One UI 7.0 Cluster F + Galaxy Watch Ultra Deep Dive

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello everybody, welcome back to the Sammy Guru
podcast.
This is episode number six.
My name is Jeff Springer andwith me is my co-host, torrey.
Torrey say hi, hey, how's itgoing?
And we are back this week readyto talk about a lot of device
stuff.
So today's episode is going tobe full of basically two things.
We're going to be talking aboutour impressions of the devices

(00:21):
from Unpacked.
Torrey and I both have beenusing the Galaxy Watch Ultra now
for a little bit.
Tori's had it a little bitlonger than me, so he has a
little bit more feel for batterylife and stuff, so we'll get
some detailed thoughts there.
I'm going to talk about theother devices that I've been
using the Fold, the Flip, theBuds 3 Pro.
I'm almost done with the Flip 6and making my review, so then
it on to Tory and let him use it.

(00:41):
I have a secondary SIM becauseI told him I would do that and
he can give us some thoughts onthe Flip 6, because he's never
used a foldable, so I'd becurious to see what he has to
say about that.
And then we're going to talkabout One UI 7.0.
There's been a lot of stuff.
If you guys follow me, you knowI've been making videos that
out the door, so they're makingme work overtime for this week
anyway.
But before we get into theSamsung stuff as always, tori,

(01:11):
how was your week?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Week has been busy, you know, kind of like back to
work doing some optionaltrainings paid.
You know teachers don't reallymake all that much, trainings
paid Teachers don't really makeall that much.
But yeah, other than that, Isaw Wolverine and Deadpool last
night.
No spoilers.
I'm going to see it tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
No spoilers 10.30 pm with my wife.
We got lucky enough to getlast-minute babysitting services
because this is such anexciting movie it is.
I just snagged some seats.
Pretty much all the showingswere sold out until 10.30.
When I tried to snag seatsaround lunchtime today, nicole
really wanted to go.
Obviously she really wants togo because she does not like to

(01:54):
stay up super late.
She's an early sleeper thesedays but she's like 10.30, she's
like I'll go see this one at10.30.
So that must mean that she'sreally excited about this
particular movie, because Idon't think I've gotten her to
see a movie after nine o'clockin in several years.
So I'm super excited about that.
this is also the first time toriand I saw a movie last weekend

(02:14):
together yeah so it's the firsttime that I've seen two movies
like back-to-back weekends,probably in like seven or eight
years, tori, and I saw twistersand it was really good.
Did you enjoy it, tori?
Yeah, I did.
We got twisted, we did, we gottwisted.
It was a great movie andactually I was incredibly
surprised by the plot.
I thought it was going to belike a copy paste, you know,

(02:36):
just with new actors and like anupdated roles for the different
actors.
But it's actually quite adifferent movie.
I mean, even though it has somecallbacks to the original, the
plot is substantially different.
So if you like the originalTwister and you haven't seen it,
I would recommend it.
It was a really good movie.
We saw it late last night, lateon Friday last week, after
talking about it on the podcastwe were talking about.

(02:59):
I was talking about how much Iwanted to see it.
We went and saw the movie, soI'm actually getting out there
to do some stuff In otherpodcast news too personal and
podcast.
We got a new table here whichyou guys will get to see.
Next week.
I ordered a what they call aprofessional podcast table from
this website calledpodcasttablesshop a very aptly

(03:20):
named website because they sellpodcast tables.
What a great name.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
That's definitely what you can find there.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
And it's really nice.
It's got like multipledifferent panels for each person
, it's got outlets for you toplug in your laptop and all that
good stuff.
So we're really excited to havethis, and next week we'll
finally bring you guys somevideo, and I'm going to do my
best attempt, but I promise thatas we go over the next few
months the quality of the videois going to just get better and
better.
I got some great ideas.

(03:46):
I was telling Tori about someof that earlier, so we'll have
some really good stuff coming onthe video front as things move
along.
When do the students come back,tori, for you to start teaching
the students?
Oh, my goodness, august 5th.
August 5th, so you're looking atoh, you've got a little more
than a week.
So they let you guys come backand do some PD pretty early,
right?
So you've got about 10 days.
Yeah, so you've got a wholeother week of PD.

(04:09):
That's good.
You keep your sanity foranother week until the kids come
back, and also, they come backon a Monday, is that?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
right.
Yeah, that's good.
Some of the districts come backthe next week.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
I'd rather have a full week, just rip the Band-Aid
off.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Rip the Band-Aid off.
That's what I like to do.
So let's do that.
Let's actually get into theshow.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
So let's talk Galaxy Watch Ultra initial impressions.
So you've had it now for awhole week because you got it
you got it last week rightbefore we went to the movies.
You went home and picked it upafter the podcast what do?
You think about.
Let me just ask you about somevarious things, and then you can
chime in, and then I'll kind ofgive my thoughts as well.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Battery life is the first thing uh, so far the
battery life has been uh prettysolid.
I think like when I first gotit I don't even think I actually
fully charged it for about atleast three or four days, and
even then it was probably on 30or 20 percent.
Then it it holds up pretty wellin terms of the battery life.

(05:13):
I haven't felt like I needed tocharge it very much in that
front.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
That's awesome, yeah, so I mean I've also been very
impressed with the battery life,of course, being that I review
devices kind of professionally.
After I had the third day, Ilike turned on everything to see
how much I could kill it, andyou can kill it if you turn on
everything.
I turned on like continuouswhat?
Uh?
Heart rate monitoring, so it'slike all the time I turned on

(05:39):
like made sure the cellular wason like all the time I did some
various workouts and like tracksseveral workouts.
You can kill it.
Not in a full day, though.
Even if you turn everything on,you're going to get more than a
day.
I would say if you turneverything on, you can probably
get a good day and a half out ofthis watch.
If you're just using it fornotifications and like the
passive heart rate monitoringwhere it's like every 10 minutes

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and not continuously stuff likethat heart rate monitoring
where it's like every 10 minutesand not continuously stuff like
that and you're not using thegps continuously, because that
trains the battery a lot.
I used it for maps a little bitto try to do a little bit of a
battery drain test you couldprobably get four days out of
this yeah, yeah, would you agree?

Speaker 2 (06:15):
yeah, yeah, yeah, because I think they advertise
what 100 hours, yeah, and that'susually.
They over estimate total, but Ithink it's pretty close,
because four days is like 40hours.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Four days is 96 hours .
That's pretty close, I think,if you're just using it, as I
think most people do like.
Most people aren't going onlike 10 mile runs and using the
LTE all day, every day, and mostpeople don't turn on the
continuous like every secondheart rate monitoring that kind
of stuff.
Most people aren't using theGPS all the time, so probably
you could get three or four daysout of this.

(06:46):
I'm pretty impressed with it.
It's definitely on par with myApple Watch Ultra.
So, in the sense of batterylife, which is things that a lot
of people are concerned about,because, since it's a much
bigger watch, people areexpecting big things from the
battery life- obviously.
If you're going to wear a bigwatch like this on your wrist,
you want it to last, you want toget something out of it being
bigger, and I think you do.
I think that's the main benefitover going with the regular

(07:09):
galaxy watch 7 is because thisis such a huge watch, they're
able to pack a big batteryinside there.
Yeah, now, I did read from abunch of people and I've only
had full disclosure.
Like I said, samsung put methrough a very difficult time in
this launch.
I just got the galaxy watchWatch Ultra a little over 48
hours ago.
I had to drive to a Best Buy inTempe to get it, which is a
long way from my house, and it'snot too far from the office.

(07:30):
I drove down there the other dayand got it, but I've only had
it for about 48 hours.
But I've heard from some peoplewho have the Watch 5 Pro, which
is Samsung's previous largestwatch in terms of battery.
That's about on par with whatthey get out of that.
I used a watch 5 pro for awhile, but I haven't compared
them side by side yet, um,because I just haven't had

(07:51):
enough time to do it.
I probably will dig out mywatch 5 pro and play with it,
but overall I've been very happywith the battery life as well.
Would you agree with that,torii?

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh, yeah, for sure, because I'm coming from the
Galaxy Watch 4, and it was justa very big difference in terms
of battery life and I think Ijust had like everything turned
on on that watch.
So I think, like when I gotthis one, I was like, ooh, I
better not turn everything onBecause, like, I want to kind of
enjoy wearing it, especiallylike while I sleep.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Did you wear it while you sleep?
Yeah, yeah, every single nightso far we'll talk about that a
little bit more later too,because I've tried to do it too.
I don't find it to be.
I mean, if I loosen it it's alittle comfortable, but it's
really big on your wrist haveyou found it uncomfortable at
all?
Yeah, yeah, honestly.
Um, I did it for the review,but I don't know that I would
want to sleep with it full timeon my wrist.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, so what I do, like I first put it on, I was
like, oh man, like it's kind ofbig and tight and so I just kind
of like loosened it up a littlebit more.
Like the way I wear it.
So it kind of goes up and downmy wrist Like it's still in
continuous contact because Ihave the heart rate thing set
for like every like 10 minutesor so, yeah, thing set for like

(09:10):
every like 10 minutes or so.
Yeah, I think that's thedefault, yeah, yeah, yeah, the
default of it Um, but yeah, likewearing it um while I sleep, I
don't really notice it if I justkind of loosen it up a little
bit and it still gets prettygood um tracking, um, and it
gives me like really goodfeedback on my sleep and some
other suggestions of what I cando to get a better sleep score.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's awesome.
Yeah, so I've also found thesleep thing to be pretty good.
I used it for the sleep apnea.
Thankfully it didn't say I havethat.
Did you try the sleep apneadetection?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
No, I have not.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
You should try that sleep apnea detection kind of
see how that works.
Supposedly, if you have theGalaxy Ring, which I was going
to mention this later in theshow.
I don't have one yet because,as with all my products, as I
said, they all got delayed.
My Galaxy Ring is beingdelivered today, so it's
probably on my porch while we'rerecording this here at the
office, so I'll probably get ittonight.
Supposedly, if you have thering and the watch, which, again

(09:53):
, we talked about this on one ofthe previous episodes, I don't
really know why too many peoplewould buy the ring and the watch
.
I mean, obviously I'm buying itbecause I review these things
for a living, but if you're aregular person I don't know why
you would, because they're kindof redundant.
But apparently they worktogether to give you more
accurate sleep tracking and alsomore accurate heart rate, and
they improve the battery life ofboth devices.

