Episode 56 - What’s in the box... Samsung’s 2023 foldables, watches, and tablets

Gadget season is upon us and that just makes me… happy…

We do this job for a whole lot of reasons, but one of them is the genuine love of an unopened box, fresh protective film on the screen, and a quiet evening of installing Day 1 updates, apps, and syncing data…

Sadly I’m not being the slightest bit sarcastic here! So when Samsung had their foldable-watch-tablet-car-washing machine Unpacked event a few weeks ago, I knew that several such nights of new-device-goodness was in my future…

Now that we’ve had a few short days of being hands-on with them though, we couldn’t help but hop back on the mics and take a first-impressions walk through what’s changed this year and, possibly just as importantly, what hasn't changed…

You’d be forgiven for seeing the vast majority of these releases as strictly iterative because… well… that’s exactly what they are…

But beneath the surface, and in a few cases right on it, there are some intentional and dare-I-say meaningful developments that may entice some to trade-in-and-trade-up or even be the final missing piece to attract a first time user…

Okay… lets dive in…