Alright. Time for my favorite part of the show.
Samsung just wrapped up their latest unpacked
event where they announced new phones and
new tablets and cheddar news is one of the only stations in the nation
to have these new products in hand and onset
the same day they're revealed and here they are.
So first up we have the S.
22 this bad boy will cost you around
$799 has increased battery increased display 120 hertz.
So you have that really fast refresh rate.
Alright so the big brother to this guy is the S. 22 plus.
This again increased battery, increased screen super bright when you need it
and also increased capability when it comes to the camera
and that camera increase goes to all the features.
Now the Mac daddy of all of these is the S 22 ultra in this burgundy color.
Now this as you can imagine is massive. It's only 6.8 inches.
It has 1 20 hertz when it comes to its refresh rate.
It also includes everyone's favorite
s pen at the bottom and don't let those cameras fool you.
They may seem small in the back but this guy can pack a 100 times zoom.
This right here is what you would call the flagship of the
family and last but not least if you thought that was big.
We also have the tab. S eight ultra. This thing 14.6 inches incredible. S. M. L. L.
L. E. D. Display.
It has expandable storage and also 120 hertz for you to get all your work done
and yes it supports the S pen and it could shoot in four K video.
So to help me talk about these new devices is Allison johnson,
Reviews writer at the verge and Allison, thank you so much for being with us.
Let's start with the phones,
improved cameras, better screens.
What were some of the highlights that you found in this announcement?
Yeah, I'm really the big story
Figuratively, literally um is that as 22 ultra having that built in stylist?
So it's really taking over for the note series which is um
a series of phones Samsung has put out with the built in stylists.
They're kind of beloved by fans.
It appears to be going away and the S 22 Ultra is going to take its place.
Um so you'll get lots of cool productivity features,
Obviously a really big screen to ride on.
Um So that's kind of the exciting story. It's um
there are a lot of iterative updates across all these phones.
They have um vast new processors, they have the latest gorilla glass.
Um but really that stylist is the big exciting story,
I'm gonna get to that stylist in a second but I want to talk a little
bit about the cameras because Samsung is touting
some big upgrades to their video stabilization,
their video features and something they like to call nighttime photography.
So what do you think of the upgrades when it comes to the back of device,
those cameras,
they're really interesting.
They're they're touting a lot the low light photography
and videography features which they're calling night ah graffiti
and some improvements to portrait mode,
that's the mode that will blur the background behind your subject.
Um and these are really hard problems for smartphone makers to solve.
They have little tiny sensors and little tiny lenses so taking clear
photos at night um recreating that blurry background look that big D.
SLRs are capable of.
It is really difficult and something that Samsung um
says they've done a better job with this year.
I'm really interested to find out.
They've also importantly said that portrait mode now supports
pets and I think that's a win for everybody.
So let me ask you. So since you were talking about the S. Pen and I have the S.
22 ultra in hand and the S.
Pen is here,
it's been two years since Samsung did release a note phone which was back in 2020.
The note 20.
But now that this ultra is here,
I mean it has everything you'd want in your flagship high end phone,
the faster refresh rate,
it has the bigger battery has the better cameras 100 times zoom.
It's sleek. It's stylish.
Does the note really matter anymore or do you think that the note is its
own individual kind of identity that should be a device later in the future?
I think um well Samsung will say that they've,
they've made the stylist in the s pen and experience
across more than just the Ultra or the note.
Um you can use the S pen with their, their flagship foldable, the Z fold three.
Um so that's, that's kind of how they framed that,
it's living on through all these different
um form factors and they're kind of allowing
the consumer to decide if you want um kind of a giant slab phone.
Do you want a foldable phone?
You can decide and you can use the s pen, which
whichever one you want.
Now, my last question for you, obviously they introduced this massive tablet,
I'm with the tab s eight, ultra 14.6 inches.
It is massive, it's sleek, it's beautiful with this whole
generation of working from home learning from home,
do you think this tablet will give other tablet makers to
run for their money when it comes to its design,
its performance?
I'm really curious, I think um
certainly a giant screen, you know,
it'll be beautiful to look at if you want to watch movies on it,
it's going to be really good for that.
Um I tend to think that Samsung is not afraid to kind of
throw a lot of products at the consumer and see what sticks.
So this might be a case of
maybe people want a gigantic tablet,
maybe it'll really resonate with people who kind of want that,
um, flexibility of the media consumption device,
but also kind of a work from home video conferencing device.
So it may be a case of, let's let's see what happens.
All right, Allison Johnson, reviews writer at the verge.
Allison, I read your stuff all the time. I appreciate you spending the time with me.
Thank you.
Show so much for coming on the show and a special Thanks
for same song for hooking us up with all these incredible products.