Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, August 11th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

All the flipping and folding phone news from today's Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event, a big

crypto crime in the Defy space, did AWS beat out Microsoft for a secret NSA

contract and why are all of the major tech platforms so concerned about protecting kids all of the sudden?

Not that that's a bad thing. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

So it was another Galaxy Unpacked event from Samsung this morning, but today it was mostly

about foldables. Samsung announced the Galaxy Z-Fold 3 with a 120 hurts 7.6 inch primary screen,

S-Pen support, and IPX8 water resistance.

All of this on sales starting August 27th for 1799 bucks.

The Z-fold is the long candy bar looking foldable that has a fully functional cover screen that operates

like a normal slab of glass smartphone, but when you unfold it to get to the main screen,

you have that tablet style 6.7 inch display, quoting 9 to 5 Google.

In terms of size, it's virtually identical to the Galaxy Z-Fold 2 with a 6.2 inch outer

display and a 7.6 inch inner display.

That's not to say improvements can't be found though.

With the outer display, Samsung is upgrading the HD Plus panel

with a faster 120 hurts refresh rate without sacrificing on resolution or the

super amyled tech. The inner display meanwhile is the same 7.6 inch 120

hurts panel but this time with thinner bezzles for an overall smaller

footprint 67.1 by 158.2 by 16 millimeters when folded and 128.1 by 158.2 by 6.4 millimeters when opened up.

Weight also drops a bit to 271 grams.

There's also a selfie camera that hides underneath the inner display, a first for any Samsung product.

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