Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: No Peeking!

Summary

Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast — “Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: No Peeking!”

Date: February 27, 2026
Featured Hosts: Marques Brownlee (MKBHD), Andrew Manganelli, David Imel, Adam Molina, Ellis Roven

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Overview

In this episode of Waveform, the crew does a deep dive into everything from the (intentionally) exclusive Samsung Galaxy S26 Unpacked event to the latest Nothing Phone 4A partial reveal, plus weather YouTube and the launch of a new weather app by ex-Dark Sky creators. The episode balances in-hand impressions, industry backstory, and lively banter, all while maintaining the podcast’s signature mix of geek-outs and dry wit.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Life After the Blizzard: Unpacking Galaxy S26 Ultra

[07:01 – 19:36]

• Marques recounts missing Samsung’s Unpacked launch in California due to a major blizzard that shut down flights. Normally, creators have multiple content capture sites, but this year all content capture was tied directly to the Unpacked event. Backup plan? Footage from colleague Brandon, plus a pink courier-delivered review unit.

  • Quote (Marques, 11:47): “I opened the huge pink box and there’s a smaller UPS box inside. I open that box and it’s the Samsung Galaxy S26.”

• Design evolution of Ultra:

  • S26 Ultra looks almost identical to the S25+, differentiated by minor tweaks: thinner, more rounded corners, and a unified design language across the lineup.
  • Back to aluminum rails from titanium.
  • New color: Cobalt Violet—“feels blue to me” (Andrew, 7:26).
  • Panel discussion laments loss of the Ultra’s former distinctiveness.
  • Quote (David, 12:54): “They’ve just slowly made the Ultra look just more and more like the Plus… the S21 Ultra is the best-designed of all of them.”

• Privacy Display Innovation:

  • Ultra-exclusive hardware feature: a switchable privacy display. Similar to a privacy screen protector, but implemented at the pixel level via the OLED.
    • Customizable for entire display, specific apps, or only password fields.
    • Trade-off: halves resolution when activated.
    • Quote (Marques, 18:43): “Yes, it does get a little bit more pixelated … but I don’t mind that resolution loss for that feature.”
    • Quote (Andrew, 18:57): “That is like one of the cooler demos I’ve seen in a while.”

• Other S26 Highlights:

  • Charging: Faster charging across the lineup; Ultra gets 60W.
  • Camera: Slightly wider apertures, new ultra-stabilized action mode.
  • Software: Loads of AI features, some “Pixel-like” (call screening, on-device suggestions), Bixby now LLM-powered.
  • Pricing & Value: S26 and S26+ now more expensive with no 128GB options. Hosts slam Samsung’s pricing and minimal upgrades for non-Ultra models.
    • Quote (David, 21:55): “That’s crazy.”
    • Quote (Marques, 22:18): “When you look at what other phone companies are calling Ultra…this doesn’t feel as much like an Ultra phone.”

Notable Segment:

• Samsung S26 Privacy Display & Feature Analysis
  [13:19 – 19:36] — Riffing on the surprising hardware privacy feature, demo impressions, and technical speculation.

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2. Nothing Phone 4A: Partial Reveal & Design Language

[35:16 – 43:40]

• Design revealed: Desaturated red, clear back, silver and white accents, and unique vertical glyph LED array. Hosts rave about new glyph customization possibilities, especially the blinking red element for video recording.

  • Quote (Marques, 36:07): “The bottom-most box is red … whenever recording, that’s your indicator.”

• Panel agrees: This is the most aesthetic “Nothing” phone yet, invoking both Pixel and prior Nothing design cues.

  • Quote (David, 35:55): “I think it’s the best Nothing phone.”

• Spec speculation:

  • Confirmed periscope camera (Tetra prism lens).
  • Likely to carry midrange Qualcomm chip, 120Hz 1080p OLED display, standard Nothing OS quirks, possibly limited AI features.
  • Price to be slightly above 3A but well below flagships. Hosts wonder if it’s the only Nothing phone launch this year.

• Glyph discussion: Dream for RGB separation (custom color-coded notifications not yet a reality). Use cases for glyphs reminiscent of notification LEDs on old phones.

• Essential Apps: New user-customizable app/wigdet builder is in its infancy but sparks excitement as a future differentiator.

Notable Segment:

• Visual Impressions & Glyph Feature Discussion [36:07 – 38:29] — Animated banter about the design, glyph applications, and colorways.

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3. Weather: YouTube, Acme Weather App, and Hyperlocal Weather

[58:08 – 68:45]

• Weather YouTube boom:

  • Marques notes a surge in weather content/streaming during recent blizzard events. Shoutout to Ryan Hall, Y'all as an exemplar.

• Acme Weather App:

  • Created by ex-Dark Sky founders, iOS-only, paid, combines pretty interface with hyperlocal and transparent forecasts. Includes crowd-sourced precipitation reporting, timeline forecasting, and multiverse-style “possible futures.”
    • Quote (Marques, 59:58): “It is similar in a few ways in some features, but it also has some new aesthetics to it.”

• Weather Gadgets:

  • Panel gets deep into the garage weather station rabbit hole—devices that give true “hyperlocal” measurements; potential to link stations for neighborhood-level forecasting.
    • Quote (Marques, 66:38): “I should just put one up … Instead of getting a local report from the Newark weather station, you’ll take it from your actual weather station.”

• Cultural quip: Font and color choices for weather apps come under fire (“Chobani font” alert), plus brief waxing on weather coins and possible MQBHD weather.

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4. Rumor Mill: Touchscreen OLED MacBooks with Dynamic Island

[44:09 – 53:14]

• Apple reportedly prepping two rounds of updated MacBook Pros in 2026:

  • M5 Pro/Max models keep the current form factor; M6 Pro/Max mark a new generation with touchscreen OLED, thinner chassis, and “dynamic island” for desktop.
  • Rumored “touch-friendly” transformation for macOS when screen-input is detected.

• Hosts are divided on the need for touchscreens in laptops, but Andrew wins the room demoing his preferred “knees up, couch scroll” posture.

  • Quote (Marques, 47:10): “I’ve never really wanted a touchscreen on my laptop…I rarely ever touch the screen.”
  • Quote (Andrew, 49:01): “Have you all ever sat on the couch like this?...Look how easy it is to scroll.”

• General skepticism about application but agreement that scrolling and hands-on gestures could be convenient in some scenarios.

• Panel humorously speculates about the fingerprint crisis, cloth accessories market, and the continued convergence of macOS and iPadOS.

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5. Other Notable Topics

• Did They Even Test This?
  [03:24 – 06:12]
  — Adam recounts a bug with WhatsApp voice messages pausing or switching audio output on Pixel phones, sparking debate about blame between app makers and phone OEMs.

  • Quote (Adam, 05:19): “Instead of playing through my headphones… it’ll start coming out of the earpiece on the phone. Very weird.”

• Samsung’s Charging “Branding”:
  [27:16 – 27:54]
  — Andrew and David vent about vague “Super Fast Charging” branding versus honest wattage numbers.

• Discord Age Verification Drama:
  [70:01 – 71:41]
  — Explains the controversy and Discord’s walk-back on face-scanning for age verification, with plans for documentation, credit card checks, and technical transparency in the future.

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Memorable Quotes & Banter

• Marques on Samsung S26 Ultra:
  “[Samsung] finally got me to go to Unpacked, and then the blizzard was like, nah, it’s not gonna happen.” (10:36)

• David on S26 Ultra’s design drift:
  “The S21 Ultra is the best-designed of all of them. I’m just going to put that out there.” (13:14)

• Adam on WhatsApp bug:
  “So I’m just wondering if they even tested this.” (05:20)

• Andrew on the new MacBook touchscreen debate:
  “If I see an on-screen keyboard pop up in my macOS experience, that’s it. Straight to jail.” (50:16)

• Panel on Nothing Phone 4A glyph:
  “Every phone should have a red blinking recording light.” (Chris, 36:43)

• Marques on weather obsession:
  “Wait till the low pressure system comes in. [Everyone else]: Eating. Marques: What the—” (62:23)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [07:01] – Samsung Galaxy S26 Overview & Content Capture Story
• [13:19] – S26 Ultra hardware changes and privacy display feature demo
• [19:36] – Panel weighs in: Does Ultra still mean Ultra?
• [22:18] – Samsung pricing, storage, and value discussion
• [35:16] – Nothing Phone 4A design reveal and glyph feature banter
• [40:33] – Spec predictions and Essential Apps builder
• [44:09] – Rumors: Touchscreen OLED MacBook segment
• [58:08] – Weather YouTube, new Acme Weather app, and weather stations
• [70:01] – Discord age verification controversy

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Tone & Style

• Conversational, humorous, lightly sardonic: The crew riffs off each other in trademark style, making the episode as much about tech culture as specs.
• Deeply informed but accessible: Even dense technical explanations are broken down clearly for non-expert listeners.
• Frequent in-jokes: Recurring bits about “hype,” trivia, and past predictions gone awry.

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Summary Recap

If you missed the live tech headline events of February 2026:

• Samsung’s S26 Ultra refines the hardware and introduces a clever privacy display, but otherwise continues the trend of making the Ultra less “Ultra.”
• Nothing Phone 4A stirs hype with its pixel/Nothing hybrid design and ultra-customizable glyph notifications.
• Weather YouTube is having a moment, with new hyperlocal (and at times, hyper-nerdy) weather apps entering the scene.
• Apple’s rumored touchscreen MacBook may provoke debate about what a notebook is for—but there’s consensus: we’re all going to need bigger cleaning cloths.
• Plus, Discord backtracks on controversial age-verification features and WhatsApp voice bugs prove that even tech giants sometimes “don’t even test this”.

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Transcript

[A]

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[B]

It's just like, what's the point of knowing what the weather is where you are? I need to know what it's going to be.

[C]

I can go outside.

[B]

Go outside.

[C]

Ashley, can't you link up with other people? And then if you get enough people in a localized region, how does that

[B]

tell you what it's going to be? That just tells you.

[C]

Because then when it's coming from the west, my homies to the west are speeding information. Yeah, but my weather homies.

[A]

Yo, what is up, people of the Internet? Welcome back to another episode of the Waveform podcast. We're your hosts. I'm Marques.