(10:15):
So basically, instead of makingthe watch do all the work for
certain biosensors, it offloadssome to the ring and vice versa.
So it's able to extend thebattery life of your watch ultra
and your galaxy ring.
Not that people would be tooworried about the ring because
it's supposed to get like weeksof battery life, but that might
be a big deal for your watchultra.
And I heard this.
I went back and watched some ofthe press releases Samsung made

(10:37):
and this is something theytalked about significantly, and
so that seems like interestingthing.
I'll talk about the ring nextweek after I've had a chance to
wear it for a week, but thatseems very interesting to me,
going along with this, becausewe just kind of touched on it.
What do you think about theoverall comfort of the band and
like the fit of the watch onyour hand, not when you're
sleeping, just in general, likewe have the Marine band, that's

(10:58):
what this is called.
I haven't tried the other onesyet.
I ordered them because I'mgoing to kind of maybe give some
thoughts on the other ones too.
Maybe I'll give you one you cantry and we can give some
thoughts on a later episode.
But what do you think about theMarine Band overall?

Speaker 2 (11:11):
So overall I would say it's a little bit more
comfortable than what I was usedto with the Galaxy Watch 4.
But at times I find, like mywrist either, like being
irritated by the band, just fromlike the shifting.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
You get like these little things divots in your
wrist.
You can see mine right there,Right here.
Yeah, all the way through.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, so you will have divots, just like based off
the design of the band.
And I do have the active band,I think and I want to try that
this week is kind of likebecause you got the free band
with the pre-order.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, wouldn't have that been nice, if Samsung had
actually shipped my pre-order, Icould have got my free band,
but instead I had to go to BestBuy and I had to pay $650
outright for the entire fullprice of the watch.
Interesting story isn't aside,I want to get this in.
You guys can see my twitter formore info.
But apparently now, if you tryto trade in a device at best buy
in store, they want tofingerprint you.

(12:08):
And I was like yeah, no, I'mnot doing that.
I was going to trade in mygalaxy watch, uh, six classic or
one, I don't know one.
I have so many other watches Iwas going to trade one in, so
I'd have to pay full pricebecause they had pretty decent
trade-in credit since samsungdidn't ship my order and I went
to trade it in.
When I went to pick up thewatch ultra, they're like yeah,
you realize that we're gonnahave to fingerprint you, right,

(12:29):
and I'm like no, well, you'renot, I know that, and they're
like well, then I can't sell itto you, I can't do the trade.
I'm like yeah, you can just sellit to me for full price,
because they're not taking myfingerprints.
I don't know where they're, onething, but they didn't even
have an answer.
They're like we don't know whatwe do with them.
I was like I'm not givingsomeone my fingerprints.

(12:49):
That's almost worse than givingsomeone your social security
number.
Your fingerprints are 100%unique to you and like there's a
lot of things they share themwith.
So I was like I'll just payfull price.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
So I ended up paying full price.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I paid full price for every single one of my devices.
I didn't end up getting totrade anything in because
Samsung didn't ship any of mystuff on time.
Overall, I agree with Tori onthe band fit and the comfort
it's.
It's pretty nice.
I definitely have those littledivots that he was talking about
, but I don't find ituncomfortable.
Also, I'm surprised, like howsmall the watch kind of wears.
I thought it would be likesuper annoying to have such a

(13:30):
massive watch on my wrist,particularly since I usually
wear either my Tudor Black Bay,which is a 39 millimeter regular
watch, or my old Galaxy watch.
Was the watch six classic 43millimeter?
I think those are a lot smallerand of course I wore the Galaxy
I mean sorry, the Apple WatchUltra as well, but it's actually
even a little smaller than thisin terms of it's 47 versus 49.

(13:51):
I was a little worried abouthow big it would seem on the
wrist, but it doesn't wear thatbig, honestly.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, no, actually, I actually really appreciate the
size of it.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
I think I'm able to see like a really good picture
or display of informationwithout having to display is
really nice.
I have to say that's one of thebest features of this watch as
well is display.
The brightness on this they 3xthe brightness over the previous
yeah, the watch line so greatit just pops.
I just really for us in arizonait's important too, because in
the summer, like it's so brightoutside, like you need your
phone and your watch, etc, etcetera, to be really bright,
because if they're not, you'renot going to see anything.

(14:28):
When you're outside here inArizona, the direct sunlight
will blind you, so you need areally bright display, otherwise
it's going to look dim in theArizona sun.
So that's a really greatfeature.
Overall, I've been pretty happywith the wearability.
Of course, tori and I do haverelatively large wrists, so full
disclosure my wrist is like7.25 or 7.5, and Tori's is
probably a little bigger thanmine, so his is probably like

(14:49):
7.75, maybe right around mine.
Those are pretty large wristsso we can probably pull this
watch off and not feel like it'stoo large.
Now, if you have like a 6.25wrist, I would not recommend
getting this watch because it'sgoing to look kind of strange.
That's just my personal opinion.
There's kind of a guideline ofyou know what size watch case
you should wear versus yourwrist size, just so that it

(15:10):
looks you know, you know looksnice on your wrist.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
And I think this one looks nice.
For my, my wrist size it doesand, like the titanium outlook,
just looks really, really nice.
We got the same model in theend.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, I model in the end.
Yeah, I actually ordered thewhite one from samsung
originally, but since theydidn't ship it, I decided to go
this one because I actually likethe look of it.
Last week, when we went to themovie, tori showed me his and I
took some pictures on the wristand I rethought my choice, since
I had a chance to kind ofcancel my samsung order since it
wasn't shipped, I said likeI'll just change my mind, let me
go ahead and get the one that'sthe titanium gray, and so

(15:42):
that's the one that I ended upgetting.
I think this one's actuallywearable in more scenarios.
The white one.
It looks nice and the reason Ioriginally ordered it is because
I ordered a white Z Fold 6, butI ended up getting a black one
from eBay because they didn'tship that either.
So now I have a black Fold and Ihave the titanium gray watch
and I think they look nicetogether.
What about performance?
Have you noticed I?
What about performance, haveyou noticed?

(16:02):
I mean, I haven't have younoticed any lag navigating the
interface on this watch?
I think it's been super snappy.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh yeah, no, I have not had any issues at all with
the performance.
I'm really actually blown awaywith the watch.
I really like this product.
I like everything in terms ofthe activity.
Just how quick notificationscome to the watch Heck, I think

(16:28):
notifications comes quicker tothe watch than it does my phone
in some instances.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Sometimes it does, and I want to talk about that
for a second though.
Here's one thing that bothersme and you may not notice it.
Sometimes, though, it doesn'tbother most people.
I've talked about this manytimes, so you can see Tori is
actually in this case.
See, Tori is making a pointthat's opposite of mine, because
I talked about this in thevideo today.
I find the notificationmirroring this is mainly because
the phone doesn't send them.

(16:54):
Sometimes I get a Gmail andthen it'll show up not just on
the watch but on the phone likethree minutes after.
If you look at the timestamp inGmail, it'll say like 3.28.
After you know, if you look atthe timestamp in Gmail, it'll
say like 3.28.
And I won't get it on the phoneuntil 3.31, and then I won't
get it on the watch.
The watch one usually does comein faster than the phone.
So I think this is more to dowith Android's, like Android has

(17:16):
battery-saving kind ofsafeguards in place, so that if
you get a lot of notificationsand I get a lot because of all
my social media, I get so many Iget like five YouTube studio
notifications like every twominutes.
So you know, my phone is likeJeff, you got to stop getting
notifications, so that'sprobably possibly why as well,
but sometimes then those don'tget fully mirrored to my watch
because they're not mirrored onthe phone instantly, the only
reason I notice it.

(17:37):
and again, I'm as far away frombeing an Apple fanboy as you can
be.
Whenever I make this point,people are like this guy's being
an Apple fanboy as you can be.
Whenever I make this point,people are like this guy's
really an Apple fanboy I am not.
I don't want to use any Appleproducts.
I'd rather use Samsungeverything for my daily driver,
if it fits, what I need.
But my iPhone.
If you sit it next to theGalaxy phone and you send a
Gmail, the Gmail will come ininstantly on the iPhone and then

(18:02):
mirror to the watch instantly,and then maybe three minutes
later it'll show up on theGalaxy phone.
Now, this is not necessarilySamsung's fault.
I think this is a thing that'sdone at the Android level.
So this is Google's fault,actually, and it's been this way
for a while.
But at the end of the day, interms of reliability, once it
comes to the phone, itdefinitely comes to the watch
instantly.
So you know the watch mirroringworks.
It's just, I think, that thereis something there with Android

(18:24):
trying to save battery.
Samsung did add a new featurein the Galaxy Watch Manager.
I don't know if you noticedthis as well, tori.
If you go into the GalaxyWearable app, I'll pull it up
really quick.
Next week we'll have video soyou guys will be able to see all
this.
There's a Help withNotifications page and it
actually shows you notificationsthat you didn't get, so people
can see that I'm not actuallylying.
If you look here, take a lookat this.

