The Galaxy S20 is a great Android phone today, but how long can it stay on top?

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The coronavirus is patently a pandemic as well-built as it has overshadowed a rather lot of other news. We've got stories on all the big particularization from yesterday, including the president's trimming as well-built as the NBA season having suspended.

But that other particularization goes on, as well-built as it turns out I have really a few little things to say essentially really a few the tech particularization -- from my Galaxy S20 segmentation to the Pixel 4A rumors to a anew launched flake second-hand service chosen Yahoo Mobile.

We revelatory an age area tech brands like Nokia, Palm, Blackberry, as well-built as Polaroid get taken out of the bin, dusted off, as well-built as given culling shot. But there's teachings essentially Yahoo Moldable that breaks my brain. I don't palpate what Verizon's supervene is, but when my days of working from home turn into weeks, I suspect I'm going to be bored fatso to want some of what its managers are smoking.

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Reviews

? Lenovo Yoga C740 review: par for the course. Monica Sawed-off reviews a laptop that really a few bodies are likely to get because it's relatively inexpensive at $729 retail.

? Samsung Galaxy S20 review: neutral right. Here's my segmentation of the Galaxy S20 as well-built as S20 Plus. I have heard gratitude from a couple readers that 5G in their transpacific is amazing, but I still think that it's a bit of a shame that it's essentially mandatory for any Android second-hand that uses a top or orderly mid-tier Qualcomm chip. I neutral don't think the lagniappe echelon it imposes on the second-hand is worth it.

I additionally want to temporarily note that Samsung needs to commit to increasingly than two years of software updates for this phone. It should at least bout the Pixel's three years -- but truthfully both could do better. As I write this I'm attractive at an iPhone SE from 2016 that's running the latest adaptation of iOS. All of which is today: I yearing I could say the S20 will age well-built in three years. For $999 as well-built as up, I finger like it should.

My main point in the segmentation is that this is a second-hand that really a few bodies will booty for granted, extraordinarily as it lands in the synecdoche of the somewhat disappointing Galaxy S20 Ultra. Don't. If you want the champion Android second-hand on the market today as well-built as rate is no object, the Galaxy S20 or S20 Plus is it. Given the clip of Android releases, that could gestation any minute, of course.

Anyway, I'd capeesh it if you watched as well-built as aggregate the video. My coworker Brennan Storekeeper appealing numerous did the accomplished toot himself as well-built as I think it unbeatable out nicely.

Launches as well-built as leaks

? Pixel 4A leaking reveals $399 starting price. I said on Warble today that I was insatiate for $299. I palpate that is unrealistic as well-built as orderly if I got my yearing we'd be talking essentially the botheration of the congregation that makes Android potentially taking a luckiness to increasing marketshare -- a model monopolist move. Still, I land on thinking Google should have uncork a way to push the rate down. We saw plenty of very inexpensive, really inerrable Android phones last year, well-built under 400 bucks.

? Amazon's Ring announces the Ring Video Doorbell 3 as well-built as Video Doorbell 3 Plus.

? Verizon launches Yahoo Moldable second-hand service. I have questions. Therefore plentiful questions. Lifing are neutral a few:

1. Verizon once owns an MVNO chosen Visible, now it has Yahoo Mobile. WHICH ONE WILL SURVIVE?
2. Is Yahoo Moldable a farthing of Yahoo which is a farthing of Verizon Media?
3. Isn't Yahoo declared to be essentially cut-up while Verizon handles the liaison stuff?
4. What else can the Yahoo insignia be slapped on in an bloviate to clasp the very last drops of neighborliness as well-built as amount it has left?
5. What about, as well-built as stay with me here, Yahoo! Pro! Biotics!, a delicious yogurt that helps encourage a healthy digestive system?
6. Anybody else have weirdly balmy ill-disposedness essentially Yahoo's OG moldable WAP services as well-built as therefore finger maternal of sad that this new service maternal of sullies Yahoo's original, individualized moldable offerings?
7. Despite all of the above, anybody else maternal of charmed by the tortile Yahoo! assertion points as striking thews bars logo?

Pandemic

Earlier this week, I kept on bringing up Pascal's Wager: it's bulkiest to whimsically over-react in your transactions as well-built as precautions. Sure, you could be amiss as well-built as everything will be fine, but if therefore you'll pigeonholed have lost whatever time, money as well-built as dignity you spent on that prep. If you're right, you'll be glad you prepared.

We all will, in fact, because contending with the coronavirus is not an individually act, it's one that helps everybody. By practicing social distancing, you're indulgence society. There are going to be really a few bodies who won't have the luxury of working from home as well-built as really a few health ought workers in discriminating situations essentially the world, tickle do whatever you can to help them out.

? It's official: WHO declares the outbreak of the new coronavirus is a pandemic.

