Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Yo, what is up people of the internet? Welcome back to another episode of the waveform podcast. We're your hosts. I'm Marques. I'm Andrew. I'm David. Today feels like a little bit of a, I'm not going to say throwback episode, but like a callback episode. Cause we've got a whole bunch of stuff that might sound like it was from months slash years ago, but it's all new. For real, for real. Update.
We're going to talk about Samsung foldables, Google fixing something that should have been fixed 10 years ago, GoPro launching some new cameras, Samsung price hikes, and a bunch of updates from existing previous stories that we've seen and talked about in the past. And also, I'm going to try to explain something that just happened last weekend in tech terms. It's in the sports world, though.
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Chapter 2: What are the recent Samsung price hikes and their impact?
All right. I have a little segment that I wanted to do with you, Marques, because last week you I saw that you were using the iPhone air again. And I said, why are you doing that? Yeah. Because it's black. Yep. Well, it's the only black iPhone they make. I have now acquired an iPhone Air. Yeah. Yeah. But that's not a black phone. It's baby blue. Barely. Barely blue. Is that Brandon's?
It looks... No, it's not Brandon's. Oh. It's Michael Fisher's. I stole it from him. And I just wanted us to do a little recap thing on it, because the review went out fairly soon after the embargo, and then now it's been a while, and I've been using it for a few days. So I just wanted to talk about some feelings.
Sure. Well, I can give you my timeline and how it's gone. I reviewed all the phones at the beginning, and when I was done reviewing all the iPhones, I stuck to the 17 Pro as my main iPhone for a while. And that's usually how it goes. I usually have the Pro. I use the cameras a lot. That's the whole point of me carrying an iPhone is the things that the iPhone does well.
And so I've just been carrying that phone for a bit. But it's orange. And I swear to God, that started getting on my nerves faster and faster. I knew it would. And eventually, yeah, I just started testing this other phone that I can talk about now. It's the Oppo Find X9 Ultra. And the video on it is coming later, but it's got these incredible cameras and this incredible battery life.
So what better time to see if I could use the iPhone with the worst cameras and the worst battery life? So I flipped to the black iPhone Air, and it's been, I think, maybe two weeks now since I switched to it. A couple things have happened. One, I've gotten really used to the thin and lightness of it. It's not just the thinness, it's the lightness that really gets you.
You put it in your pocket, you forget that there's something in your pocket. That never happens with other phones. So that happened quite a few times. The other thing is... I just stopped trying to use Zoom, like ultra-wide and Zoom stuff, which I default do on the Pro iPhone all the time.
It bummed me out, but I just stopped using Zoom, obviously, because there's no ability to zoom out or zoom in with any sort of quality. but I'm using this other incredible camera phone with this huge battery and these amazing cameras, and I'm taking all my pictures and videos on that one, so it's been fine so far, but we'll see how long that lasts.
Yeah, my first few days, I was gonna drop it 1,000 times because of how thin it is. It's almost hard to grip because of how thin it is. Interesting. It's also hard to get out of my pocket. I have to put it in my pocket like this so that I can grab the camera bar and pull it out. Huh. Maybe I'm doing that weirdly, but that's what I'm doing.
Wait, you don't put the phone in your pocket camera face down? He has to change his habit so he can have a lip to pick. Well, that's why I'm asking. Did you change it specifically for this? No, I did not. I just kept putting my hand in my pocket and being like, oh, it's face up. Oh, so you always have put your phone in your pocket right side up?
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Chapter 3: How does Google define back button hijacking as spam?
Not usually, but for some reason, apparently this phone has made me start doing that. That's the weirdest thing ever. I've never heard that before. I don't do it on purpose. It's very weird. Other thing, I'm plugging it in a lot more, but it hasn't really been bugging me that I'm plugging it in a lot more. Oh, yeah, the battery's so bad.
