Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for Tuesday, February 11th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCulloch today.

All of the headlines from the big Samsung Unpacked Event. The T-Mobile Sprint merger is officially

a go, mostly. Brandless is the first Soft Bank company to shut down entirely, a serious lifeline

for SoundCloud, and has the CIA quietly been the real owner of the leading

encryption company for decades? Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

The Samsung Unpacked Event was Today and Unpacked it was Jam Pact. Let's hit the big news first.

Samsung's flagship smartphone lineup this year is officially the

Galaxy S20. So indeed we're skipping everything from the Galaxy S11 through

the Galaxy S19, but you know if you were going to go to a year-based naming scheme this would probably be the year to do it.

There are three versions of the S-20, the Galaxy S-20, the Galaxy S-20, the Galaxy S-20 plus, and the highest end, the Galaxy S20 Ultra.

I'll get to the specs and the differences in a second, but first one important thing to note. All three of the Galaxy S20

devices get Qualcomm- 865 chipsets which means they all get 5G which means 5G is really officially at long last here. And technically, each of these

phones officially has 5G appended to the names, but you know let's not do that.

Okay, specs. The Galaxy S20 is a 6.2 inch

screen. The Galaxy S20 plus is a 6.7 inch screen and the Galaxy S20

Ultra is a 6.9 inch screen. They're available

beginning March 6th. The pre-orders begin February 21st and the price ranges

from $999.99 to $1,999.99.

Take it away, Dieter at the verge, quote,

if you're trying to make sense of the differences

between the three phones, there's good news and bad news. The good

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