Samsung teases new Galaxy Fold, Galaxy Buds Live for Unpacked event

Last updated 4 years ago

Samsung has released a teaser for its upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event, with the video indicating the event will include the launch of multiple smartphones as well as an update to the Galaxy Buds and a new round-faced smartwatch.

The 30-second trailer consists of fast cuts between production lines and opaque concepts in video clips, while advising the event will take place within Samsung Digital City on August 5. Very little information is provided about what kind of products to expect, but a shot at the end of device silhouettes offers a few hints.

The dark outlines indicate there will be some form of smartwatch along with headphones, a tablet, a Note-style smartphone, and either two smartphones stood back to back or a new Galaxy Fold.

Rumors for the product lineup claim a "Galaxy Fold 2" or "Galaxy Z Fold 2" is on the cards, which may include a shift from a plastic screen used in the first Galaxy Fold to glass, as well as an enlarged internal display and S Pen support. The device would follow after the release of the Galaxy Z Flip, which launched in February while a 5G model shipped on July 22.

The new Note model is expected to have the typical enhancements, but rumors propose there could be a triple-camera array with a "Space Zoom" feature, and increased S Pen functionality.

The Galaxy Buds Live are thought to be the follow-up to the Galaxy Buds and Galaxy Buds , and take the form of bean-shaped earbuds. In this iteration, which is tipped to cost $169, the Galaxy Buds Live are anticipated to have touch controls, as well as a dedicated app for managing settings like active noise cancellation and the equalizer.

Dark outlines of devices, as seen in the Unpacked 2020 teaser.

Rumors for the Galaxy Watch 3 suggested it would include some form of fall detection, similar to the feature the Apple Watch has. Following a fall, it will ring for a minute to provoke a response, then after failure, it will send a location and a brief audio recording to emergency contacts.

One unique feature is an alleged support for hand gestures. It is claimed by XDA that it would be able to answer a phone call on the Galaxy Watch itself by detecting the user clenching and opening their fist.

A supposed hands-on video for the Galaxy Watch 3 by TechTalkTV gives a seemingly better look at the device, with further details including IP68 water resistance, a 5ATM rating, and sensors for blood pressure, heart rate, and ECG.

While not mentioned in the teaser, it is likely Samsung will use the event to offer more details about its plan to take on Apple Card with its own debit card. Following an initial reveal in May, Samsung has stayed relatively quiet about the product, but advised it would provide more information "in the coming weeks."

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9 Comments

Beats 3073 comments · 4 Years

About 4 years ago

Looks like a generic Apple ad.

Hoping the AirBuds look less like AirPods.

linuxplatform 124 comments · 5 Years

About 4 years ago

Beats said:

Looks like a generic Apple ad.

Hoping the AirBuds look less like AirPods.

Groan. Oh for pete's sake. That 2010 "rounded corners" thing was legit but since then ...
Apple copied Samsung's phablet form factor (after mocking it).
Apple copied Samsung's OLED screens (after mocking it).
Apple copied Samsung's curved screens (after mocking them).
Apple copied Samsung's multi-tasking and went from 2 to 6 cores and increased RAM to support it (after calling it bad gimmicky design).
Apple copied Samsung's Galaxy Note Pro's huge (at the time) screen, multi-tasking and stylus/2-in-1 accessory support with the iPad Pro (after mocking all of it)
AirPods? Samsung was their first with the Gear IconX (renamed Galaxy Buds)
Apple Watch? Samsung was there first with a fitness-focused device with a "rounded square" OLED screen and LTE support (again all initially mocked, and Samsung's refreshes have all served to make their line look less like the Apple Watch).
Apple Pay? Google Wallet was on Samsung phones years prior, and Samsung Pay's solution is actually superior because thanks to MST support it can be used at the many checkouts with credit card readers but no NFC tap-and-pay
Apple Card? Before you call Samsung an Apple copycat here remember both Google and PayPal had their versions years prior
For the (soon) future: all the years of bashing TouchWiz/One UI now look ridiculous with iOS 14, doesn't it? And an in-screen fingerprint reader? That too just like wireless charging (remember AirPower, their abandoned attempt to improve on the tech used in Samsung phones, called "true wireless charging")?

