Samsung’s Thin, Big, Boring Ai Phones

Samsung’s caller phones will almost surely beryllium nan astir celebrated Android phones of 2025. They’ll astir apt too beryllium among nan champion Android phones of 2025. And yet nan Unpacked arena this week felt for illustration 1 of nan astir boring telephone launches... ever. Are we entering a caller style of nan smartphone industry, successful which companies fundamentally conscionable motorboat nan aforesaid constituent complete and over? Wait a second: personification we been successful that style for a while now?

On this conception of The Vergecast, we talk a batch astir what this year’s Samsung phones mean. The Verge’s Allison Johnson joins David and Nilay to talk astir nan vibes astatine Unpacked, wherever nan thinner S25 Edge inspired raucous enthusiasm, and wherever Samsung tried to make nan suit that AI will make your telephone amended moreover if there’s not overmuch caller hardware to speak of. We too talk astir nan glimpse we sewage astatine nan Project Moohan headset, Gemini’s expanding power complete nan early of virtual assistants, and more.

After that, we return a dense activity and wade into nan first week of nan caller Trump administration. The Verge’s Lauren Feiner explains what’s going connected pinch Stargate, and why a $500 cardinal AI data-center strategy is being announced successful nan White House. We talk astir The United States Digital Service going afloat DOGE, nan contention complete Elon Musk’s salute, and nan latest profoundly confusing updates connected nan TikTok ban. TikTok is back! For now. Maybe not for long. But perchance for good? We’ve sewage 70 aliases truthful days to fig it out.

Finally, successful nan lightning round, David and Nilay talk done nan reasons down Netflix’s latest worth hike, nan Sensify modular that turns your lightbulbs into always-watching sensors, and more.

If you want to cognize overmuch astir everything we talk successful this episode, coming are immoderate links to get you started, opening pinch Samsung:

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