in the office today because I picked it up from Best Buy. I'm really happy to have the 11-inch. I mean, obviously I'll talk more about this next week because I'll have more time to play with them.
Speaker 1:Right now, I just kind of set it up as me and tori were getting started yeah I really am happy to have the tab s11 because I the 11 inch tablet, I think, is a better size. I just want to address a couple of things, since I really only unboxed it so far. Um, first of all, just a plug. We didn't do a mystery box for this launch, but if you're buying a Tab S11 or Galaxy S25 FE or Tab S11 Ultra, I put together a free case and screen protector offer If you order through our link. It's not going to be a full mystery box because I didn't have enough time. This is a smaller launch. It's harder to. I can't source as many things up front.
Speaker 1:So this is going to be like a smaller one. There's probably going to be like 50 boxes or 50 gifts available, because I can't source as many as I normally can. But if you buy the link they'll be in the show notes. The fill out the form, you get a free case and screen protector for your tablet. Sammygurucom slash preorder. You can check that out. Yeah, so I'll talk about a couple of things here that I want to talk about with this tablet. A couple things here that I want to talk about with this tablet. First of all, a lot of people have made a lot about the fact that the tab s11 has these chunky bezels, and me and tori were talking about this before the show and I was like well, it actually makes a lot of sense why this one has big bezels and the ultra doesn't, because with the ultra you're not going to be holding it and reading or whatever with this.
Speaker 1:With the ultra it's massive, like you're not going to be holding it and reading or whatever. With the Ultra, it's massive, like you're not going to pick that up and hold it in your hands. So you don't need to have any bezels to hold on to, because obviously you're not going to be doing that. But with this tablet you are going to hold it a lot because it's a reasonable size and so you need the bezels because otherwise you'll be triggering the screen all the time because the bezels would be too thin. It just doesn't make sense to have like crazy thin bezels. Even the ipad pro it has thinner bezels, but they're still there. They're pretty thick because you don't want to go too thin with bezels on a tablet yeah, it's just making it hard to hold for like long periods of time and people are like well, what about palm rejection when you write with a?
Speaker 1:Well, that's not the same as having rejection for all of your fingerprints.
Speaker 2:It can reject all the touches. How's it?
Speaker 1:supposed to know when you're actually touching the screen or not. So I think having the bezels on this Tab S11 makes a lot of sense the Ultra. It makes sense to have smaller bezels because, like I said, you're going to use it for media, for productivity, for gaming. Like I said, you're going to use it for media for productivity, for gaming maybe, but you're probably going to have it on a tablet stand or you're going to have it, in your case, like that lets you prop it up on a stand. You're probably not going to be using that too often. Um, with this particular you know tablet, it's probably not going to be something. You know, I can use this in landscape or vertical and I still like having the bezels there. I think it's useful. The other big thing that I want to address and I have to give Samsung some crap about it, even though I don't think it's really a massive deal we have a brand new style S pen that looks exactly like a stylist that another company has. Yeah, it looks exactly like a stylus that another company has.
Speaker 2:It looks exactly like the Apple Pencil. Why is it white? I feel like it would have been cool if it was the color.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like what if it was gray, just like the tablet? But they're like oh, here's the Samsung Pencil. Because it looks exactly like an Apple Pencil. And we asked Samsung about it because I was in their virtual briefing for media last week and we said like why did you guys do the hexagonal? Because it's basically hexagonal. They're like oh, it was inspired by the number two pencil design of a classic wooded number two pencil. I was like are you guys sure about that? Sure, I was like are you guys sure about that?
Speaker 1:And then someone else in the briefing was like well, does it need to be charged, Because now you stick it on the top, which is exactly where you stick it?
Speaker 2:on the Apple iPad.
Speaker 1:They're like does it wirelessly charge too, because the iPad obviously wirelessly charged, the Apple Pencil? They're like oh no, it still doesn't need charging. So at least I mean I guess they didn't copy everything it still doesn't need to battery, but of course it also means no Bluetooth functionality, which they took away with the S25.
Speaker 2:Ultra.
Speaker 1:So the Bluetooth functionality is pretty much completely axed now from all S-Pens across the lineup. Last year, you know in January, I could at least say oh, if you want a Bluetooth S-Pen, buy a Tab S10 Ultra. Well, now you can't buy a new Tab and get a Bluetooth S-Pen because it doesn't exist.
Speaker 2:It does not exist.
Speaker 1:The limit does not exist, and so I mean I kind of give them crap for copying design. But I do want to say this it does make sense because when you're using your tablet with your S Pen, you're probably going to be taking a lot more notes and stuff, because that's what people use it a lot more. On your phone you're not going to take long-form notes.