[C]

I'm Andrew.

[D]

And I'm David.

[A]

It is Friday again, just so you know. So those of you who watched the last episode, if you didn't, it wasn't a Friday. But now we're back to our regularly scheduled programming.

[C]

I know how everyone else feels because it's actually Wednesday here and you just said it's Friday. So for us that's very confusing, right?

[A]

Yeah. This is just to lock us back in. So people listening know what day it's coming out. The dishes were going to get done anyway. Today's episode, we've got Samsung Galaxy S26 official unveil. We've got nothing. Phone four, a partial official unveil. And we've got some weather talk.

[D]

But first, there was a blizzard.

[A]

Yeah. But first, we're doing south by Southwest again. It's happening again. So for those of you who don't know or if you're new here, last year we did our first ever live waveform podcast in front of a in person studio audience. We did it at south by Southwest in Austin, Texas in the spring, and it was a lot of fun. And we got invited back to do it again, and we're gonna do it again. So if those of you who are like on the fence about going to south by or if you're already gonna be there, we'll see you there. We'll try to put the official. Do we know the time slot?

[C]

10:00am Friday, March 13th, 10:00am Vox Stage.

[A]

Doing this on Friday the 13th.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

There's two Friday the 13 in a row. There's one in February and March.

[E]

That's good luck, right?

[A]

Yeah. For us.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Double negative.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, okay, so the second Friday the 13th in a row, we're going to be on stage at 10am in Texas on the stage, doing podcast things.

[E]

Come say hi.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Ellis will run up and down the aisles again and it will be beautiful. And I'll trip.

[E]

One thing I know to be true, it is that Ellis will be running up and down the aisles.

[D]

That's right.

[A]

It was genuinely really fun last time engaging with you guys. We had a Q and A section. We had some more engaging back and forth with people in the audience. It was fun. So we're gonna do some of that again. Yeah, it'll be fun.

[D]

That'll be fun.

[A]

All right. We have a new. Did they even test this? I hear it's Adam's turn. That's my turn.

[E]

Okay. Finally. I have been waiting for this moment.

[A]

Wow.

[E]

So on WhatsApp I use, I have a group chat with my friends and we send each other mainly voice messages because we have, like, long updates. So every once in a while you'll just see like a 10 minute message. And it's like, all right, like, next time I'm commuting home or on the subway and I have like 10 minutes, I'll just, you know, just listen to this short little podcast.

[B]

Wow.

[E]

So I'll press play and then it'll just like pause randomly when I put the phone back in my pocket. So for the longest time, I have to press play on the voice message and make sure that it's still on the message before I put the screen to sleep. And then I can put the phone in my pocket. And I thought this was a pixel or An Android bug. Turns out, I think it's just a pixel bug because the other day I was using the S25 Edge I borrowed from the office just to play around, and I was leaving a voice or listening to a voice message as usual, and fully expecting to have to do this, like, weird thing where I put the screen to sleep before I put it in my pocket because the proximity sensor messes up what it thinks is happening and everything. And it just worked perfectly on the S25 edge. So I think this is a pixel issue. Specifically where, like, flip to hush. Yeah. Like, the activity sensor just gets messed up and even if I'm wearing headphones, it'll just, like, stop playing or it'll start playing through, like, the earpiece of the phone instead of like, oh, it's very, very annoying. Very weird.

[D]

So it doesn't just stop, it just plays through another source.

[E]

It plays through another source. Like, it thinks that.

[C]

Yeah, weirder than just weird.

[E]

Like, I'll press play, put the phone in my pocket, and instead of playing through my headphones like it normally just was, it'll start coming out of the earpiece on the phone.

[A]

Hmm.

[E]

Very weird. So I'm just wondering if they even tested this.

[A]

Wow.

[D]

They probably.

[A]

They probably didn't test it on a pixel.

[D]

Yeah. WhatsApp. Voice messages on the pixel.

[E]

Yeah. I don't know whose fault this is. Pixel, Android, WhatsApp. There's many people I'm happy to blame.

[D]

Meta, if you want to just.

[E]

That's true.

[D]

I'm always happy to play.

[E]

Yeah, it could be meta's fault.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

I was, like, deep in the forums and everyone was like, this is the only hack that works. And this has been happening for months.

[C]

Wow.

[E]

That, like, leave it on the screen where the message is playing, put the screen to sleep, and then when you put in your pocket, the proximity sensor won't mess up.

[C]

What do you think most people blame in a scenario like this?

[A]

The app maker.

[C]

The app maker, right.

[E]

Yeah, probably the app maker.

[C]

I think that's true. So, like, the app maker kind of has to fix the issues, even if it's potentially from a different phone, because they're going to be the ones if

[A]

it's like a settings issue or like a feature of the phone and people are smart enough to blame the phone maker. But if it's just an app maker, that's easy to just be like, yeah, fix your app.

[D]

Yeah, what's up with that?

[A]

Crazy.

[C]

All right, WhatsApp, if you're listening, fix it.

[A]

Yeah. Adam has that slack issue fixed itself yet.

[B]

WhatsApp is a meta product. I thought you were just randomly bringing it.

[D]

It was like, same here, bro. I mean, for any. Every other reason as well. But yeah, it's a meta product.

[A]

So now we have two on the board. The Slack thing is not fixed, I assume.

[C]

No, I also, people said they liked the segment. No one said they had the same issue in Slack. So I'm really wondering if it's. It feels like just you.

[A]

I pulled that up. I also had the same thing.

[D]

Yeah, well, remember last time I did this and I was like, oh, I have this thing that unlocks my front door and it's crazy that they don't have a widget. And then the next week they were like, david, we made you a widget and now it's a feature. And I'm like, well, I can't complain anymore. I guess I don't have anything else.

[C]

There was one person who commented, I'm starting my Slack internship this summer. This is the first thing I'll bring up.

[A]

Let's go. Big summer project. Fixing that icon. Yeah, Sick. All right, well, we did get new Samsung Galaxy S26s. And for video viewers, you can see I'm holding the S26 Ultra. You might not have been able to tell that it's an S26 Ultra because it looks exactly like an S25 plus, but I promise this is the ultra. It's the new violet color. Violet. Yeah. It had like a two word name

[C]

that feels blue to me.

[A]

Something violet.

[E]

Cobalt violet.

[A]

Cobalt. Yeah, that's what it is.

[D]

Cobalt violet.

[A]

One of the new shiny colors.

[E]

Violet.

[C]

You're turning violet two colors now.

[A]

Yeah, Cobalt violet.

[C]

Cobalt violet.

[A]

Anyway, yeah, so we know all the things now. We know all the specs, all the features of S26, S26 plus and S26 Ultra. Quick story. Hmm? I didn't get to go to the event.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

So here's the thing. Here's the thing. Maybe a little inside baseball, but for those of you who are also tech YouTubers, you know about this. So Samsung, when they're coming out with a new phone, for example, will first reach out to all of the tech media, whoever it is, and go, hey, we've got something to share with you. We have a briefing slot for you and we have a content capture slot for you in this nearby city. And we kind of have read the rumors, we've deduced, we kind of figure out what it is and we'll go, oh, okay, yeah, this is going to be the S25 and we'll go, okay, we go on the briefing. They'll explain all the features and specs and price, and we can answer any questions. And then we'll go to a content capture session. So if you're a video creator or a social media creator, whatever it is, you have time to get hands on and make your video, and that's what you'll see. All the YouTubers publish at embargo time or when the official announcement goes out. Right. They've had one in New York many times. They've had one, I'm assuming in California many times. I think there's usually one in London somewhere many times. So that creators from all over the world can just sort of fly to these local places. And then lastly, they'll have Unpacked. And then Unpacked is their big event where they'll do the whole unveiling for everyone else in the public to see. And they always ask us to go to Unpacked. But I don't know, by the time I've made my video, there's nothing really more for me to see at Unpacked. So I typically don't actually go to Unpacked.

[C]

Well, that also. That always hasn't been the case of the. The, like, briefing right before. And then it's weird, the embargo coming out at the same time as the event. So our video is totally made by the time the event comes. So it's like, what else is there for. Yeah, yeah, that always hasn't been the case, but I've gone to Unpacked a

[A]

few times and been like, sitting in the audience waiting for the event to start and publishing my video from the seat at the event, which is like, that's. They just. They've done it of us like that, like the same time. So. But lately they've just been like, please come to Unpack. Please come to Unpacked. But also, here's all the stuff ahead of time. So maybe you don't have to go to Unpacked this year. They're like, yeah, there's no content capture sessions anywhere. You have to go to Unpacked to do your content capture session. I said, all right, I guess I'm going to unpack this year. It's in California. And then we get two feet of snow and it shuts down two straight days of flights and. And I booked and rebooked and rebooked and rebooked and had two straight days of flights canceled and I just literally couldn't go. Brandon did go because he flew out of A less snowy city. And he was actually able to get there. So he shot a bunch of footage out there. While I got the footage back here, I got my briefing still, I got to combine all of my information and the footage. And so I've seen the phones and I make the video, and the video still goes live at the usual time. But, yeah, that sort of backfired where Samsung, like, finally got me to go to Unpacked, and then the blizzard was like, nah, it's not gonna happen.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Can you tell the story of the phone arriving this morning?

[A]

Oh, yeah. So then, you know, unpacked, you also are supposed to, you know, pick up the review device so I can make my review. And since I'm not there, I said, samsung, can you ship it to the studio? I said, sure, yeah, we'll ship it to the studio. It'll arrive on Wednesday, which is today. So I'm editing this video this morning of Brandon's footage and putting this whole video together, and I get like a knock on the door, and the door slides open on the studio, and there's a guy standing out of breath, holding a huge pink bag in his hand, like, this is you. And he points at the bag and it's got a label on it. And I'm like, what? I assume this is not for me, he's gotta have the wrong address. But I go, yeah, can I, like, maybe help you find the right place? And I look and sure enough, it's is our address. It says mkbhd. It says our suite and everything. And I go, oh, okay, yeah, no, this is for me. So I signed for it, and he goes, yeah, sign. Write your name. And I signed and wrote my name. And then he dipped and that was it. And I opened the huge pink box and there's a smaller UPS box inside. I open that box and it's the Samsung Galaxy S26.