(18:45):
Not getting notifications onthe watch, look at all the ones
that it actually failed to sendto me in real time.
So these are not ones that I'mmaking up.
It's only certain apps too.
It's like Amazon Shopping,youtube Studio, maybe some of
the ones that I get superfrequently.
So I think it has to do withthis battery management, but
Samsung is at least trying tomitigate this and trying to help
people figure out why they'renot getting them.

(19:06):
But I do notice that when I doget one on the phone, it comes
to the watch instantaneously.
So that's something I want totalk about, just because it's
something that has alwaysbothered me about Android as a
whole, not Samsung, and so letme know if anybody else is
experiencing it.
I do think it has a lot to dowith the volume of notifications
you get, because you haven'tnoticed this at all, have you
tory?
yeah, no, no no yeah, see, toryhasn't noticed it, because he

(19:28):
probably gets a reasonablenumber of notifications maybe
the phone's not mad, and then?
you know it doesn't.
It doesn't have any problemstrying to save battery life.
Um, what about the digitalrotating bezel?
Let's talk about that for asecond.
So a lot of people wereoutraged by the lack of the
physical rotating bezel.
We, we both kind of talkedabout this briefly about it on

(19:48):
one of the podcasts when we werepreviewing unpacked.
Yeah, we were a littledisappointed that they didn't
have the physical rotating bezel.
But after having lived with itfor a few days, I can honestly
say I find the digital simulatorrotating bezel to be actually
pretty fantastic.
Um, you, it's not as great asphysical, but, um, the digital

(20:08):
simulated one, you actually gethaptic feedback as soon as you
go to each screen, right Like itclicks.
So you know that you're goingto the next screen and it gives
you pretty hard haptic feedback.
So I don't actually mind it.
I thought I would hate it.
I would rather have thephysical one, because I don't
see why they can't put aphysical one on here.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
There's a lot of space, right.
I mean, it's not like this is asuper slim watch where it's
like, oh well, fitting aphysical rotating bezel would
make this watch way too thick.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
It's already massively thick.
Yeah, so they definitely coulddo it.
Yeah, they could do it right.
But but what do you think?
What do you think about thedigital rotating bezel?

Speaker 2 (20:39):
yeah, uh, I mean initially, uh, right out the box
and putting it on my wrist.
I, uh, I, there's at leastthree to five times um of first
use.
I went for the bezel to rotate.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
I was like, oh wait I tried that a few times because
it looks like it right, yeah,yeah, yeah, like it looks like
the galaxy watch 4 classic or 6classic that I had before.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
It just looks like you could just pull it and just
like and it's like uh, uh,doesn't work, not in here, uh,
but then I tried the, you knowthe digital bezel, but I find
just swiping back and forth tobe easier to me.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
That's what you told me last week at the theater.
Yeah, Tori told me he likesjust swiping on the screen and
you know it is strange gettingused to the digital one.
And I will say, until you getused to it, I tried to force
myself to do it since it'ssomething new, kind of just for
the review.
I will say that sometimesyou'll accidentally go one page
too far.
Yeah, that's what I was findingLike if you're looking for one
of the quick settings on theright, like if I'm looking for

(21:38):
my health overview, I might goone too far and it'll take me
like to the multi-sport menu,which I didn't want to go to and
I have to go back.
So you may find, as tori said,that swiping left and right just
on the screen is going to workbetter for you for precision
purposes, because you might endup passing up the page that you
want, and I certainly understandthat and I do do agree on that.
But it's not as bad as Ithought.

(21:59):
I thought it would be likesomething that would make me
dislike the watch, because Ireally liked that, was one of my
favorite things, but I do thinksamsung should have kept it,
because it's one of those thingsthat are uniquely Samsung, yeah
, and all those people who arelike hey, you're copying the
Apple Watch.
Blah, blah, blah, blah blah.
They wouldn't be saying that ifthey had added kept the
physical rotating bezel, becausethat's something that is very

(22:19):
much uniquely Samsung.
Yeah, the other thing that Ireally would have liked to seen,
which they didn't add, althoughif they had added this, they
definitely would have been angryPeople would have been even
more angry about them.
Copying Apple is the rotatingcrown.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, so they should have had a crown that lets you
navigate up and down.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
The Apple Watch has that, of course, but that would
have been a great feature,because it's really nice to be
able to navigate vertically withthe crown in addition to the
rotating bezel.
If they had both, though, thatwould have been great.
They to add, I think physicalrotating bezel and rotating
crown with haptic feedback forthe galaxy watch ultra 2, maybe
next year yeah, no, for sure Iam.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
I was at this uh training and another teacher he
had the galaxy watch 3 and hewas just like I didn't think
about like updating.
And I saw uh at samsung unpackthat I watched it coming out and
I and I saw you have it, doesit rotate?
With the little orange buttonhere, and I was like I know, I

(23:19):
know it doesn't.
It was like, ah, all right.
And then he was like, well,what about the rotating bezel?
And it was like there's norotating bezel.
He was like, ah, all right,yeah.
He was like, ah, all right,yeah, so give me best.
I think you know a lot ofpeople do want that.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
I've actually heard from a lot of people.
I just dropped a video todayabout the galaxy watch ultra I
was actually making a videowhere I was talking about the
different things that theydidn't put in there.
You know, sometimes you got tomake a video highlighting the
problems because people shouldknow about them.
I always get dislikes when Imake videos about problems with
the product.
But, like I mean you want me todo like continuously praise
them all the time.
I make Samsung content everyday.

(23:52):
If I'm just sitting here sayinghow great they are, everyone
would know that I'm not beingauthentic.
I'm just trying to sell youstuff and that's not what I'm
trying to do.
So no, I mean I try to alwaysmake you know as much as I can.
Uh, a fair and balanced kind ofoverview of the products.
What about the pinch gestures?
Have you tried the pinchgestures?
I have not tried the pinchgestures.
So the pinch gestures areinteresting.

(24:12):
It'll kind of suggest to you touse them when certain things
pop up.
One of them where it suggeststhis too is when you set a
reminder or an alarm that I'veused it a lot.
When the alarm goes off insteadof having to tap your watch to
actually do it, you can justpinch in the air and it turns
off your alarm.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
No, seriously yeah isn't that cool.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
So you can enable this.
It actually will walk youthrough it if you encounter a
situation where it can be used.
If you take a call on the watch, you can actually do pinch to
answer the call and pinch toactually hang up the call as
well, oh, literally just pinchyeah yeah, you can also use it
for music controls if you wantto.
It's pretty cool so you canpinch to pause, pinch to play
that stuff.
There's a lot of air gesturesthat can be used.

(24:51):
Unfortunately, this is anotherthing that they quote unquote,
borrowed from Apple, becausethis is also something that came
to the Apple Watch earlier thisyear.
But I'll be honest with you,this is a really nice feature
for certain things, likeparticularly dismissing
reminders and alarms, because,doing this full time as a
creator, I set a lot ofreminders for myself throughout
the day because I forget stuffand I don't always want to have

(25:12):
to go and tap the screen on myphone or the watch to dismiss it
.
I'm like, oh yeah, I need tosend this email.
Just pinch the air and thenthat's gone, and then I send the
email and I don't have to gointeract with the screen, so
that's pretty awesome.
A couple of other things that Iwant to talk about.
These are some of the things Iput in my problems video.
You may not even know aboutthem.
Do you remember?
On the previous watches I don'teven know this you used to be

(25:34):
able to take your watch and sitit on the back of your phone and
wirelessly charge the watch onthe phone.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
I did not know that.
Did you know about that one?
I did not.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
So that's called reverse wireless charging and
they actually removed it fromthis watch.
It doesn't work anymore.
Yeah, it worked on the oldwatches, I guess, because I
think it's probably partiallybecause of the on the ultra.
The watch is so such a largebattery, yeah, that the power
draw from your phone might be alot.
They didn't do it.
Um, I think a lot of regularconsumers I was thinking about

(26:03):
this they probably didn't knowit was gone, so they're not
going to miss it um I put it inmy problem.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
I would definitely use it still there.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
That's one of those features that we talked about
before.
Like Samsung should reallypublicize to regular people.
They don't necessarily put itin their ads, but it's an
amazing feature that peoplewould love Whenever I had the
old watches, and it works withyour Buds too.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Like if you sit your Buds in the back of your phone.
That still does work too, ohokay.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
So if you get the back of your phone and you're
good to go, whenever I show thatfeature to someone on the
iPhone, like that's one of thefeatures that gets people like,
hey, maybe I could leaveiMessage and maybe I could stop
using AirDrop.
To get some real innovationlike that, because you know
people can identify with likeyou know you're out and your
earbuds are almost dead and youwant to keep listening to music,

(26:48):
okay, just plop the case on theback of your phone and it'll
charge it up, and then you candrop the buds in there and get a
couple hours extra charge.
That's a really useful feature.
No, I see, so it does work nowon the buds.
But anyway, what you can do now, though so you might want to
know this Instead of doingreverse wireless charge, if you
don't have a power brick withyou and you need to charge your
watch, yeah, as long as youbring the cable, you can plug

(27:10):
the cable into your phone's usbcport seriously, you can charge
it using the puck.
Yeah, huh, okay.
Yeah, I showed that off in thevideo.
That's very useful, it's not asgood as reverse wireless charge
yeah, for sure obviously thenyou don't need the cable at all
or a brick, but at least youdon't need a power brick.
You just throw your watch cablein your backpack with you and
if it gets low throughout theday you just plug it into your
phone and it doesn't.

