Senior Reviewer, Wearable Tech
Victoria Song reviews all things wearables and fitness tech for The Verge.
Before coming to The Verge, she'd been yammering on about this space—and other consumer tech—for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. When not nerding out over gadgets, she can be found on the couch binging the latest K-dramas.
This was announced a while back. (Along with a new Dark Mode which also recently went live.) Basically, four people can now share an annual Strava premium subscription. The caveat is everyone has to live within the same country and you’ve got to be a new subscriber. The new Family plan is available in 32 countries, and pricing will depend on where you live.
[press.strava.com]
Osterloh heads up hardware over at Google and is taking time to really cement the Google / Samsung partnership. The thing that stuck out most to me was when he said: wherever you are on your Galaxy phone, just hit up Gemini. And does he have that Galaxy Ultra on his wrist? Looks like it.
“Lets unpack the future together.”
The Z Flip 6 starts at $1,099, while the Z Fold 6 is $1,899. All the products, including the Galaxy Watches, Ring, and Buds will be available starting on July 24th.
Yeah, they’re kind of gimmicky, but I’ll admit that I was entertained when playing around with them the other day during our hands-on experience. The FlipSuit cases for the Z Flip 6 were also fun, especially the ones with LEDs.
Somewhere in Seoul, I think our former laptop reviewer Monica Chin is fangirling. BTS is still mostly going through their military service, but K-pop stars making an appearance at Unpacked is a time-honored Samsung tradition.
She was in the audience at last year’s Unpacked, too, and is now being subjected to Galaxy AI creating an uncanny portrait of her. Sydney, blink if you need help.
A lot of these features look awfully similar to the Apple Watch Ultra. Samsung isn’t shy about where it got its inspiration for this beefy squircle watch from.
This is an industrywide first. Fitbit first started working on this back in 2017! It’s not meant to be a diagnostic tool — these features never are. Rather, it’s meant to alert you and encourage you to talk to a doctor.