Apple Invents Foldables!

The unthinkable has happened! We're talking about a new Apple iPhone on the show this week with a very special guest! None other than Tom Merritt of the Daily Tech News Show joins the show to chat about the new iPhone Duo and what it means for the world of Android with Jason Howell and Ron Richards. Will we ever be the same?!?

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00:05:31 - NEWS

• The iPhone Duo is here, how does it stack up against other Foldables? Also that cool iPhone Duo transition? Yeah someone replicated it on a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8
• The flagship chip game gets a new entrant with the MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro
• One critique of Passkeys gets undone as Google is rolling out the ability to transfer passkeys between devices
• PATRON PICK: Rambler is so cool but it's a Pixel Exclusive, so SwiftKey went and copied Rambler and made it available to all Android devices

00:44:52 - HARDWARE

• Not to be left out, Motorola makes it official and unveils their passport style foldable
• Curious what's inside the Honor Robot Phone? Watch JerryRigEverything tear one apart
• Pour one out for the Pixel Tablet, looks like it's cooked and not coming back

00:54:49 - APPS 'n SOFTWARE 'n STUFF

• Weird stuff is going on with Google Maps as the Speedometer and Traffic Overlays are disappearing for users.
• It's the September 2026 Google Pixel...DROP
• And we've also got the Android 17 QPR1 release details

01:08:58 - COMMUNITY FEEDBACK

• Tom from Manhattan is a OnePlus loyalist looking for a new phone that isn't a Pixel
• Nik is having RCS cause havoc on his phone
• Jon in Minneapolis uses LineageOS and did some research behind his troubles with RCS and it's pretty fascinating

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