(27:30):
You know it's not going todrain too much battery on your
phone.
You know if you want to get alittle bit of juice for the
watch, because 15 minutes willgive you like 20 on the watch
enough to get home, for sure sothat's really cool.
Um, the action button.
I want to talk about that for asecond, because is that what
the orange button is?
Yeah, um, it annoyed me thevery first bit of time I had it
because I kept trying to use itas a back button.

(27:50):
Because it's got a three-buttonsetup and the one that's in the
middle, of course, even thoughI know that prior Galaxy watches
, like the Watch 6 Classic, hadmulti-button setups, you're
naturally going to gravitate tothe middle one.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
It doesn't matter how many times you've used a
Samsung watch, I gravitatetowards the bottom one.
Did you All the time?
Well, that was the correct one.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, I know, tori, just he passed the Samsung quiz
of which is the correct button,but this one, you know, it's
like orange and I was like, oohorange, oh pretty, I'll press it
, but that's not what you wantto press and, unfortunately, the

(28:28):
thing that bothers me aboutthis, they're only be stopwatch,
samsung Health and there's oneother one I don't remember what
it was, but there's only acouple different things you can
map it to.
You can stopwatch, flashlight,water lock and Samsung Health.
So you can't use it to open,like any specific app that you
want, and a lot of people wantto be able to customize it to
open any app that they want,like, want, and a lot of people

(28:49):
want to be able to customize itto open any app that they want,
like, maybe their favoritehealth app like Strava, or even
just a random app like a socialmedia app.
Why not want to do that?
There's nothing wrong with that.
So I think it'd be nice ifthey'd add that customization,
because Samsung's all aboutcustomization, and so that's
something I would definitelylike to see them do.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
It's kind of funny.
You say stopwatch.
Every time I look at the siteit gives me a stopwatch.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Bye Does it?
It does kind of look like that.
You're right, so that'sactually funny enough.
The original default SamsungHealth.
I mapped it to the stopwatchbecause that finally made me
stop pushing it to use the backbutton, because I was like no,
that's the stopwatch, because itlooks like one.
Yeah, and now it worked and Istopped pressing it on accident
to go back.
So, yeah, I mapped it to thestopwatch.
That's what I'm using it for,but I would probably use it to

(29:31):
open a different app.
I'd probably use it to open mymusic app because.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
I use that a lot.
Quick access.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, quick access.
Or maybe even Google Fitinstead of Samsung Health,
because sometimes I use thatinstead of Samsung Health.
I use both back and forth, justto do comparisons, obviously,
but I might map it to adifferent fitness app and I know
some people want to do that.
What about step tracking?
Have you noticed that?
It's very accurate?
I noticed yesterday.
It seemed a little suspicious.
I don't want to say yet becauseI haven't had it for a full

(29:57):
week and this is not a fullreview today.
I'll have a full reviewprobably next week.
I'll give some more in-depththoughts and maybe I'll write up
one on the website and Toriwill write up something too.
But I noticed yesterday it saidI had like 7,000 steps and I
was mostly sitting in the chair.
So I don't know if I believethat.
I mean I walked around and didsome stuff, but I was in the

(30:17):
office working.
So I don't know.
Have you noticed anything withstep tracking accuracy?

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, I have.
So, like I've taken it to thegym at least four times now and
while, like being on thetreadmill, it was definitely
giving me a little bit moresteps than what I thought I had
originally taken, and also alongwith the distance as well.
The distance was um, because Istarted it, uh, at the same time

(30:41):
I started the treadmill, thedistance was a little bit behind
, but what I actually did likeabout it was after I was done
with the workout, because I didthe treadmill exercise.
In Samsung Health, it askedabout how accurate or like what
was.
What was there with thedistance that was recorded on
the treadmill, and it's tryingto align or try to calibrate.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Oh, that's nice.
So I'll have to do like I said.
That's why I said I've only hadit for 48 hours.
I need to actually get in anddo some workouts.
I did some light walking.
I have a walking pad in theoffice.
I did that yesterday.
I don't think I took 7,000steps.
I probably did like a mile,which is not 7,000 steps.
But I'll have to do gym toLifetime Fitness and I'll have

(31:28):
to track some of my workouts atthe treadmill and see how that's
going, because I'm kind ofgoing to the gym like four or
five times a week now as I tryto lose weight.
So once I get a chance to useit for a full week next week,
I'll give some more thoughts.
But it does seem to beoverestimating steps.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
You would agree.
Yeah, same, yeah.
So I mean, even like last nightI took the off and then, like
after midnight, you know, youknow like a reset, sound like I
may have picked it up like onceor twice, but I looked it
already, said I I had alreadytaken 136 steps and I was like I
haven't, haven't did anything,uh.
So yeah, and I do think thesteps are off because I've hit

(32:04):
my step goal like every singleday since wearing the watch and
I don't think I'm taking thatmany steps.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
I don't, I don't believe that either.
I mean it says I'm like a lotof quite a few steps, like 4,000
.
Again, I've been sitting hereso I think it's maybe helping me
out a little bit and reachingmy goals too much, because I'm
not actually reaching them andthat makes me feel like I'm, you
know, doing something I'm not,which I don't necessarily want.
So I think that's mostly what Ihad to say.
Are there any other thoughtsabout the watch so far that you

(32:30):
want to add?
I, I'm going to have you writeup something for the website, of
course, but anything you wantto add today for the podcast.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah, I mean just overall, like the initial
presentation, like if you wereto get the watch, the, the
initial default of the face isjust very nice.
It's very attention gettingvery poppy.
I really like it.
Um, and also it has like thiscompass feature.
That's like, uh, one of myfavorites too, because sometimes

(32:57):
I'm like, oh, you know where isnorth um, but this will
accurately tell you here.
Uh, another surprising featurethat I didn't think I would like
or use because it wasn't onother watches, but the night
mode.
I actually really like it.
Like when I'm asleep becauseI'm wearing the watch, I'm able

(33:18):
to still tilt the time and justkind of look at things and it
shows up really nice Like it'snot like overly bright, but it
is a nice appreciation to havethat feature.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, I didn't actually talk about that because
I'm so used to that, had beenon the apple watch, which I used
for a while.
But that is new to galaxywatches and it's a great feature
because when you're outside atnight, or if you're in a dark
place even and just inside yourroom, you don't have to be
outside and I've noticed theauto on that is actually quite
accurate.
That's something I was going totalk about, my full review
because the apple one sometimeswill trigger when you're
actually like not fully dark,it's like dusk, and I don't want

(33:51):
that necessarily.
I still like it to be on theregular.
But this one really triggers,like when it's just when I feel
like it's dark enough that itshould be on, it turns off.
So the ambient light sensor isdoing a really good job with
detecting that.
So I highly recommend if youget the galaxy watch ultra,
there's no need to turn thenight mode on or off manually,
like some people feel.
Like some people have said onthe apple watch, they feel like
they have to because it's notgood at detecting.

(34:13):
I think the galaxy watch does agood job of detecting.
Yeah, it does so overall.
I mean those are our initialthoughts.
I mean they were pretty longinitial thoughts so basically
it's pretty close to a fullreview, but I want to use it a
little bit longer.
Toriel will write up his reviewfor the website, and then I'll
probably do mine on the video.
That way, we have a coupledifferent perspectives from the
website, and so that's veryexciting as well.

(34:33):
Another thing I want to mentiontoo, as we transition to
talking about the Flip, the Foldand the Buds 3 Pro, we have a
full-time writer, starting atSammy Guru on Monday.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
So we are going to have a ton more news content.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
We're going to be covering Samsung from all angles
every single day News tutorials, etc.
Because I can only do so much,obviously, myself.
Between the video content, thepodcast, the newsletter, I do
everything and I'll be kind ofannouncing and introducing him
over on Twitter.
So if you guys want to learnmore about our new staff writer,
you guys can check out Twitteron Monday and I'll kind of give

(35:09):
a little bio of him and stuff.
But he's a guy who's beenworking in space for a long time
and we're pretty excited tohave him.
Eventually he will probablymake an appearance on the
podcast, but Tori and I got tofigure that out because he is
not in our time zone.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
So we've got to figure out when we will do that
Cause you know that's alwaystough when you've got a guest
who's like 12 hours ahead orbehind you got to figure that
out, but we'll probably figureit out.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
I think we can figure it out.
Tori doesn't mind staying uplate sometimes on a friday, so
that's fine, okay.
So let's uh transition totalking about the fold, the flip
and the buds 3 pro, and I'mgoing to probably go in depth on
more of these next week, but Ijust want to give some initial
thoughts about them.
Um, since you know I've hadthese for a little while, the
fold, I've only had for nowthree days.
Last week on the podcast, Isaid for sure I would have one
by Monday.
That turned out to be a lie,you know like on the Moripovitz

(36:00):
show.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
We determined that was a lie.
So yeah, it didn't come toTuesday morning.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Thanks to the whole CrowdStrike, cyber thing, messed
up UPS, messed up a lot ofpeople's fold orders.
But quickly I'll talk about thefold first.
I've had it for three days.
I've made some videos on it.
My initial thoughts on thebuild are it's nice, but it's
still too narrow for mepersonally to use on a daily
basis.
The cover screen just stillisn't wide enough.

(36:30):
I mean, if you compare this tothe S24 Ultra, it still doesn't
feel anything like a traditionalslab phone, which is I like the
width of the S24 Ultra and I'mvery used to using it.
Could I force myself to use it?
Yes, but is it my preferenceover the S24 Ultra?
The answer is no.
I will mention one thing that Ithink I was wrong about somewhat
.
The camera quality is betterthan I thought.