[D]

Was he out of breath because it was like by 10am or something?

[A]

He was out of breath because he was like a courier, like a local service courier. So maybe he was like, stressing, trying to get it here on time or something. Maybe he had a deadline. But he definitely was out of breath.

[C]

He was in shorts and a T shirt and boots. There's a lot of snow outside. I. It felt like he ran here.

[A]

He probably sprinted through mounds of snow to get here on time.

[C]

I don't AP's outfit like that also, I don't think you're understanding how big the pink bag was that he came. It was like gig. It was like 4ft tall. Yeah, it's like this huge zip around the middle of it. So it really didn't have any sense. Yeah, it's outside. We can take a picture, put it on the pot.

[A]

It's gigantic.

[C]

Made no sense.

[A]

I was like, this cannot possibly be for me.

[C]

Tim and I were getting water in, like, the lobby and saw him walk in, and I was just like, what is going on? And then we walk back and he's in the office talking.

[D]

So just for the phone and the buds.

[A]

Yep, just for the phone. Just the phone.

[E]

That's crazy.

[A]

Yeah. But, yeah, now we have it here. So shout out to that guy because now we have the phone and we can talk about it in person.

[D]

And I want to issue my disappointment to Samsung.

[A]

Whoa. Okay. Is this for all the phones?

[D]

No, just for the Ultra.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[D]

They're just. They've just slowly made the Ultra look just more and more like the plus. And, you know, I understand that when it was like, really sharp edges, maybe that was like, not the best for your pockets. I get that. But I feel like the more aggressive design was very much like, it's Ultra.

[A]

It's the Ultra.

[D]

The S21 Ultra is the best designed of all of them. I'm just going to put that out there.

[A]

So I'll just run through real quick so people know what's new or different about this Ultra. Because you're totally right. And I have a lot of the same thoughts. Yeah. First of all, they slightly changed the design. It's a tiny bit thinner. It's a tiny bit more rounded. So it's a little bit less square.

[D]

It's a little more rounded.

[A]

They updated the camera rings to now also have this, like, plateau around them, kind of like the rest of the S series lineup. And they switched back from titanium to aluminum rails.

[D]

That's what everyone's doing. Everyone's like, oh, it's bad.

[C]

I don't think other phones have had that plateau.

[A]

The base phones, or. Sorry, not the base phones.

[C]

No, you're talking. The folds have had this.

[A]

Yes. And now the whole lineup has this. So now they all look the same, as David is saying. And, yeah, there are, like, a couple new colors, and they're still $1,300. Still has the S pen, still has the bright screen on the front, and the one big, interesting new feature is on the display, which is kind of insanely complicated. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how they did this, but it's the privacy display feature, which is. Okay, video viewers are gonna see this in person, you can clearly see, like, the viewing angles of the screen are pretty good normally. But you've seen those, like, privacy screen protectors people put on their phone sometimes where if you put it at an angle, it's pitch black. Those are kind of annoying because they, like, ruin your screen usually. And also you have to take it off if you get annoyed by it. This is built into the phone. You can turn on privacy display. And now when I tilt it off axis, it blacks out the phone. And this works from vertical axis, horizontal axis. It's very effective. And not only is it very effective, but you can customize exactly how it works. So you can have it black out the whole display, or you can have it only black out certain apps. You can choose those apps. Or you can only have it black out password fields and notifications if you want. Like, it's very specific to can you

[C]

do the password fields? I swear I remember them showing a thing for that, but I don't remember them showing it in the event.

[A]

So password fields, it says pin pattern and password. That's just lock screen and settings and secure folder.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

So it's not in a bunch of other apps, but if you just black out your whole banking app, like, that's probably pretty cool.

[C]

Yeah, you should do that.

[A]

So, yeah, that. It seems to work incredibly well. It only dims the display a little bit. When I turn it on, it's.

[D]

It's really good. Yeah. It seems like they're doing it by directing the light only directly up out of the screen instead of letting it kind of emit almost like a, you

[C]

know, like a pair of washers over each individual picture. Pixels that, like, goes higher to narrow the width of the light.

[D]

Yeah, it's a cool idea.

[C]

Really cool. I want to, like, see. You probably can't see it up close because it's. Think of that on every single pixel.

[D]

And that you can, like, turn it on and off is pretty cool, that.

[C]

Well, yeah, I guess so. Then they come back down all the way to the bottom so it doesn't interrupt the wid of the light emitting, so it raises. But like, the little animation they showed was like, oh, there's just. Everyone's got an animation for everything. Like the Fort Knox animations. 800 times. Like, this means nothing, but this. I was watching, I was like, oh, wait, that's really, really cool.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And I wish I could see, like, the mechanical aspect of.

[E]

Yeah, it seems to be hardware, right?

[D]

It's hardware.

[A]

It's display innovation.

[E]

When you turn it on, do you feel like something moving inside.

[A]

Like how does that even work? So essentially SAMs, you're making a joke. Samsung. I was waiting to see how they explain it in the keynote because my briefing didn't have a lot of technical information on how exactly they're achieving this. But the way they seem to describe it in the keynote is they have half of the pixels are regular wide emitting light pixels and half of the pixels have this sort of a focusing hardware on them. I don't know if it's hardware lenses or whatever where they are very narrow emitting just forward. And so when you turn this feature on, all of the wide emitting pixels turn off because it's an oled and you're just left with the narrow emitting pixels.

[E]

So it's not all pixels that have this like screen over it, it's just the random.

[A]

It's half of them.

[E]

Got it.

[A]

And so if you have those just those narrow emitting pixels on, I assumed I would see a big hit to screen brightness. And I'm sure maximum brightness is lower, but it still looks totally fine when I look straight at it. And yeah, then you can customize like which pixels turn on and off. So if you just have a notification come in, you can just turn those narrow pixels on and leave the rest as wide emitting pixels.

[C]

Does that mean your resolution is worse when it's on?

[A]

Yes. Yes.

[C]

I didn't think of that.

[A]

So half your pixels are off. So half your resolution is gone and

[C]

all of them are on when the privacy protector is off.

[E]

Correct.

[C]

So it's using the narrow and the wide ones normally.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Huh. That's really cool. I guess if you're somebody who really wants just privacy on some things, then you don't really. No one cares if they have 4k bank of America app open, I guess. But yeah, I mean, so you do lose. I wonder what the resolution is.

[A]

Just so the resolution is the same, it's still a 1440p display when it's maxed out. So yeah, it's theoretically half. Yeah, half your pixel density is gone. And I mean I'm looking at it like really up close because I maxed out the screen resolution right away and I turn it on and yes, it does get a little bit more pixelated

[E]

from this angle is crazy because I saw you looking at it and then when you turned it on it just went blacked out.

[A]

That's hilarious. Perfect angle. Yeah, I don't mind that resolution loss for that feature.

[C]

You should show Ellis the. Cause I think you missed that Part of the event where like a notification comes up and just the notification is like black. You did see it.

[D]

Yeah. That's cool.

[C]

That is like one of the cooler demos I've seen in a while.

[D]

I. I mean, they used a lot of the keynote, talking about that. For sure. It was the first thing that they talked about during the keynote, so.

[A]

So to Samsung's credit, and they've done like a bunch of crazy display innovations in the past. They've done the Note, they've done the Galaxy Mega, they've done the Galaxy Round, they've done the Tri fold, the Regular fold, they've done a lot of crazy screen stuff. So this is right up Samsung's alley. But also to your point, David, the rest of this phone feels less unique than ever before. Yeah, for sure. And I think my review, I feel like, I have to say, feels less like an Ultra than ever before. Yeah, it does have a S pen, but it's kind of just like away

[D]

the Bluetooth and the S pen.

[A]

It's like a bigger S26 plus, I

[C]

think, to David's point, like the boxier display, like, it still all kind of felt like a Note to us.

[A]

Right?

[C]

Like it. Yeah. Like the Note was just released at the same time and they called it Ultra. Now this just feels like an S26 lineup. Yeah. Like plus plus or. Yeah.

[D]

I mean, my theory is like last year for Q1, 2025, of all the Samsung folds, of all the Samsung phones sold, the S25 was the third highest selling with the two before it being the cheap phones, like the pay as you go phones, which sell a crazy amount. And so I think that they probably just want to make the Ultra more appealable to more people and seem less aggressive so that more people are like, content with it. It's really interesting because everyone in the United States, not everyone in the United States, but a large chunk of the United States just buys phones through carriers anyway on carrier plans. And so most of these companies are selling the most expensive phone to the most people. So at least in the United States, the iPhone 16 apparently did sell more than the 16 Pro Max in the Q1 of 2025. But the Pro Max is always near the top.

[A]

Yep.

[D]

So I don't know. I'm assuming they're just trying to sort of like make it a little more simple so it appeals to more people.

[A]

Well, you know, they also narrowed the difference in price between the base phone and the Max or the Ultra.

[C]

This is.

[D]

Yeah. Did they at least raise the storage? So they did, because iPhone did this too.

[A]

Yeah. So last year S25 was 799, right?

[C]

Yeah. Sorry, I got confused. I think this, they Technically the S25 is the same price without the 128 gig option, which is exactly.

[D]

They keep doing this. But it didn't Apple third company to do this.

[C]

Apple's. This was the same price as the year before, but you just got storage. The more storage. That's what Samsung should have done.

[D]

Yes.

[C]

Samsung just took away a cheaper option.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And kind of like played it off with like. Well, you get more storage. It's like. Yeah, but you could have gotten that same phone for the same price storage.

[A]

So there is no.

[E]

Storage is crazy, right?

[C]

Storage is like half the cost of phone.

[A]

So there is no 128 gig version of the, of the S26 at all. It starts at 256 gigs.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

And that phone is, is nine, is eight, is $900.

[D]

899 for the regular one.

[A]

Regular S26, that's garbage. So then it's 256 gig. 1100 for the S26 Plus.

[D]

No way.

[A]

1100 and then it's 1300 for the Ultra.

[D]

That's crazy.

[A]

So yeah, they're all expensive phones. And when you look at what other phone companies are calling Ultra with these crazy fast charging like silicon carbon batteries and these massive display and camera arrangements, like all these insane features that they're doing, this doesn't feel as much like an Ultra phone. Like the way those do.

