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Hello, and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of titanium. All kinds of titanium. Very thin titanium, very thick titanium. Titanium technology. Lots of titanium. I'm your friend, David Pearce. Neil Aptel is here. Hello, sir. How's it going? We just got finished watching Samsung's Unpacked event. There's a lot to talk about here. We got some new phones. We got foldables. We got flippables. We got watches. We got all kinds of stuff. This, I just want to preface, Nilay, was maybe the most impressive product introduction I have seen in 2026. And I'm very excited to tell you why. But first, I want to know.
Wait, was it because Spider-Man was there? It was because Spider-Man was there.
There was a brief moment where I thought, oh, good. We're not going to get that deeply awkward moment at every Samsung event where something weird happens and no one knows what to do about it.
Honestly, the reason I agreed to do this live stream with you was because Samsung can't help itself. Like, I know Samsung can't help itself. And watching you go through it is very important to me.
I really appreciate that. Yeah, one of the great moments was that they brought on, what's his name? Jacob somebody. No, no. Yes, Jacob Batalon, who plays Ned in the Spider-Man movies. He did what I would call like a reasonably normal product integration. He explained why his character would use a Galaxy device, which, sure, fine. And then for like eight seconds, just there was Spider-Man.
Yeah.
And then they went right back to it. We were going to play the clip, but no one needs to live through that ever again. But I do want to talk about these phones, because I think the reason I am so compelled by this particular event is that I think Samsung did a thing I have been waiting for it to do for years, which is explain why you would want any of these devices, why you would want a device that folds, why you would want a device that's a different size that folds, why you would want a phone that flips. It actually, like, attempted to make a case for these kinds of devices. And I want to talk about it. But first, I need you to do something very important for me. I need you to rank the folding types.
We have wide, we have tall, and we have flip. Those are the three phones. We're going to get into them. But I want to do them in the order in which you are excited about the size and shape. So we have tall foldable, the TV remote, we have wide foldable, the Passport, and we have flip phone. Which do you want to do first? All right.
I'm going ranking best to worst. Yes. My personal best to worst. Everyone else can make up their minds. I got to go wide, flip, tall. And there's probably a novelty bias here because wide is the newest and maybe it will make my heart sing in new and exciting ways. Although Dom Preston from our team wrote it up. He saw it, he's held it in person. He's used it.
How did Samsung frame its Unpacked event and initial impressions of the new lineup?
Obviously he's used some of the Chinese wide foldables that came out first. And he's like, this thing is way better in person than in any of the photos. And I get it. And I'm kind of excited about the squatter form factor when it's folded, when you use it that way.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:05
2
How did Samsung frame its Unpacked event and initial impressions of the new lineup?
4:05–11:56
3
What are the differences between tall, wide, and flip foldable form factors?
11:56–27:21
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Why does the Galaxy Z Fold 8 claim to be a better content device?
27:21–40:31
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How could Gemini and agentic AI change how people interact with the Z Fold 8?
40:31–54:47