Speaker 1:But you know as well as I, do because UT, out of the university, a lot of students use their tablet to take notes for class, like real notebooks probably won't even exist in 10, 15 years, because who really uses real notebooks anymore? Everybody's using their tablet, their Surface, their iPad or their Samsung tablet, if you like Samsung. And so it makes sense because with your phone, the S Pen can be smaller One, because it has to fit in the phone.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And two, it's not going to be probably used for long. You're not taking class notes at the university on your S25 Ultra because the screen's not big enough. No, no. But if you're Tab S11, you might be taking notes, so this is more comfortable. The hexagonal design. Yeah, it is which is closer to what a real pencil looks like.
Speaker 1:It is more comfortable to take long form notes that you would take, like in class or at a work meeting or something like that. So, even though I'll say this, even though this is what we also said about the Ultra Watch last year the Galaxy Watch Ultra even though they borrowed some things from Apple, they borrowed something that I think is good, so I'm not going to give them as much crap. This wasn't borrowed just for the sake of being like Apple. It really is a functionality improvement for the pen Soul, Pen S, Pen Soul.
Speaker 2:I call it the Samsung S Pen Soul now.
Speaker 1:But I agree with Tori what they could have done to make this more distinctive, so that people were like you did something nice, is they could have colored this one gray and the silver tablet like a silver color, like kind of a nice sparkly silver. Then people would have been like, ooh, look at that, matches the color of the tablet. Now there's something that we can get behind People like color.
Speaker 2:People really do like color, they'd be like, let's give us a pop of color, and that'd be great.
Speaker 1:There's some other new features here on the tablets, but again I've only set this one up, so I have a lot to say about the performance. We got a new MediaTek processor inside. A lot of people get a little spooked because it's a MediaTek Componio processor, but it's very powerful. People are like where's?
Speaker 2:the.
Speaker 1:Snapdragon. We want it. Then last year they took it away and the Tab S10 Ultra performed the same as the S9 Ultra. It's not like a huge problem. So if you're worried about like the MediaTek Companion being there, don't worry about that. You can buy one safely. What you should be worried about is the price of the Ultra, if you're buying, because it's $1,200. And that's not even the top model. The $1,200 model doesn't even come with 16 gigs of RAM. The 512 doesn't have 16 gigs of ram. The 512 doesn't have 16 gigs of ram, it only has 12. You've got to spend 1500 to get the one terabyte model if you want 16 gigs of ram, which is a lot of money a lot of money that comes with the pen but does not come with the keyboard.
Speaker 1:And here's the other bad thing. Samsung told us in the meeting and I was like what are you guys doing? They didn't even release the pro keyboard with the devices. The pro keyboard is coming in January of 2026. No, so if you buy this $1,500 device, you can't even get their best keyboard for four more months.
Speaker 1:No, Right now the only one available is the slim keyboard, and let me tell you right now, if you buy this device, just as a friendly word of advice, do not spend $150 on the slim keyboard. It is absolute garbage.
Speaker 1:You cannot adjust the angle of the tablet no it doesn't have a very you cannot sit on your lap and use. It is trash. Don't buy it. Now the pro one here's what worries me. They said they're redesigning their pro keyboard for the tablets, so that makes me concerned. And they said that it was going to have a magnetic design that basically lets it detach the tablet a little bit from the keyboard. Oh no, that sounds like the magic keyboard that apple makes.
Speaker 1:That does and they kind of showed us a silhouette of it and it kind of looks like the magic keyboard. So it sounds like they're also borrowing the keyboard design and they're like guys sorry, we can't release it till january. We got to copy this homework a little bit. Yeah, it's taking a while to copy apple's homework, so we're gonna need a little more time. Sorry, professor, I need a little more time to copy this homework and then I'll hand it in just need a few extra months, so when they release it really disappointing I'm sure it'll still be 350, because, of course, but it's probably going to be similar to the apple magic keyboard, at least from what we saw.
Speaker 1:What I've, what I, what people asked in the event certainly seems that way. Obviously they didn't want to come out and tell us yes, of course we're just ripping off, yeah, apple entirely.
Speaker 2:We gotta make it sound.
Speaker 1:No one was gonna say no one was going to say that yeah, honestly, I'm gonna make it sound a little bit um but yeah, I mean, that's basically seems like what's going on here. Um what else was I gonna talk about? The tab? Tab s11 tab, s11 ultra. About that, I mean, I don't really know too much else what to say, since I haven't really gotten into it.
Speaker 1:I just set it up and the Ultra is still in the box. I mean, I do think that if you are buying this device from the Tab S10 Ultra, it's probably not a massive upgrade From the Tab S9 Ultra, though the performance is a pretty big jump here. So maybe if you multitask a lot. But again, I really have to tell you again because I like to be responsible in my reporting, not just trying to get affiliate sales, even though some people think, oh, jay, you're trying to sell those boxes, sell those affiliate links. No, I want you guys to spend your money wisely. If you want the device, then of course I'd prefer that you support us and free gifts, because why not? If you go buy from somebody else's affiliate link, they ain't gonna give you anything for free nothing, so you might as well get a few free things from me but if you don't really want the device, yeah, if you don't really want the device, don't buy it.