[D]

Yeah. You know they're really trying to sell the Ultra though because when you go to samsung.com and you go to shop, it just lists Galaxy S26 Ultra. And then from there when you go to that page you can pick Galaxy S26 Ultra.

[C]

And it's like a tab on the top. That's a tab that's really easy to miss. It's like you're gonna buy the Ultra.

[D]

You're gonna buy the Ultra.

[E]

Wait, does the. Do the regular ones come with the privacy screen or is that an Ultra feature?

[C]

Ultra feature.

[E]

It's only ultra.

[C]

So the 26 and 26 plus is.

[E]

They're the same phone.

[D]

It's the same and they're kind of terrible deals compared to like the Pixel and the iPhone.

[A]

And they, those phones really didn't change much. Like I think the, the Battery went from 4,000 to 4,300 on the base. Otherwise it's like same phones, same cameras, slightly different design mostly everything else.

[D]

The most boring looking phone I've ever seen in my Life.

[A]

Yeah. It's a generic standard phone.

[C]

It's honestly not even a. It's not. Pixel isn't even a better deal because Pixel 10 is 800. But that's at 128.

[D]

Inside you, there are two wolves.

[C]

So 256. You're at the same price.

[D]

Yeah. You're either the S26 standard edition or you're the trifold.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

The two wolves of Samsung.

[C]

This, the Ultra. All you needed. All you needed to do if the S26 Ultra comes out with the privacy screen Qi 2 and like a silicon carbon battery. It's like phone right off the. Like, what a banger phone. What an actual upgrade instead.

[D]

They're like, ugly, though.

[C]

Hey, here's a pretty cool thing. Let's give you that nothing else and just yap about AI slop for a while.

[A]

Didn't you say they would have you. You thought it would have magnets?

[D]

I do have to issue an apology to all of our listeners.

[A]

We thought it would have magnets.

[D]

We strive for accuracy at this podcast.

[C]

That was a prediction I gave very

[D]

confident fake news and I apologize. Yeah. But next year. We got it next year.

[E]

Because we all said it wasn't going to have magnets.

[D]

Well, my uncle works at Samsung and he said that next year they're going to have G2.

[C]

Yeah, they're going to.

[B]

But if it's gonna ban.

[C]

You have Evo.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Bixby stick or something like that.

[A]

Yeah. Speaking of Bixby, you know, a lot of the other features that they talked about with these phones and that are new are software. So a bunch of AI stuff, a bunch of Bixby, a bunch of integrations. Gemini here, Perplexity there.

[D]

A little bit.

[A]

You know, there's a new. The new Bixby is technically, technically LLM powered. It used to be a small language model. Now it's a large language model. So I'm gonna be trying out this

[C]

big skip the medium.

[A]

So, yeah, we'll see how that goes. They managed to import or build their own versions of a lot of the same features that have made Pixel phones. Pixel phones, like, they have call screening now, and they just have a different name for it, but they have like that. They have.

[C]

God, it's like nudge, nudge or something.

[A]

Yeah, now nudge. Now nudge, which is essentially magic cue, which is both meaningless things to say out loud, but it's basically built into the keyboard. Will give you suggestions of things to type based on the context of the conversation you're having.

[C]

When they announced That I was like,

[D]

I've had that for 50 years.

[C]

I was like, marques, is this that thing Google has? And both of us were like, I can't remember the name of it. You looked it up and then I went, I honestly don't know if that's working on my phone because either I just don't use it and skip by it all of the time because it's so useless, or it literally doesn't work.

[A]

Might just not have to work.

[C]

I couldn't tell you which one it was.

[A]

Yeah, I hardly use it. It doesn't really work on the pixel. It's. It's supposed to be a fun pixel feature.

[E]

Yeah, it popped up once for me and it was wrong.

[A]

Unfortunate. So, yeah, maybe now Nudge will be a little better. Maybe now they also have this like image playground thing. I think it's called Creative Studio, where you can like AI generate whatever thing image you want. Like they had endless AI generated images as features of cupcakes, basically.

[C]

What did I think? Alison Johnson posted an article that was like, it's Samsung is on SlopWatch for Unpacked 2020.

[A]

They called it an AI phone in all caps at the AI agency.

[C]

Didn't they call it AIOS? Samsung just invented iOS.

[A]

It's iOS. It's iOS.

[B]

They didn't invent iOS. They're other iOS.

[E]

Apple.

[D]

Yeah, your grammar is wrong.

[A]

Shouldn't be an.

[D]

An iOS.

[A]

Yeah, it was tough.

[D]

Yeah, it was tough.

[A]

So a lot of Sam, you know, take it or leave it. Some of that stuff I'm sure will trickle down to older phones as well. But if you're, if you're thinking about S26s, you now know that they're very similar to S25s. And then the Ultra has this one

[D]

sick display feature, charges at 60 watts. Now that's a big and charges thing.

[A]

So the whole lineup charges a little faster than before. 25 watts on the base, 45 watts on the. Plus 60 watts on the old.

[D]

I wonder if it's because I remember this is either the. I think this was the S20 Ultra when they said it charged at 45 watts and it only charged at 45 watts for like 2 minutes.

[A]

This will be similar. I think it's gonna be charging watts. But I think this stat that's maybe more informative is it's like 0 to or 10 to 80% in half an hour or something like that, which is decent.

[C]

Can I complain about something that's only for us in the spec sheet that they sent us for your Briefing. The way they describe charging is the S26 has super fast charging, the S26 plus has super fast charging 2.0, and the S26 Ultra has super fast charging 3.0.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[C]

No wattage numbers.

[D]

No, this is exactly something. This is how Apple does it too.

[A]

I had to get this. They just.

[D]

They just give you this bad branding without any of the techniques.

[E]

That same sheet has an option, like it shows all the storage options and then it says micro sd. Not available. Not available. Not available.

[C]

Like, why put it on this? Oh, my God.

[D]

You're just.

[A]

Get rid of that column, guys. Yeah, unless they're going to bring it back. I don't know.

[D]

Anyway, yeah, it comes in cobalt violet, which I don't know why they call it.

[B]

That's my favorite Microsoft product.

[D]

Cobalt.

[B]

Microsoft Cobalt violet.

[D]

Oh, copilot.

[C]

I was going to say Dua. Lipa hates that color.

[A]

I didn't get it. Thank you for spelling it out.

[C]

I didn't.

[B]

You're going to keep that in the podcast?

[E]

Podcast.

[D]

Hey, man, you had a lot of bangers last week. You can't win them all. Okay. Sky blue, which I did like that color. Black and white. Did not like those colors.

[E]

No, black is the one.

[C]

Is. Are there any online exclusive colors?

[D]

Yeah, there are. There are silver, shadow, whatever that means.

[C]

Wait, that's the.

[D]

It's like gray, basically. And pink. Gold. Also exclusive.

[A]

Not rose gold.

[D]

Not rose gold.

[C]

That's patented.

[A]

Yeah, that is.

[C]

I don't even see.

[A]

Oh, I almost forgot. How could I forget? Slightly wider apertures in the Ultra's primary and telephoto cameras.

[C]

Never mind. I'm all in.

[A]

How could I forget?

[D]

Yeah, they do have like an action mode now that they had that like straightens the horizon. And Becca did like a short on it and it actually did look very good. She was able to like rotate the camera like this and the image stayed like exactly the same. It like did not move.

[A]

It's clever. It's similar to what Apple did with the selfie camera on the iPhone, where if you are recording a small enough section of that rectangular sensor, then you can fully stabilize the center portion, the whole thing based on whatever the orientation is. I'm just explaining that poorly, but it's clever and uses the hardware.

[E]

Well, Marquez, we are locked in because I was about to bring that up because I was so mad that they did not steal that from apple with the S20.

[D]

The square sensor.

[E]

Yeah, like, why not? I was just hyping this feature up yesterday to Jess because she was Asking me how that selfie feature worked, and I was like, it's so good. I can't wait for everyone to steal it. There's actually an event tomorrow that maybe we'll see what the S20 and no.

[D]

No stealing.

[A]

So they didn't do it with the selfie camera, but that one feature of, like, super, super stabilization horizontal lock allows you to, like, literally flip your phone upside down and the horizon stays locked because it has that much degrees of stabilization. Yeah. Which is cool.

[D]

Well, that's boring.

[A]

So Samsung phones for you.

[D]

We should. Should we do the nothing phone before we take it a break, or should we do it after the break?

[A]

Let's save it for after the break. Okay. Yeah, but, you know, we should do

[D]

before the break the MacBook trivia. Okay. Little teaser there.

[A]

Head fake.

[E]

The MacBook.

[D]

There's a new. We're going to talk about a MacBook what's later.

[E]

Why is that not in the. In the outline?

[D]

It is.

[E]

I have nothing about this MacBook.

[A]

Hmm.

[D]

You have nothing.

[E]

All right, well, the question.

[C]

Ellis, hit it.

[A]

Were you paying attention? I knew it.

[D]

The most boring keynote of all time.

[E]

You guys were not paying attention. This whole keynote could have been a press release, but at the end of it, they showed off an expert RAW mode feature that ensures efficient and high quality images of underwater coral and fish and stuff. When you're swimming or diving in the ocean.

[A]

Yes.

[E]

What is it called? And actually, this feature is not new, apparently. I was looking it up. It was released in S24 Ultra, which is funny.

[A]

Just brought it up again.

[E]

They just brought it up again.

[D]

I think I remember what they called.

[A]

These companies favorite things to do is to reintroduce a feature as if you're hearing it for the first time. Yeah, they do that a lot.

[C]

There's so many times when we're, like, writing scripts on stuff like that, I have to just go back and check things again and be like, I know in the briefing they, like, claim they did. It seemed like this.

[A]

Three slides.

[C]

Yeah. And then I'll be like, that happened already.

[E]

I mean, they showed circle to search twice in this one event.

[D]

This is the 40th time they've showed circle to search. I swear.

[A]

Yeah, all right, well, I think I remember. We'll think about it.

[D]

Manatee mode.

[A]

I swear I was paying attention.

