All eyes on Samsung’s skinny new foldable

It’s all the time felt to me like there’s a threshold foldables have to hit earlier than they’ll actually change into mainstream: they should be no greater than an everyday outdated telephone. And now Samsung has lastly gotten its flagship there with the Z Fold 7, which is simply barely thicker than an iPhone 16 Professional. I bought to see one within the workplace this week, and I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. It actually does really feel totally different.

This week on The Vergecast, Vee Tune and Allison Johnson be part of me to speak all about Samsung’s new foldables and smartwatches. Then, we dive into company shake-ups throughout the tech world. Certainly one of Tim Prepare dinner’s attainable successors is on his manner out, Mark Zuckerberg is shopping for Meta a brand new AI staff, X’s CEO has departed (and, remind me, did something notable occur with Grok this week?).

And eventually, some huge information in regards to the Lightning Spherical: I’ve had sufficient of it. As a substitute, we’ve bought one thing daring, one thing new, one thing altogether authentic and exceptional: the Thunder Spherical. And sure, we now have sound results. Tons to debate: AI internet browsers, Lorde’s see-through CD, and HBO Max lastly does the factor we’ve all been ready for.

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