Gear News of the Week: Samsung’s Trifold Promise, Ikea’s Sonos Split, and Hugging Face’s New Robot
Samsung galaxy unpacked The event in Brooklyn earlier this week made its debut seven new devices, from the Galaxy Z Fold7 to the Galaxy Watch8 series. But there was no surprise at the end, despite the rumors that Samsung will unveil a phone to Trifold. Feeling disappointment, the company later confirmed that the phone should land in 2025.
“I expect that we will be able to launch the Trifold phone during this year,” said TM Roh, head of mobile activities at Samsung, Korea Times. The Trifold phone, which would be called the Galaxy G Fold, would have a normal screen at the front and two hinges that allowed you to open it as a screen the size of a tablet.
Huawei unveiled his trifold for the first time, Mate XT, in China last year, with an enticing price of 3,499 euros ($ 4,090 ~), and Samsung showed a conceptual version at the World Congress 2025 mobile. Samsung should also launch its Android XR mixed reality headset in the fall, so the trifold could land next to it.
An embroidered face has a new robot
The AI startup AI Hugging Face has announced a new coding robot called Reachy Mini, just a few months after acquiring pollen robotics, the company behind the Humanoid Reachy 2 robot. The mini mini is open to pre -order for $ 449 (although there is a Lite version for $ 299), and it is an open source robot designed around the IA experiment.
Think about it as a rod toy or a Raspberry Pi (actually, the robot is powered by a mini-computer Raspberry Pi 5)-you need to build it yourself, and there are more than 15 “robot behavior” so that you can learn to use it out of the box. Reachy Mini can use the latest AI models, and you can program it to act in certain ways. The head is motorized and the antennas also move. He has a camera, a microphone and speakers to interact with his environment.
Reachy Mini The owners will be able to download and share these robot behaviors with the community of the embraced face, and to download others. It will be dispatched this fall, although the mini lite, which is not wireless, will arrive at the first, end of the summer. We can only hope that this pretty little robot will not have the same fate as the Jibo.
Apple beta iOS 26 drama
The public beta version for iOS 26, Apple MacOS 26 should be launched next week, but a drama has prepared after the recent developer Beta 3 for iOS 26. The company has reduced the transparency of its liquid glass design language, which makes the interface more like a frosted glass. This aroused online criticism that Apple has changed it too much, although there have been a lot of problems with the counterpoup and readability when Apple made its debut in design at WWDC 2025.
In Plus Apple News, the company should start a new Apple Vision Pro later this year, fueled by the M4 chipset which is in some MacBook and iPads. The material itself will not seem different, although Bloomberg reports that there will be a more comfortable strap. The cheaper version of The Vision Pro is still in a few years.
Ikea releases Sonos and Zigbee for the material and Spotify
With the kind authorization of Ikea
This is a new day for the smart home strategy at the Ikea popular Swedish furniture supplier, because the company has announced more than 20 new lights, sensors and intelligent remote controls using the Thread protocol. This means that you can hang some of the affordable IKEA goods and use them directly with your Apple Homekit, Amazon Alexa, Google Home or Samsung SmartThings configuration, without having to buy an Ikea hub. And David Granath from Ikea told The Verge that there were “more new types of products and formal factors to come”. The people of the hub will direct from Ikea will also be happy to learn that Ikea activates the integrated thread radio and adds the management of the material. This means that it can serve as a material controller and a wire border router, allowing it to connect and control all material devices in your home. Unfortunately for some, this signals the end of the ZigBee support, because Ikea plans to replace its zigbee gadgets with material devices.
IKEA also unveiled two new Bluetooth speakers this week – one that looks like a retro radio and another which serves the lamp. The two have a dedicated Spotify button that allows you to jump directly in everything you have listened to on Spotify. It is another nail in the coffin for Ikea’s partnership with Sonos, while Ikea strives to simplify, accessibility and accessibility. –Simon Hill
OnePlus has 5 new devices, but only 2 for us
It was five more for OnePlus this week, because the company unveiled a series of new devices. A smaller version, 43 mm, of the watch 3 which is much more comfortable, but which has less endurance than its biggest brother, is now available from OnePlus for $ 300 ($ 100 less than the 47 mm model). Very affordable wireless heads 4 also land in the United States at $ 130.
