Samsung’s S25 Ultra and the end of the flagship phone

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Today on the show, it’s all about the future of phones… and your data. The Verge’s Allison Johnson joins the show to talk about the new Samsung Galaxy S25, what’s new in this high-end phone, and what it means for all the other smartphones coming this year. After that, Cooper Quintin, a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, talks us through how to think about the privacy implications of RedNote, TikTok, DeepSeek, and all the other tech that puts us in contact with China. Finally, we enlist The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy to help us answer a question from the Vergecast Hotline all about the Meta Portal. Remember the Meta Portal?? If you’re missing yours, we have some ideas. Further reading: The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra isn’t so ‘ultra’ anymore Samsung Galaxy S25 and S25 Plus hands-on: more of the same Samsung Galaxy S25 vs. S25 Plus vs. S25 Ultra: specs comparison Trump signs order refusing to enforce TikTok ban for 75 days TikTok’s service providers still risk billions in penalties for bringing it back online TikTok is still on shaky ground in the US Chinese social media app RedNote tops App Store chart ahead of TikTok ban As Americans flock to RedNote, privacy advocates warn about surveillance Will RedNote get banned in the US? RedNote: what it’s like using the Chinese app TikTokers are flocking to Why everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek DeepSeek’s top-ranked AI app is restricting sign-ups due to ‘malicious attacks’ US Navy jumps the DeepSeek ship. The Electronic Frontier Foundation Facebook’s new Portal Go is great for video calls, but not much else Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of minor smartphone camera upgrades.
0:08.4	I'm your friend David Pierce, and I am sitting here once again repacking my travel electronics
0:14.4	bag. I've been traveling a bunch. I've had a lot of like 36-hour trips recently, which is a weird
0:20.1	and sort of unique packing challenge.
0:22.2	But I've gotten very good.
0:22.9	I can do the whole thing in a backpack now, even if I have to bring a camera.
0:26.8	And the trick, the key for me, has been that I turned this whole gigantic bag full of cables
0:33.8	and other assorted crap into two things.
0:36.7	I bought these things from Amazon. They're these
0:39.9	retractable USB cables. I got one that's six feet long and black and one that's blue and three
0:47.5	feet long. And these are now the only USB cables I carry with me anywhere. I can plug into walls.
0:52.4	I can plug into other devices. I can plug them
0:54.3	into almost everything. This thing where everything is USBC is great. Like to be clear, I don't care
0:59.5	how you feel about the EU. I don't care how you feel about like Apple wanting to do lightning.
1:02.8	It's better that there's one port for everything. And I'm finally to the point where actually other
1:07.4	than my AirPods, which I haven't upgraded in a long time, every gadget I own is USBC, and it's fabulous.
1:14.1	So now, instead of a giant bag, I just have this, and it has made everything a whole lot easier.
1:18.2	I'll link these in the show notes.
1:19.2	They're on Amazon.
1:20.0	I don't know if there's any, like, specific reason to buy this brand over any other, but they're great. Anyway, we are not here to talk about USB cables, although
1:28.9	we're a little bit here to talk about USB cables on every single episode of this show.
1:32.6	Today we're going to do two things on the show. First, we're going to talk about the Galaxy
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