Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, February 9th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

All the headlines from the Samsung event, including the new S-22 lineup and some massive new tablets, could

Meta's stock crash so much that it would become immune to antitrust liability?

And look, the alleged Bonnie and Clyde for our times the whole

saga of that husband and wife arrested here in NYC yesterday allegedly

related to the big bit Phoenix hack here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.

The big Samsung Unpacked event happened this morning and

there Samsung unveiled the 6.1 inch Galaxy S-22 and 6.6 inch S-22 plus with

updated cameras and a Snap Dragon 8 Gen 1 processor coming February 25th. The S22 costs $800. The S22 plus costs $1,000 quoting the

verge. By most accounts last year's Galaxy S21 lineup didn't measure up to Samsung's sales expectations.

Flanked by more Android competition than ever before the S21 and S21 plus struggled to stand out on their own merits.

It didn't help matters that Samsung gave the base model a cheap first impression by using

plastic materials on the back instead of glass.

So with the new Galaxy S-22 and S-22-plus announced today, the

company is trying to write some of these wrongs and re-establish these as

premium dependable flagship-grade smartphones even if they lack the note DNA of the S22 Ultra.

Unlike that device, more on that in a second, these bear a closer resemblance to last year's

phones with slight design refinements.

The screen, 6.1 inches on the S-22, 6.6 inches on the plus, and both at 2340 by 1080

resolution are flat on both models.

The contour camera housing now matches the phone's overall color

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