Samsung teases new Galaxy Fold, Galaxy Buds Live for Unpacked event
Samsung has released a teaser for its upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event, with the video indicating the event will include the launch of multiple smartphones as well as an update to the Galaxy Buds and a new round-faced smartwatch.
The 30-second trailer consists of fast cuts between production lines and opaque concepts in video clips, while advising the event will take place within Samsung Digital City on August 5. Very little information is provided about what kind of products to expect, but a shot at the end of device silhouettes offers a few hints.
The dark outlines indicate there will be some form of smartwatch along with headphones, a tablet, a Note-style smartphone, and either two smartphones stood back to back or a new Galaxy Fold.
Rumors for the product lineup claim a "Galaxy Fold 2" or "Galaxy Z Fold 2" is on the cards, which may include a shift from a plastic screen used in the first Galaxy Fold to glass, as well as an enlarged internal display and S Pen support. The device would follow after the release of the Galaxy Z Flip, which launched in February while a 5G model shipped on July 22.
The new Note model is expected to have the typical enhancements, but rumors propose there could be a triple-camera array with a "Space Zoom" feature, and increased S Pen functionality.
The Galaxy Buds Live are thought to be the follow-up to the Galaxy Buds and Galaxy Buds , and take the form of bean-shaped earbuds. In this iteration, which is tipped to cost $169, the Galaxy Buds Live are anticipated to have touch controls, as well as a dedicated app for managing settings like active noise cancellation and the equalizer.
Dark outlines of devices, as seen in the Unpacked 2020 teaser.
Rumors for the Galaxy Watch 3 suggested it would include some form of fall detection, similar to the feature the Apple Watch has. Following a fall, it will ring for a minute to provoke a response, then after failure, it will send a location and a brief audio recording to emergency contacts.
One unique feature is an alleged support for hand gestures. It is claimed by XDA that it would be able to answer a phone call on the Galaxy Watch itself by detecting the user clenching and opening their fist.
A supposed hands-on video for the Galaxy Watch 3 by TechTalkTV gives a seemingly better look at the device, with further details including IP68 water resistance, a 5ATM rating, and sensors for blood pressure, heart rate, and ECG.
While not mentioned in the teaser, it is likely Samsung will use the event to offer more details about its plan to take on Apple Card with its own debit card. Following an initial reveal in May, Samsung has stayed relatively quiet about the product, but advised it would provide more information "in the coming weeks."
The 30-second trailer consists of fast cuts between production lines and opaque concepts in video clips, while advising the event will take place within Samsung Digital City on August 5. Very little information is provided about what kind of products to expect, but a shot at the end of device silhouettes offers a few hints.
The dark outlines indicate there will be some form of smartwatch along with headphones, a tablet, a Note-style smartphone, and either two smartphones stood back to back or a new Galaxy Fold.
Rumors for the product lineup claim a "Galaxy Fold 2" or "Galaxy Z Fold 2" is on the cards, which may include a shift from a plastic screen used in the first Galaxy Fold to glass, as well as an enlarged internal display and S Pen support. The device would follow after the release of the Galaxy Z Flip, which launched in February while a 5G model shipped on July 22.
The new Note model is expected to have the typical enhancements, but rumors propose there could be a triple-camera array with a "Space Zoom" feature, and increased S Pen functionality.
The Galaxy Buds Live are thought to be the follow-up to the Galaxy Buds and Galaxy Buds , and take the form of bean-shaped earbuds. In this iteration, which is tipped to cost $169, the Galaxy Buds Live are anticipated to have touch controls, as well as a dedicated app for managing settings like active noise cancellation and the equalizer.
Dark outlines of devices, as seen in the Unpacked 2020 teaser.
Rumors for the Galaxy Watch 3 suggested it would include some form of fall detection, similar to the feature the Apple Watch has. Following a fall, it will ring for a minute to provoke a response, then after failure, it will send a location and a brief audio recording to emergency contacts.