It's pretty bad. Like, I'm used to a good battery. And this one, I mean, I'm at 80%. I haven't really done much of anything. I navigated here in the morning and that was the only thing I've done on it. But you probably didn't, did you use your phone to navigate here? Yeah. Oh. So it's been on Waze and then on. And usually I'd get here at like 93 or 94% or whatever.
Chapter 4: What are the updates on the new GoPro cameras?
80. Yeah. I'm at 74. I've done almost nothing with it.
The other day I asked everyone in the office that uses an air, a.k.a. Marquez, Brandon and Rich. What's your battery? Yeah. What's your battery? And Marquez was like, I think I'm at like 70 something. Rich was like, I just took it off the charger. So I'm pretty much topped off. And Brandon's just staring at me from across the room. And it's like 1 p.m. And he's like, I'm at like 38. Yeah. Yeah.
And that's about how it feels. I was at the gym the other day at 1 p.m. I was at like 12 percent. Yeah. And so if you're using a multiple apps, like I was using a couple of like music apps, podcast apps, you know, the fitness app, it can drain pretty, pretty damn quick. Yep. Um, I have gotten used to the thinness of it now and I'm not like, you know, dropping it.
The main problems I'm finding one when I'm traveling, I use the 4x telephoto lens a lot because I shoot in like highlight or the moment camera pro app and not having that sucks.
Yeah.
And I know that most people said that they didn't want to buy this because it didn't have the ultra wide. I never really use the ultra wide. So that's not really a problem for me. But the 4X lens, trash. And then the second thing is that I use this very specific app called Viewfinder Preview that helps me shoot ultra wide panoramas on my film cameras. And that uses the ultra wide camera.
So I literally cannot main this if I'm going out to like take pictures with my 3D printed camera. Yep. So yeah, kind of a problem.
I have a question for you then. Yeah. We all expect the next iPhone Air to have a second camera lens. Which one do you hope it is? Telephoto, but it won't be.
You think it'll be the ultrawide?
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Chapter 5: What does the Allbirds pivot to AI mean for their future?
Like, come on, Apple. Please. Well, I just want to say a few weeks ago, we did a community post on YouTube talking about which secondary lens is everyone's favorite. 19% of people said the selfie. 31% of people said the ultra wide. And 50% of people said telephoto. Oh, selfie. All right, Apple, you're listening. This is data. You got to use the data to build your phone.
Okay, wait, before we move on, question for both of you now that you've been using the iPhone Air for a bit. Is it worth it? Are the trade-offs worth it? Because the lightness is awesome. The size is awesome. Brandon loves it, even though the battery life is trash. Over the Pro or over the standard one?
Yeah, that's the thing. I would not normally switch from the Pro to this phone. It is clearly not a better phone. No. It is a bigger screen. It's a totally fine phone. I have a Pro Max, so. Oh, okay, so I came from the Pro, so it's a bigger screen for me, slightly smaller for you. It's just that I just came from the 17 Pro, so that's why I'm noticing all the downfalls of it.
But if you're coming from any other random older phone and you're thinking about buying an Air, It's fine. It's going to be a totally fine phone. It's only one camera. Fine. The battery life's kind of cheeks. Fine. Whatever. You can deal with that. But it would be so good with two or three cameras and a silicon carbon battery. That would be a great phone. Yeah. But it doesn't have that yet.
So we're waiting for. If Gen 2. Air 2. Air 2.
Yeah. Can I drop a crazy iPhone camera opinion? Sure. That I discovered this weekend. Please. I feel I need to let the world know. David, I just sent you two pictures via iMessage. Okay. That I took on my iPhone. I've discovered. I forgot about Blip. I just discovered the sauce, okay? It's the Moment camera. First, David, tell me that these- Didn't you bring this up last week? No, no.
I've dialed it in even further with a crazy take. Moment Pro camera. You lock the ISO at 640 instead of 800. So you still get the flatness, but it's slightly less noisy. You put it in natural processing mode, so it's like almost a single exposure.
