There are probably several months before the Galaxy S25 series launches in early 2025, and we’re finally getting a glimpse of what the phones may look like. The Galaxy S25 Ultra was the first to break cover, and it will seemingly receive the most visual changes compared to its predecessor. According to the leaked images posted by OnLeaks, the phone will sport a flat design, which will more closely resemble the lower-end Galaxy S24 phones. This is a stark departure from the previous Ultra phones, which have sported curved displays for a number of years, although they have been steadily flattening out. According to the renders, the display, frame, and back panel appear to be more or less completely flat, although the corners are a bit more rounded. No S Pen was included in the renders, but we still expect it on the phone.
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These phones are expected to launch in January 2025.
While companies like TECNO have shown off tri-fold phones before, they’ve been nothing more than enticing concepts—until now. Huawei is the first company to launch a commercially available tri-fold phone with the Mate XT. The phone starts with a reasonable 6.4-inch display when completely folded, and the phone is only 12.8mm in this form, just a hair thicker than the Galaxy Z Fold 6 when folded. You can unfold the Mate XT once to unveil a larger 7.9-inch panel and then again if you want the full 10.2-inch tablet-like experience. The phone costs somewhere in the ballpark of $2,800, but it is only available for purchase in China.
When the Pixel 9 launched, Gemini Live was one of the defining new features, which is a version of Gemini that’s meant to have more natural-sounding conversations. At launch, this feature was only available to Google One subscribers with Gemini Advanced. As of Thursday, September 12, Google is unshackling Gemini Live (English) from the subscription, making it available for Android users with the Gemini app.
In a time when information is expected to be presented immediately, OpenAI is moving in the opposite direction with its new AI models. OpenAI o1 is currently in preview, but it’s designed to handle complex tasks in subjects like science, coding, and math. What makes it unique is that OpenAI o1 is designed to spend more time “thinking” and working out a problem before it churns out an answer. This has actually shown to make it more accurate, with the model managing to get 83% of the International Mathematics Olympiad exam questions correct, a huge leap from 13% with the ChatGPT-4 model.
One of the benefits of Android is the ability to easily sideload apps without downloading them from the Play Store. However, it seems Google is tightening things up with its new Google Play Integrity API, which highly encourages Play Store downloads when attempting to sideload apps. According to Android Authority, this is done by performing a series of checks to determine the environment the app was downloaded in, and developers can more or less force users to the Play Store version of the app if it’s determined that the app was sideloaded. Going through with this means the unrecognized version of the app will be replaced by the official Play Store version. Unfortunately, it seems apps that implement this make it difficult to bypass, essentially forcing the official Play Store version of the app.
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