Samsung's big news today was two big phones, but it has even more tech to come shortly: a new smartwatch that's going to be unveiled next month. At the end of its presentation today, Samsung teased the Gear S2, a circular smartwatch with an unfamiliar UI that looks like it could turn out to be a pretty stylish package. The Gear S2 will be unveiled in Berlin on September 3rd — that'd be a year to the day that we first took a look at the original Gear S, a big, rectangular smartwatch running Tizen. Chances are this one will be on Tizen too; that's probably a downside, but at least the faces look cool.
Samsung released two phones in March that featured some radical shifts in design philosophy: the Galaxy S6, and the Galaxy S6 Edge. Both echoed the look and size of Apple's iPhone 6, and are still arguably among the best phones on the market. Now, just five months later Samsung is pushing one of those sleek-looking phones into phablet territory with the introduction of the Galaxy S6 Edge+.
Samsung is officially taking the wraps off of the Galaxy Note 5 today, the latest in its flagship line of Note phablets. The Note 5 is best described as a blend of the Galaxy S6 introduced earlier this year and the Note 4 from last year. It's a familiar shape and size, and it's likely to be the best Note Samsung's ever made.
So here's the gist: Google has spun off Google, renamed itself Alphabet, which now owns Google. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will run Alphabet as CEO and president, respectively, while Sundar Pichai will run Google as its new CEO. Got it? Good. So let's talk about Alphabet.
Google — erm, Alphabet — just broke a cardinal rule: "If you have a US startup called X and you don't have x.com, you should probably change your name."
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