(36:52):
I don't give Samsung a pass fornot putting a better sensor in
here because they should haveput better hardware in here.
It's basically been three yearssince they really upgraded the
camera.
That's unacceptable.
The hardware, but the softwareprocessing isn't that bad as I
thought and the new ultrawide isan improvement.
So while I really bashed thecamera before and lot of that's,

(37:13):
I know I don't take a lot of itback because they should have
put new hardware in here.
The software processing doesseem to be improved to the level
where you at least get samequality, as I would say.
Someone asked me for acomparison.
It's on the level of like agalaxy s24, not an s24 ultra,
talking about the base, whichdefinitely doesn't have the same
camera as the Ultra but it's onthe level of like a Galaxy S24

(37:34):
camera, and I think that'spretty good.
I mean, it's still a shame thata $1,900 phone, though, doesn't
have the best camera that youcan possibly get for your
flagship lineup.
I think that's a real shame.
For sure it's $100 more.
Exactly, they charge you $100more, and for $100 more I really
don't know what it is you got.
I mean it is thinner andlighter, but you know it's not

(37:56):
like it's a.
I thought it would be revelatory.
It's not.
It definitely feels lighter inmy pocket, but it's still
definitely thicker than aslab-style phone.
And so, at the end of the day,I really this if you were a
foldable fan and you're, youknow, galaxy z fold fan I think
you'll appreciate the upgrades.
But if you're an averageconsumer who uses a foldable and
you're not an enthusiast, youshouldn't upgrade from a fold

(38:18):
five to this and, and maybe noteven a fold four, unless you
know you've had like some buildquality issues or something.
Your fold four is like fallingapart.
I don't know that I wouldnecessarily upgrade, but if
you're an enthusiast I thinkyou'll appreciate the extra
width.
The boxy design is nicer, theaspect ratio on the inside is
nicer.

(38:38):
They did some nice things and,of course, it's got all the
Galaxy AI features that arebuilt in which we talked about.
I played with sketched image alittle bit.
Those are all going to come tothe old phones, though that's
like nothing super nothing superimportant about that, cause
you'll get those later.
Like, check out this watercolorof me.
Oh, wow, yeah.
So I did some different thingswith the portrait mode and I did
some other things.

(38:58):
One thing I found out, which alot of other outlets publicized,
is you can't use the sketchedimage to like defile people's
faces.
So if you try to draw, graffitior something on someone's face
it won't let you.
It says cannot generate imagedue to the location of the
drawing, and so you can't dothat, which is kind of funny.
I was trying to just kind ofplay around to see what it would

(39:19):
let me get away with.
But all those Galaxy Eyefeatures are mostly going to
come to the Z Fold 5 and the S24line.
So it's not like you need torush out and buy this phone for
the Galaxy Eye stuff.
It's not like you need to rushout and buy this phone for the
Galaxy Eye stuff.
It's going to come anyway.
The Z Fold sorry, the Z Flip 6,.
On the other hand, initialimpressions there, this phone
kind of blew me away honestly.
You know, it seems like aniterative upgrade, like the Fold

(39:42):
6 as well.
But there's a couple of thingsabout this phone that blew me
away.
One the crease on this phone ismuch less noticeable than the Z
Flip 5.
Not necessarily when you lookat it when it's open, but when
you look at it closed.
The off axis, the way thereflections blend in, and not
only that, but the way it feelswhen you touch the screen.

(40:05):
It doesn't feel as significant.
You can actually feel it Toriin the middle there.
It doesn't feel he.
You can actually feel it.
Tori in the middle there itdoesn't feel he touched the Flip
5 before and he said thedecrease is pretty noticeable.
It's not as noticeable anymore.
It's definitely there but it'snot as noticeable.
But the other place where thisblew me away, two things that
are probably the most importantthings for most average users on
a smartphone the battery life.

(40:26):
It's basically like it's almostan extra probably 12 hours
worth of battery life comparedto the flip 5.
I used the flip 5 last year asmy daily driver for a few days.
I couldn't get more than like14 hours of daily of regular use
, not screen on time, 14 hoursjust using it.
So I like take it off thecharger at 8 am.
It'd be dead by, like you know,10 pm, easy.

(40:49):
So you couldn't have like anight.
If you were going out orsomething, you couldn't use it.
But like the flip, the flip six, like I used it for a few days
and like I would sometimes Iworked till 2 in the morning.
I took off the charger at like8 am and I looked at like 2.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
I don't know that could get me all the way through
the next morning.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
I could charge it in lunch the next day if I needed
to.
That's huge.
Getting a day and a halfinstead of not even a full day.
That's massive.
So the battery improvement ishuge on this phone and the
camera improvement is justmassive.
I mean, this thing had a cameralast year that was just as bad
as the Fold, maybe even worsebecause it's got a smaller
profile to pack in that sensor.

(41:29):
This one is definitely on thesame level as the Z Fold 6.
In my opinion it's basicallylike a Galaxy S24 base model
quality, but this one's also alot cheaper.
So people are probably like whyare you saying the Fold's
camera is not good?

Speaker 2 (41:41):
but the Flip's camera is good and they have almost
the same quality.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Well, this phone, the Fold, costs almost $2,000.
The other one costs $1,000.
So when you double the price,my standards are going to go up.
You know, like the camera yougive me for a thousand doesn't
need to be the same one you giveme for 2000.
If I pay twice as much, um, butI was blown away by this phone
overall, like the build qualityimprovements.
Uh, the hinge is a lot nicer,uh yeah, it is a lot thinner

(42:06):
sturdier it's a lot thinner aswell.
Um, just overall the usabilityof this phone.
They've improved a lot ofthings.
The cover display now has thequick replies on the cover
display.
Uh, it's got the auto framingfor the camera and for video.
So if you open and use thislike you use this to take
selfies or take videos and stuffit'll automatically frame you.
Like, if you use it on thecover display as you walk, it'll

(42:28):
automatically make sure you'recentered in the frame.
That's an exclusive feature tothe Z Flip 6.
It's not on the Fold or anyother model, and I don't know if
it'll come to one, because it'sall about the cover screen on
the Z Flip 6.
I like this phone.
Honestly, if it wasn't sonarrow, I could consider using
this as my daily driver, maybeeven more so than the Fold,
which is surprising this one.
Also, though, if you open it,it's almost the same width as

(42:50):
the Fold is, which is why Idon't use it as my daily driver,
because the S24 Ultra is stilllike 60 to 70 percent wider than
these phones, and so I'mprobably still going to go back
to that, just because I'm a guywho appreciates the extra width
when typing, because I have fatfingers.
You know people are like whycan't you use it?
Well, I have fat fingers andit's okay.
So Samsung is going to need togive me a wider cover screen on

(43:11):
the Fold or make the flip widerif I'm going to use it as a
daily driver.
Supposedly that Galaxy Z Fold 6Ultra is supposed to be coming
People are saying in October.
Man, that's going to make somany people angry.
They just bought a $2,000 phone.
If they sell that in the U ohman, the emails I'm going to get
about how angry.
The comments we'll get abouthow angry people are.

(43:33):
It's going to be really bad.
People are going to be like Ijust bought this phone for two
grand and then three monthslater you release a phone that's
miles better I could havewaited for and did my upgrade
and got my trading credit onthat phone, but now you're

(43:54):
wasting my time making me getthis particular phone.
So, yeah, I don't.
I don't know what that's allabout.
Um, very interesting for sure.
So we'll see how that plays out.
If they do release a lot,people gonna be mad.
Galaxy buds 3 pro.
Let's uh, briefly talk aboutbuds 3 pro for a second.
Uh, I really like the buds 3pro.
I think you should get a pairtori they are still planning,
they are still back orderedbecause of the recall that we
mentioned.
Yeah, and the issue which I diddiscover myself because, you

(44:16):
know, since I review thesethings, I had to try to push the
limits.
Uh, apparently the issue is, ifyou try to change the silicone
ear tips, they rip very easilyso I try to change mine, like
just regularly.
Samsung actually published avideo about how to do it today
to tell you that you must bedoing it wrong.
That's because they're not verywell made.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
They're really not.
You're not doing anything wrong, they're just trying to tell
you why they're ripping.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
It's all for your fault, but it's not because they
recalled them.
I don't know why they made thatvideo.
Because you're not selling themanymore.
Why aren't you selling them?
Yeah, it's because the ear tipsare poorly made.
I tried changing them and Iripped one easily.
You know people are gonna belike oh, you weren't careful
enough, I don't need to becareful on any of my other
earbuds.
I've changed a million pair ofearbud ear tips.
I got like 30 pair from fromreviewing them on youtube.

(45:02):
I don't need to be careful withany of them.
I did this one just the sameway I would do any other one.
Just pluck it off, try to put anew one on, and I ripped one.
So definitely be careful aboutthat if you already have a pair,
but if you don't, you can't getsome until the end of August
because of this issue.
The sound quality is amazing.
I think it's on par with someof my more expensive headphones

(45:23):
like the Bang Olufsen's that arelike almost twice the price.
The Bang Olufsen's are $400.
The build they feel a littlecheapish, I'll be honest.
They don't have a lot of weightin the hand, but they're
earbuds so you don't really wantthat, but if you compare the
build quality to the BangOlufsen's, they're not really on
the par there.
But I mean, the extra moneygoes to some of that finishing.

