Every part Samsung introduced this week (and futur...

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Fortunately for me, we kick issues off with Samsung’s massive Unpacked occasion, launching three new telephones and teasing two — sure, two! — extra coming quickly.

Every part Samsung introduced, together with costs and launch dates (February 8 — I’ll prevent a click on), we collated here, nevertheless it was largely a fallow 12 months for Galaxy S {hardware}, barring a considerably extra highly effective chip.

Whereas the Galaxy S25 Extremely et al. may not thrill, Samsung managed to breadcrumb a number of gadgets with no launch date. First, at its San Jose occasion, the corporate revealed its combined actuality headset in individual, lastly — even when it was only a functionless headset for images and gawping at.

Then there was the Galaxy S25 Edge — a tool I didn’t assume existed. (And one thing that wasn’t proven at my satellite tv for pc occasion in London — we bought a not-great projection mapping model activation throughout London’s Thames river. Boo.)

Like Samsung did a 12 months in the past with its Galaxy Ring teaser, we bought a fleeting glimpse of the rumored slim Galaxy telephone, truly referred to as the Galaxy S25 Edge. It’s slim, has two cameras and… that’s about all we all know. Bloomberg stories it can value lower than the S25 Extremely when it arrives later this 12 months.

After which there’s the mysterious teaser for some doable bifold machine — see the screengrab above. This might be a foldable concertina, like gadgets we’ve seen from Huawei. Samsung teased the show tech again at CES 2022 and subsequent commerce occasions. Is it now prepared?

Will the corporate’s foldables develop into the brand new residence for Samsung {hardware} innovation? Is the Galaxy Fold sequence now actually the brand new Galaxy Notice?

— Mat Smith

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At this time, in 1984

The primary Mac(intosh).

Apple demonstrated its first Macintosh computer in front of 3,000 people. Graphical computing on the Macintosh wasn’t as commercially profitable as Microsoft’s DOS and Home windows, however this was the primary profitable mass-market desktop private laptop with a graphical person interface, built-in display and mouse. Sure, a mouse! The epic Ridley Scott-directed advert, 1984, additionally teased it.

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