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Chapter 6: What are the details of NZXT's recent settlement regarding rental PCs?
And then you only use the telephoto lens. Wow. And it's beautiful. It looks amazing.
Is that you playing disc golf? Yeah, it's me playing disc golf. Hell yeah.
You play disc golf?
I can tell because he has the pencil in his hat. He has a hat designed to have a pencil in his hat.
I can tell because it's a guy in the woods.
That's all you do in the woods? Play disc golf? He just looks like the woods. I'm now telephoto superiority gang. Hell yeah, let's go. So you're hoping for a telephoto on the next day or?
I think the telephoto is the only camera you need on an iPhone. Well, that's a crazy take. That is the hottest take yet. The only camera you need. Yeah.
All of those are with the telephoto. I just run really far away to take a picture and run back to my friends. What if you can't move further away?
I was at that really nice restaurant and he just like scoots back, walks over three tables, snaps a picture of his food. You're laughing, but I did that.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of John Deere's right to repair settlement?
No, yeah.
I was going to say the most popular iPhone picture in the world, arguably, is with the selfie.
I'm not arguing that. It's the most popular picture, but it is definitively not the highest quality picture. Yeah. That's facts. Yeah, facts.
That's the Hasselblad X1D.
Yeah, when I was in Colorado last week, I was shooting raw a lot on the phone.
That was your fault.
I actually blipped it to myself instead of it. Oh my God. It's actually crazy how good the main set. Oh my God.
I'm leaving that in the podcast too. I'm not deleting it.
Good. It's actually crazy how good the main sensor is now if you shoot in RAW. They're so flexible. I don't really feel like I need to carry around a digital camera anymore, almost at all.
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Chapter 8: What experiences did Marques and David have with the iPhone Air?
We now have an alleged date for the Galaxy Z Fold 8 wide event. If you don't know what the wide is, it's basically Samsung trying to get to the wide boy before Apple does.
Remember how that happened with the thin phone? This is exactly what happened with the S25 Edge. There were rumors for an entire year and a half of an upcoming iPhone Air. And so months earlier, Samsung went, hey, check it out. We made an ultra thin phone first. We were first. We did it first. And they actually didn't ship it for a little while after that.
But they did announce it first and they did ship it first. And now that there's rumors of this wide folding iPhone, guess what Samsung is about to do?
be second the exact same thing actually there's a couple other already we actually used to have a bunch of these we had to like oppo it's also just a pixel fold yeah i was gonna say this is like peak google of like we had to think everyone liked and then we're like no no no go change what everyone else okay cool we're on the same page and then everyone
Too ahead of their time. Google's always ahead of their time. Glasses. Anyway, so according to a South Korean publication, the next Galaxy Unpacked will be July 22nd in London, where they will unveil the Z Fold 8 Wide. And hopefully it does not get canceled within three months, like the ultra-long one, the trifold.
Did you see, though, that weirdly, apparently you can...
you can buy trifolds in the u.s for a limited time till it like wipes out stock they're like reintroducing a bunch of ones that weren't for sale yet oh wow i think it like comes out the day this episode airs you can buy some or something i don't know i saw a verge article like if you really want the trifolds here's like the last of the stock that's coming to the u.s they're just re-releasing the stock yeah yeah yeah which is funny that they canceled it and then you could buy it again yeah
this event will also probably release the standard fold eight which will you know probably be the super thin one just like we saw with the hold seven um and then we've also been hearing rumors of an s27 pro this is hilarious that is supposed to sit between the standard s27 and the s27 ultra which is probably coming later is that not just the plus but we've oscillated so the plus they've like kind of down tuned a little and
And the Ultra has, I think it's a high resolution display, it's a little bigger, bigger battery, or no, it might be the same battery, extra camera for the Ultra, and just a couple other smaller things. So the S Pen, which kind of made its way into the Ultra when they killed the Note, is not necessarily used by everyone who wants an Ultra.
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