One unique feature is an alleged support for hand gestures. It is claimed by XDA that it would be able to answer a phone call on the Galaxy Watch itself by detecting the user clenching and opening their fist.
A supposed hands-on video for the Galaxy Watch 3 by TechTalkTV gives a seemingly better look at the device, with further details including IP68 water resistance, a 5ATM rating, and sensors for blood pressure, heart rate, and ECG.
While not mentioned in the teaser, it is likely Samsung will use the event to offer more details about its plan to take on Apple Card with its own debit card. Following an initial reveal in May, Samsung has stayed relatively quiet about the product, but advised it would provide more information "in the coming weeks."
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Hoping the AirBuds look less like AirPods.
Apple copied Samsung's phablet form factor (after mocking it).
Apple copied Samsung's OLED screens (after mocking it).
Apple copied Samsung's curved screens (after mocking them).
Apple copied Samsung's multi-tasking and went from 2 to 6 cores and increased RAM to support it (after calling it bad gimmicky design).
Apple copied Samsung's Galaxy Note Pro's huge (at the time) screen, multi-tasking and stylus/2-in-1 accessory support with the iPad Pro (after mocking all of it)
AirPods? Samsung was their first with the Gear IconX (renamed Galaxy Buds)
Apple Watch? Samsung was there first with a fitness-focused device with a "rounded square" OLED screen and LTE support (again all initially mocked, and Samsung's refreshes have all served to make their line look less like the Apple Watch).
Apple Pay? Google Wallet was on Samsung phones years prior, and Samsung Pay's solution is actually superior because thanks to MST support it can be used at the many checkouts with credit card readers but no NFC tap-and-pay
Apple Card? Before you call Samsung an Apple copycat here remember both Google and PayPal had their versions years prior
For the (soon) future: all the years of bashing TouchWiz/One UI now look ridiculous with iOS 14, doesn't it? And an in-screen fingerprint reader? That too just like wireless charging (remember AirPower, their abandoned attempt to improve on the tech used in Samsung phones, called "true wireless charging")?
Meanwhile, lots of Apple's innovations since then have been met with a shrug by Samsung. Apple TV competitor? Nope. Homepod competitor? Nope. HomeKit competitor? Actually Samsung had their IoT platform in place years earler. So ... Force Touch? Nope. (Smart move ... Apple doesn't even talk about it much anymore.) FaceID? Nah ... they let Google humiliate themselves trying to emulate a feature that not a single Android consumer wanted anyway and tons of Apple consumers don't even use. So that leaves ... the headphone jack as Samsung's most significant imitation of Apple in years. Of course, Apple fans may feel a bit salty over Samsung's commercials mocking Apple for dropping the headphone jack for years only to (without fanfare or apology) silently adopt the feature (or lack thereof). But considering that Apple device owners have been benefiting so much from features first introduced and popularized by Samsung since 2013, they should call it even.
And even more so, they should stop accusing Samsung of copying. It isn't true. Instead, the contrary is true. Not just Apple merely getting their version of the same product to market a bit after Samsung, which was the case with the AirPods which launched a few years later with a significantly different form factor (less convincing with the Apple Watch, which launched nearly 2 years later and was very similar to the path that Samsung struck out on after it was clear that Android Wear would fail). But Apple copying a whole batch of features, form factors and design languages that they trashed previously but only for "their" products to far more closely resemble Samsung's than what Apple originally released.
