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 Beyond the Alphabet(Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)Beyond the Alphabet is a weekly column that focuses on the tech world both inside and out of the confines of Mountain View.As the days go by and my beard gets gray, I also seem to accumulate more ways to store my digital things. I have more hard drives, SSDs, and microSD cards than I can keep track of. While it’s nothing compared to what my colleague and Android Central senior editor Harish Jonnalagadda has, it’s still enough to make my head spin.Part of the problem is that I’ve become a digital…

A few times every year, we get new flagship smartphones that promise to “change our world” or try to help us “reimagine” what a phone is capable of. We’ve reached a point where just about every launch event is accompanied by a promo video that’s been recorded using whatever phone is being announced.This continued with the Galaxy S25 Ultra despite the only change being an upgraded 50MP ultrawide lens. It also marks the third year that Samsung has relied on the 200MP ISOCELL HP2 as its primary lens. Even still, Samsung’s flagship devices are regularly touted as being among the…