[C]

I. I wasn't. I don't even remember the question Adam asked. He was even paying attention to this podcast.

[B]

All right, which pixel came in coral?

[D]

Oh, that was three.

[E]

In the biz, we call that a callback.

[C]

No.

[D]

3 was sand.

[A]

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[D]

I think we've used that joke like 70 times.

[E]

And I will continue to use that joke.

[D]

No, it's funny.

[A]

That's my bad. I should have done a little. I should have made a better.

[D]

No, it's okay.

[A]

But the nothing phone 4A got unveiled, I guess is the word, because they always do, like, several different unveilings. They showed us the design for the first time and confirmed exactly one spec because they mentioned the periscope camera. So for those of you who are on the edge of your seat about what type of telephoto lens they'd be using. Confirmed. It's a periscope camera. It's a Tetra prism lens. Anyway, I think it looks pretty good. It's desaturated red.

[E]

Understatement of the century.

[A]

You guys seem really into the aesthetics.

[D]

I think it's really nice looking.

[C]

It's the best nothing.

[A]

Fine.

[D]

I think it's the best nothing phone.

[A]

Really? Okay, so I think the 2A was probably their best so far. I think it looks as good.

[C]

It's a better version of the 2A.

[D]

It's like, less aggressive than the 2A.

[C]

Sure.

[D]

And it's desaturated red.

[A]

It's got nice. Okay, so the. Yeah, it's got a lot. I guess I'll try to Describe it. It's got a lot of the same silver, white and red aesthetic. The clear with the like textures and text underneath. And then it has the glyphs on the top right side, which is just a stack of seven large boxes. I like this part a lot.

[C]

I do too.

[A]

The bottom most box is red. And then each one of the boxes above it is white. And so they played with different animations of things that they can indicate whether it's a timer or a notification where those boxes move on stack. Recording light is the red one blinking. Cool stuff there.

[C]

Every phone should have a red blinking recording light.

[D]

And they add glasses.

[E]

That's what I was thinking watching this. I was like, this is important. I feel like everyone needs this even harder.

[C]

Agree on glasses. The glasses. Every pair of smart glasses when it's recording should be blinking red. It's crazy that it's not. I think why I like this better than the 2A is the 2A had the two cameras in a little cutout with a big circle around it where this is the longer bar. More like a pixel. And the like silver lining around it matches it.

[D]

It does give me pixel vibes. It's kind of like nothing x pixel.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

It's got the bean.

[D]

That's the bean. In fact, it's got that bean.

[B]

The bean is back.

[A]

Dual cameras. Yeah.

[C]

It looks.

[A]

It looks good. It does look good.

[D]

I think it looks really good.

[C]

The LEDs, like you said, are awesome. It's a seven by one vertical to the right side of the camera bar. Bottom one is red. There's some pretty cool ways of like using it. Like if there's a timer on the nothing Phone three when that had this stupid little spin the bottle thing that would be like sand falling into an hour.

[D]

That was cool though.

[C]

So this is just like slowly it'll blink at the top and then slowly fall down to the bottom and stack up as a timer. Yeah. The camera shut. If you're doing like a camera timer.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

It'll blink and then when the shutter goes off. Yeah. Like top and bottom connect like a shutter. It's really awesome. I wish. And this is probably not a wish for a. This is, you know, the A series or the cheaper one. If all of those were different colors, that'd be great. That would be awesome. Because then my. Like we all want with notification LEDs. My emails are blue, My text messages are green. My whatever. Like having that. This. I think you can do stuff similar, but you're learning like patterns of how the glyph works.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Which is harder.

[E]

Do you guys think this will be cheaper? Because it is the A. But he also made that announcement, the

[D]

blog post about cheaper.

[A]

I don't think, I don't think it'll be cheaper.

[D]

He made that big blog post a few weeks ago about how all phones are going to be more expensive this year. So.

[C]

No, no, I think it'll be cheaper than like the.

[D]

The three.

[C]

The three series.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Because there will be no four series. But that's also in the A series.

[D]

Well, they won't be four series this year.

[C]

This year, yeah. Sorry. Yeah, that's true.

[D]

Yeah. But I mean he made that big blog post about how all phones are going to get more expensive, which has not really came true yet.

[C]

Do you think it'll be which was

[E]

the 3A when it came out?

[C]

Which one?

[E]

Bam. You're right.

[D]

3A glow in the dark edition. 3 in the dark.

[C]

The 3A. The 3A lab or the 3A Pro?

[A]

3A was 370.

[C]

What's the 3A Pro?

[D]

What about the CMF Pro Light Pro

[A]

launch price was four hundred and fifty nine.

[C]

I think it'll be in between those.

[A]

Yeah, that's about right.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Like a clean 400, 425.

[D]

Do you think they'll launch a 4i Pro?

[C]

Yeah, I think if you're not. Yeah, I was gonna say if there's no four series. Do you think this is gonna be nothing's only phone launch of the year?

[A]

For the year.

[D]

That's what they said.

[C]

I feel like.

[D]

I mean unless they do it pro.

[A]

Yeah. I feel like I can also just based on how they've done this in the past, like kind of guess the rest of how this phone's gonna go. Like you can see the triple cameras on the back. Right. It's probably going to be a solid Qualcomm mid range chip. It's probably going to be. It's probably going to be 120Hz OLED. Probably 1080 OLED or something at the front. It's probably going to have this nice quirky nothing OS with a couple new features in there. Maybe some AI stuff, maybe not.

[D]

Doesn't seem like they lean into that much a new AI thing.

[A]

Yeah, they haven't leaned super super in like Samsung but they do have maybe like mind space or a couple things like that. I expect that to happen again and then. Oh yeah, that and then yeah, maybe a couple. I mean average speakers. Probably. Probably some fun vibration motor stuff. Decent. Yeah. I don't think anything else too crazy.

[D]

Yeah, they do have that like instant app thing now where you can describe the app you want and it kind of makes it for you.

[A]

Whoa. Right? They have that in the song.

[D]

Didn't they do that?

[A]

What?

[C]

I do not remember that. But the Nothing lineup couldn't be more confusing in my eyes. I'm looking at like their lineup right now. And the 3A, the 3A Pro and the 3A Light are three completely different phones. None of them just look like an offshoot of one of them. Like if we're talking about how Samsung, you know, the Ultra plus and Regular all look exactly the same. This is the exact opposite of this. These are three completely different phones.

[D]

Fairly recently they released the Essential apps which is where you can describe an app or widget and it will, it will make it for you. Apparently it's pretty limited right now and you can have up to six of them. But I know that some people had played with it and it was like semi useful for extremely basic things, but for anything, you know, more complicated. It's going to be a few years down the line.

[C]

Didn't I was going to say I could see that making any app in their little dot matrix thing because it'd be the easiest thing possible. But didn't they ditch the dot matrix like whole design vibe from the three? I just thought like nothing in general is not doing the. Like I think they're doing dot matrix anymore.

[A]

I thought they were still doing that in the software. Like. Yeah.

[D]

Still have dots. Yeah.

[A]

Boot animations and random things still have dots in there.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

They. Is this right? They changed the logo.

[D]

There's a cool essential apps store you can go to now with the essential apps that people have made where you can try different ones. It is kind of interesting and fun and cool. I think once this gets better and builds out, it'll be more interesting. But a lot of dots, they'll probably have that. A lot of dots. A lot of dots. They'll probably have that on this phone, I'm sure.

[A]

Gotcha.

[D]

They have a five second rule. 1. So I guess you have to start it once you drop something tells you

[A]

whether or not you can start. Not the thing.

[D]

This is where I get your photo.

[C]

Don't pick it up off the floor. Start the timer on your phone.

[D]

But then it's been like 10 seconds by the time you do that.

[A]

Yeah. Anyway.

[D]

Yes. Pretty simple. Unfortunately today is Wednesday. We're recording on a Wednesday. And tomorrow morning is the time at which everything about this is revealed. So.

[C]

No, isn't it next.

[E]

Isn't it March 5th next week, March.

[D]

Never mind the day after that. I'm so wrong.

[C]

I actually think they're doing this because they saw. Oh, we're a day after Apple stuff and a week after Samsung stuff. Let's get something in before Samsung stuff.

[D]

Nothing. Mogs Samsung.

[A]

Oh, no, they. But they always do this long drip. Yeah. New feature, new spec. They'll next tomorrow they'll tell us the processor and then the next day they'll tell us what the camera specs are and then the next day they'll tell us the battery size and the next day they'll tell us the materials and then they just keep going.

[C]

This is one of the best pieces of content I've seen. Nothing put out. I thought this was informative.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I love the video is great. I learned what a Tetra Prism periscope lens was. I did it.

[E]

The presenters killed it.

[C]

The presenters did really well. I loved the shot at a pink phone just being desaturated red. So true. Yeah. There's some funny stuff. And the pink. I think we opened this up with the pink and then didn't talk about it. The pink looks.

[D]

Pink looks really good.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So good.

[E]

I want to wait to see it in person.

[C]

That's true.

[E]

Because I have seen pictures and video of it and it looks amazing. But that always like it comes out the box and you're like, oh, so that orange iPhone.

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

[E]

So I'm waiting but I am excited for it. It does look gorgeous.

[A]

Yeah, I gotta see it in person.

[C]

Nothing's mostly design, right. We saw the majority of what we care about of this phone.

[A]

Just need a price tag now.

[C]

That's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The last thing we'll probably find out.

[E]

Yes, it has G2

[D]

new. Absolutely nothing.

[C]

I think this transparent phone has Qi 2.

[A]

You'd see.

[D]

You see those coils. Okay. Another quick story that popped up yesterday, which is quite interesting. Apparently later this year there's going to be a touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro with a dynamic island and redesigned MacBooks controls. So, crazy enough, in one week Apple is rumored to release the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros, which are really nothing more than just spec upgrades to the current generation of laptops.

[A]

Yes.