Speaker 1:But you know you really gotta think about, if you're gonna buy the ultra, what is your use case for it. Because it's so expensive you could literally buy right now. Um whoa, I dropped the pencil you could literally buy a. I'll get it in a second. You literally buy a tablet and a laptop and potentially a phone, depending on what you got for the price of the Tab S11 Ultra plus the eventual keyboard, you will kind of buy for it yeah.
Speaker 2:It's like $1,800 in the end, maybe $1,850. Yeah, it's like 1800 bucks in the end, maybe 1850 after tax.
Speaker 1:It's a lot of money, man, a lot of money you could buy the galaxy book for edge, which is a very good laptop. That's a snap dragon power laptop Gets great battery life. You could buy the tab S 10 F, e, which is Samsung's mid range tablet, plus a galaxy s25 from swapper or something in mint condition and probably spent the same, so you'll get a flagship phone, a pretty close to flagship like mid-range tablet yeah and a really good laptop for the price of the tab s11 ultra and keyboard.
Speaker 1:So you have to ask yourself what's your use case, because the laptop, phone and tab S10 FE can do a lot more versatile things than the Tab S11.
Speaker 1:Ultra can by itself Because it doesn't run Windows. It has DeX, but that's still not a replacement for Windows, because you can't run all the same apps you can run on Windows. So you really have to ask yourself what is my use case if your main use case is okay? I already have a laptop I like and I just want a really beautiful screen, second screen to watch media, play games and occasionally take some notes, and you're relatively wealthy and you can just blow extra 2k.
Speaker 1:Yeah, then sure you could buy it, but that would be the situation where I would say it's worth buying because otherwise, if cost is a concern, it's probably not worth it because you can find other devices that will do the same thing you need. If you're a student, it's probably not a good buy because Samsung even if you want a Samsung tablet which the iPad in a lot of ways, unfortunately, is better than the Samsung tablet but if you want a Samsung tablet and I like having my Samsung tablet because it syncs with all my Samsung services so if you're someone like me who has their Samsung everything TV appliances, whatever you could buy the S10 FE and it'll do the same thing. If you're a student, it takes notes great, has an S Pen. Now it doesn't have the new S Pencil, but it does have an S Pen. You can still take notes, it still works fine and you would save like $1,400. If you bought it at Seneve, you'd have left. You could get the keyboard case for that too, which they probably have on sale now.
Speaker 1:So I don't know, but it does have a beautiful screen. Don't get me wrong. I love watching videos. I always keep it next to my computer in the office here because I love watching YouTube, netflix, netflix and stuff on my ultra Samsung tablet. It really does have an immersive screen for watching media. It's way better than my opinion, than the iPad, because the actual aspect ratio is better. But how many people can or will spend $1,200 to $1,500 just to watch, use it as a Netflix machine, you know?
Speaker 1:most people are watching Netflix on their TV or on a cheaper tablet, not a $1,500 tablet. You need to have some other use cases to make it work.
Speaker 1:So anyway those are my thoughts on the hardware. Next week I'll have an S25 FE. I don't have one yet. I'll get some thoughts on that. And I'm also very excited about the Buds 3 FE, the fan edition Buds. They released those to complement the Buds 3 Pro. You already have Buds 3 Pro, but the Buds 3 FE have some nice new colors which I wish they had released for the Pro. They have matte black, 100% black, and matte gray, like a warm gray, versus the white and the silver that they have on the Buds 3 Pro. The Fan Edition is obviously a lower-end model but they do look very compelling At $150,. I'm going to be comparing my Buds 3 Pro. I'll be making a video on that as well.
Speaker 1:And I'll have some insight on the podcast next week for you guys. If you guys are thinking about those, those might be the most compelling product they released today for sale. They're actually very interesting and I'll talk about S25 FE. Next week we'll definitely be talking about the iPhone.
Speaker 1:Because Tori and I will be recording this on Tuesday probably next week, we'll see but probably Tuesday and that's the day of the iPhone, so it'll just have happened that morning. So we'll dive into everything that the competition is doing. Kind of already previewed some of it today, but you can basically expect 17, 17 air 17 pro 17 pro max. Uh, new watches, apple watch series 11, maybe new AirPods pro three. I've heard rumors of that, but I don't know. We'll see. We'll get into that. I'll talk about the S 25 FV stuff. I'm sure there'll be more S 26 leaks by then, yeah, and who knows, probably another 30 trifle leaks, with people saying oh, it's coming in October, no September, no November, no December, no January there. Whatever else we can get into, send in some questions too. I'd love to talk questions next week. We always love the questions. It's a lot of fun. Just something different, not that we ever have nothing to talk about there's plenty of Samsung news.
Speaker 1:There's plenty to talk about in the world of Samsung, but always interested to hear what you guys want us to discuss as well. Anything else, dory, you want to close with? Nope? Just keep expanding your galaxy.