Meanwhile, lots of Apple's innovations since then have been met with a shrug by Samsung. Apple TV competitor? Nope. Homepod competitor? Nope. HomeKit competitor? Actually Samsung had their IoT platform in place years earler. So ... Force Touch? Nope. (Smart move ... Apple doesn't even talk about it much anymore.) FaceID? Nah ... they let Google humiliate themselves trying to emulate a feature that not a single Android consumer wanted anyway and tons of Apple consumers don't even use. So that leaves ... the headphone jack as Samsung's most significant imitation of Apple in years. Of course, Apple fans may feel a bit salty over Samsung's commercials mocking Apple for dropping the headphone jack for years only to (without fanfare or apology) silently adopt the feature (or lack thereof). But considering that Apple device owners have been benefiting so much from features first introduced and popularized by Samsung since 2013, they should call it even.

And even more so, they should stop accusing Samsung of copying. It isn't true. Instead, the contrary is true. Not just Apple merely getting their version of the same product to market a bit after Samsung, which was the case with the AirPods which launched a few years later with a significantly different form factor (less convincing with the Apple Watch, which launched nearly 2 years later and was very similar to the path that Samsung struck out on after it was clear that Android Wear would fail). But Apple copying a whole batch of features, form factors and design languages that they trashed previously but only for "their" products to far more closely resemble Samsung's than what Apple originally released.

The best part: Samsung is the only Android OEM that Apple does this with/to. Apple never lifted a single thing from Nexus/Pixel. Not a lick from (poor) HTC (who seems to be making phones again, though only availabile in a few countries). Not a bit from LG. Motorola? Sony? Huawei? Xiaomi? OnePlus? Nah. Even things that those companies actually do first, Apple only picks them up after they have been in a Samsung Galaxy phone for a couple of years first. Example: some Android phones have had in-screen ultrasonic fingerprint scanners as far back as 2015, but Samsung putting them in the Galaxy S/Note 10 devices last year made them good enough for pilfering. It is so blatantly obvious yet no one talks about it! Especially not Apple fans in the tech media. Oh wait, everyone in the tech media is an Apple fan! Including a bunch of writers on Android sites. (Pretty much all the alleged Pixel fans are. Not that Pixels are bad - then again considering several class action lawsuits on hardware and software issues involving Pixels maybe they actually are bad! - but rather Nokia, OnePlus, Huawei and even Motorola are making devices that are far more compelling to people who like Android phones, which is why they all sell far more of them than Google does Pixels despite most of them spending a fraction of what Google wastes advertising Pixels. The only reason they like Pixel so much is because Google ridiculously and blatantly attempts to emulate Apple with them ... without realizing that anyone who wants an iPhone can and simply should just buy one and that people who buy any Android phone over $350 does so because they don't want an iPhone.)

So yeah. Samsung copying Apple was like the early Obama era news. Which in a few weeks - about 100 days to the election right? - may well be two whole presidents ago.

razorpit 1793 comments · 17 Years

About 4 years ago

linuxplatform said:

Beats said:

Looks like a generic Apple ad.

Hoping the AirBuds look less like AirPods.

Groan. Oh for pete's sake. That 2010 "rounded corners" thing was legit but since then ...
Apple copied Samsung's phablet form factor (after mocking it).
Apple copied Samsung's OLED screens (after mocking it).
Apple copied Samsung's curved screens (after mocking them).
Apple copied Samsung's multi-tasking and went from 2 to 6 cores and increased RAM to support it (after calling it bad gimmicky design).
Apple copied Samsung's Galaxy Note Pro's huge (at the time) screen, multi-tasking and stylus/2-in-1 accessory support with the iPad Pro (after mocking all of it)
AirPods? Samsung was their first with the Gear IconX (renamed Galaxy Buds)
Apple Watch? Samsung was there first with a fitness-focused device with a "rounded square" OLED screen and LTE support (again all initially mocked, and Samsung's refreshes have all served to make their line look less like the Apple Watch).
Apple Pay? Google Wallet was on Samsung phones years prior, and Samsung Pay's solution is actually superior because thanks to MST support it can be used at the many checkouts with credit card readers but no NFC tap-and-pay
Apple Card? Before you call Samsung an Apple copycat here remember both Google and PayPal had their versions years prior
For the (soon) future: all the years of bashing TouchWiz/One UI now look ridiculous with iOS 14, doesn't it? And an in-screen fingerprint reader? That too just like wireless charging (remember AirPower, their abandoned attempt to improve on the tech used in Samsung phones, called "true wireless charging")?

