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Samsung Galaxy leaks: S21 series detailed, no Note in 2021? And more tech news!
July 25, 2025
1. Huge Samsung Galaxy S21 drop, and, wait, no Galaxy Note in 2021?
A double-shot of Samsung Galaxy news emerging over the weekend and today.
First, Max Weinbach atAndroid Police, with some significant Samsung Galaxy S21 leaks around the coming release (which looks more likely to be named the S21 now over the S30, it seems).
The second is that two new sources have backed up reports earlier this year out of Korea that Samsung won’t continue with the Galaxy Note series. No Galaxy Note 21 or Note 30.
Tothe S21 leaks, which are so considerable I can scarcely round them all up. But there are some big details:
And theGalaxy Note details:
- Arollable phone is coming tomorrow from OPPO, unclear what it exactly means just yet (Android Authority).
3. Qualcomm can nowsell 4G-only smartphone chips to HUAWEI(Android Authority).
4.Samsung’s latest monitor is a smart TV with PC features: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, AirPlay 2 plus Wireless DeX (Engadget).
- “iPhone 12: I still want USB-C,but I was wrong about Apple’s magnetic charger” (CNET).
6.iPhone 12 mini teardown shows what Apple had to shrink to make a smallerflagship: battery, taptic engine, speaker all smaller, and differences between US and international versions of the device (iFixit).
7.Apple’s macOS 11 Big Sur has created a storm around privacy(iPhone in Canda). Apple has responded and explained its protections, and will cease logging IP addresses, and launch encrypted protocol in 2021. More on this emerging as that tingling feeling when something is wrong is happening. Odd that Apple didn’t think people might not worry about this…
8.Elon Musk’s totally awful, batshit-crazy, completely bonkers, most excellent year. This great profile was written before Musk possibly contracted COVID-19 (Variety).
9.Huawei, 5G, and the man who conquered noise: How a Turkish scientist’s obscure theoretical breakthrough helped the Chinese tech giant gain control of the future (Wired).
10.Amazon Customer Support apparently did not know that Northern Ireland was part of the UK, a rather touchy thing to get wrong (Gizmodo).
- Thetop 10 emerging technologies of 2020. Electric aviation, virtual patients for clinical trials, and more cool stuff (Scientific American).
12.The world is watching more anime—and streaming services are buying as it goes completely mainstream. Netflix has 16 projects in the works (WSJ, $).
Thanks to SpaceX,NASA regains a capability it lost for a decade(Ars Technica).
“How did early humans figure out the planets were actually planets, and not stars, before the invention of the telescope?” (r/askscience).
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