(45:45):
They do feel like a littlecheap, plasticky, but the audio
quality is anything but cheap.
They're amazingly good.
The features are amazing.
The noise cancellation theactive noise cancellation is
fantastic.
They've added some amazingfeatures that integrate with
your phone, your watch, thewhole Galaxy ecosystem.
Really impressed with the Buds3 Pro.
The Samsung case for the Buds 3Pro, though, is trash, so don't

(46:06):
buy that.
You'll probably end upscratching up the actual
charging case, and it's reallyhard to pull it out once you put
it in there.
So buy one of the third-partycases.
I'm going to review some.
I ordered some from Amazon froma couple different companies,
just because I'm too lazy toemail them and ask them to send
them for free.
That's one of the things Icould get a lot of work, and

(46:31):
then you have to go back andforth and they're going to be
like oh well, where are yougoing to put the review?
Is it going to be on thewebsite or the YouTube channel?
I'm like I'll just buy it.
It's $20.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
You know people are.
It's worth a lot of money and Idon't want to spend a ton of
money.
I can get it for free and I'lldo it.
But for accessories, typicallyI just buy them because I can
get them quicker and I can giveyou guys some feedback.
So those are my thoughts on theBuds 3 Pro and the Z Flip 6 and
Z Fold 6.

(46:59):
Definitely have a full reviewnext week so you guys can stay
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From that ad break, we are nowgoing to talk about One UI 7.0
and all the massive leaks.
Now I've covered these in abunch of YouTube videos and Tori
watched them.
There are some interestingthings that have come out.
Last week we talked brieflyabout these, but even more crazy

(48:48):
things have come out since then.
So almost all the icons haveleaked.
Have you taken a look at theicon story?
I know I showed off some ofthem in the videos.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Yes, I have, and you know I do have a few thoughts on
those.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
Go ahead.
What do you think about?

Speaker 2 (49:00):
them.
Yeah, so because I was like man, you know, I don't even really
like pay attention to the iconsno, I don't really know if other
you know average day consumersof Samsung products do but to me
in the update they seem likemore colorful and poppy versus

(49:21):
like.
I was looking at the galleryand the internet and then I
started reflecting.
I was like, yeah, you know,they've been kind of consistent
with each app having like acertain color and then just kind
of having like you know, thatcolor theme with some white here
and there.
So I think by adding color, atleast in my opinion, we'll just
kind of make things feel morepoppy or vibrant to the Samsung

(49:45):
feel, especially when you'refirst firing up the phone, maybe
for the first time I feel likeconsumers are really going to
like that.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
And I like Tori's insight here because a lot of us
don't like.
A lot of the Samsung fans seemto not like the gallery icon.
I love the internet icon, bythe way.
It's got like a nice blue witha teal ring around the planet.
It looks good.
The internet icon is definitelytheir best, but the gallery
icon a lot of people don't likeit because it looks like it's
lifted from Apple, but it is alot more colorful than the
previous gallery icon.

(50:13):
So, in keeping with Samsung'snew kind of goal of reaching
Generation Z or whatever, thatprobably will appeal to them
because they like that kind ofstuff.
I think that's part of thereason they're going towards.
That is that a lot of thethings that Apple does also
appeals to gen z and sosamsung's trying to get on that
same bandwagon maybe notnecessarily copy apple exactly,

(50:36):
but you use that same strategyto appeal to those users.
Um, I think you know, of allthe icons, the gallery, one's
the one I like the least, mainlybecause I just like the color
of the old one and I've usedsamsung so long, like that
familiar, like, like whatever itis pinkish, maroonish color.
I saw someone did a concept onTwitter.
I forgot who it was.
It might've been VTROX.
I'm sorry if I messed up thedesigner's name.

(50:58):
I'll put it in the show notesfor sure.
There's so many guys who dothese and they all.
I appreciate all their work,but he had one where, instead of
having the multicolored flower,it was white icon but had the
pinkish gradient all on theflower just a single monochrome.
It actually looked good and itlooked like a pink gradient.
That's what I would prefer.
It keeps more of a Samsungstyle instead of going the

(51:19):
opposite direction.
But at the end of the day,we'll see what they end up doing
.
The Dynamic Island.
So did you get a chance to seethis, tori the Dynamic?

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Island.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
You know, apple has this on their new iPhones where
at the top you can put differentactivities, like you can see
sports scores and weather andstopwatch and alarm up there.
Now Samsung's going to do that.
It's not going to work exactlylike that, because of course,
samsung doesn't have a bigcutout in their phones.
It's going to just go back upto the status bar, so you can
just flick it up to the statusbar.

(51:48):
It's going to just go back upto the status bar, so you can
just like flick it up to thestatus bar.
You can see your music, yourreminders, all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
What do you think about that as an idea overall?
So like initially at least, I'mjust so used to and maybe in my
opinion, with just like myeveryday life, like I'm just
used to how I navigate the phone.
Uh, I do feel like a lot ofpeople, especially also to those
gen z years where, um, you'rekind of looking at as phones as

(52:14):
being able to multitask a lot ofthings, and I feel like that's
a direction that samsung uhtries to emphasize on and does
really good in those innovationmarkets.
So I really do feel like thiscould be a good thing.
Like, obviously it's going tobe in beta, but I do think this
could be a thing that if theycan really just find out a way
to uh to, you know, now thatthey have the full, the flip um

(52:37):
and the s line um, they can justkind of work it out to where,
uh, it's nice on those and theyhave a lot of innovate
innovation window, um, I thinkit's going to be a good thing
that people probably go for,especially those gen z years
yeah, I'm actually not againstit.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
A lot of samsung fans are like oh, we don't want this
because it's emulating apple.
But you know I've never saidthat I don't want them to
emulate apple on anything I said.
I want them to emulate apple ongood ideas and not take apple's
bad ideas.
some of the ideas they've takenhave not been good ones, but
this idea is not a a bad idea.
It depends on how theyimplement it.
They're not copying directlyfrom Apple because we're not
going to have a massive cutoutin our phone.

(53:13):
Now, if they did that, thatwould honestly piss me off a
little bit.
If they put a massivepill-shaped cutout in the Galaxy
S25 Ultra, I'm going to saythat right now.
If that ends up happening wehaven't seen any suggestions of
that in leaks, but if thathappens, I'm not going to be
super happy about it.
But if they just have it sothat the live activities live in
the status bar, it could begood.

(53:34):
So far, in the leaked videosthat people have shown though,
the animations where you flickit up and down look really janky
.
They don't look good at all.
They look very stuttery.
But it's a beta.
It's actually an alpha.
Right now it's not even betabecause you know it's not even
being tested by the public, butyou know it's getting ready to
come out in beta, maybe nextweek.
Ice Universe said we might evenget it next week, which would
be crazy.
But since it's so early, I'mokay with it being a little

(53:56):
janky.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
But if they get smooth animations and it looks
useful.
I think a lot of people woulduse it, like you said.
Well, so then, with that,because, as I was kind of
looking through the comments inthe videos, uh, several people
were asking should samsung focuson the animations for the
things that they're trying toroll out, um, and not just rush?

Speaker 1 (54:17):
these things I would like to see a little smoother.
Yeah, ice universe said heoriginally said it might come
next week and then he said butsamsung shouldn't put it out
next week because it's so buggy.
Ice, you know our good friend,the most prolific samsung le.
He knows everything that'sgoing on with U1 UI.
He said that it's so buggy theversions he's seen that he would
suggest they not release it.

(54:37):
I would not like to see a superbuggy beta because obviously
I'll be running it and it'salways nicer if it's a little
smoother in the beginning,because when I'm making videos
on all the features I don't haveto have apps force closing and
then I have to restart my video10, 15, 20 times to get a video
out to you guys.
It's happened on previous betasbefore.
It's always nicer if the firstbeta is somewhat nice and not
everything is crashing.

(54:57):
So I would prefer they perfectsome of it a little bit.
Of course I'm being a littleselfish because I'd also like to
be able to finish all mycontent on these current devices
that just came out before.
I have to make 20 videos on oneUI 7, because that's a lot of
work.
I love it, but it's a lotback-to-back.
I wish they would wait, make ita little more stable, because
why not they're not going to berolling out the stable version

(55:18):
until October, middle of October, end of October.
A couple months to beta test isfine.
They don't need to push it outnecessarily right now.
We saw the new camera UI, whichis where everything's on the
bottom.
They actually put a screenshotof that.
We talked about it last week,but he actually showed a
screenshot of what it looks like.
It looks good.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
I mean I don't have a problem with the camera UI, the
camera UI looks fine.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
It's more one-handed, like we said last week, which
is great.
That goes along with One UI'sgoal of being one-handed.
I think there's nothing wrongwith that.
I'm perfectly happy with thecamera UI.
The new notifications on thelock screen don't look good,
though.
Those look particularlyterrible in my opinion.
Did you see those?

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Yeah, I did the ones that are rounded notification.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
They look bad.
I made a video on this today.
I'm pulling it up again forTori.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
Yeah, they just don't look good.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
I don't know if it's just the transparency of them,
but they kind of look like pixelicons.
I know you haven't probablyused a pixel, but they're like
Google's pixel icons and youknow it's just weird because One
UI 7 as a whole seems to havedesign inspiration from like 20
places.
It just seems like it's a hugecluster F.
No, you know, pardon my French,but it's just like we took some

(56:24):
stuff from Apple, we took somestuff from HyperOS, we took
stuff from our own past OSs, wetook some stuff from the Pixel
Launcher and we're just likewe're going to just make all of
that into one OS.
And it just doesn't work great.
The icons are the same way too.
We talked about the icons.
Some of them are old-school,samsung-inspired.
Some of them are inspired byApple or HyperOS, like the

(56:45):
Gallery.
Some of them are completelyreinvented samsung icons like
the internet, which I love.
I wish all of them were thatstyle but, like some of them are
flat, some of them are 3d.
Some of them have differentdesign philosophies.
They just don't look like acohesive product, and so when
you I said it right now, ofcourse it's an alpha.
We're not saying it should be afinished product three months
before it comes out.

(57:06):
I'm not saying that, but thedesign philosophy doesn't seem
to be a finished product.
I saw the battery percentinside the battery icon.
That looks okay.
What do you think about thebattery percent?