[D]

But reportedly near the end of the year, probably around late October. November, which is when they usually do this kind of stuff. They're going to release this whole new generation of MacBook Pros with M6 Max and M6 Pro. Yeah, it's a big deal because they're going to be getting rid of this notch I guess that you could say that in the current design of MacBook Pros, they're going to be having the Dynamic island similar to the iPhone. What that says about whether the iPhone is going to have Dynamic island for another few years, as opposed to just making it transparent, I'm not sure. But apparently when you touch different aspects of macOS, it is going to expand to be more touch friendly. So it'll be able to be used with both a keyboard and your hands kind of like whenever you want, and it will change a little bit. For that reason, macOS has been sort of being slowly restructured to be more like iOS and iPados in general. They look very similar right now anyway. So I think the main things Apple's gonna really have to kind of focus on are making sure that it doesn't wobble every time you tap it and then maybe also making the screen a little more fingerprint resistant. Quinn at Snazzy Labs put out a pretty banger video this morning about maybe why they're doing all of this stuff. And he was talking about like the RAM shortage and everything like that. And they're keeping the prices the same for a lot of these things. So he was estimating that these. The reason they're launching a M5 Pro and an M5 Max and the M6 Pro and M6 Max in the same year is so they can create huge product line differentiations where they still sell the M5 Pro and M5 Max computers, but then the M6 Pro M6 Max are way more expensive because they have a way better display touch screen and they're more powerful. So that's. That would be one reason to release two lines of laptops in one year.

[C]

I see.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. I. And I. I might just be one of those people that like kind of is along for the ride for the better specs and better display, even though I don't want a touchscreen. And I wonder what that does to the rest of the macOS experience. Hopefully not. Not too much. I'm kind of. Cause like Windows right now you can either get a touchscreen or a not touchscreen computer, and Windows is the same. Yeah, it sounds like you're saying there's maybe going to be some differences to the touchscreen version of Mac os potentially.

[D]

Well, the rumor is that it'll be about the same, but then when you go to touch it, it will sort of like reformat itself on the fly to be more touch focus.

[A]

Okay. So if I never touch the screen, it would just behave exactly the same, maybe as A regular.

[D]

Maybe a slight redesign. I'm sure we're gonna see more of this at WWDC in June.

[A]

Yeah. So, yeah, I. I'm on. So I've said for years, I've never really wanted a touchscreen on my laptop. I've. I've had laptops with a touchscreen. I rarely ever touch the screen. Anytime there is the ability to touch the screen, I'm. I'm annoyed by how much it wobbles and how many fingerprints stay on the screen. And I wish I never touched the screen. So I don't know. Where are you guys on touchscreen on the laptop?

[D]

I'm sort of in between. I mean, now that we have these enormous trackpads, it's less of a problem laptop. I don't know if you guys remember, but laptop trackpads used to be really small and really annoying to use. And so now that they're that much bigger, I really do think that they should have just like added Apple pencil support to the trackpad and that would have solved a lot of problems. I will say in Photoshop, it's really nice to be able to like pan and zoom with your fingers. And I used that on my Surface Book 2 Back in the day when I had that a lot. But besides that, I don't need it. You know, I'm not really sure why they're doing it. Maybe it's just because OLEDs at this point are cheap enough to be able to make them touch capacitive.

[B]

Yeah, I don't know, David, it's such a good point. Like all the cool parts of the touchscreen experience, which are gestures you can

[D]

do on the trackpad built in.

[B]

Yeah, on the trackpad. Also. Who is it for? Like, I'll be like, like no one. If you're buying a MacBook Pro as you're like, cuddle up and watch some Netflix on the couch. Computer like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. Dude, chill out.

[C]

You know what I mean?

[A]

And then it's like iPad.

[B]

Yeah, exactly. So if you're buying a MacBook Pro, you're intending to do something professional with it.

[C]

I would assume you don't have to only do professional things with it, though. If you're spending that much money, it still should be able to function as your curl up and watch a movie MacBook.

[D]

It is going to be thinner too, apparently, which scares me.

[C]

Have you all ever sat on the couch like this? Hold on.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Oh, let's go like this.

[C]

You know how hard? Like knees up, you know, on the couch.

[B]

Andrew's, feet are on the chair, knees up. Computer wedged in between screen at an obtuse angle.

[C]

Look how easy it is to scroll like this.

[D]

Oh, true.

[A]

Oh, because you're.

[C]

And then you look how hard it is to scroll like this.

[A]

That's crazy.

[B]

I just got proven wrong.

[C]

Y' all just need some more comfy position.

[B]

No, no, it's because my computer spends probably like 80% of its on time in clamshell mode, like in a dock. The other 20 are between my knees and my chest. Just like that.

[D]

That's true. If you're reading. Yeah. Being able to just kind of, like, flick with your thumb.

[C]

I love potting like this. My thumb's sometimes right here and I'm just like, scrolling on the. I know. I can scroll too. Listen. I do it on both. But when I used my surface for a long time and I got really used to just occasionally like, doing this scrolling. Or like. Yeah, I use. And then I come back and not have it and I'm like, oh, my God. I do that way more than I thought.

[E]

Yeah. Scrolling is not a big deal if the main place you use a laptop is your desk. I think every time I'm on the couch, when I'm on an airplane, when I'm in the backseat of a car, scrolling like that in a touchscreen is so much nicer.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You don't have to use it. It's.

[D]

Yeah, it's optional.

[B]

If I see an on screen keyboard pop up in my Mac OS experience, that.

[D]

That's.

[C]

I swear, that's.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Straight to jail.

[B]

I'm doing something terrible.

[D]

That's where I draw the line. Yeah. I don't know. I think Apple needs to release some sort of display coding that stops fingerprints.

[A]

Yeah, Fingerprints are gonna drive me insane. We should come out with, like, a special finger. Like, what did Quinn do? He has like, a cloth.

[D]

He's like the polishing cloth.

[C]

Yeah, he just launched like, XXL or something. It's like the bigger version.

[A]

Yeah. And it says about the same blowout, polishing tower, polishing cloth. Market's about to go crazy.

[D]

Yeah. Oh, true.

[A]

About to go crazy.

[D]

Oh, that's smart of him. That's smart of him.

[A]

Think about it.

[D]

Corner the market early so when everyone's touching their computer screens.

[A]

Yeah. You know where to clean it. Yeah.

[C]

I will say touch screen with the kid is awful because I'll just be

[A]

like, they don't clean their face.

[C]

Oh, well, not. No, no. It's not even that. It's just like every time I have my Computer open Lane, like, runs over and she wants to play with it, and it's easy enough to defend the keyboard with one arm, but then it's just. And all my Windows are all over the place now, Lord knows where, and I'm just like, oh, no.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So, yeah, it happens to Claire more often because she's using a Lenovo, but, yeah, it screws that computer up all the time.

[B]

When I was teaching, what happened to me all the time where a student would be like, can you help me, like, figure out this Ableton thing? And I go. And I'd sit down and be like, oh, you just click right here. What have I done?

[D]

Yeah, so I guess we'll see how expensive that ends up being.

[E]

I mean, you got me wondering, David, now, do you think that they'll do gestures on the screen? Because they already have them all, like, being able.

[A]

I mean. Yeah. Yeah. Like an iPad.

[D]

Yeah, like an iPad.

[A]

Like, on the iPad, you can, like, take all of your fingers, swipe across, and it moves it to the next app.

[E]

But not like the gestures from the trackpad gestures.

[A]

They're strikingly similar, right?

[D]

Yeah, they are quite similar.

[A]

All fingers does. Yeah, it's very similar.

[D]

Can you tell?

[B]

He has a Galaxy Tab.

[A]

It's funny. So I have an iPad and a MacBook Pro, and I very distinctly use them differently for different things. And I just feel like a touchscreen laptop would blur that line. This has always been the argument, like, why would you need both? I guess it's for people who don't have both. It's for people who don't have an iPad and don't want to buy two things. Now you have one thing that does both.

[E]

I wonder how much of this is just that the technology is so much cheaper now.

[D]

That's what I keep wondering.

[E]

Might as well.

[A]

You know, it's been true for a while. It's just there's been such a philosophical argument against a touchscreen MacBook.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

For.

[D]

Well, there was that famous, like, Steve Jobs keynote where he says that your arm's gonna turn into a gorilla arm if you do that, and you're gonna, like, break your screen or something.

[A]

He said a lot of things that they've gone back on, though, before they.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I mean, who wants a stylus?

[C]

Ugh.

[A]

Remember that he hates styluses.

[E]

10 perfectly good styluses right here.

[D]

To be fair, I think that was for phones, mostly.

[A]

Introducing Apple, Pennsylvania. Yeah, I guess it's never to the iPhone, but. Yeah, we'll see how this goes. Yeah. So that's A rumor mill thing. We all know. Well, we all expect a whole bunch of new laptops and a bunch of other stuff that we talked about last week. Next week.

[D]

Yeah, we're gonna get that cheap MacBook next week.

[A]

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[D]

My uncle said that it is.

[A]

We'll get all that info very soon for you.

[D]

Yeah, okay.

[C]

Quinn's. It's called. Sorry. Going back to that Cloth pro, Max, he really went all out. The, like, packaging itself really feels like an Apple product. It also has a compatibility list that's. That has a bunch of iPhone stuff. And then says there's also dusty Nintendo Switch.

[D]

Nice old cinema display, CRT tv.

[C]

Nice. This is awesome.

[D]

Very cool. All right, well, we're going to wrap it up with a couple more stories after the break, but before that, we have some more questions to ask us and potentially not get any points like usual.

[A]

T for trivia.

[C]

Oh, I thought you were gonna say timeout.

[D]

That's what I think.

[A]

Trivia.

[C]

Trivia.

[A]

That's what that means.

[E]

Samsung, the one, the only.

[B]

They have a lot of products.

[A]

Oh, boy.

[D]

Is it a tractor? Again, like a.

[B]

No, this question is Excavator. It's about two Samsung products that we know and love, specifically the Galaxy Buds and the Galaxy Z Fold. These are both staples of the Samsung lineup. However, which one came out first? And I'm talking Original Buds or Original Fold.

[A]

Interesting.

[C]

We call them Staples.

[B]

They're both products that Samsung sells.

[A]

Staples. The Buds are. I think Buds can probably be in Staples.

[C]

The.

[A]

The Fold. It's starting to get there.

[D]

It's a stapler.

[A]

It's out there. Yeah, the Fold. We're on the Z Fold seven and we're only on the Buds four. But that doesn't mean anything. Yeah, it could be.

