Hey, Google: Maybe it's time to take a lesson from Samsung
Whew! I don't know if you heard, but Samsung held its first super-duper-neato special event of the year on Tuesday, and the company's got a few new phones for us all to ogle.
The devices themselves seem fine enough, in their respective ways. I'll sum 'em up quickly for you, because what I really want to talk about is something a bit deeper. So here's the lowdown:
- The Galaxy S20 is Samsung's new main 2020 flagship. It comes in three models, all with 5G in the U.S., and they're all about as Samsung as it gets: big screens, small bezels, and All The Specs™ — loads o' numbers that look impressive on paper (108 megapixels! 8K video! 120Hz screens! 16GB of RAM!) but ultimately mean very little when it comes to real-world impact. They're also expensive: $1,000 on the lower end and all the way up to $1,600 for the maxed-out top-of-the-line model.
- The Galaxy Z Flip is a new horizontally-folding foldable phone — basically a better version of the recently released Motorola Razr, from the looks of it, and an interesting technological advancement but almost certainly something no normal person should actually buy at this point.
That's the ultra-abbreviated version, anyway. The reality is that Samsung's bound to sell a boatload of its Galaxy S20 phones, as it generally does with its primary new flagships — and that's the area I really wanted to explore.