Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: No Peeking!

23:32All you needed to do. If the S26 Ultra comes out with the privacy screen Qi 2 and like a silicon carbon battery it's like phone of the ear right off the like what a bad earphone what an actual upgrade instead they're like hey here's a pretty cool thing let's give you that nothing else and just yap about AI slop for a while didn't you say they would have

23:55Marques Brownlee:you thought it would have magnets I do have to issue an apology to all of our listeners we thought it would have we strive for accuracy at this podcast that was a prediction I gave you a very confident fake news and I apologize but next year we got it next year because we all said it wasn't going to have well my uncle works at Samsung and he said that next year they're going to have G2 but it's going to ban you if you don't yeah Bixby stick or something like that yeah speaking of Bixby you know a lot of the other features that they talked about with these phones and that are new are software so a bunch of AI stuff a bunch of Bixby a bunch of integrations Gemini here perplexity there a little bit you know there's a new the new bixby technically technically llm powered it used to be a small language model now it's a large language so i'm going to be trying out to skip the medium so yeah we'll see how that goes um but yeah it's just 10b they they managed to import or build their own versions of a lot of the same features that have made pixel phones pixel phones like they have call screening now and they just have a different name for it but They have like that.

25:01Marques Brownlee:They have, um, God, it's like the image or something. Now nudge. Now nudge. Now nudge, which is essentially magic cue, which is both meaningless things to say out loud, but it's basically, uh, built into the keyboard. We'll give you suggestions of things to type based on the context of the conversation you're having. When they announced that, I was like, yeah, I've had that for 50 years. I was like, Marquez, is this that thing Google has? And both of us were like, I can't remember the name of it. You looked it up and then I went, I honestly don't know if that's working on my phone. because either I just don't use it and skip by it all the time because it's so useless or it literally doesn't work.

25:36Might just not work. I couldn't tell you which one it was.

25:39Marques Brownlee:Yeah, I hardly use it. It doesn't really work on the Pixel. It's supposed to be a fun Pixel feature. Yeah, it popped up once for me and it was wrong. Unfortunate. So yeah, maybe now Nudge will be a little better. Maybe. Now Nudge. They also have this like image playground thing. I think it's called Creative Studio where you can like AI generate whatever thing, image you want. They had endless AI-generated images as features of cupcakes, basically. I think Allison Johnson posted an article that was like, Samsung is on slop watch for Unpacked 2026. They called it an AI phone in all caps. Oh, yeah.

26:17Marques Brownlee:Didn't they call it AIOS? Samsung just invented iOS. It's an iOS. It's an iOS. They didn't invent iOS. They invented AIOS. There are other iOS. Apple iOS. your grammar is wrong shouldn't be an an iOS yeah it was tough it was tough so a lot of you know take it or leave it some of that stuff I'm sure will trickle down to older phones as well but if you're thinking about S26s you now know that they're very similar to S25s and then the Ultra has this one sick display feature charges at 60 watts now that's a big and charges yes so the whole lineup charges a little faster than before 25 watts on the base 45 watts on the plus 60 watts on the ultra.

26:59I wonder if it's because I remember this is either the I think this was the S20 Ultra when they said it charged at 45 watts and it only charged at 45 watts for like 2 minutes.

27:07Marques Brownlee:This will be similar I think it's going to peak at 60 watts but I think this stat that's maybe more informative is it's like zero to or 10 to 80 percent in half an hour or something like that which is decent. Can I complain about something that's only for us? In the spec sheet that they sent us for your briefing the way they describe charging is the S26 has super fast charging. The S26 Plus has super fast charging 2.0 and the S26 Ultra has super fast charging 3.0. Oh my gosh. No wattage numbers. No nothing. This is exactly how something else. This is how Apple does it too. I had to get that. They just give you this bad branding without any of the technical effects.

27:47That same sheet has an option. Like it shows all the storage options and then it says micro SD not available, not available, not available. like why why even put it on those just get rid of that column yeah unless we're gonna bring it back I don't know anyway um yeah it comes in cobalt violet which I don't know why they called it that that's my favorite Microsoft product cobalt Microsoft cobalt violet oh oh co-pilot I was gonna say Dua Lipa hates that color I didn't get it I did thank you for spelling it out I didn't get it you're gonna keep that in the podcast hey man you had a lot of bangers last week you can't win them all okay sky blue which I did like that color black and white did not like those colors no black is the one is are there any online exclusive colors yeah there are there are silver shadow whatever that means wait that's like gray basically and pink gold also exclusive not rose gold not rose gold that's patented yeah that is

28:52Marques Brownlee:Oh, I almost forgot. How could I forget? Slightly wider apertures in the Ultra's primary and telephoto cameras. Never mind, I'm all in. How could I forget? Yeah, they do have like an action mode now that they had that like straightens the horizon. And Becca did like a short on it, and it actually did look very good. She was able to like rotate the camera like this, and the image stayed like exactly the same. It like did not move at all. It's clever. It's similar to what Apple did with the selfie camera on the iPhone, where if you are recording a small enough section of that rectangular sensor, then you can fully stabilize the center portion, the whole thing based on whatever the orientation is.

