Samsung Gonna Samsung
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4.1 • 572 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week, Samsung held its Galaxy Unpacked event, its annual product spectacle the company uses to announce new mobile devices. In addition to its new Galaxy S22 line of phones, Samsung also introduced three new (and very expensive) tablets. The gadgets are part of a push to solidify Android tablets as "the future of computing," which is what Google recently called them.
This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED reviews editor Julian Chokkattu joins us to dish about Samsung's new devices, and whether Android tablets are actually going to take off in a big way.
Show Notes:
Read more about everything Samsung announced at its Galaxy Unpacked event this week. Watch Julian’s explainer of all the models of Galaxy S22. He also has advice about how to preorder the Galaxy devices.
Recommendations:
Julian recommends the Manfrotto Move Quick release system for your camera setup. Lauren recommends the show Euphoria. Mike recommends Jonathan Blitzer’s New Yorker profile of the Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso.
Julian Chokkattu can be found on Twitter @JulianChokkattu. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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| 0:00.0 | Lauren. |
| 0:01.0 | Mike. |
| 0:02.0 | Lauren, can I interest you in trading in your iPad for an Android tablet? |
| 0:07.0 | You'd have to make a pretty hard sell, I think, for that one. Why? |
| 0:11.5 | I don't know, all the apps? |
| 0:14.1 | Uh. |
| 0:16.3 | The low prices? |
| 0:18.5 | Um, no comments? The user experience? No comments. |
| 0:21.0 | The user experience? |
| 0:22.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.9 | No, I really like my iPad. |
| 0:27.4 | I mean, I guess I already used an Android tablet because I have a Peloton, which is a giant |
| 0:31.0 | Android tablet. |
| 0:32.1 | But I admit I don't cart that into bed with me at night when I want to watch some |
| 0:35.9 | YouTube videos. |
| 0:36.8 | All right. |
| 0:37.0 | Well, you're totally missing out. |
| 0:37.9 | Maybe we can convince you over the next 30 minutes of content. |
| 0:40.7 | We can give it a try. |
| 0:44.9 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:49.8 | Welcome to Gadget Lab. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm Michael Collori. |
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