[D]

That doesn't mean nothing.

[A]

Yeah, we could have had many. Many.

[C]

We didn't even talk about the Buds.

[A]

Yeah. By the way, it's new Buds.

[C]

I kind of like. We didn't talk about this question.

[B]

Assuming we were going to talk about the buds and we didn't talk about.

[A]

The Buds are. Sweet. I have them actually. I'm going to start testing them more. They look like. I mean, they all kind of look like AirPods from the front, but from the back. They redesigned them. They have new drivers, they have new features.

[C]

The brush metal.

[A]

The brush metal, the flat back. It looks pretty sweet.

[C]

It looks like if an AirPod had the clip of a pen glued to the end of it, which I would.

[A]

I prefer a flat thing when I'm like controlling like a squeeze. Like a round like barrel thing is it's kind of annoying actually to squeeze.

[D]

Well that's why they like chamfered it on the side.

[A]

Yeah. But like a fully flat thing. I like that. I like that better. That's just me. Anyway. Yeah, we'll be testing those as well. Anyway. Okay. Yeah. So trivia will be at the end.

[D]

Answers like at the answers that.

[A]

Be right back.

[D]

The usual at the end.

[A]

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[D]

the dad joke weather or I couldn't

[C]

think of one fast enough.

[D]

There are not.

[A]

Mostly because. Okay, so I've talked about weather in the past on this podcast. Mostly because I think a couple weeks ago I was comparing tech YouTube to weather YouTube. And I'm sticking by that. There are so many parallels between the two, especially because we just had another blizzard. I don't know if you guys are. Did the weather stuff hit your feeds at all?

[D]

It definitely hit my.

[A]

Am I the only one.

[C]

My feed's been filled with other.

[A]

Did you didn't go to YouTube.com during the great blizzard of 2026, the one

[C]

two weeks ago or the one, the

[A]

one like three days ago?

[C]

I did not or I did not have it.

[A]

My feed was full of. All the YouTubers were live at the same time opening up camera feeds showing the live precipitation totals in different places.

[E]

Were they interviewing people on the streets?

[A]

Some of them, yeah. One of them had a feed of Ryan Hall. Had a guy who was like. He had a feed of someone who's just walking through New York City during a blizzard. Just walking around and different stuff. It was pretty cool.

[D]

Cool.

[A]

I liked the blizzard. It was fun. Yeah.

[E]

Anyway, which Ryan hall are you talking about?

[A]

Ryan Hall, y'. All.

[E]

I can't hear you.

[A]

He's a weather YouTuber.

[C]

Ryan Hall, y'. All.

[E]

I see.

[C]

Got it. That's a great name.

[A]

That's his name. That's a YouTube name. So shout out to Ryan Hall. He's got a. He's got a whole thing. But a lot of people when I talked about weather apps on social media like to bring up that the founders of Dark sky actually recently came out with a new app called Acme Weather. And I just want to point out they emailed me right before it went live and they were like, hey Marques, this is. I'm one of the founders of Dark sky and we actually got acquired by Apple and I left Apple and we started this new thing and here's a link to the test flight. And I was like, this could be the greatest phishing email of all time because it's so specific to what I would insta click. I clicked it immediately, downloaded it without even checking.

[C]

Clicked it so fast.

[B]

You mean your open clawed bot clicked it on your behalf?

[A]

Yeah, man, I immediately downloaded it. So it's called Acme Weather and it is similar in a Few ways in some features, but it also has some new aesthetics to it. But it is a new weather app. It's iOS only right now it's paid. Many of the good weather apps are paid. I'm just going to get it out the way ahead of time, just so you know. But it is pretty good, I would say. And I've been playing with it for the last couple days.

[E]

I'm just upset that this is the first time I'm hearing about it. Really? That you had access to this before it even launched.

[A]

Funny, I. I've.

[D]

Yeah, we didn't. I dropped slack.

[A]

Nobody. No, I kind of assumed that we'd all seen the headlines.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And just were going to try it.

[D]

Well, sure, but like, I can't try

[E]

it because it's iPhone only.

[A]

Yeah, that's fair. That is fair. Well, we'll toss a screenshot or two in the pod. For those of you who haven't seen what it looks like yet, but it kind of almost looks like. Okay, I put a Venn diagram on Twitter of like, there's the pretty weather apps and then there's the accurate weather apps. Yeah, the pretty ones, like the default Google weather app are almost always not super accurate. And then the ones that have their own data and that are like the weather.com and accu other ones are really good information but are like horrible apps. And a lot of people at that point pointed out that Carat weather, which is the one that I use, is kind of right in the middle because you choose what source you have and it looks really good. Acme Weather, I think, also looks kind of like the Google weather app. It's pretty good looking, but it has a dark sky timeline underneath. And it has a pretty good radar feature or map feature, which lets you look at radar, but also things like current temperature, wind maps and accumulation totals for predict storms. Can't predict. I was just looking at this upcoming storm we're expecting in the next couple days and yeah, we're supposed to get some more stuff. Wait, when? This weekend? Sunday? Monday, we.

[E]

So I never check weather. It's one of my many faults. I always learn about upcoming storms in this room when we sit down and is like, are you ready for this storm? And I'm like, what are you talking about?

[C]

I think we need to start enact an app time limit on weather apps on Marques's phone because it's getting to be a lot this weekend. I was like, Sunday. I'm like, I really hope it doesn't snow that much. Oh, hey everyone. It's like, it's pretty warm outside. There's probably not gonna be any weather. He's like, wait till the low pressure system comes in. I was like eating Marquez. What the. Don't worry.

[D]

It can't. It will get worse.

[A]

That's my bad. It was like during the day and you guys were all like, there's not that much snow. I was like, don't we all know it's a nighttime storm? Nobody knew. So I just sprinkled some information.

[C]

Google it as fast as possible.

[E]

Unrelated but related. Your Venn diagram that you posted. Yeah, I was curious, how did you make that?

[A]

I googled Venn diagram creator and I opened a Canva template and I made it in Canva.

[E]

I was convinced you were going to say Final Cut Pro, but that's.

[C]

That's actually probably two circles on his head.

[A]

It should have been faster if. It would have been faster if I didn't.

[D]

Acme says that it is focused on hyperlocal. Hyper accurate forecasting combined with transparency about forecast uncer, which is nice.

[A]

Hyperlocal weather is neat because kind of like Waze is crowdsourced, where if something happens and someone reports it in the app, if it has enough users, that's like really useful information. So some truck drops something on the road and you are literally 60 seconds behind that truck, you'll get a notification that says object on road ahead because somebody reported it. Similar thing with weather. So you'll literally like, dark sky did this really well. You'd get a notification that says like, rain starting in three minutes. And three minutes later the front would pass and it would start raining. And it feels like kind of this magic moment. Maybe I'm just a little into weather or whatever, but I thought that was pretty cool that they're also bringing that feature. So they have a report feature where you can report like, yeah, it just started raining.

[D]

A bomb cyclone.

[A]

Well, it would probably be like a smaller thing like frost or ice or whatever community. What's happening right now? You hit lightning and then everybody knows there's lightning nearby.

[D]

You create lightning.

[A]

I kind of assume that multiple people need to report it so that it's not like one person saying, I don't

[C]

know how many people are reporting things similar to Waze. Marques is the number one on the leaderboards right now.

[A]

I mean, I do use the waves reports. I would say that it would be awesome if a lot of people use this app and reported it and it got good. Because hyperlocal weather is sweet.

[D]

Yeah. It says it has an alternative Possible futures feature because that they don't want to assume that the weather is going to be perfectly accurate every time. So it. So it shows like possible different variations. It's got the black line, which is what they think is going to happen, and it's got these gray lines, which is what might happen.

[E]

Multiverse confirmed.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

They're just plugged into all the different versions of Kearney, New Jersey.

[A]

So I just want to throw it out there. Their logo is really bad.

[D]

It's not green.

[A]

I would love if somebody redid it.

[D]

It's like the umbrella from Acme.

[E]

I thought it's cute.

[D]

Looney Tunes.

[E]

It's fine.

[A]

That blue gradient, it looks bad.

[D]

What? Well, it's an umbrella.

[B]

Wait, what?

[A]

The umbrellas. You don't know.

[B]

Oh, is the icon.

[D]

It's like the Wiley Coyote.

[A]

The blue.

[D]

The blue.

[C]

Yeah, it's like a blue gradient on the.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

We were looking at just like the black and white logo on the website.

[A]

Oh, no, it's.

[D]

It's not my favorite. I will. I will say that it's not great. Definitely my favorite. But it's cool.

[A]

Yeah. Good.

[D]

It kind of looks like if Claude and the New York Times made an app together because Andrew said it was a New York Times looking app and it has like the Claude color palette.

[B]

Everyone needs to stop using the Chobani font. I don't know what font it is, but like look up Chobani yogurt. Like. Like the font. Knock it off.

[D]

New York Times loves Chobani.

[B]

I don't know what.

[C]

I kind of see what you mean.

[D]

It's everywhere.

[B]

It's like all the millennial ass DTC companies.

[A]

I think it's the off white background that makes it. Yeah, like off white. Like the Chobani packaging.

[E]

All right, well, let's make our own weather station. So we can just have.

[A]

That would be hyper local weather for the c. That's actually a thing you can do. Yeah.

[C]

So wait, that was a question I kind of had.

[E]

That's what I'm saying.

[C]

I can't tell if this is a real thing or I'm remembering it incorrectly. So maybe one of you heard of it or an audience member has. But I swear my cousin told me about this thing that he bought that he puts up on his garage and a lot of people in the area buy have them and are connected together.

[E]

That's what I'm saying.

[C]

It's like wind and barometer and stuff and it. It takes down what's happening outside. This is a whole ratio.

[A]

Do you have this.

[C]

No, but how do you not have this weather boy? I should.

[A]

I should. I should just put one up. Yes, I. And you have a weather app, or, like, even, like, some people have, like, a dedicated display where it's like, you can plug into the data or you can plug into the data from your own weather station. Instead of getting a local report from the Newark weather station about, like, what pressure and temperature and all that are, you'll take it from your actual weather station so you'll get your actual location.

[C]

You have MQBHD Weather.