Meanwhile, lots of Apple's innovations since then have been met with a shrug by Samsung. Apple TV competitor? Nope. Homepod competitor? Nope. HomeKit competitor? Actually Samsung had their IoT platform in place years earler. So ... Force Touch? Nope. (Smart move ... Apple doesn't even talk about it much anymore.) FaceID? Nah ... they let Google humiliate themselves trying to emulate a feature that not a single Android consumer wanted anyway and tons of Apple consumers don't even use. So that leaves ... the headphone jack as Samsung's most significant imitation of Apple in years. Of course, Apple fans may feel a bit salty over Samsung's commercials mocking Apple for dropping the headphone jack for years only to (without fanfare or apology) silently adopt the feature (or lack thereof). But considering that Apple device owners have been benefiting so much from features first introduced and popularized by Samsung since 2013, they should call it even.

And even more so, they should stop accusing Samsung of copying. It isn't true. Instead, the contrary is true. Not just Apple merely getting their version of the same product to market a bit after Samsung, which was the case with the AirPods which launched a few years later with a significantly different form factor (less convincing with the Apple Watch, which launched nearly 2 years later and was very similar to the path that Samsung struck out on after it was clear that Android Wear would fail). But Apple copying a whole batch of features, form factors and design languages that they trashed previously but only for "their" products to far more closely resemble Samsung's than what Apple originally released.

The best part: Samsung is the only Android OEM that Apple does this with/to. Apple never lifted a single thing from Nexus/Pixel. Not a lick from (poor) HTC (who seems to be making phones again, though only availabile in a few countries). Not a bit from LG. Motorola? Sony? Huawei? Xiaomi? OnePlus? Nah. Even things that those companies actually do first, Apple only picks them up after they have been in a Samsung Galaxy phone for a couple of years first. Example: some Android phones have had in-screen ultrasonic fingerprint scanners as far back as 2015, but Samsung putting them in the Galaxy S/Note 10 devices last year made them good enough for pilfering. It is so blatantly obvious yet no one talks about it! Especially not Apple fans in the tech media. Oh wait, everyone in the tech media is an Apple fan! Including a bunch of writers on Android sites. (Pretty much all the alleged Pixel fans are. Not that Pixels are bad - then again considering several class action lawsuits on hardware and software issues involving Pixels maybe they actually are bad! - but rather Nokia, OnePlus, Huawei and even Motorola are making devices that are far more compelling to people who like Android phones, which is why they all sell far more of them than Google does Pixels despite most of them spending a fraction of what Google wastes advertising Pixels. The only reason they like Pixel so much is because Google ridiculously and blatantly attempts to emulate Apple with them ... without realizing that anyone who wants an iPhone can and simply should just buy one and that people who buy any Android phone over $350 does so because they don't want an iPhone.)

So yeah. Samsung copying Apple was like the early Obama era news. Which in a few weeks - about 100 days to the election right? - may well be two whole presidents ago.

How much Samsung pay you to write that?

evilution 1395 comments · 13 Years

About 4 years ago

Wow, the 2nd fold is coming out already! You see so many of the original being used in public (sarcasm).

As for the ridiculous anti Apple rant above, the poster doesn't seem to understand how Samsung works. They throw everything at it and hope something sticks. The ideas aren't bad but they aren't fully formed, however, Samsung just care about being 1st, not being best.

If it wasn't for Apple, Samsung would still be making Nokia and Blackberry knockoffs.

bestkeptsecret 4282 comments · 13 Years

About 4 years ago

razorpit said:

linuxplatform said:

Beats said:

Looks like a generic Apple ad.

Hoping the AirBuds look less like AirPods.

