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| Samsung Galaxy Note 9 debuts in white for the holidays, but not in the US Posted: 24 Nov 2018 05:00 AM PST Up until a few years ago, an all-white color option was commonplace on just about every flagship smartphone. But that’s no longer the case; Apple’s devices have replaced white with silver, while other manufacturers moved on to different shades of the color spectrum altogether. It seems enough time has passed, however, for white to be considered a fresh new color option, as that’s what Samsung is going with for the Galaxy Note 9. In the months following the debut of its latest phones, Samsung often releases new color variants to improve sales and entice any remaining customers that have been on the fence. What’s surprising this time is that the newest option is a simple, clean white. Officially dubbed “First Snow White,” the Galaxy Note 9 variant was announced in Taiwan this week. 
The device will be released in early December at a price of NT$30,900, or roughly $999 US, and while it features the same specs as the existing Note 9 it does include a matching all-white S Pen. The bad news is that Samsung’s latest color option appears to be a region-specific release. That’s right, there’s currently no plans for the white Note 9 to be released outside of Taiwan. Samsung says the First Snow White Note 9 is being released to commemorate Taiwan’s first snowfall of the year, which explains why the color is being used as a special variant limited to the country. But that doesn’t mean it won’t make its way to other regions eventually, which is what Samsung has done numerous times in the past. If you’re in the US, it would probably be best to start keeping an eye out in early 2019. SOURCE SamMobile |
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| Fire your therapist and buy a Camaro or Mustang instead Posted: 24 Nov 2018 04:00 AM PST On freezing winter mornings, the school day never began with an alarm clock. Papa would tiptoe into my bedroom and slocwly roll up the shades on my windows while singing, “Wake up, sleepyhead. Wake up, today. Wake up, little sleepyhead.” And I would toss away the pretty yellow covers from JCPenney and sit up to a kiss on my forehead. Then Papa would leave my room and head out to make instant coffee. I usually went to my closet for a pair of corduroy pants and a pullover wool cardigan, meeting him at the tiny round kitchen table for a soft-boiled egg on a single piece of toast. We sliced our toast twice in one direction, and then twice in another, like a Tic-Tac-Toe board. And we would eat our nine bites together, as Papa read a folded newspaper held in his left hand.  After what seemed like quite a long time, but couldn’t have been very long because Papa had to get to his law office in Warren, I headed to the bathroom to brush my teeth. Papa put water on the stove to boil and went outside to shovel snow off the driveway. He came in, removed the pot of boiling water and went back outside to pour that hot water over the frozen door locks of our red 1973 Camaro. That car never spent a day in the dilapidated garage at the back of our property in Grosse Pointe. Those mornings were always so quiet. No radio. No TV. No barking dogs nearby. Our cats Phyllis and Charlie slept on the old radiators in the dining room. I would climb into the bucket seats of that Camaro and head to Richard Elementary School on McKinley Avenue just a few blocks away. I checked for ChapStick in my coat pocket to keep my lips from cracking and bleeding in the frigid temperatures. I can still remember the feeling of the weight of that heavy passenger door as I waved goodbye to Papa and slammed it shut. So hard to believe 40 years had passed since I last sat in a Chevy Camaro. 'Holy, mackerel. It's orange?'I never knew as a kid that General Motors designed the car to compete with the popular Ford Mustang. Or that Camaro came from the French-English word that meant “friend” or “comrade.” Or that the automotive press was told in 1967 that a Camaro was a “small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs.” To me, a Camaro was just a car my Papa drove. So when he heard I was driving one recently — an Orange Crush 2018 Camaro 2SS Coupe with a V8 engine and a 6-speed manual transmission – well, he was impressed. “Holy, mackerel. It’s orange?” he said. “And a stick? You’re driving the stick shift?” Yep. The Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary special edition. Ca-razy fabulous. My face actually hurt from smiling. When I drove over the Blue Water Bridge to Sarnia for fries topped with cheese curds and gravy — Canada's poutine — it was fun to sit inside the diner as an international crowd gathered around the Camaro. When I went up to Niagara on the Lake in Ontario, shoppers stepped into the street to peek into the windows and talk about the design. Men and women pointed to different features, smiling and nodding. When I stepped away from the vehicle at a gas station, leaving my fiancé alone, pretty girls approached him to comment on his coolness. He said he would be happy just to own