Taking a look back at this week’s news and headlines across the Android world, including Galaxy S25 Special Edition details, the lost future of foldables, the Dimensity 8400 specs, 2024’s top mobile games, and looking forward into 2025. Android Circuit is here to remind you of a few of the many discussions around Android over the Christmas week. You can also read my weekly digest of Apple news here on Forbes . Galaxy S25 Special Edition Leaks Samsung is widely expected to host another Galaxy Unpacked event in mid- to late-January 2025 to launch the Galaxy S25 family of handsets alongside the next generation of Galaxy AI. A fourth handset may appear, but not until later in the year; this would be the thin form-factor of the Special Edition. Similar to the thin special edition of the Galaxy ZFold 6, it should be a highly prized handset thanks to a proposed limited production run: "New details on Samsung’s plans for the Galaxy S25 Special Edition production run were reported this weekend by the team at ETNews. While the run of three million units will be seven times larger than the 400,000 units of the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition, it is barely ten percent of the Galaxy S25 family’s expected sales of 35 million." ( Forbes ). Foldables Imperfect Future Speaking of the Galaxy Z Fold6, Samsung was bullish on the adoption rates of foldables when it launched its foldables range in 2020, announcing that 50% of its flagship devices would be foldables by 2025. That number is still out of reach for Samsung and the industry as a whole. The flagship product split is heavily in favor of candybar phones: "While overall shipments are expected to hit nearly 18 million units in 2024, these phones still account for less than 2% of the total smartphone market. There's evidently been no rush from customers to switch over." ( Sammobile ). Dimensity’s Regular Core Moment There’s some new competition in town, at least in the market. Mediatek is launching the Dimensity 8400 processor, offering a challenge to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipsets. Notably, Mediatek have stepped away from efficiency cores, instead relying on 8 regular cores: "[MediaTek’s results] claim a 41% boost to multi-core performance over the Dimensity 8300. The company also says peak power use has been reduced by as much as 44%. We’re keen to see what this means for everyday power consumption, though." ( Android Authority ). What To Play? As the end of the calendar year approaches, the top lists and retrospectives are flowing freely. With one more holiday weekend approaching, Minireview’s list of the top mobile games in the year should help you pass the time! "On MiniReview, we've reviewed more than 350 games this year. And today, it's time to rank the top 68 most interesting Android and iOS games of 2024. From Balatro to Hades Mobile, Zenless Zone Zero, Slice & Dice, and Halls of Torment, this 2024 mobile games tier list includes something for everyone - regardless of taste and genre preferences." ( Minireview ). And Finally... Looking ahead to 2025, what smartphone trends are going to emerge and which are going to be widely adopted? Hadlee Simons looks into their crystal ball, with battery life one of the big winners" "Perhaps the biggest reason is the wider adoption of silicon batteries, offering more capacity for the same physical size than lithium batteries. Everyone from HONOR and Xiaomi to OPPO and OnePlus are stepping up in this regard. In fact, the vivo X200 Pro Mini has a more compact 6.39-inch screen paired with a large 5,700mAh battery." ( Android Authority ). Android Circuit rounds up the news from the Android world every weekend here on Forbes. Don’t forget to follow me so you don’t miss any coverage in the future, and of course, read the sister column in Apple Loop! Last week’s Android Circuit can be found here , and if you have any news and links you’d like to see featured in Android Circuit, get in touch!
The Colorado Buffaloes landed a massive commitment from five-star Class of 2025 quarterback Julian Lewis on Monday. Lewis was previously committed to USC, but he de-committed, which fueled plenty of speculation about the Buffs as a landing spot. Suddenly, Lewis is in line to possibly be the successor to Shedeur Sanders. It is a huge addition for the Buffs, who just had five-star offensive tackle and Alabama commit Michael Carroll in Boulder for the Utah game. Lewis' commitment could lead many other high-profile recruits to come to Boulder. On Thursday, Winston Watkins Jr. posted a photo with Deion Sanders from his NFL playing days and a perfect caption: #GoBuffs, with three emojis. Screenshot from X Watkins originally committed to Colorado one day after Deion Sanders was hired as the head coach. However, Watkins decided to de-commit from Colorado in November 2023. Watkins was a five-star recruit at one point and is currently ranked as a four-star by On3 . © Jonah Hinebaugh/Naples Daily News/USA Today Network-Florida / USA TODAY NETWORK On Sunday, Watkins revealed his list of final schools in a post on X. The list includes Colorado, Syracuse, Alabama, Penn State, Indiana, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Georgia, with his official announcement day set for December 4. But, Watkins' most recent post could be a sign of things to come, and a potential QB-WR duo of Lewis and Watkins could be quite the scene in Boulder. Related: Deion Sanders, Colorado Receive Commitment From Elite Five-Star Quarterback Related: College Football Fans In Awe Of Colorado’s Official Offer Letters
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B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. Holding AG purchased a new position in shares of Five9, Inc. ( NASDAQ:FIVN – Free Report ) during the 3rd quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor purchased 59,739 shares of the software maker’s stock, valued at approximately $1,716,000. Other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the company. Signaturefd LLC lifted its position in shares of Five9 by 1,892.3% during the third quarter. Signaturefd LLC now owns 1,036 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $30,000 after purchasing an additional 984 shares in the last quarter. Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund purchased a new stake in shares of Five9 during the second quarter worth approximately $57,000. Quest Partners LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Five9 during the third quarter worth approximately $95,000. Cetera Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Five9 during the first quarter worth approximately $226,000. Finally, ProShare Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Five9 during the first quarter worth approximately $247,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 96.64% of the company’s stock. Five9 Stock Performance Shares of FIVN opened at $40.32 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 1.85, a quick ratio of 1.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.32. The firm has a market cap of $3.03 billion, a PE ratio of -77.38, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 22.74 and a beta of 0.85. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $31.19 and its 200-day simple moving average is $38.13. Five9, Inc. has a 12-month low of $26.60 and a 12-month high of $92.40. Insider Transactions at Five9 Analyst Ratings Changes A number of analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Bank of America upgraded shares of Five9 from an “underperform” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $63.00 target price on the stock in a research note on Monday, August 5th. Needham & Company LLC restated a “buy” rating and set a $48.00 target price on shares of Five9 in a research note on Friday, November 8th. Baird R W lowered shares of Five9 from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, August 9th. Morgan Stanley cut their target price on shares of Five9 from $45.00 to $37.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, October 15th. Finally, BTIG Research dropped their price target on shares of Five9 from $100.00 to $45.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, August 9th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and fourteen have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $59.22. Check Out Our Latest Stock Analysis on FIVN About Five9 ( Free Report ) Five9, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides intelligent cloud software for contact centers in the United States, India, and internationally. It offers a virtual contact center cloud platform that delivers a suite of applications, which enables the breadth of contact center-related customer service, sales, and marketing functions. See Also Want to see what other hedge funds are holding FIVN? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Five9, Inc. ( NASDAQ:FIVN – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Five9 Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Five9 and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
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By MICHELLE L. PRICE and ROB GILLIES NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his visit to Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral were not just exercises in policy and diplomacy. They were also prime trolling opportunities for Trump. Related Articles National Politics | Trump names Andrew Ferguson as head of Federal Trade Commission to replace Lina Khan National Politics | Biden says he was ‘stupid’ not to put his name on pandemic relief checks like Trump did National Politics | Biden issues veto threat on bill expanding federal judiciary as partisan split emerges National Politics | Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors National Politics | After withdrawing as attorney general nominee, Matt Gaetz lands a talk show on OANN television Throughout his first term in the White House and during his campaign to return, Trump has spun out countless provocative, antagonizing and mocking statements. There were his belittling nicknames for political opponents, his impressions of other political figures and the plentiful memes he shared on social media. Now that’s he’s preparing to return to the Oval Office, Trump is back at it, and his trolling is attracting more attention — and eyerolls. On Sunday, Trump turned a photo of himself seated near a smiling first lady Jill Biden at the Notre Dame ceremony into a social media promo for his new perfume and cologne line, with the tag line, “A fragrance your enemies can’t resist!” The first lady’s office declined to comment. When Trudeau hastily flew to Florida to meet with Trump last month over the president-elect’s threat to impose a 25% tax on all Canadian products entering the U.S., the Republican tossed out the idea that Canada become the 51st U.S. state. The Canadians passed off the comment as a joke, but Trump has continued to play up the dig, including in a post Tuesday morning on his social media network referring to the prime minister as “Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada.” After decades as an entertainer and tabloid fixture, Trump has a flair for the provocative that is aimed at attracting attention and, in his most recent incarnation as a politician, mobilizing fans. He has long relished poking at his opponents, both to demean and minimize them and to delight supporters who share his irreverent comments and posts widely online and cheer for them in person. Trump, to the joy of his fans, first publicly needled Canada on his social media network a week ago when he posted an AI-generated image that showed him standing on a mountain with a Canadian flag next to him and the caption “Oh Canada!” After his latest post, Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday: “It sounds like we’re living in a episode of South Park.” Trudeau said earlier this week that when it comes to Trump, “his approach will often be to challenge people, to destabilize a negotiating partner, to offer uncertainty and even sometimes a bit of chaos into the well established hallways of democracies and institutions and one of the most important things for us to do is not to freak out, not to panic.” Even Thanksgiving dinner isn’t a trolling-free zone for Trump’s adversaries. On Thanksgiving Day, Trump posted a movie clip from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” with President Joe Biden and other Democrats’ faces superimposed on the characters in a spoof of the turkey-carving scene. The video shows Trump appearing to explode out of the turkey in a swirl of purple sparks, with the former president stiffly dancing to one of his favorite songs, Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” In his most recent presidential campaign, Trump mocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, refusing to call his GOP primary opponent by his real name and instead dubbing him “Ron DeSanctimonious.” He added, for good measure, in a post on his Truth Social network: “I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will.” As he campaigned against Biden, Trump taunted him in online posts and with comments and impressions at his rallies, deriding the president over his intellect, his walk, his golf game and even his beach body. After Vice President Kamala Harris took over Biden’s spot as the Democratic nominee, Trump repeatedly suggested she never worked at McDonalds while in college. Trump, true to form, turned his mocking into a spectacle by appearing at a Pennsylvania McDonalds in October, when he manned the fries station and held an impromptu news conference from the restaurant drive-thru. Trump’s team thinks people should get a sense of humor. “President Trump is a master at messaging and he’s always relatable to the average person, whereas many media members take themselves too seriously and have no concept of anything else other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” said Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director. “President Trump will Make America Great Again and we are getting back to a sense of optimism after a tumultuous four years.” Though both the Biden and Harris campaigns created and shared memes and launched other stunts to respond to Trump’s taunts, so far America’s neighbors to the north are not taking the bait. “I don’t think we should necessarily look on Truth Social for public policy,” Miller said. Gerald Butts, a former top adviser to Trudeau and a close friend, said Trump brought up the 51st state line to Trudeau repeatedly during Trump’s first term in office. “Oh God,” Butts said Tuesday, “At least a half dozen times.” “This is who he is and what he does. He’s trying to destabilize everybody and make people anxious,” Butts said. “He’s trying to get people on the defensive and anxious and therefore willing to do things they wouldn’t otherwise entertain if they had their wits about them. I don’t know why anybody is surprised by it.” Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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