The best part: Samsung is the only Android OEM that Apple does this with/to. Apple never lifted a single thing from Nexus/Pixel. Not a lick from (poor) HTC (who seems to be making phones again, though only availabile in a few countries). Not a bit from LG. Motorola? Sony? Huawei? Xiaomi? OnePlus? Nah. Even things that those companies actually do first, Apple only picks them up after they have been in a Samsung Galaxy phone for a couple of years first. Example: some Android phones have had in-screen ultrasonic fingerprint scanners as far back as 2015, but Samsung putting them in the Galaxy S/Note 10 devices last year made them good enough for pilfering. It is so blatantly obvious yet no one talks about it! Especially not Apple fans in the tech media. Oh wait, everyone in the tech media is an Apple fan! Including a bunch of writers on Android sites. (Pretty much all the alleged Pixel fans are. Not that Pixels are bad - then again considering several class action lawsuits on hardware and software issues involving Pixels maybe they actually are bad! - but rather Nokia, OnePlus, Huawei and even Motorola are making devices that are far more compelling to people who like Android phones, which is why they all sell far more of them than Google does Pixels despite most of them spending a fraction of what Google wastes advertising Pixels. The only reason they like Pixel so much is because Google ridiculously and blatantly attempts to emulate Apple with them ... without realizing that anyone who wants an iPhone can and simply should just buy one and that people who buy any Android phone over $350 does so because they don't want an iPhone.)
So yeah. Samsung copying Apple was like the early Obama era news. Which in a few weeks - about 100 days to the election right? - may well be two whole presidents ago.
As for the ridiculous anti Apple rant above, the poster doesn't seem to understand how Samsung works. They throw everything at it and hope something sticks. The ideas aren't bad but they aren't fully formed, however, Samsung just care about being 1st, not being best.
If it wasn't for Apple, Samsung would still be making Nokia and Blackberry knockoffs.
You do know Samsung wrote a 132-page manual on how to copy Apple?
Samsung even hired a voice actor with fake British accent to play Jony Ivy. Paid to say "Aluminum"
The funny thing about "Apple copied Samsung's giant knockoff iPhone!" argument is, when Apple released iPad, iKnockoff morons claimed it was "just a giant iPod touch" yet conveniently dismiss Samsungs giant iPhone as some "innovation". Nothing innovative about a bigger screen size. You have to be a complete brain-dead iKnockoff fan to think making something an inch bigger is an invention. Do you think an 85" TV is more innovative than a 65" one?
Ridiculous anti-Apple logic.
"Apple copied Samsung's curved screens (after mocking them)."
Wrong. Samsung copied this from Apple. Also when did Apple mock them?
"Apple copied Samsung's OLED screens (after mocking it)."
Apple mocked OLED screens?
"Apple copied Samsung's multi-tasking and went from 2 to 6 cores and increased RAM to support it (after calling it bad gimmicky design)."
Nope. Also increasing RAM is not an invention.
"Apple copied Samsung's Galaxy Note Pro's huge (at the time) screen, multi-tasking and stylus/2-in-1 accessory support with the iPad Pro (after mocking all of it)"
Strike 5. Apple made the iPad first which was a gigantic screen, bigger than the giant iPhone from Sammy. Not sure when Apple mocked Samsungs iPad knockoff. Quite the opposite.
"AirPods? Samsung was their first with the Gear IconX (renamed Galaxy Buds)"
If you think Apple invented the AirPods in a few months you really have problems. It's like the morons who think Apple Watch copied Samsung Gear which was released early so idiots could think Apple copied them.
"Apple Watch? Samsung was there first with a fitness-focused device with a "rounded square" OLED screen and LTE support (again all initially mocked, and Samsung's refreshes have all served to make their line look less like the Apple Watch)."
Oh goodness, you mentioned it. You're textbook troll. Apple did not mock nor does Apple care about Samsung. Quite the opposite. Again, Sammy knew the Watch was coming and crapped out a turd to fool their idiotic fanbase into thinking Apple copied them. Just like they did after Apple patented a foldable screen. Crapped out a turd on the market and you iKnockoff fans ATE IT!
"Apple Pay? Google Wallet was on Samsung phones years prior, and Samsung Pay's solution is actually superior because thanks to MST support it can be used at the many checkouts with credit card readers but no NFC tap-and-pay"
Google Wallet is not like Apple Pay. Unless you think a tricycle is like a jet.
Also "ApplePay", "SamsungPay". Surely Sammy didn't copy Apple.
"Apple Card? Before you call Samsung an Apple copycat here remember both Google and PayPal had their versions years prior"
Sterike 9 or 10. Lost count.
Unless you think a tricycle is like a jet. I mean they both have wheels!
