Samsung’s new telephones will virtually definitely be the most well-liked Android telephones of 2025. They’ll most likely even be among the many greatest Android telephones of 2025. And but the Unpacked occasion this week felt like one of the boring telephone launches… ever. Are we getting into a brand new part of the smartphone trade, wherein firms principally simply launch the identical factor time and again? Wait a second: have we been in that part for some time now?
After that, we take a deep breath and wade into the primary week of the brand new Trump administration. The Verge’s Lauren Feiner explains what’s occurring with Stargate, and why a $500 billion AI data-center plan is being introduced within the White Home. We discuss The USA Digital Service going full DOGE, the controversy over Elon Musk’s salute, and the most recent deeply complicated updates on the TikTok ban. TikTok is again! For now. Perhaps not for lengthy. However perhaps for good? We’ve acquired 70 or so days to determine it out.
If you wish to know extra about the whole lot we focus on on this episode, listed here are some hyperlinks to get you began, starting with Samsung:
And within the lightning spherical:
