Phones have been fairly boring for a very long time. Don’t get us improper—telephones are nonetheless wonderful little gadgets! It simply looks like we haven’t seen any actually revolutionary cellphone designs or new standout options in a protracted whereas. This yr’s cellphone seems to be and works loads like final yr’s cellphone. Your cellphone seems to be and works loads like my cellphone. Have telephones truly plateaued, leveled off, or chilled out? Is their transition from fetish object to commodity full?
The completely advantageous boringness of telephones will get thrown into focus each time a brand new handset is launched into the world. This week, we noticed the debut of the most recent Samsung Galaxy gadgets. WIRED employees author (and our podcast’s producer) Boone Ashworth joins us to speak about these new telephones, and telephones basically, and the way breathtaking and bland all of them are, .
Show Notes
Read our roundup of everything Samsung announced at Galaxy Unpacked 2023, together with three new Galaxy telephones and 5 new laptops. If you wish to preorder a Galaxy device, we have now some shopping for recommendation for you. Last year’s model can also be simply nice. Read Lauren’s story about safely buying a used phone.
Recommendations
Boone recommends Barbarian, which you’ll be able to watch on HBO Max or hire elsewhere. Mike recommends Sichuan Gold scorching sauce from Fly By Jing. Lauren recommends the HBO documentary Navalny.
Boone Ashworth may be discovered on Twitter @BooneAshworth. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the primary hotline at @GadgetLab. Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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