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Yeah, I did too.
A lot of the people in thecomments were saying that it's
too small.
They don't like it.
This isn't a change that theywant.
I don't think I would mind it,or even other consumers as well,
especially if they're alsotrying to convert those Apple
people over as well.
Because isn't that?

Speaker 1 (57:34):
Yeah, and also the other thing about it is it is a
usability improvement, becauseif you have the battery icon and
the percent next to it, thenthose two things side by side
take up more space in the statusbar.
Yeah, so if you have thepercentage inside of the icon,
you're taking up less space inthe status bar where you could
have other things, like yournotification icons on the left,
and that's particularlyimportant, as I was talking
about earlier, with phones likethe Fold 6 and the Flip 6.

(57:57):
They're more narrow.
Yeah, they are the cover screenand the Flip, so you need more
space to show more notificationicons, and I'm okay with that
because it's a usabilityimprovement.
Like I said before, if we takesome good ideas and then they're
for a real reason, like they'reactually going to improve the
overall experience, then I don'tcare.
But I don't like just taking abunch of ideas and like throwing
them together Like this is thenew One UI crapshoot.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
Yeah, seven OS where we took ideas from everywhere we
have no idea what the cohesivevision is.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
We're just going to throw all this stuff on there
and see if it sticks.
I don't like that approach.
But if there's real usabilityreasons behind making a change,
that's fine um what about thetap the?

Speaker 2 (58:36):
oh, go ahead, tori.
Oh, I mean I, I was just gonnasay you know as just like an
average consumer, um, or evensomeone who would even be
interested in like getting thenew phones or like upgrading, I
like the direction of focusingon the user comfortability and

(58:57):
focusing on the one UIOne-handedness.
Is that what?
you mean yeah, yeah yeah, Ithink it's a good direction.
I like it.
I feel like they're trying tofind what fits for their
flagship phones, you know, and Ithink it's just like a growing

(59:17):
pain that you know, all Samsungusers are, you know, trying to
find.
But I think, too, if Samsung isgood about listening to their
base, they'll be able to get toa solid place of things that
will meet everyone at the sameline.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
Yeah, I like it.
Yeah, I mean, I know that.
Yeah, with the beta testing,it's all about getting feedback.
So people are going to givefeedback about what they don't
like, and the one nice thing Iwill say about Samsung that you
can't say about othermanufacturers, whether it's
Apple or other Androidmanufacturers, is they do listen
to their fans when we test thebeta.

(59:53):
You know there's been manybetas that I participated in and
myself and other enthusiastsand YouTubers, creators have
given feedback in the betabecause they have a nice forum
for us to post feedback duringthe beta testing.
We tell them we don't likesomething.
They've changed it a lot oftimes.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
You know they're not going to change the whole UI.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
But if there's one thing you know that's a small
tweak that they can make,they'll do it.
You know Apple is never goingto do that.
They're like you're going touse what we put out and you
better like it.
You know, Samsung is not thatway.
They're not like.
You know if we thought thatthis was something that people
wanted, but it's a terrible idea, and you pointed out why it's a
terrible idea.
Don't make a change.
What do you think about thestack tasks changer?

(01:00:29):
Because that's going to be thedefault now where you've got
single cards.
Oh wow, the current one iswhere you've got multi-view,
like this one, the little ones.
What do you think about thatchange?

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
You know, I think I like the new one, just because
then in that way I can kind oflike move things around.
Then, in that way I can kind oflike move things around because
sometimes, depending on whatyour situation in terms of like

(01:00:58):
where you're at you may beeasier for certain ones, and so
it'll be easier to kind of likebe able to select which one that
you like just kind of fit yourcurrent situation.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Yeah, it's also to.
It also is what the iPhone hasthe stack one.
It's also easier to see moreinformation because you have a
bigger preview of each appversus the current one.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
Where you're like at a squint yeah where you don't
necessarily have that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
So it's an improvement from that.
So again, since it's ausability improvement, it's okay
with me.
You'll be able to change it inGoodLock anyway.
Goodlock has always had theability to do this inside HomeUp
.
They're not going to take thataway.
It's like if you're a hardcoreSamsung user, there's no reason
to rage against the machineabout this because you're still
going to be able to go in thereand just switch it anytime you
want.
As long as it's stuff that I canmodify in GoodLock, I'm not

(01:01:37):
going to throw a fit about it.
If it's a usability change or adesign change that I have to
look of the phone, that I can'treally modify.
But a lot of the things I canchange in GoodLock, it's like
why am I going to get superangry about that?
I mean, I can say I don't likeit.
But if I can change the default, Samsung gives me the chance to

(01:01:59):
customize it.
I'm okay with that.
That's fine.
I think that's mostly what Ihave to say about One UI 7.
We covered a lot of it lastweek as well.
Once the beta comes out we'lltalk about it, probably an
entire episode, Because you knowI have a bunch of phones.
Maybe I'll see if Tori can playaround with it a little bit too
.
We can both experience it.
Oh yeah, Because I don't wantTori running this on his main

(01:02:19):
phone, because that will beterrible.
He'll probably really hate meif I ask him to run the beta on
his main phone.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
He on his main phone.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
He won't be able to use anything, he won't be able
to use any of his apps.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
Oh yeah, no.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
You don't want that.
You've got to do your bankingand your other secure apps won't
run on the beta.
Let's talk a little bit aboutthe app of the week and then get
to the Q&A.
Google Keep Notes is the one Ichose with the app of the week
because this week I'm making Alot of people compare it to

(01:02:51):
Samsung Notes, and I've alsodone that.
I made a full video comparingthe two as well.
But Google KeepNotes has someadvantages because it syncs
across all of your devicesbecause you can use it on the
web.
in a little morecross-compatibility, I can use
it on my Apple devices as well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
It doesn't really have great S Pen support.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Of course that's the advantage of Samsung Notes.
But have you ever looked atKeepNotes?
Have?

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
you ever seen it?
Yeah, I have, I think.
Actually, when I had my HTC, Iused Google Keep a lot because
at that time I just got like aGoogle Chromebook.
So I was like, oh, like it'snice for me to be able to write
on like my Google Chrome, andthen I also have it on my phone,
you know, because back then Iwas like a college student, so

(01:03:34):
it helped out a lot but justkind of keeping track of like
the schedule and the things Ineeded to do by the time I got
back to the dorm, because youknow you go through a lot
throughout the day.
But what I really appreciatedwas that you could color code
like the notes.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
You can see I have that in my pin notes.
You can also pen stuff to thetop which I always do yeah, like
that feature, yeah, so, and youcan also put these little check
boxes.
People always ask about this inmy videos, like because, as I do
my longer videos, like mytutorials, I make a keep note
and I keep it open inmulti-window and I open it and I
check off the items as I go,just because, like I said before
, I don't script my videos likeI'm doing everything off the
cuff as I go, just because, likeI said before, I don't script

(01:04:08):
my videos Like I'm doingeverything off the cuff, so I
just write down a generaloutline, I'm just checking stuff
off as I go so you can tell,like I'm not giving you any BS,
because it's just off the cuffwhat I think.
And also, you know, I know mostof the tutorials that I've done
a lot of times by heart, becauseI always am spending time with
the phone before I make thevideo.
I don't need a script becauseI've already spent so much time

(01:04:29):
playing with it before I make avideo on it anyway.
But people always ask me aboutthis and it's great.
It has sharing, it's got richlink previews, so if you paste a
link from the web, it'll giveyou a preview of the link.
I've got some links from variouswebsites you can see what that
actually is.
You can insert drawings.
So it does work with the S Pen,but it's not as good, obviously
, as Samsung Notes.
It's got a lot of advancedintegration with the S Pen

(01:04:50):
because it is a Samsung product.
Samsung Notes this is not.
But KeepNotes is great forsharing.
You can share with variouspeople, you get reminders.
There's a bunch of differentthemes you can get too for
KeepNotes, in addition to colorcoding, the actual notes, as
Tori said before, and you canalso add recordings, voice
recordings or images or photosdirectly from there.

(01:05:12):
It's got an archiving systemwhich you can use for the notes
and, like I said, it syncs toyour Google account, which makes
it particularly useful.
So I highly recommend trying itif you are a Samsung Notes user
, just to compare it, becausewhy not?
I mean, even if you're aneveryday user it might work
better for you if you havemultiple devices that aren't all
Samsung.
Like maybe use a Samsung phone,but you have an iPad and you

(01:05:33):
have a Windows PC.
A lot of people are in thatcamp because the iPad is a great
tablet and Windows PCs not allof them are made by Samsung.
The one I have is the GalaxyBook 4 Edge so I can use Samsung
Notes on there.
But some people may not be usingSamsung Notes.
If they have, like, an HP, thatmight not be their default, so
this might be something theywant to try and just see if it
works for you.
And I use it in a lot of myvideos, like I said, with

(01:05:55):
tutorials, and I find it's greatjust for syncing it
cross-platform.
So I'm bringing people'sattention.
As always, it'll be in the shownotes.
I'm curious if our listenershave some suggestions for apps
of the week that we can try,because, of course, I'm talking
about the ones that I use allthe time, but I'd like to get
some more adventurous ones thatme and Tori can try that we
don't know about.
So if you guys have apps of theweek, put them over on Twitter,

(01:06:17):
put them on Facebook, send us atext message, because there's a
link in the show notes to senda text message directly to the
show or email us, jeff atsammygurucom.
I, jeff at SammyGurucom.
I've got to get Tori a SammyGuru email, so you can email him
too.
I'll get him an Add Sammy Gurudomain at some point too, so you
can email us and let us knowwhat apps you want us to talk
about, because we'll try someapps and give them a shot.

