1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,740 Phones, phones, phones. 2 00:00:03,740 --> 00:00:07,820 Oh my God, phones. Samsung unveiled some new ones 3 00:00:07,820 --> 00:00:11,300 at their unpacked this morning. You'd be forgiven for missing them though, 4 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:14,560 given how much the presentation focused on AI features 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:20,020 like ask about this video on YouTube, which you wouldn't use for tech link videos 6 00:00:20,020 --> 00:00:23,220 because they'd miss that whole phones bit at the start. You can't. 7 00:00:23,220 --> 00:00:29,540 Samsung's new flagship lineup is the $800 Galaxy S25, $1,000 S25 Plus 8 00:00:29,580 --> 00:00:34,180 and $1,300 S25 Ultra in brand new colors, 9 00:00:34,180 --> 00:00:40,340 including a few shades of blue that Samsung says are inspired by the brilliance of AI. 10 00:00:40,340 --> 00:00:45,100 Which everyone knows is blue. All three phones sport 12 gigabytes of RAM 11 00:00:45,100 --> 00:00:48,780 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite SOCs under the hood, 12 00:00:48,780 --> 00:00:52,600 which have apparently been customized to make their battery life so good, 13 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:57,600 Samsung instructed viewers to watch videos up to 31 hours. 14 00:00:57,860 --> 00:01:02,540 Do it. Unfortunately, although the Ultra gets upgraded cameras, 15 00:01:02,540 --> 00:01:05,620 it's included S Pen has been downgraded 16 00:01:05,620 --> 00:01:09,060 and no longer includes any Bluetooth functionality, 17 00:01:09,060 --> 00:01:14,060 which allowed owners of previous Galaxy Ultra phones to use it as a remote camera shutter 18 00:01:14,060 --> 00:01:18,660 and many other so-called air actions. Samsung told Android police 19 00:01:18,660 --> 00:01:21,860 that not many people were using the Bluetooth functionality 20 00:01:21,860 --> 00:01:27,300 and people also just use Galaxy Ring and Galaxy Watch for hands-free photo capture. 21 00:01:27,300 --> 00:01:31,020 And I have to admit, making your customers buy another product 22 00:01:31,020 --> 00:01:36,780 to keep using a feature they like is much simpler than Samsung just leaving the S Pen alone. 23 00:01:36,780 --> 00:01:40,220 But tell you what, Samsung's gonna make it up to you with their new health feature 24 00:01:40,220 --> 00:01:43,860 that somehow measures your antioxidant index. 25 00:01:43,860 --> 00:01:48,220 Although I think a microplastics index would be more useful at this point. 26 00:01:48,220 --> 00:01:53,140 What, still not happy? Have you seen the Crocs inspired case yet? 27 00:01:53,140 --> 00:01:56,540 Nothing? Okay. Well, the one thing that is for sure 28 00:01:56,540 --> 00:02:01,460 a cool announcement is the new kids features for the Galaxy Watch 7 LTE, 29 00:02:01,460 --> 00:02:07,820 turning it into a standalone kids watch so parents can call, message and track their little babies. 30 00:02:07,820 --> 00:02:11,260 You know, making sure they're not pre-ordering things. 31 00:02:11,260 --> 00:02:15,380 If you must though, it seems like Samsung's own website is the place to do it 32 00:02:15,380 --> 00:02:20,660 or maybe wait a bit because Samsung also teased the Galaxy S25 Edge, 33 00:02:20,660 --> 00:02:27,920 which will soon arrive to challenge this year's other phones that will be super thin for a good reason. 34 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:31,520 Google was kind of Samsung's co-presenter today. 35 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:38,280 As another detail about the Galaxy S25 series is that Google's Gemini will be the default assistant now. 36 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:43,360 Even though at any given moment, I would much rather prefer to speak with Bixby. 37 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,280 Well, if that's true for you, good news. Samsung told Android authority 38 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,400 that Gemini or Bixby could be activated 39 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:55,080 depending on the situation, which I think is cool because I like the idea that whichever assistant 40 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:59,160 pops up in my phone is the one that just beat the other in a wrestling match 41 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:04,040 down there somewhere. Galaxy S25 and Pixel 9 users will also gain the ability 42 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:10,480 to share images, files and YouTube videos to the real-time voice mode, Gemini Live, 43 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:14,720 which will apparently be crucial for finding out if you just took a good photo. 44 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:19,320 I think my dog looks cute, but AI help. 45 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,040 Hmm, is this a good photo? Just look at it. 46 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:28,280 But Gemini is also getting a pretty big upgrade with the ability to complete multi-app tasks 47 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,080 like find activities that conform to certain criteria 48 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,600 and text them to my friend. Which friend? 