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Leonard has been skeptical about the foldable category for years, but 2024-2025 has brought about devices that are starting to reach a level of technical and design maturity, he felt compelled to compare notes with long-time foldable user and reviewers, Prakash Sangam of Tantra Analyst.

Samsung was good enough to let Leonard and Prakash take the new Galaxy Z Fold7 foldable smartphone for a test drive.

In this episode of the neXt Curve reThink podcast, Leonard and Prakash share their initial impressions of Samsung’s latest premium smartphone that is going up against tough competition from Chinese OEMs.

Watch and find out about the technical innovations and improvements in the usability and user experience of the Galaxy Z Fold7 that could finally break foldable smartphones into the mainstream.

Prakash and Leonard cover the following topics in their review of Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7:

• The unveiling of Galaxy Z Fold7 at Galaxy Unpacked (Unfold) 2025 in Brooklyn
• Off to a great start - record pre-orders for the Fold7 and Flip7
• Great thermal engineering and Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy
• What worked and didn't work with the Galaxy Z Fold7
• Improvement opportunities for Galaxy Z Fold8
• The formula for good agentic AI and recommendations for Galaxy AI
• Will Galaxy Z Fold7 take foldable smartphones into the mainstream?

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Check out Prakash Sangam and his research at Tantra Analyst at www.tantraanalyst.com. Also check out the Tantra's Mantra Podcast.

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Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series focused on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter.

In the month of July, Mario Morales, GVP of Semiconductors and more at IDC, joins Leonard, Karl, and Jim talk about their key takes on Intel's earning and their announcements regarding the prospects of 14A and 18A in determining the future of Intel Foundry, and a number of other hot topics and news items running up to the end of July 2025.

Topics that mattered in the AI and semiconductor universe in July of 2025:

• Intel's earnings results and the future of the company, Intel Foundry, and 14A.
• TSMC's blowout quarter and what it means for the industry at large.
• The Trump Administration's America's AI Action Plan - what does it mean?
• The state of China's AI industry and future.
• Micron and their SOCAMM deal with NVIDIA - implications.
• Consolidation and new industry structure - GlobalFoundries acquisition of MIPS, Synopsys acquisition of Ansys.
• Why Apple's AI strategy is a dog. ABN (Anything But NVIDIA).

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Check out Jim and his research at Tirias Research at www.tiriasresearch.com.

Check out Karl and his research at Cambrian AI Research LLC at www.cambrian-ai.com.

Check out Mario and his research at IDC at www.idc.com.

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TM Forum Digital Transformation World (DTW) Ignite 2025 is one of the leading telco tech conferencesfocused on OSS, BSS and customer experience modernization. Some call it digital transformation but not Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis, who joined Patrick Lopez of {Core Analysis} and Leonard Lee for a recap of the event this year.

This year, DTW Ignite was heavily slanted toward the topic of autonomous networks and reaching L4, but there was much more. The trio converged on Zoom to compare notes and share their thoughts on what mattered at DTW Ignite 2025.

In this chat, Dean, Patrick, and Leonard Lee discuss:

➡️ Analyst impressions of TM Forum DTW Ignite 2025 (4:20)
➡️ The state of agentic AI in telco transformation and modernization (7:55)
➡️ The state of telco modernization, service innovation, and monetization (11:35)
➡️ Where are we with network APIs and the market For them? (14:55)
➡️ Post-DTW Ignite 2025 recommendations for operators (18:25)

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