29:30I'm just explaining that poorly, but it's clever and uses the hardware well. Marquez, we are locked in because I was about to bring that up because I was so mad that they did not steal that from Apple. Yeah, the square sensor. Yeah, like why not? I was just hyping this feature up yesterday to Jess because she was asking me how that selfie feature worked. And I was like, it's so good. I can't wait for everyone to steal it. There's actually an event tomorrow that maybe we'll see what the S1.

29:54Marques Brownlee:And nope. Yeah, no stealing. So they didn't do it with the selfie camera. But that one feature of like super, super stabilization horizontal lock allows you to like literally flip your phone upside down. And the horizon stays locked because it has that much degrees of stabilization. Yeah. Which is cool. Well, that's boring. so Samsung phones for you we should should we do the nothing phone before we take it to break or should we do it after the break let's save it for after the break okay yeah but you know what we should do before the break um the MacBook trivia oh okay little teaser there head fake the MacBook there's a new we're gonna talk about a MacBook what later why is that not in the in the outline it is I have nothing about this MacBook hmm you have nothing alright well the question Ellis hit it Were you paying attention?

30:43I knew it. The most boring keynote of all time. You guys were not paying attention. This whole keynote could have been a press release, but at the end of it, they showed off an expert raw mode feature that ensures efficient and high quality images of underwater coral and fish and stuff when you're swimming or diving in the ocean. Yes. What is it called? And actually, this feature is not new. Apparently, I was looking it up. It was released in S24 Ultra, which is funny. You just brought it up again? You just brought it up again. Okay. I think I remember what they call it

31:12Marques Brownlee:that's these companies favorite things to do is to reintroduce a feature as if you're hearing it for the first time they do that a lot there's so many times when we're like writing scripts on stuff like that I have to just go back and check things again and be like I know in the briefing they made it seem like this is brand new yeah and then I'll be like that happened already I mean they showed Circle to Search twice in this one event this is the 40th time they've showed Circle to Search I swear yeah All right. Well, I think I remember. We'll think about it. Manatee node. I swear I was paying attention.

31:44I wasn't. I don't even remember the question Adam asked. He wasn't even paying attention to this podcast. All right. Which pixel came in coral? Oh, that was three. In the biz, we call that a callback. No, three of a sand.

32:00Marques Brownlee:Answers will be at the end like usual. Four. We'll be right back.

32:11Marques Brownlee:All right, welcome back. We got to talk a whole lot about nothing. I think we've used that joke like seven times. And I will continue to use it. That's my bad. No, it's funny. That's my bad. I should have done a little. I should have made a better pun. No, it's okay. But the Nothing Phone 4A got unveiled, I guess is the word, because they always do like several different unveilings. They showed us the design for the first time and confirmed exactly one spec because they mentioned the Periscope camera. So for those of you who are on the edge of your seat about what type of telephoto lens they'd be using?

32:40Marques Brownlee:Confirmed. It's a periscope camera. It's a tetraprism lens. Anyway, I think it looks pretty good. It's desaturated red. Understatement of the century. You guys seem really into the aesthetics. I think it's really nice looking. It's the best nothing fun I've ever done. Really? Okay, so I think the 2A was probably their best so far. I think it looks as good. It's a better version of the 2A. It's like less aggressive than the 2A. Sure. And it's desaturated red. It's got nice. Okay, so the, yeah. It's got a lot. I guess I'll try to describe it. It's got a lot of the same silver, white, and red aesthetic.

33:15Marques Brownlee:The clear with the textures and text underneath. And then it has the glyphs on the top right side, which is just a stack of seven large boxes. I like this part a lot. I do too. The bottom most box is red, and then each one of the boxes above it is white. And so they play with different animations of things that they can indicate, whether it's a timer or a notification, where those boxes move and stack. Recording light is the red one blinking. Cool stuff there. Every phone should have a red blinking recording light. That's what I was thinking watching this. I was like, this is important. I feel like everyone needs this.

33:49Even harder to agree on glasses. The glasses. Every pair of smart glasses when it's recording should be blinking red. It's crazy that it's not. I think why I like this better than the 2A is the 2A had the two cameras in a little cutout with a big circle around it where this is the longer bar, more like a pixel, and the silver lining around it matches it. It does give me pixel vibes. It's kind of like nothing x-pixel. Yeah. It's got the bean. That's the bean. It's back. It's got that bean. The bean is back. Dual cameras.

34:22Marques Brownlee:Yeah, it looks good. It does look good. I think it looks really good. The LEDs, like you said, are awesome. It's a 7x1 vertical to the right side of the camera bar. Bottom one is red. there's some pretty cool ways of like using it like if there's a timer on the nothing phone 3 that had this stupid little spin the bottle thing that would be like sand falling into an hourglass so this is just like slowly it'll blink at the top and then slowly fall down to the bottom and stack up as a timer the camera shut like if you're doing like a camera timer it'll blink and then when the shutter goes off yeah like top and bottom connect like a shutter it's really awesome I wish and this is probably not a wish for a this is you know the A series or the cheaper one if all of those were different colors that would be awesome because then my like we all want with notification LEDs my emails are blue my text messages are green my whatever like having that this I think you can do stuff similar but you're learning like patterns of how the glyph works which is harder.

35:28Do you guys think this will be cheaper because it is the a but he also made that announcement the blog post about cheaper i don't think i don't think it'll be cheaper he made that big blog post a few weeks ago about how all phones are going to be more expensive this year so no no i think it'll be cheaper than like the three the three series oh yeah because there will be no four series but that's also in the a series well they won't be four series this year this year yeah sorry yeah that's true yeah um but i mean he made that big blog post about how all phones are going to get more expensive which has not really come true yet.

36:02Do you think it'll be... Which was the 3A when it came out? Which one? Damn, you're right. 3A glow-in-the-dark edition? The light or the 3A, the 3A light or the 3A pro?

36:12Marques Brownlee:3A was$370. What's the 3A pro? What about the CMF pro light? 3A pro launch price was$459. I think it'll be in between those. Yeah, that's about right. Yeah. Like a clean$400? $425? Do you think they'll launch a 4A pro? Yeah. I think if you're not, yeah. I was going to say, if there's no 4 Series, do you think this is going to be nothing's only phone launch of the year? For the year. That's what they said. I mean, unless they do a Pro. Yeah. I feel like I can also just, based on how they've done this in the past, kind of guess the rest of how this phone's going to go. You can see the triple cameras on the back.

36:50Marques Brownlee:It's probably going to be a solid Qualcomm mid-range chip. It's probably going to be 120 Hz, OLED. Probably 1080 OLED or something at the front. It's probably going to have this nice, quirky, nothing OS with a couple new features in there. Maybe some AI stuff, maybe not. Doesn't seem like they lean into it that much. They have a new AI thing, yeah. They haven't leaned super, super in like Samsung, but they do have maybe like Mindspace or a couple things like that. I expect that to happen again. Essential space. And then, oh yeah, that. And then, yeah, maybe a couple, I mean, average speakers probably, probably some fun vibration motor stuff, decent yeah I don't think anything else too crazy yeah they do have that like instant app thing now where you can describe the app you want and it kind of makes it for you whoa right they have that in the song didn't they do that what I do not remember that but the nothing lineup couldn't be more confusing in my eyes I'm looking at like their lineup right now and the 3a the 3a pro and the 3a light are three completely different phones none of them just look like an offshoot of one of them like if we're talking about how Samsung you know the Ultra Plus and regular all look exactly the same this is the exact opposite of this these are three completely different phones yeah it's true fairly recently they released the essential apps which is where you can describe an app or widget and it will it will make it for you apparently it's pretty limited right now and you can have up to six of them but I know that some people had played with it and it was like semi useful for extremely basic things but for anything you know more complicated it's going to be a few years down the line didn't i was gonna say i could see that making any app in their little dot matrix thing because it'd be the easiest thing possible but didn't they ditch the dot matrix uh like whole design vibe from the three i just thought like nothing in general is not doing the like i think they're still doing dot matrix anymore i thought they were still doing that in the software like their fonts still have dots yeah boot animations and random things still have dots in there yeah they is this right they changed the logo there's a cool essential apps store you can go to now with the essential apps that people have made where you can try different ones it is kind of interesting and fun and cool uh i think once this gets better and builds out it'll be more interesting but a lot of dots they'll probably have that a lot of dots a lot of dots they'll probably have that on this phone i'm sure gotcha they have a five second rule one so i guess you have to start it once you drop something.

39:18It tells you whether or not you can eat it or not. Wait, get your phone out, get your phone out. Don't pick it up off the floor. Start the timer on your phone. But then it's been like 10 seconds by the time you do that. Anyway, yeah, it's pretty simple. Unfortunately, today is Wednesday. We're recording on a Wednesday and tomorrow morning is the time at which everything about this is revealed. No, isn't it March 5th? It's next week, March 4th. The day after that. I'm so wrong. I actually think they're doing this because they saw, oh, we're a day after Apple stuff and a week after Samsung stuff, let's get something in before Samsung.

39:53Marques Brownlee:Nothing mog Samsung. Oh, no, but they always do this long drip. Yeah, fair. New feature, new spec. Tomorrow they'll tell us the processor, and then the next day they'll tell us what the camera specs are, and then the next day they'll tell us the battery size, and then the next day they'll tell us the materials, and then they just keep going. This is one of the best pieces of content I've seen nothing put out. I thought this was informative. Yeah, the video was great. The video is great. I learned what a tetraprism periscope lens was. I didn't know the difference. The presenters did really well.

40:22I loved the shot at a pink phone just being desaturated red. It's true. Yeah. It's true. There's some funny stuff. And the pink, I think we opened this up with the pink and I didn't talk about it. The pink looks fantastic. Pink looks really good. It's so good. I want to wait to see it in person. That's true. Because I have seen pictures and video of it and it looks amazing. But that always like, it comes out the box and you're like, oh, so that's what it looks like. Yeah, exactly. So I'm waiting. But I am excited for it. It does look gorgeous. Yeah. I gotta see it in person. Nothing's mostly design, right?

40:53We saw the majority of what we care about of this phone. Just need a price tag now. That's, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The last thing we'll probably find out. Yes. Do you think it has Qi2? No. Absolutely nothing. You think this transparent phone has Qi2? Yeah, you'd see those coils. Okay, another quick story that popped up yesterday, which is quite interesting. Apparently, later this year, there's going to be a touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro with a dynamic island and redesigned macOS controls. So, crazy enough, in one week, Apple is rumored to release the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros, which are really nothing more than just spec upgrades to the current generation of laptops.

41:36But reportedly, near the end of the year, probably around late October, November, which is when they usually do this kind of stuff, they're going to release this whole new generation of macbook pros with m6 max and m6 pro uh yeah it's a big deal because they're going to be getting rid of this um notch i guess that you could say that in the current design of macbook pros they're going to be having the dynamic island similar to the iphone what that says about whether the iphone is going to have dynamic island for another few years as opposed to just you know making it transparent i'm not sure but apparently when you touch different aspects of macOS, it is going to expand to be more touch-friendly.

42:13So it'll be able to be used with both a keyboard and your hands kind of like whenever you want, and it will change a little bit for that reason. macOS has been sort of being slowly restructured to be more like iOS and iPadOS in general. They look very similar right now anyway. So I think the main things Apple's gonna really have to kind of focus on are making sure that it doesn't wobble every time you tap it. And then maybe also making the screen a little more fingerprint resistant. Quinn at Snazzy Labs put out a pretty banger video this morning about maybe why they're doing all of this stuff.

42:49And he was talking about like the RAM shortage and everything like that. And they're keeping the prices the same for a lot of these things. So he was estimating that these, the reason they're launching a M5 Pro and an M5 Max and the M6 Pro and M6 Max in the same year is so they can create huge product line differentiation where they still sell the m5 pro and m5 max computers but then the m6 pro m6 max are way more expensive because they have a way better display touchscreen and they're more powerful so that's that would be one reason to release two lines of laptops in one year i see yeah yeah i and

43:25Marques Brownlee:i i might just be one of those people that like kind of is along for the ride for the better specs and better display even though i don't want a touchscreen and i wonder what that does to the rest of the macOS experience. Hopefully not too much. I'm kind of, because like Windows right now, you can either get a touchscreen or a not touchscreen computer, and Windows is the same. Yeah. It sounds like you're saying there's maybe going to be some differences to the touchscreen version of a macOS, potentially. Well, the rumor is that it'll be about the same, but then when you go to touch it, it will sort of like reformat itself on the fly to be more touch-focused.

43:58Okay, so if I never touch the screen,

44:00Marques Brownlee:it would just behave exactly the same, maybe as a regular. Maybe a slight redesign. I'm sure we're going to see more of this at WWDC in June. I've said for years I've never really wanted a touchscreen on my laptop. I've had laptops with a touchscreen. I rarely ever touch the screen. Anytime there is the ability to touch the screen, I am annoyed by how much it wobbles and how many fingerprints stay on the screen, and I wish I never touched the screen. Where are you guys on touchscreen on the laptop? I'm sort of in between. I mean now that we have these enormous trackpads it's less of a problem laptop I don't know if you guys remember but laptop trackpads used to be really small and really annoying to use and so now that they're that much bigger I really do think that they should have just like added Apple Pencil support to the trackpad and that would have solved a lot of problems I will say in Photoshop it's really nice to be able to like pan and zoom with your fingers and And I used that on my Surface Book 2 back in the day when I had that a lot.

45:01But besides that, I don't need it. I'm not really sure why they're doing it. Maybe it's just because OLEDs at this point are cheap enough to be able to make them touch capacitive. I don't know. David, it's such a good point. All the cool parts of the touchscreen experience, which are gestures. You can do on the trackpad. It's built in on the trackpad. Also, who is it for? like I'll be like no one if you're buying a macbook pro as you're like cuddle up and watch some netflix on the couch computer like no no no no dude chill out you know what I mean and then it's like it's ipad yeah exactly so if you're buying a macbook pro you're intending to do something professional with it I would assume you don't have to only do professional things with it though if you're spending that much money it still should be able to function as your curl up and watch a movie macbook it is gonna be thinner too apparently which scares me have y 'all ever sat on the couch like this hold on oh yeah oh let's go like this you know how hard like knees up you know on the couch andrew's feet are on the chair knees up computer wedged in between screen at an obtuse angle look how easy it is to scroll like this oh true oh because you're And then my, you know how hard it is to scroll like this?

46:16That's crazy. I never, I just got proven wrong. That's actually, yeah. Y 'all just need some more comfy positions. No, no, it's because my computer spends probably like 80 % of it's on time in clamshell mode, like in a dock. The other 20 % are between my knees and my chest. Just like that. That's right. That's true. If you're reading. Yeah, being able to just kind of like flick with your thumb. I love potting like this. My thumb's sometimes right here and I'm just like scrolling on the, I know I can scroll too. Listen, I do it on both. But when I used my Surface for a long time and I got really used to just occasionally like doing this scrolling or like, yeah, and then I come back and not have it.

46:57And I'm like, oh my God, I do that way more than I thought. Yeah, scrolling is not a big deal if the main place you use a laptop is your desk. I think every time I'm on the couch, when I'm on an airplane, when I'm in the backseat of a car, scrolling like that in a touchscreen is so much nicer. Yeah. And you don't have to use it. it's yeah it's option if i see an on-screen keyboard pop up in my mac os experience that that's i swear that's yeah straight to jail i'm doing something terrible that's where i draw the line yeah i don't know i think apple needs to release some sort of display coding that

47:31Marques Brownlee:stops fingerprints yeah fingerprints are gonna drive me insane we should come out with like a special finger like what did quinn do he has like a cloth he's like the polishing he just launched like XXL or something it's like the bigger version yeah and it's about to blow up polishing towel polishing cloth market it's about to go crazy yeah oh true it's about to go crazy oh that's smart of him that's smart of him think about it corner of the market early so when everyone's touching their computer screens yeah you know where to clean it yeah um I will say yeah touch screen with a kid is awful cause I'll just be like they don't clean their fingers oh well no no it's not even that it's just like every time I have my computer open Lane like runs over and she wants to play with it And it's easy enough to defend the keyboard with one R, but then it's just, and all my windows are all over the place now.

48:16Lord knows where. And I'm just like, Oh no. So it happens to Claire more often cause she's using a Lenovo, but, um, yeah, it screws that computer up all the time. When I was teaching, what happened to me all the time where a student would be like, can you help me like figure out this Ableton thing? And I'd go and I'd sit down and be like, Oh, you just click right here. What have I done? yeah so i guess we'll see how expensive that ends up being um i mean you got me wondering david now do you think that they'll do gestures on the screen because they already have them all

48:50Marques Brownlee:like being i mean yeah yeah like an ipad yeah like an ipad like on the ipad you can like take all of your fingers swipe across and it moves to the next app but not like the gestures from the trackpad gestures they're strikingly similar right they are quite all fingers does yeah it's It's very similar. Can you tell he has a Galaxy tab? It's funny. So I have an iPad and a MacBook Pro, and I very distinctly use them differently for different things, and I just feel like a touchscreen laptop would blur that line. This has always been the argument. Like, why would you need both? I guess it's for people who don't have both.

49:24Marques Brownlee:It's for people who don't have an iPad and don't want to buy two things. Now you have one thing that does both. I wonder how much of this is just that the technology is so much cheaper now. That's what I keep wondering. Might as well. It's been true for a while. Wow, it's just there's been such a philosophical argument against a touchscreen MacBook. Yeah. Well, there was that famous Steve Jobs keynote where he says that your arm's going to turn into a gorilla arm if you do that and you're going to break your screen or something. He said a lot of things that they've gone back on, though, before.

49:51Marques Brownlee:Yeah. Who wants a stylus? Remember that? He hates styluses. Got 10 perfectly good styluses right here. To be fair, I think that was for phones mostly. Introducing Apple Pencil. Yeah. I guess it's never to the iPhone. But yeah, we'll see how this goes. yeah so that's a rumor mill thing we all know well we all expect a whole bunch of new laptops and a bunch of other stuff that we talked about last week next week yeah we're gonna get that cheap MacBook next week so if you haven't already subscribed to Wayform promise get subscribed my uncle said that it is we'll get all that info very soon for you yeah okay Quinn's it's called sorry going back to that Cloth Pro Max he really went all out the like packaging itself really feels like just like an Apple product It also has a compatibility list that has a bunch of iPhone stuff and then says there's also dusty Nintendo Switch.

50:42Nice. Old cinema display. CRT TV. Nice. This is awesome. Very cool. Alright, well we're going to wrap it up with a couple more stories after the break but before that we have some more questions to ask us and potentially not get any points like usual. T for trivia. Oh, I thought you were going to say time out. That's what I think. Trivia. Trivia.

51:06Marques Brownlee:That's what that means. Samsung. The one. The only. They have a lot of products. Oh, boy. Is it a tractor again? A lot. No, this question is about two Samsung products that we know and love, specifically the Galaxy Buds and the Galaxy Z Fold. These are both staples of the Samsung lineup. However, which one came out first? And I'm talking original Buds or original Fold. Interesting. What do we call them staples? They're both products that Samsung sells. The Buds are, I think, a staple. The Fold, it's starting to get there. It's a stapler. It's out there. The Fold were on the Z Fold 7 and were only on the Buds 4, but that doesn't mean anything.

51:59Marques Brownlee:Yeah. It could be. That doesn't mean nothing. Yeah, we could have had many, many years. We didn't even talk about the Buds. Yeah, by the way, there's new Buds. I kind of like them. We didn't talk about those. I wrote this question assuming we were going to talk about the Buds, and we didn't talk about them. The Buds are sweet. I have them actually. I'm going to start testing them more. They look like, I mean, they all kind of look like AirPods from the front, but from the back, they redesigned them. They have new drivers. They have new features. The brush metal. The brush metal, the flat back.

52:23Marques Brownlee:It looks pretty sweet. It looks like if an AirPod had the clip of a pen glued to the end of it. Which I would, I prefer a flat thing when I'm like controlling like a squeeze, like a round, like barrel thing is, it's kind of annoying actually to squeeze. Well, that's why they like chamfered it on the side. Yeah, but like a fully flat thing. I like that. I like that better. That's just me. Anyway. Yeah. We'll be testing those as well. Anyway. Okay. Yeah. So trivia will be, um, at the end. Answers like at the, uh, answers that. Be right back. The usual at the end.

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54:47Marques Brownlee:Did the weather stuff hit your feeds at all? Yeah, definitely hit my block. Am I the only one? My feed's been filled with other garbage. You didn't go to YouTube.com during the great blizzard of 2026? The one two weeks ago or the one... The one like three days ago? I did not. Or I did not have it. My feed was full of all the YouTubers were live at the same time, opening up camera feeds, showing the live precipitation totals in different places. Were they interviewing people on the streets? Some of them. Yeah, one of them, He had a feed of, Ryan Hall had a guy who was like, he had a feed of someone who was just walking through New York City during a blizzard, just walking around in different stuff.

55:23Marques Brownlee:It was pretty cool. Cool. I like the blizzard. It was fun. Yeah, anyway. Wait, which Ryan Hall are you talking about? Ryan Hall, y 'all. I can't even Google it. He's a weather YouTuber. Ryan Hall, y 'all. I see. Yeah. That's a great name. That's his name. That's a YouTube name. So shout out to Ryan Hall. He's got a whole thing. But a lot of people, when I talked about weather apps on social media, like to bring up that the founders of Dark Sky actually recently came out with a new app called Acme Weather. And I just want to point out, they emailed me right before it went live, and they were like, hey, Marques, I'm one of the founders of Dark Sky, and we actually got acquired by Apple, and I left Apple, and we started this new thing.

56:00Marques Brownlee:And here's a link to the test flight. And I was like, this could be the greatest phishing email of all time. Because it's so specific to what I would insta-click. I clicked it immediately, downloaded it without even checking. Clicked it so fast. You mean your open-clawed bot on your behalf. Yeah, man. I immediately downloaded it. So it's called Acme Weather, and it is similar in a few ways in some features, but it also has some new aesthetics to it. But it is a new weather app. It's iOS only right now. It's paid. Many of the good weather apps are paid. I'm just going to get it out the way ahead of time just so you know.

56:40Marques Brownlee:but it is pretty good I would say and I've been playing with it for the last couple days. I'm just upset that this is the first time I'm hearing about it. Really? That you had access to this before it even launched. It's funny I've... Yeah we didn't I dropped this in Slack. Nobody No I kind of assumed that we'd all seen the headlines. Yeah. And just were gonna try it. Well sure but like... I can't try it because it's iPhone only right now. Yeah that's fair that is fair. Well we'll toss a screenshot or two in the pod for those of you who haven't seen what it looks like yet but it kind of almost looks like okay i put a venn diagram on twitter of like there's the pretty weather apps and then there's the accurate weather apps yeah the the pretty ones like the default google weather app are almost always not super accurate and then the ones that have like their own data and that are like the the weather.com and accu other ones are really good information but are like horrible apps.

57:38Marques Brownlee:And a lot of people at that point pointed out that Carrot Weather, which is the one that I use, is kind of right in the middle because you choose what source you have and it looks really good. Acme Weather, I think also looks like, kind of like the Google Weather app. It's pretty good looking, but it has a dark sky timeline underneath and it has a pretty good radar feature or map feature, which lets you look at radar, but also things like current temperature, wind maps and accumulation totals for predict storms. I was just looking at this upcoming storm we're expecting in the next couple days.

58:16Marques Brownlee:We're supposed to get some more snow. This weekend. Sunday, Monday. I never check weather. It's one of my many faults. I always learn about upcoming storms in this room when we sit down. My guy's just like, are you ready for this storm? I'm like, what are you talking about? I think we need to enact an app time limit on weather apps on Marquez's phone because it's getting to be a lot. This weekend, I was like, Sunday, I'm like, I really hope it doesn't snow that much. Oh, hey, everyone. It's like, it's pretty warm outside. There's probably not going to be any weather. He's like, wait till the low pressure system comes in.

58:51I was like, eat it, Marquez. Don't worry. It will get worse.

58:56Marques Brownlee:That's my bad. It was like during the day and you guys were all like, there's not that much snow. I was like, don't we all know it's a nighttime storm? Nobody knew. so I just sprinkled some information. Google it as fast as possible. Unrelated but related. Your Venn diagram that you posted. Yeah. I was curious. How did you make that? I Googled Venn diagram creator and I opened a Canva template and I made it in Canva. I was convinced you were going to say Final Cut Pro but that's actually probably honestly. He filmed two circles on his head. It should have been faster. It would have been faster if I didn't.

59:28Acme says that it is focused on hyper-local, hyper-accurate forecasting combined with transparency about forecast uncertainty, which is nice.

59:36Marques Brownlee:So hyperlocal weather is neat because kind of like Waze is crowdsourced where if something happens and someone reports it in the app, if it has enough users, that's like really useful information. So some truck dropped something on the road and you are literally 60 seconds behind that truck, you'll get a notification that says object on road ahead because somebody reported it. Similar thing with weather. So you'll literally, like Dark Sky did this really well. you would get a notification that says like rain starting in three minutes. And three minutes later, the front would pass and it would start raining.

1:00:09Marques Brownlee:And it feels like kind of this magic moment. Maybe I'm just a little into weather or whatever. But like I thought that was pretty cool that they're also bringing that feature. So they have like a report feature where you can report like, yeah, it just started raining. Like a bomb cyclone? Well, it would probably be like a smaller thing like frost or ice or whatever. community. What's happening right now? You hit lightning and then everybody knows there's lightning nearby. You create lightning. I kind of assume that multiple people need to report it so that it's not like one person saying. I don't know how many people are reporting things.

1:00:45Marques Brownlee:Similar to Waze. It's just Marquez is the number one on the leaderboards right now. I mean I do use the Waze reports. I would say that it would be awesome if a lot of people use this app and reported it and it got good because Hyperlocal Weather is sweet. Yeah. It says it has an alternative possible futures feature because they don't want to assume that the weather is going to be perfectly accurate every time. So it shows possible different variations. It's got the black line, which is what they think is going to happen. And it's got these gray lines, which is what might happen. Multiverse confirmed.

1:01:16Yeah. They're just plugged into all the different versions of Kearney, New Jersey.

1:01:22Marques Brownlee:I just want to throw it out there. Their logo is really bad. I would love if somebody redid it. It's like the umbrella from Acme. I thought it was cute. Like Looney Tunes. It's fine. That blue gradient it looks bad. What? Well it's an umbrella. Wait what? The umbrella is I don't know. Oh is the icon different than the It's like the Wile E. Coyote umbrella. Yeah it's like a blue gradient on the We were looking at just like the black and white logo on the website. Oh no. It's not my favorite. I will say that. It's not great. Definitely my favorite. But it's cool. Yeah. It kind of looks like if Claude and the New York Times made an app together.

1:02:00Because Andrew said it was a New York Times looking app and it has like the Claude color palette. Everyone needs to stop using the Chobani font. I don't know what font it is. But like look up Chobani yogurt. Like the font. Knock it off. New York Times loves Chobani. I don't know what. I can kind of see what you mean. No, it's everywhere. It's like all the f***ing millennial ass DTC companies.

1:02:23Marques Brownlee:I think it's the off-white background that makes it cool. Like that. Like the Shabani packaging. Alright. Well, let's make our own weather station so we can just have hyper-local weather for the video. That's actually a thing you can do. So, wait, that was a question I kind of had. That's what I'm saying. I can't tell if this is a real thing or I'm remembering it incorrectly, so maybe one of you have heard of it or an audience member has, but I swear my cousin told me about this thing that he bought that he puts up on his garage and a lot of people in the area have them and are connected together.

1:02:53That's what I'm saying. It's like wind and barometer and stuff and it takes down what's happening outside. This is a whole rabbit hole. Do you have this?

1:03:00Marques Brownlee:No, but - How do you not have this? Weather boy? I should, I should. I should just put one up, yes. And you have a weather app or like even, like some people have like a dedicated display where it's like you can plug into the data or you can plug into the data from your own weather station. So instead of getting a local report from the Newark weather station about like what pressure and temperature and all that are, you'll take it from your actual weather station. So you'll get your actual location. We could have MQBHD weather. For every bit of data you upload to the weather network, it mines part of the hash of a cryptocurrency.

1:03:32Weather coin? Weather coin. Well, no. Then it would actually have some utility. Let's do one. Yeah, we should. How much are they? What do I search? Andrew, remember when I was like, I need to find this weather thing? It was sort of similar. You know, it is that. It's just a thing you put on your roof and then it tells you the weather. I thought yours was just the display. I didn't realize it was the roof thing. You can only get the display with the roof thing. You cannot get a display that just three G's or whatever. I mean, now you can now that terminal exists. Okay. But right. Yeah. I don't know.

1:04:05My cousin seemed everyone I've ever heard talk about. This seems super. If you go on Amazon and just type in weather station, they're made by they're like 30 bucks and everybody makes them. And I'm sure they're all, I think it's dumb. Tell us a good one. I want one. It's just like, what's the point of knowing what the weather is, where you are. I need to know what it's going to be. I can go outside. Can you link up with other people? And then if you get enough people in a localized region, how does that tell you what it's going to be? That just tells you. Because then when it's coming from the West, my homies to the West are feeding the information.

1:04:40My weather homies.

1:04:41Marques Brownlee:So here's the other thing about weather is there's all these different models that are aggregated and computed by different computers and regions or whatever. so those are based on the weather stations that they use. So then if you have your own weather station that's maybe a little, like Newark is close by, but we're 50 miles away from Newark or something, then you can adjust yours based on how far you are from the weather station that you're getting your information from. It's kind of interesting. I think you should buy me one of these because I'm on the west part of New Jersey and you're on the east part of New Jersey.

1:05:16So it's only beneficial for you if you get me one. New Jersey is a pencil ass state. You're like three minutes away from each other.

1:05:22Marques Brownlee:Dude, no, but the coast thing is - That's why I commute the morning. Distance from the coast is crazy. You got half as much snow as we did. I know. Usually I get more snow than you guys, dude. Yeah. Both times this time, I've gotten significantly worse. This was a coastal storm that dropped 22 inches here and eight inches there. Like that's because the weather stations. You know, I know neither of you are in the dating world right now, but you would be killing it talking about the weather on your dates. you'd be like that would not oh let me tell you this would not be a dull conversation we gotta move on guys this is insane I just want to shout out weather committee I appreciate it just saying we could start one Marquez I'm not against it I'm gonna start googling weather stations I'll use the company card alright

1:06:14let's sum up this story we'll alternate words Okay. Individual words? Yeah. Okay. Oh, God. All right. Here we go. Ready? Yeah. Do I start? Yeah, you can start. Okay. Discord is not gonna scan your face or other children's faces. Yeah. Until later. Later. Yeah. Yeah. Almost good news. If you guys remember our Super Bowl episode, technically true, it was after the Super Bowl. Discord got in a lot of heat because they decided that they were going to do age verification via scanning your face if you were a child. If their algorithms decided that you're probably a kid using various different factors, one of the ways they were going to verify that you were not a kid actually was to scan your face.