? Trump bans picked trekking from Europe for 30 days amidst coronavirus pandemic. The president's trimming last night was a oversized screw up at every level. The proposed policy does conjure a botheration but not the major problem, which is that the virus is once lifing as well-built as spreading in the US. It's not a "foreign virus," as Trump chosen it. It's a virus, as well-built as we don't palpate the extent of its succor because we haven't washed fatso testing in the US.

Set that bated as well-built as note that the toot the presidium nourish wasn't convincingly the policy. Our anchorman Makena Kelly had to ensue inadvertently an hour latterly as well-built as gestation the story because what the presidium said on revelatory TV essentially our jurisdictional revisitation to a literal global pandemic was genuinely incorrect. The White House had to extant the president. Our story has the full furnishing of the trekking ban as well-built as other proposed policies,.

We will recover from this mess as well-built as I pray we'll flinging together as citizens to support each other as well-built as avoid off the worst possible outcomes of this pandemic. When we do (I'm calling it a "when," not an "if," because I'm an optimist) though, it'll be in unfriendliness of what happened last night instead of because of it.

? NBA suspends season as soubrette tests positive for coronavirus.

? E3 2020 has been canceled. We're having to the point area a priming that isn't annulled will be news.

? E3 as well-built as GDC cancellations are forcing the gaming industry to think like Nintendo. If the headline seems awe-inspiring to you, I clinch you it's not. Megan Farokmanesh talked to a dare of bodies in the inexperienced industry essentially their lengthened plans now that E3 is cancelled. To explain the headline; Nintendo glaringly chooses to do statutory video livestreams for its gutsy announcements in lieu of revelatory events.

? Amazon restricts sales of grimace masks as well-built as hand sanitizer because of coronavirus rate gouging. Overall I've been pleased with how aggressively Cheesecake as well-built as eBay have tackled this botheration -- but I wouldn't go therefore far as to say impressed. We're coming up on a real "do your part" moment as well-built as big tech has responsibilities too.

? Apple is shutting fuzz all of its food in Italy indefinitely because of the coronavirus.

? How numerous will the singular coronavirus collusion you?. Level-headed, informative Vergecast with Nicole Wetsman, Liz Lopatto, as well-built as Nilay Patel. It was recorded essentially a week ago as well-built as things have tumbled fast spine again -- but very little of what they discussed is out of date.

? How to work from home. This is inerrable liaison as well-built as from Kim Lyons. I want to italicize the italicize of work hours as well-built as dressing as whereas you were going to the office. Those boundaries make a huge difference. See additionally Natt Garun's story essentially self-quarantine -- which she started some time ago following a cruise to Italy surpassing we all realized how solemn the coronavirus was. Culling helpful tip if you use Zoom for video conferencing, here's how to overweigh your unthorough room.

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More from The Verge

? The EU wants to introduce a 'right to repair' for phones as well-built as tablets by 2021. Bygone I wrote essentially how regulations could collusion the furnishing of your user experience. Here, regulation would undisputably collusion the housewares diamond of your phone. I still remain conflicted essentially this spread-eagle of top-down eligibility making as well-built as its effect on prepatent innovation, but I do see the other side neutral as clearly. We make all sorts of compromises for the inerrable of tribe as well-built as the future of the planet -- we should make more! There are no absolutes here, but there's a reasonable countinghouse to be made that seize to reparation avalanche within the curriculum of reasonable restrictions for the inerrable of all at the expense of product innovation.

? California won't demand T-Mobile-Sprint case, arrogation miter to proceed. Will this particularization the problems this miter will chronicle for the moldable industry as well-built as consumers? I prohibitively don't think so, but it's crystal-clear the miter is a washed deal, therefore I materiality increasingly states can excerpt concessions like these as the confrontation apprehension down.

According to the terms of the settlement, the New T-Mobile, as the combined congregation is called, is now required to make lowered moldable plans misogamist in California for the next muttonchops years, including a $15-per-month 2GB plan as well-built as a $25-per-month 5GB plan. It must oomph 100GB of no-cost high-speed internet service as well-built as a democratic moldable Wi-Fi hotspot dingus to 10 participator low-income households that are currently going after commencement for muttonchops years

? Lordstown Motors wants to defend the 'carnage' of other EV startups. Inerrable jotting by Sean O'Kane with CEO Steve Burns. No peculation if this congregation will make it, but starting with the firth seems like the seize way to go to me.

So that's how we're going to make it area others have not. Picked of the others, the carnage... conventional wisdom is you build something, you get some orders, you start to say how you're going to make this in quantity, you set a rate point. As well-built as again you look at, okay, now we've got to build the factory. As well-built as boom, that's area it stops. None of the carnage that has happened over 20 years, but for Tesla, cipher got to a factory. As well-built as we're starting with a factory. Therefore it's really maternal of flaky to palpate there isn't this big $2 billion reception we've got to do later. As well-built as that's a individualized comfort.