Groan. Oh for pete's sake. That 2010 "rounded corners" thing was legit but since then ...
Apple copied Samsung's phablet form factor (after mocking it).
Apple copied Samsung's OLED screens (after mocking it).
Apple copied Samsung's curved screens (after mocking them).
Apple copied Samsung's multi-tasking and went from 2 to 6 cores and increased RAM to support it (after calling it bad gimmicky design).
Apple copied Samsung's Galaxy Note Pro's huge (at the time) screen, multi-tasking and stylus/2-in-1 accessory support with the iPad Pro (after mocking all of it)
AirPods? Samsung was their first with the Gear IconX (renamed Galaxy Buds)
Apple Watch? Samsung was there first with a fitness-focused device with a "rounded square" OLED screen and LTE support (again all initially mocked, and Samsung's refreshes have all served to make their line look less like the Apple Watch).
Apple Pay? Google Wallet was on Samsung phones years prior, and Samsung Pay's solution is actually superior because thanks to MST support it can be used at the many checkouts with credit card readers but no NFC tap-and-pay
Apple Card? Before you call Samsung an Apple copycat here remember both Google and PayPal had their versions years prior
For the (soon) future: all the years of bashing TouchWiz/One UI now look ridiculous with iOS 14, doesn't it? And an in-screen fingerprint reader? That too just like wireless charging (remember AirPower, their abandoned attempt to improve on the tech used in Samsung phones, called "true wireless charging")?

Meanwhile, lots of Apple's innovations since then have been met with a shrug by Samsung. Apple TV competitor? Nope. Homepod competitor? Nope. HomeKit competitor? Actually Samsung had their IoT platform in place years earler. So ... Force Touch? Nope. (Smart move ... Apple doesn't even talk about it much anymore.) FaceID? Nah ... they let Google humiliate themselves trying to emulate a feature that not a single Android consumer wanted anyway and tons of Apple consumers don't even use. So that leaves ... the headphone jack as Samsung's most significant imitation of Apple in years. Of course, Apple fans may feel a bit salty over Samsung's commercials mocking Apple for dropping the headphone jack for years only to (without fanfare or apology) silently adopt the feature (or lack thereof). But considering that Apple device owners have been benefiting so much from features first introduced and popularized by Samsung since 2013, they should call it even.

And even more so, they should stop accusing Samsung of copying. It isn't true. Instead, the contrary is true. Not just Apple merely getting their version of the same product to market a bit after Samsung, which was the case with the AirPods which launched a few years later with a significantly different form factor (less convincing with the Apple Watch, which launched nearly 2 years later and was very similar to the path that Samsung struck out on after it was clear that Android Wear would fail). But Apple copying a whole batch of features, form factors and design languages that they trashed previously but only for "their" products to far more closely resemble Samsung's than what Apple originally released.

The best part: Samsung is the only Android OEM that Apple does this with/to. Apple never lifted a single thing from Nexus/Pixel. Not a lick from (poor) HTC (who seems to be making phones again, though only availabile in a few countries). Not a bit from LG. Motorola? Sony? Huawei? Xiaomi? OnePlus? Nah. Even things that those companies actually do first, Apple only picks them up after they have been in a Samsung Galaxy phone for a couple of years first. Example: some Android phones have had in-screen ultrasonic fingerprint scanners as far back as 2015, but Samsung putting them in the Galaxy S/Note 10 devices last year made them good enough for pilfering. It is so blatantly obvious yet no one talks about it! Especially not Apple fans in the tech media. Oh wait, everyone in the tech media is an Apple fan! Including a bunch of writers on Android sites. (Pretty much all the alleged Pixel fans are. Not that Pixels are bad - then again considering several class action lawsuits on hardware and software issues involving Pixels maybe they actually are bad! - but rather Nokia, OnePlus, Huawei and even Motorola are making devices that are far more compelling to people who like Android phones, which is why they all sell far more of them than Google does Pixels despite most of them spending a fraction of what Google wastes advertising Pixels. The only reason they like Pixel so much is because Google ridiculously and blatantly attempts to emulate Apple with them ... without realizing that anyone who wants an iPhone can and simply should just buy one and that people who buy any Android phone over $350 does so because they don't want an iPhone.)

So yeah. Samsung copying Apple was like the early Obama era news. Which in a few weeks - about 100 days to the election right? - may well be two whole presidents ago.

How much Samsung pay you to write that?

I'm surprised AI hasn't yet banned this guy. He's on my block list so I don't see his shit that much, but his rants seem to be getting worse.