1:07:09They got a ton of pushback on that. A lot of people went back to the good old TeamSpeak back from the 1900s. And they said, oopsie, that was a bad idea. So they are now delaying the age verification functionality until the second half of 2026. Before it rolls out verification, it's going to add more ways to verify, like adding a credit card to your account, because that basically just tells you how old you are, et cetera. it will also include documentation for every verification vendor that they've used it will add a spoiler channels option and publish a technical blog explaining how all of their age verification systems work so they are trying really hard to win back the trust of people of the kids and the adults because nobody wants their faces scanned especially since they had like a data breach before this in which everyone's data was like leaked and it was not good so worst nightmare Now we can do trivia.

1:08:11Trivia, dude. Quick update on the score. I'll keep it. Now you know what we deal with, people. Marquez with 14. Andrew with 17. David with 16. That's the same as last week. Same as the past four episodes. In the week before, in the week before, in the week before. Can you guys please let me update the graphic this week? All right. So, were you guys paying attention? Towards the end of the live event, they shot off an expert raw mode that ensures efficient and high quality images of underwater coral and fish and stuff when you're swimming or diving in the ocean. What is it called? Realistically, it's for when you're at the aquarium.

1:08:52Marques Brownlee:Yeah. That's mostly what that's for. Or the one time you go snorkeling and you're like, isn't this thing waterproof? And then it's sea salt. Was this water just the example they used? It's not specifically for water. I think it is for water. It's a mode for being underwater. Things that are underwater. So like a fish tank. It'll pump up the vibrancy and stuff. Alright, flip them and read. What do you got? We all combined her. Marquez, what'd you say? I wrote Ocean Pro. We only wrote three. Oh wow. We have the entire combinatoric of both of these words. Everyone say what they wrote. one at a time please oh I'll go first I wrote ocean pro dang it I wrote pro mode I wrote ocean mode correct ocean mode it is ocean mode ocean mode by Juan oh that's time for the lead yeah all right well this next one I was paying attention 50-50 shot okay 50-50 unless you somehow get it wrong that's part of the 50 50 yeah that's one of the 50s isn't it that's not how that works big max that's why we're podcasters and not not politicians never thought of it like that it turns out i've just bodied every 50 50 shot i've ever had i didn't know losing it was an option oh shoot i like that guys what came first the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold or the the Samsung or the Samsung Galaxy Buds there's no letter with the Buds it's not like the P Buds galaxy Buds number but there's numbers after the Fold 2 and there's a letter there it's the Z Fold 5 that's just because they have so many phones they gotta separate them with letters.

1:10:56Oh wait, I thought the Buds did have a number. No, they do have a number, they don't have a letter. It's not like the Samsung Galaxy J Buds. But imagine. Well, it's actually the Samsung B Uds. Wow. Alright. Guys, who would like to read their answer? Did you guys all write the same thing? No. Who has the different thing? I really like the font that you used. I don't know why your writing looks different in that, but I'd buy that as a font. Impact font.

1:11:29Marques Brownlee:So I said the buds came first. I'm so sorry, Mark has. I'm so sorry. You can say the reason. It's because they didn't used to be called the Galaxy Buds. That was my guess also. The Samsung earbuds used to be called something else. Do you remember, Adam? You're the sound guy. I do not remember. They were called something else. I picked this because it felt like the buds is the obvious answer. I know the watches used to be called Gear. Gear. Galaxy Gear Live or something. Galaxy Gear earbuds. As far as I'm aware, they've always been Galaxy Buds. Gear Icon X. Oh, yes, that's what it was. The Icon X.

1:12:14The Fold came out on February 20th, 2019. The Galaxy Buds came out on March 8th, 2019. But the Galaxy Gear Icon X. Well, that wasn't what I was asking about. Yeah, it's fine. I didn't want any points anyway. Worked out for you then. Nailed it. The race is on. I feel like we need to do a trivia extravaganza soon. We really do. The points aren't that high, though. It's just been a long time. Yeah, because your questions are really, really hard. Are they? We never get points anymore. Honestly, the fact that Marques got the excavator one. Yeah, that was crazy. Probably we should have just ended this.

1:12:54I think you deserve to win. That's true, yeah. I think that's my only point. At this point, we've written hundreds of trivia questions. I'm doing the best I can.

1:13:02Marques Brownlee:Anyway, yeah, thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Like I said, get subscribed because you already know that next week we've got to talk about all the stuff that gets announced then. Of course, the reviews are coming and the stuff that came out this week. Hype us because somehow you still can. YouTube definitely forgot about that. They apparently did not hard code that. Yeah, you can just hype channels with overfine. They were like, this isn't going to work at all. No one under 500 is getting over 500. Hey, we did it. And we're still hyping ourselves. It's amazing. So yeah, hype. See you on the hype train.

1:13:30Marques Brownlee:See you next week. See you later. Waveform was produced by Adam Alina and Ellis Rovin, a partner with Vox Media Podcast Network, and our chapter music was created by Vainstil. Bingo. What was that? That one was David, right?

1:13:50They were like pink is just desaturated red so your masculinity. That was a banger. That was a bar. This is arguably the best my favorite nothing content I've ever seen. This lady is sick. She's really cool.