Hands-on with the Note 8, Android Oreo, and Verizon's new unlimited data plans

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.3 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2017

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Verge, Dieter was able to get his hands on the new Galaxy Note 8. So on The Vergecast, Nilay, Dieter, and Paul go over the first impressions of Samsung’s latest product and what the pricing will mean for future smartphones. Next up, Loren Grush returns to the show to talk about the second episode of Space Craft, as well as her experience seeing the eclipse this week in Nashville. There’s a lot more in between, like Android Oreo’s name announcement, Verizon’s new unlimited data plans, and some new smart speakers on the horizon, so listen to it all and you’ll get it all. 02:43 - Note 8 specs and features 17:06 - Apple reportedly planning $999 price for new iPhone 26:36 - How I outran clouds to get the perfect eclipse photo with Loren Grush 34:12 - Space Craft episode two with Loren Grush 44:34 - Android O is now officially Android Oreo 47:40 - Google may take on the Echo Dot with a mini Google Home 51:26 - Samsung confirms it’s working on a smart speaker 52:13 - Paul revisits Intel’s new chip announcements 57:41 - Verizon’s good unlimited data plan is now three bad unlimited plans 1:09:38 - Paul’s weekly segment “YotaPhone 3; still Yota-ing” 1:12:07 - Apple TV is losing badly to Roku and Amazon in the living room, survey finds 1:13:28 - iOS 11 Safari will turn Google AMP links back into regular ones when sharing 1:19:34 - Nikon’s new D850 has 45.7 megapixels and enough features to tempt Canon shooters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Verge cast. The show brought to you by not Jason Bourne, but whoever
0:10.1	Jeremy Renner was in that other movie. Jackson Bord.
0:15.6	The flagship podcast, theverge.com. I don't know why we started with the Bornstormacy,
0:20.0	but here we are. Anyhow, as a huge issue.
0:22.0	How come they haven't made a... They should make one where he converts and they can call
0:26.9	Jason Bourne again? I don't know if we're ready for an evangelical Christian action movie.
0:31.2	Do they have any of those balls? Left behind?
0:34.8	There's a lot of action movie. Like the Kirk Cameron left behind?
0:37.5	Yeah, but it's not like really an action movie. I mean, I can't say I like really
0:42.7	studiously watch Left Behind films. Anyhow, my point here today is not whether or not we're
0:47.4	sending to a higher moral plane. It's that Paul is here. Yeah.
0:50.9	Deeders here. Hello. I'm here. I'm neither. I'm your friend, your pal.
0:55.6	And we have a whole bunch of news to talk about. We got a packed show here. We got new phones.
1:00.8	All kinds of phone news. Google named it Oreo, which was not a surprise to literally anyone,
1:06.8	regardless of Google's best efforts. We got a segment with Lauren Grush coming up, talking about
1:11.2	spacecraft. Packed show. Kind of a classic vibe because it's like phone season again.
1:16.4	Here's the sad part though. Yeah. I can't read the show notes. Yeah.
1:20.6	Because I'm blind for what it happened. Yeah, the clips happened.
1:26.4	Worth it. Paul and I watched it together. And you.
1:29.4	Oh, I will tell you confidently. He kind of lifted some old.
1:33.6	That's a good time. I had the glasses. I kept offering them. He's like, no, no, no.
1:37.1	Yeah, yeah. I'm going to look. I wanted to see. I wanted to see it for real.
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