(01:06:37):
I like trying new apps and Iprobably don't do it as often as
I used to, but I would love tostart doing it again.
Q&a we've got three today thatI highlighted.
Uh, they asked what case do weuse on our phones?
So I use a bunch of them, butI'll let tory go.
What case are you using on yours22 ultra?

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
uh, yeah, currently I'm using the uh samsung uh flip
kick uh kickstand case, or,yeah, uh, kickstand case.
Uh, I love it.
Um, just because you know, likeI have Netflix, hulu, I'm
always like trying to, duringlunch, uh, when I have a break,
uh, be able to just watchsomething while I eat something

(01:07:17):
and just kind of like decompressum a little bit, and so it's
just really nice to have.
That case is very durable.
Um, uh, the only thing aboutthat case is, like you know, it
gets dirty like over time, causeit's clear plastic and also we
live in arizona.
The sun does some damage to itas well, um, if it's, you know,

(01:07:37):
out for extended periods of time.
But overall, it's a really goodcase.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
I do like the samsung case yeah, so their kickstand
case is pretty good.
Samsung's a first party casethat sometimes can be hit or
miss, so sometimes they makesome great ones, sometimes they
make some terrible ones.
I remember back for the z-foldfour, which is when I first came
back to doing youtube full-timeafter covid because I took some
time off during covid.
They made a case for the z-foldfour.
That was their original s-pintype case for the z-fold four.

(01:08:02):
It was absolutely terrible.
Like it it.
You couldn't even open itwithout the s-pin falling off
the back.
Wow, I don't know sometimes howthey don't quality control, some
of their first-party cases, butthat kickstand case that
they've made for a couplegenerations now.
Usually, once they make thecase for a couple years, it gets
to a point where it's good, butthen, for some reason,
samsung's like hey, let's justget rid of all that stuff that

(01:08:23):
we've made, that's working somany years, and let's just make
different cases.
This year.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
I don't know why they do that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
They do that like every three or four years, maybe
two or three years.
They're like yeah, this case isgreat, People love it.
We've been doing it for the S22, S23, S24.
Should we make it for the S25?
Nah, we shouldn't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
People really like it .
It's reliable.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
It serves a purpose.
We sell a lot of.
There's no complaints.
Don't make any more of those.
That sounds like a bad idea.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
It is a bad idea.
Why did they do that?

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
I mean, if people like this case, then just keep
making it.
They had a case like theClearview SU cover for a while
that people liked a lot and theyhad perfected it.
It had some issues in thebeginning.
It's actually one of the casesthat I made one of my first
videos on that has like amillion views the one for the s6
.
They made it for like four orfive years and it perfected it

(01:09:10):
and then one year they're justlike, ah no, I'm not gonna do
that anymore.
We're gonna start doing ledcovers and they're not as quite
as good they didn't have quitethe same functionality.
Um, I use a lot of differentcases.
My favorite ones are urbanarmor for the S24 Ultra, pataka,
kodabe, magback.

(01:09:32):
These are some of the cases Iuse.
And then on the Fold 6, Icurrently have the Binx AirMid
Fiber.
I really like this case.
I highly recommend it for onereason it does not have a front
plate.
I hate Fold cases that have thefront plate.
99% of them do you have to puta front plate around the front?
It has an adhesive and it makesit harder to use the phone.

(01:09:53):
It's not as ergonomic.
This one only has a back plateand then a cover for the hinge.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Before you can see it .
It looks really nice and it'snice and thin.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
It doesn't add a lot of bulk because the fold is
already pretty thick.
I don't want to make it extrathick with another case, so I
highly recommend Banks Armor.
I'll drop a link to some ofthese in the show notes as well.
We're going to do some caseroundups on the website with our
new writer who's joining.
He's going to make a lot ofcase posts because I think a lot
of people are interested inthat.
So I have some buying guidesfor like the fold, the flip, the

(01:10:21):
S line, all that kind of stuff.
We kind of answered the secondone earlier.
We can kind of mentally mentionit again.
Which apple features do wethink samsung should consider
borrowing?
I like the live activities, thedynamic island quote unquote,
even though it's not the sameimplementation.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
I like it.
What do you think, dory?
Um, I mean, I like that one too.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
Uh, I mean overall um , you like the camera ui at the
bottom right.
I mean, that's basically.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
I do like the camera ui uh, and I think that would
probably be like my only realthing that I'm really interested
in, because, uh, when Icurrently look at the camera,
like sometimes I just get alittle overwhelmed with like
because I have like the barstuff at the top, like to to
like kind of click through andstuff now and navigate.
When, like, I would like alittle bit more streamlined
process where I don't have tolike kind of go and use two

(01:11:13):
hands, especially if I'm tryingto take a picture in the moment
yeah, I mean those are twothings I think that are great.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
The live activities is really cool.
Um, the camera ui being at thebottom is a really good idea, I
think.
As long as it's something thatimproves the usability, yeah,
even if it looks similar toapple, I'm not as against it.
If it improves the usability,it makes the product better,
just like I said with the buds 3pro.
They look like the airpods butthey improve the usability
because the old buds hadterrible touch controls.
Samsung's always had betteraudio than apple and now they

(01:11:41):
improve the usability.
Their, their, their buds arelike light years ahead of apple.
There's some places wheresamsung is way ahead of apple
and with the buds, like theairpods, are just garbage
comparing them.
I'll probably make a video.
Uh, quickly talking aboutcomparing those two, because
people love apple versus samsungcomparisons yeah, it brings all
the haters out and they get alot of views.
You know, I gotta go out thereand do some click baiting, get

(01:12:02):
some views from people who arelike this guy he thinks he knows
how good the airpods are.
He probably doesn't even ownany airpods.
When I have the airpods in thevideo, I'm sitting there like in
my hand.
They're like this guy doesn'town airpods.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
I'm like they're, they're right here, yeah, yeah,
they're like people just do yourresearch and you're like I I am
.

Speaker 1 (01:12:19):
People just go to the comments and start posting
stuff without even watching thevideo.
Most of the time they're like I, you know, the thumbnail just
says you know, galaxy buds 3 Proare better than the AirPods and
they're just like.
This.
Guy doesn't have any AirPods,but the video is like me holding
both pairs one pair of AirPods,one pair of Buds.
I still don't get that, butwhatever.
And then the last question,which is a question people were

(01:12:42):
just asking in general on a lotof different socials.
We just wrapped up the Z Fold 6, z Flip 6 Mystery Box program.
In fact, they're packing someout right outside the door here
in their office here.
Those are all going to UPS thisweekend.
We've got some out yesterday,some are going out today, friday
the 26th, and some are goingout tomorrow.
People are asking are theGalaxy S25 Ultra boxes going to
start soon and the answer is yes.
I already put up the page forearly notifications for the S25

(01:13:06):
Ultra mystery boxes.
You can sign up.
The link will be in the shownotes Put for the S25 Ultra
Mystery Boxes.
You can sign up.
The link will be in the shownotes, put in your phone number
and or your email.
You'll get the links on launchday.
It's going to be in January.
We always start early, it'slike six months away, but you'll
get your links on launch day toorder.
You'll get the mystery boxverification form to put in your
address to get your mystery boxif you use our link.
I'm coming up with some waysthis time to make sure we don't

(01:13:27):
have link problems.
I want to promise people, ifyou go through the mystery box
links this time things are goingto work, because I have some
ideas this time that should makethis a fail-proof kind of deal.
I never want to say guarantee,but I'm really working hard on
my end and also going to workwith Samsung's affiliate people

(01:13:49):
to make sure it doesn't happenagain, cause it was a real
disaster on the foldable launch,not only for me but for you
guys too, and I feel bad becauseI get you guys the early links
and you want to order right awayto get your box and not
everyone was able to do that andI I'm disappointed about that.
So I'm working very hard on theadministrative side to try to
remedy that problem.
Remedy that problem.
So next week we'll be back withvideo.

(01:14:10):
Are you excited about video,tori?
Oh, I am really excited.
People finally get to see ourbeautiful faces on video.
I'm going to work on lining upsome guests as well as we start
going on the video.
We should have more guests.
I already got like two or threepeople who are interested in
coming on A couple of them.
We have to work out time zoneissues with, because the time
zones are a little tricky, butwe will figure that out and

(01:14:31):
we're going to have video notonly of our faces, but also
top-down video of any productswe want to talk about.
So you guys will be able to seeall the cool stuff that we're
discussing as we go through thepodcast.
So that should be a very, veryexciting thing.
Then I've also got someonewho's working on a little bit of
intro and outro music.
I don't want to promise thatfor next week, but we should

(01:14:51):
have it that way.
At the end it won't just belike bye.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
Or like I said last week.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
stay classy Samsung fans.
I don't want to lift it fromRon Burgundy.
Someone suggested that we usestand-up Samsung Knights, but
that's Flossy Carter's thing,I'm not going to steal his thing
.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
I mean's Flossie, carter's thing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
I'm not going to steal his thing.
I mean, flossie Carter, he's agood you know.
I've talked to him many times.
He's a great creator and Idon't want to steal his
catchphrase.
He's not copyrighted.
I mean, samsung community callsthemselves Samsung Knights in
general because he said that andI consider myself a Samsung
Knight, but I'm not going tosteal it for the podcast.
So we got to come up withsomething better, like Samsung
Guru Maniacs.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
Hulkamania.
Samsung Guru Mania is runningwild, I don't know.
So if you guys have some ideaslistening to the show, let us
know what you think about that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Yes, please.
What should we?

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
do for the outro.
Yes, please, what we shouldcall the listeners, our
enthusiast audience.
So we'll see you guys next weekand everybody have a good one.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Yeah.

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