49 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,280 Surprise me. Some performance data for NVIDIA's RTX 5090 50 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,480 has leaked courtesy of video cards with a Z, 51 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:49,080 showing that in various 3D mark tests, the upcoming flagship achieves a roughly 30% lead 52 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:53,360 over the RTX 4090 and more like a 40-ish percent 53 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,800 versus the Radeon RX 7900 XTX. 54 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,880 And I'm telling you this because it felt kind of weird to leave it out today, 55 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:03,520 but it sounds like proper reviews of the 5090 56 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:08,400 will be starting to go live at 6 a.m. tomorrow morning. So you might as well ignore what I just said 57 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:14,280 and cross your fingers that NVIDIA isn't lying when they promise anyone looking to buy the new RTX 5090 58 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,920 that it won't melt power plugs this time. Although watching all that go down was fun 59 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:24,000 to watch for the rest of us. Yeah, you know what? We're gonna go for those mid-range cards from AMD, 60 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,960 which should be dropping any day now. And by that, I mean two months from now. 61 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,000 Yeah, AMD exec David McAfee announced on Twitter 62 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,000 that the RX 9070 and 9070 XT will go on sale in March, 63 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:40,760 even though retailers already have the cards in stores. 64 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,560 Hmm, waiting until all the RTX 50 series cards get scalped 65 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:50,480 is a bold strategy. Let's see if it pays off for them. An even better strategy would be to check out our sponsor. 66 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:51,320 Hmm. 67 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:58,520 Yeah. Yeah, I think now the vibe's right for quick bits. 68 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,520 OpenAI has announced the Stargate Project, 69 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,280 a new company that will build $500 billion worth 70 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:11,020 of AI infrastructure in the U.S. It was also announced at a White House press conference 71 00:05:11,020 --> 00:05:15,100 with President Trump, even though the government isn't funding it. 72 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:21,540 The money's coming from a number of other firms including MGX, Oracle, OpenAI, of course, and SoftBank. 73 00:05:21,540 --> 00:05:26,500 Although Elon Musk has his doubts, replying to OpenAI's announcement tweet to interject, 74 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:31,300 they don't actually have the money. And also, OpenAI is not really open. 75 00:05:31,300 --> 00:05:35,340 Has anyone noticed that? Oh, you gonna take that, Sam Alman? 76 00:05:35,340 --> 00:05:38,540 Hit him back. I genuinely respect your accomplishments 77 00:05:38,540 --> 00:05:41,620 and think you are the most inspiring entrepreneur of our time. 78 00:05:41,620 --> 00:05:46,340 Oh, man, you got him good. 79 00:05:46,380 --> 00:05:49,900 Speaking of Elon, hundreds of subreddits are discussing 80 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:53,700 whether to ban all links to Twitter slash X, 81 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:58,740 and some dozens have already done so over Musk performing what really looked 82 00:05:58,740 --> 00:06:03,020 like a Nazi salute two times at Trump's inauguration. 83 00:06:03,020 --> 00:06:06,580 Was it a Nazi salute? I don't know. 84 00:06:06,580 --> 00:06:10,940 But the Nazis liked it. Unlike the last major Reddit-wide protest 85 00:06:10,940 --> 00:06:13,940 of the site's updated API rules back in September, 86 00:06:13,940 --> 00:06:17,060 Reddit, the company, is apparently going to let things be, 87 00:06:17,060 --> 00:06:21,780 telling ours that banning links to certain sites is up to the subreddits. 88 00:06:21,780 --> 00:06:25,740 And I didn't write a last sentence for that one. 89 00:06:25,740 --> 00:06:29,020 YouTube has announced new features for premium subscribers, 90 00:06:29,020 --> 00:06:32,940 including high-quality 256 kilobits per second audio 91 00:06:32,940 --> 00:06:36,500 on music videos, and faster playback speeds on mobile. 92 00:06:36,500 --> 00:06:39,980 We're talking up to four times. But at that point, you might as well ask 93 00:06:39,980 --> 00:06:43,060 the AI what's going on. There's also a new YouTube premium 94 00:06:43,100 --> 00:06:46,660 plus Google One subscription bundle that lets you save a bit of money, 95 00:06:46,660 --> 00:06:51,820 but it's in the US only, so what do I care? Apple has enabled Apple Intelligence by default 96 00:06:51,820 --> 00:06:56,820 in the newest builds of macOS 15.3 and iOS 18.3, 97 00:06:56,900 --> 00:07:00,620 which is just meant to be helpful. I mean, users must not know about the new features, 98 00:07:00,620 --> 00:07:05,100 and that's why they're not using them. And anyways, Apple paused to those AI notification summaries 99 00:07:05,100 --> 00:07:08,180 that were telling people that Sharknado was real, so this is fine. 100 00:07:08,180 --> 00:07:12,140 And have you been practicing piano, but you're just not getting any better? 101 00:07:12,140 --> 00:07:18,900 Let a robot spider massage your fingies. This is a robot exoskeleton developed by Japanese researchers 102 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:21,980 as a way to help those with fine-tuned motor skills, 103 00:07:21,980 --> 00:07:25,540 like musicians, who have experienced a ceiling effect. 104 00:07:25,540 --> 00:07:28,540 They're just so good, they can't get any better, 105 00:07:28,540 --> 00:07:32,940 until they allow an electronic face hugger to yank their fingers around. 106 00:07:32,940 --> 00:07:36,060 I feel better already. And you'll feel better if you come back on Friday 107 00:07:36,060 --> 00:07:40,740 for more tech news, or at least I will.