"It is so blatantly obvious yet no one talks about it! Especially not Apple fans in the tech media. Oh wait, everyone in the tech media is an Apple fan! Including a bunch of writers on Android sites."
You're living in an alternate reality. Tech sites are paid (mostly by Samsung) to crap on Apple and make memes mocking them. I can only think of one writer who writes facts and defends Apple: DED.
Apple is NOT copying the copycat, you're delusional.
"For the (soon) future: all the years of bashing TouchWiz/One UI now look ridiculous with iOS 14, doesn't it? And an in-screen fingerprint reader? That too just like wireless charging (remember AirPower, their abandoned attempt to improve on the tech used in Samsung phones, called "true wireless charging")? "
No one, including iKnockoff users like touchWiz. Samsung has never created anything like AiorPower. Not even Apple has, they've come closer to everyone and now people are copying the design.
Apple WILL NOT copy Sammy's crappy fingerprint reader, they never have. Apple tech is proprietary because they build everything from the ground up. Not like Sammy who made knockoff iPhones and slapped a 3rd party OS(which copied Apple) on it. Samsung is LAZY.
"Meanwhile, lots of Apple's innovations since then have been met with a shrug by Samsung. "
iPhone, iOS, touch gestures, iPad, chargers, Apps, Apple Stores, curved screens, MacBooks, Apple Watch, pretty much all of Apple's inventions. Remember when Samsung made refrigerators? You obviously don't.
"FaceID? Nah ... they let Google humiliate themselves trying to emulate a feature that not a single Android consumer wanted anyway and tons of Apple consumers don't even use."
Apple users don't use FaceID? You know that's a lie.
Yet how many Sammy users used Sammy's innovations? Wave to answer? Discontinued. Photographer in the picture? Discontinued. Pretty much everything Sammy invented has been discontinued after creating a false buzz in the tech media as the next Apple killer.
"the headphone jack as Samsung's most significant imitation of Apple in years."
Sammy copies Apple every year. The headphone jack one is funny because Samsung said they'd never do that (After mocking Apple for it.)
"Of course, Apple fans may feel a bit salty over Samsung's commercials mocking Apple"
All Samsung does is mock Apple. Even iKnockoff fans got tired of it and started downvoting every anti-Apple Samsung ad. One of the most popular comments reads:
"Apple: Look at our products
Samsung: Look at Apple's products"
[Source: Samsung's "It doesn't take a Genius" ads.]
You're one of those funny guys who thought those ads were actually good.
"And even more so, they should stop accusing Samsung of copying. It isn't true."
Waaahhh waahhh waahhhh!!! Samsung should be able to copy Apple without being called a copycat!
"AirPods which launched a few years later "
MONTHS later. Apple did not copy Sammy when they invented AirPods. Only the dumbest of the dumb iKnockoff losers think this.
"Apple Watch, which launched nearly 2 years later"
Wrong again. Apple Watch was revealed a year later. Samsung knew the Watch was coming(everyone did) and crapped out a turd to lay on their moronic fanbase who would think Apple copied Sammy. It's an old trick used by Samsung. Just like they crapped a turd called "Galaxy Fold" in panic after Apple patented a foldable display.
You have to be beyond dumb to think Apple Watch was developed in a single year. I have met iKnockoff users who claim iPhone was made in 1 year and HomePod in 4 months. Yes, ladies and gentlemen these are the Apple haters.
"But Apple copying a whole batch of features, form factors and design languages that they trashed previously but only for "their" products to far more closely resemble Samsung's than what Apple originally released."
Apple didn't trash anything. You're living in a fantasy world where Apple copies Samsung and mocks them not the reality where it's been the opposite for almost a decade.
"form factors and design languages"
iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, App icons, Apple Stores, Siri, Watch icons etc. etc.
"far more closely resemble Samsung's than what Apple originally released."
Apple invented iPhone and iPad and their accompanying software. Also AirPods.
"The best part: Samsung is the only Android OEM that Apple does this with/to. Apple never lifted a single thing from Nexus/Pixel. Not a lick from (poor) HTC (who seems to be making phones again, though only availabile in a few countries). Not a bit from LG. Motorola? Sony? Huawei? Xiaomi? OnePlus? Nah. "
ALL of those companies sell knockoff iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple TVs.
"some Android phones have had in-screen ultrasonic fingerprint scanners "
Apple CANNOT copy crappy android gimmicks because Apple develops the hardware and software from the ground up. This is what makes Apple so innovative. If you think Apple is just gonna slap some crappy fingerprint sensor onto the iPhone you've been ignoring history.
" It is so blatantly obvious yet no one talks about it! Especially not Apple fans in the tech media. Oh wait, everyone in the tech media is an Apple fan! Including a bunch of writers on Android sites. "
You're living in a delusional fantasy world. Every tech site is paid by companies(especially Samsung) to trash Apple. Every little detail gets blown out of portion. When 14 iPhones bent #Bendgate was front page news even though MORE Samsung iKnockoffs were bending during THE SAME period.
The only tech writer I know who presents facts and defends Apple is DED. He isn't paid by Samsung either.
Samsung even pays for good reviews.
"Not that Pixels are bad"
Of course knockoff iPhones can never be bad, only real Apple inventions are bad. Of course.
"Google ridiculously and blatantly attempts to emulate Apple with them ... "
EVERY damn Android manufacturer, ESPECIALLY Samsung tries to emulate Apple.
"without realizing that anyone who wants an iPhone can and simply should just buy one and that people who buy any Android phone over $350 does so because they don't want an iPhone."
DELUSIONAL.
Almost everyone WANTS an iPhone but not everyone has $1,000 to spend. This is where the knockoff market thrives. This is why sub $200 knockoff iPhones have flooded the market. Simple economics. You don't even have too finish high school to know this.
"So yeah. Samsung copying Apple was like the early Obama era news. Which in a few weeks - about 100 days to the election right? - may well be two whole presidents ago."
As long as Sammy releases knockoff iPads, knockoff iPads, knockoff MacBooks they will always copy Apple. Even the ad above looks like a cheap parade of any Apple ad.
Sources and further reading:
Samsungs culture of copying their leader:
Samsung's "It doesn't take a Genius" ads which make fun of Apple Stores and features, while copying those same stories and features:
More ads mocking Apple innovations which they later copied:
Samsung wrote HUGE manual on how to copy iPhone pixel by pixel:
http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/12/08/07/internal_samsung_report_comparing_galaxy_s_with_iphone_admitted_into_evidence
https://bgr.com/2012/08/08/apple-samsung-patent-lawsuit-internal-report-copy-iphone/
https://news.yahoo.com/132-page-internal-document-shows-samsung-set-copy-144507855.html
The copycats even stole the app designs. Pathetic.
Samsung says "iPhone is like heaven!"
Every android maker decides to copy Apple:
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/samsung-iphone-heaven-stuck-earth-141010950.html
Samsung CEO in jail for lying, cheating and stealing.
https://hbr.org/2017/05/samsung-shame-and-corporate-atonement
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-samsung-prison-qa-20170825-story.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/samsung-vice-chairman-jay-y-lee-court-verdict.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-politics-samsung-group-idUSKBN15V2RD
https://www.businessinsider.com/r-mattress-on-cell-floor-toilet-in-the-corner-for-samsung-scion-2017-2
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/25/samsung-heir-lee-jae-yong-found-guilty-of-corruption
https://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-billionaire-chief-jay-y-lee-arrested-south-korea-president-impeachment-2017-2
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/08/25/q-a-samsung-chief-jailed-heres-what-you-need-know/600837001/
https://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2017/08/billionaire_samsung_ceo_senten.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/15/world/asia/south-korea-samsung-arrest-jay-lee-park-geun-hye.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-22/samsung-leader-s-prison-life-no-smartphone-cannibal-neighbor
http://fortune.com/2017/08/30/data-sheet-samsung-uber-ceo/
Samsung lies about water resistance:
http://time.com/money/4401108/samsung-galaxy-s7-not-water-resistant/
https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s7-not-quite-waterproof-torture-tests-reveal/
The lie was found by user complaints and consumer reports:
https://www.consumerreports.org/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-s7-active-fails-consumer-reports-water-resistance-test/
Samsung steals IP from Apple to make knockoff iPhones to be named “Galaxy”:
http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/samsung-phone-design.png
“For Samsung Lying, Cheating and Stealing are Business as usual”:
https://www.cultofmac.com/254695/for-samsung-stealing-cheating-and-lying-are-business-as-usual/
Samsung steals from American companies AGAIN:
https://www.oneclickroot.com/android-manufacturers/samsung-android-manufacturers/samsung-steals-tech-from-a-smaller-company-again/
Samsung sued by Apple for stealing IP:
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-ordered-to-pay-400-million-for-infringing-on-a-patent-related-to-mobile-chipset-production_id105818
Apple Vs. Samsung case result:
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/samsung-electronics-co-v-apple/
https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-v-samsung-patent-trial-recap-how-it-all-turned-out-faq/
Samsung once said “We lead by following” when confronted with their long history of stealing IP.
Samsung makes knockoff Dyson vacuums illegally:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24023430
https://www.electronicproducts.com/uploadedImages/Packaging_and_Hardware/Prototyping_Tools_Equipment_Services/Photo%20Sep%2011,%202013,%206-17%20PM.jpg
Samsung makes knockoff iPod flop:
http://obamapacman.com/2011/11/samsung-galaxy-player-copies-apple-ipod-touch/
I remember Samsung photoshopping Apple ads and replacing Apple products with iKnockoff samsungs.
iKnockoff fans refuse to acknowledge Samsung as a knockoff manufacturer even after Samsung themselves claim they are good at making knockoff products from vacuums to fake iPads.
“We lead by following”
-Internal Samsung document encouraging employees to lie, cheat and steal.
Samsung knockoff iPhones are cheap knockoffs that bend at less pressure.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/05/galaxy-s6-edge-bend_n_7006830.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/05/galaxy-s6-edge-bend_n_7006830.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2015/04/06/samsung-angrily-responds-to-galaxy-s6-edge-bend-video/
It’s funny how Sammy responds angrily while Apple is honest and graceful. Kinda like when Sammy denied their iKnockoffs were exploding and ignored customer complaints.
iPhones last longer:
Analyzing android activations and the grand dilemma
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/7/30/android-replacement
The average lifespan of Apple products and data charts
http://www.asymco.com/2018/03/01/determining-the-average-apple-device-lifespan/
iKnockoffs break more often
https://www.cnet.com/news/android-phones-fail-more-than-iphone-blackberry/
http://bgr.com/2011/11/03/android-hardware-fails-more-than-iphone-blackberry-repairs-cost-carriers-2-billion/
(Notice the date. Things have gotten much worse for iPhone knockoffs since.)
Samsungs iPhone knockoffs receive no software support months after release
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-dutch-court-849242/
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/26/dutch-case-samsung-lack-updates-finally-heads-court/
Google warned Samsung to not copy Apple so much:
http://www.ukmobilereview.com/2012/07/google-warned-samsung-over-copying-apples-designs/
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/07/25/google-warned-samsung-against-copying-iphone/
http://www.inquisitr.com/285425/google-warned-samsung-about-apple-device-copying-court-documents/
http://m.gsmarena.com/google_had_warned_samsung_from_copying_apples_designs-news-4569.php
Android. Makes iPhone knockoffs
http://todayilearned.co.uk/2012/07/24/samsung-phones-before-and-after-iphone/
Androids before and after iPhone:
https://images.pcworld.com/images/article/2012/04/android_before_after_iphone-11352342.jpg
Some humor you won't find funny:
https://www.phonearena.com/news/humor-first-generation-iphone-mother-of-the-modern-era-of-smartphones-celebrates-mothers-day_id55999