Week 32 in review: New Galaxy foldables, Xiaomi Mix 4 and Honor Magic3 series debut
Another week down, and it was a busy one so let’s recap. Samsung’s Unpacked event brought us the new and improved Galaxy Z Fold3 5G and Z Flip3 5G, the Galaxy Watch4 and Watch4 Classic and the Galaxy Buds2.
The new foldables have Snapdragon 888 processors, waterproof bodies and 120Hz displays all-round (not counting the 1.9-inch cover display on the Flip3). The Galaxy Z Fold3 5G brings S Pen support and an under display camera.
The Galaxy Watch4 and Watch4 Classic are Wear OS 3 devices with the ability to measure your Body Composition. The Galaxy Buds2 have active noise cancelling and a…
Samsung is betting that foldables will be the next big thing in mobile and this week it unveiled its latest designs – the large and practical Galaxy Z Fold3 5G along with the compact and hot-looking Galaxy Z Flip3 5G. Are you on board with this new (and still fairly expensive) trend?
Honor has been on a bit of an announcement spree lately, unveiling devices like the Honor X20 and the Honor Pad V7 Pro. The most exciting, however, was the announcement of the Magic3 series, including the Magic3, Magic 3 Pro and the Magic3 Pro+ top dog. Those mark a strong return to the flagship segment on Honor’s part and did gather plenty of attention both in China as well as internationally. Following the event we had a chance to talk to the company’s CEO George Zhao and learn more about the company’s future plans.
After gaining a beachhead in the 80s, personal computers invaded homes en masse in the 90s. Then in the 2000s smartphones were trying to do the same to people’s pockets. By that time people had gotten used to document editors, spreadsheets, email and web browsing. Feature phones weren’t great at that – for example, the famous Nokia 3310 (which came out in late 2000) could do none of that.
Samsung’s recent Unpacked event was its busiest yet – we should know, we’ve been to all of them – it brought two foldable phones, two watches and new earbuds and bar none, all of these devices are at the front of their respective fields.