[B]

For every bit of data you upload to the weather network, it mines part of the hash of a cryptocurrency weathercoin weather coin.

[D]

Well, no, then it would actually have some utility.

[C]

Let's do one.

[D]

Yeah, we should.

[C]

How much are they? What do I search?

[B]

Andrew, Remember. Remember when I was like, I need to find this weather thing sort of similar. You know, it is that it's just a thing you put on your roof, and then it tells you.

[C]

I thought yours was just the display. I didn't realize it was the roof.

[A]

Couple hundred bucks.

[B]

You can only get the display with the roof thing. You cannot get a display that. Just three GS or whatever. I mean, now you can. Now that terminal exists.

[C]

Okay, but.

[E]

Right.

[C]

Yeah. I don't know. My cousin seemed. Everyone I've ever heard talk about this seems super popular.

[B]

If you go on Amazon and just type in weather station, they're made by, like. They're like 30 bucks, and everybody makes them. And I'm sure they're all. I think it's dumb.

[C]

Tell us a good one. I want one.

[D]

All right.

[B]

It's just like, what's the point of knowing what the weather is where you are? I need to know what it's going to be.

[C]

Can you link up with other people? And then if you get enough people in a localized region, how does that

[B]

tell you what it's gonna be? That just tells, because then when it's

[C]

coming from the west, my homies to the west are speeding information. My weather homies.

[A]

So here's the other thing about weather, is there's all these different models that are aggregated and computed by different computers and regions or whatever. So those are based on the weather stations that they use. So then if you have your own weather station, that's maybe a little like, Newark is close by, but we were 50 miles away from Newark or something, then you can adjust yours based on how far you are from the weather station that you're getting your information from.

[C]

Marquez.

[A]

It's kind of interesting.

[C]

I think you should buy me one of these because I'm on the west part of New Jersey and you're on the east part of. So it's only beneficial for you if you get me one.

[B]

New Jersey is a pencil ass state. You're like three minutes away from New Jersey, dude.

[A]

No, but the coast distance from the coast is crazy. You got half as much snow as we did.

[C]

I know. Usually I get more snow than you guys do. Yeah, both times. This time I've gotten significantly less.

[A]

This was a coastal storm that dropped 22 inches here and 8 inches there. Like, that's. That's because the weather stations.

[D]

You know, I know neither of you are in the dating world right now, but you would be killing it talking about the weather on your dates. You'd be like, that would not.

[C]

Oh, let me tell you, this would

[D]

not be a dull conversation. We gotta move on, guys. This is insane.

[A]

I feel it. I just want to shout out weather committee.

[D]

I appreciate it.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Just saying we could start one Marquez.

[A]

I. I'm not against it. I'm gonna start googling weather stations.

[C]

I'll use the company card.

[D]

All right, well, we got. Yeah, let's.

[B]

Let's sum up this story. We'll alternate words.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

Individual words.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. Oh, God. All right, here we go.

[E]

Ready? Yeah.

[D]

Do I start?

[B]

Yeah, you can start.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

Discord is not gonna scan your face

[B]

or other children's faces. Yeah.

[C]

Until later.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Almost good news.

[D]

If you guys. Well, yeah, if you guys remember our super bowl episode, technically true. It was after the Super Bowl, Discord gotten a lot of heat because they decided that they were going to do age verification via scanning your face. If you were a child. If it. If their algorithms decided that you're probably a kid using various different factors, one of the ways they were going to verify that you were not a kid actually was to scan your face. They got a ton of pushback on that. A lot of people went back to the good old team speak back from, you know, the 1900s, and they said, oopsie, that was a bad idea. So they are now delaying the age verification functionality until the second half of 2026. Before it rolls out verification, it's going to add more ways to verify, like adding a credit card to your account, because that basically just tells you then how old you are, et cetera. It will also include documentation for every verification vendor that they've used. It will add a spoiler channels option and publish a technical blog explaining how all of their age Verification systems work. So they are trying really hard to win back the trust of people, of the kids and the adults, because nobody wants their face. Faces scanned. Especially since they're. They had like a data breach before this in which everyone's data was like leaked and it was not good.

[A]

So worst nightmare.

[D]

Now we can do trivia.

[E]

Trivia, dude. Quick update on the score. I'll keep it. Now you know what we deal with people. Marques with 14, Andrew with 17, David with 16.

[A]

That's the same as last.

[D]

Same as the past four before, in the week before and the week before.

[E]

Can you guys please let me update the graphic this week? All right, so were you guys paying attention towards the end of the live event? They showed off an expert RAW mode that ensures efficient and high quality images of underwater coral and fish and stuff. Off. When you're swimming or diving in the ocean. What is it called, realistically, when you're

[D]

at the aquarium that. Yeah, that's mostly.

[E]

Yeah, that's mostly.

[A]

Or the one time you go snorkeling and you're like, isn't this thing waterproof?

[D]

And then it's sea salt.

[C]

Was this. Yeah, water. Just the example they used. It's not specifically for water.

[A]

I think it is for water.

[E]

It was for.

[C]

It's a mode for being underwater.

[D]

Yeah, it's not. Well, things that are underwater. So, like a fish tank.

[E]

It'll like pump up the vibrancy and stuff. All right, flip them and read. What do you got?

[A]

We all combined her.

[E]

Okay.

[C]

Oh, wait, Marques, what'd you say?

[A]

I wrote Ocean Pro.

[C]

We only wrote three.

[D]

Oh, wow. We have the entire combinatoric of both of these words.

[E]

Does everyone say what they wrote one at a time?

[C]

Oh, at the same time.

[D]

I'll go first.

[A]

I wrote Ocean Pro. Dang it.

[C]

I wrote Pro mode.

[D]

I wrote Ocean Mode.

[C]

Correct.

[A]

Ocean mode it is.

[D]

Ocean mode.

[B]

Ocean Mode by Juan.

[A]

Oh, that's tie for the lead.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

All right, well, this next one, I was paying attention.

[B]

50, 50 shot.

[D]

Okay, 50, 50.

[B]

Unless you somehow get it wrong.

[C]

Well, isn't.

[D]

That's part of the 50 50?

[C]

Yeah, that's one of the 50s, isn't it?

[D]

Not how that works.

[A]

Big math.

[D]

That's why we're podcasters and not mathematicians.

[C]

Never thought of it like that.

[B]

It turns out I've just bodied every 50, 50 shot I've ever had. I didn't know losing it was an option.

[D]

Oh, shoot. I like that.

[B]

Guys, what came first? The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold or the Gam. The Gamsung Salaxy. Or the Samsung Galaxy Buds. There's no letter with the Buds. Right? It's not like the Peabuds because they

[A]

have the number after Galaxy Buds number.

[B]

There's a galaxy, but the numbers after the fold two and there's a letter there. It's the Z, fold five.

[A]

That's just because they have so many phones, they gotta separate them with letters.

[C]

Oh wait, I thought the Buds did have a number.

[B]

No, they do have a number. They don't have a letter of a letter. It's not like the Samsung Galaxy J

[A]

Buds O, but imagine Z.

[C]

Well, it's actually the Samsung B uds.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

All right. Okay, guys, who would like to read their answer? Did you guys all write the same thing?

[A]

No. Who?

[B]

Who has the different thing?

[A]

This would be really sad.

[C]

I really like the font that.

[A]

Thank you.

[C]

I don't know why your writing looks different in that, but like, I'd buy that as a font. Not gonna lie.

[D]

Impact font.

[A]

So I said the Buds came first.

[B]

I'm so sorry, Marques.

[D]

I know the reason.

[B]

I'm so sorry. You can say the reason.

[D]

It's because they didn't used to be called the Galaxy Buds.

[C]

That was my guess also.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Wait, what the Samsung earbuds used to be called like something else.

[B]

What are they used to be called?

[D]

Do you remember, Adam? You were the second guy.

[E]

I do not remember.

[D]

They were called something else.

[C]

I picked this because it felt like the Buds is the obvious answer.

[E]

I know the watches used to be

[D]

called Gear Gear Gear, Galaxy Gear Live or something. Oh, Galaxy Gear Ear Buds. Galaxy Gear Buds.

[B]

As far as I'm aware, they've always been Galaxy Buds.

[D]

Oh, the Gear icon X. Oh, yes,

[E]

that's what it was.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

The Iconx the Fold came out on February 20, 2019. I remember the Galaxy Buds came out on March 8, 2019.

[D]

But the Galaxy Gear icon X.

[B]

Well, that wasn't what I was asking about.

[A]

Yeah, it's fine. I didn't want any points anyway.

[E]

Worked out for you then.

[C]

Yeah, nailed it.

[B]

The race is on.

[E]

We.

[C]

We.

[B]

I feel like we need to do a trivia extravaganza soon.

[D]

We really do.

[B]

The points aren't that high though. It's just been a long time.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Because your questions are really, really hard.

[E]

Are they?

[A]

Yes.

[D]

We never.

[C]

The fact that Marques got the excavator one. Yeah, that was crazy. Probably we should have just ended this. I think he deserved to win.

[A]

That's true. Yeah. I think that's my only point at this point.

[B]

We've written hundreds of trivia questions like there's. I'm doing the best I can.

[A]

Anyway. Yeah. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Like I said, get subscribed because you already know that next week we gotta talk about all the stuff that gets announced. Then, of course, the reviews are coming and the stuff that came out this week. Hype us. Because somehow you still can.

[C]

Yeah, YouTube definitely forgot about that.

[D]

They apparently did not hard code that.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, you can just hype channels with overflow.

[C]

They were like, this isn't going to work at all. No one under 500 is getting over 500.

[A]

Hey, we did it. And we're still. We're still hyping ourselves. It's amazing. So, yeah, hype. See on the. See you on the hype train. See you next week. They see you later.

[C]

Waveform is produced by Adam Molina and Ellis Roven and partner with Vox Media podcast network. And our music was created by Vain Sil. Bingo. That one was David, right?

[E]

They were like, pink is just desaturated red. So your masculinity.

[C]

No, that was.

[D]

That was a banger. That was a bar.

[A]

That was a bar.

[C]

Arguably the best. My favorite nothing content.

[D]

This lady is. Is sick.

[A]

She's really cool.

[E]

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