the car and stand next to it. But the drive? Fire your therapist and buy a Camaro. (Or a Mustang. I’ll get to that in a minute.) Never mind that you’ll awkwardly struggle out of the bucket seat. Or that you neighbors may hate the loud rev of the engine. Or that it might seem like a midlife crisis. More: VIDEO: Camaro Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary Special Edition More: Your seat belt is in the wrong place. This new device fixes that Holding the steering wheel with your left hand, shifting gears with your right hand and going fast on the open road brings an intense pleasure. Feeling the powerful engine clears the mind. It’s better than the best roller coaster at Cedar Point. You don’t think about work or texting or taking phone calls or making deadlines or picking up the dry cleaning or cleaning the house or fixing the gutters or dirty diapers. It's a driving experience that brings a weird combination of joy and relaxation. No question, the Camaro is a car with attitude. It belongs to the bad boy — or bad girl. And I like that quality. And the Mustang?For comparison, I drove the 2018 Ford Mustang GT Coupe with a V8 engine. Since the two have been rivals since the beginning, it seemed appropriate. People driving Mustangs waved to me, like what happens between motorcyclists. It’s a fraternity with common values, and no car is so beloved worldwide as the Mustang. Fact is, both cars inspire passion. They have a very different feel behind the wheel, though. I stopped to talk to a guy after lunch as he was getting into his Mustang on a miserable icy day in the parking lot of the Courthouse Grille in Plymouth. “Do you really drive this thing in the winter? You don’t have a second car?” I asked. He said, “I’m retired. This is my only car. I love it. And not only do I drive it in the winter, but I sometimes put down the top and crank up the heat, even when it’s below zero. It makes me feel alive.” Muscle cars are a thing. And I was starting to figure it all out. Yeah, people talk about the Dodge Challenger and Charger. But I wanted to focus on the old-school rivalry cars. You choose Camaro or Mustang, much like Coke versus Pepsi. Or Michigan versus Michigan State. Fact is, a Dodge Charger rear-ended Papa’s Camaro one afternoon while driving down Cadieux Road toward I-94 on our way to Grandma and Grandpa’s. That big ugly Charger hit us hard, but didn’t cause a dent. Papa freaked out when I flew forward into the dashboard and he thought I lost a tooth. Turns out, I had white chewing gum in my mouth. Like sitting in a bathtubMy friend John McElroy says the Mustang is more practical as an everyday car. “The Camaro has a bunker-like look to it, with very small side windows. When you’re inside, it’s like sitting in a bathtub with not very good rearward visibility. There’s not much headroom and the backseat is very cramped. The trunk lid opening is quite small,” John said. All true. “It’s a blast to drive, but so is the Mustang, and it’s the everyday practicality of the Mustang that explains its sales lead over the Camaro,” John said. Well, OK. In recent years, most buyers have been men between 35-55 and earning $50,000 to $100,000, said Peter Nagle, a senior analyst at IHS Markit. Buyers have snapped up nearly 67,000 Mustangs so far this year, or more than one of every three cars in the sports car segment. And Chevy sold nearly 44,000 Camaros through September, or more than one of every five cars in the segment. “When these vehicles were reintroduced to the market, the styling purposefully leveraged the historic look of the iconic muscle cars of the 1960s and 1970s. The presumption was that the buyers would be baby boomer males attempting to relive their youth," said Bob Martin, director of research at The Car Lab, a design consulting firm in Southern California. "To the surprise of many, however, the demographic profile of these buyers was, and remains, much younger. These people value performance." Women say they love driving these cars because they remind us of another time. One former executive said she'd rather have a Camaro or Mustang than expensive jewelry or fancy vacations. Driving a stick delivers total stress relief. Like an Etch a Sketch for worries. Mustang was a top seller since at least 2000-2009, then Camaro 2010-2012, and then the Charger from 2013-2014, according to IHS Markit data. Now the Mustang is back on top. Depending on special goodies, a Camaro or Mustang can range from $26,000 to north of $60,000. Each comes with both manual and automatic transmissions. All this Mustang talk made me think about Molly McQueen, the granddaughter of actor Steve McQueen, whose car chase scenes in "Bullitt" on the hills of San Francisco made the Mustang even more famous. Molly flew to town for the Detroit auto show in January 2018. She arrived secretly, to learn how to drive a stick shift and film a promotional spot for the world debut of the Mustang Bullitt anniversary edition. The 31-year-old actress and screenwriter said during the launch she loved the experience of driving a Mustang stick. Now, all these months later, I reached out to Molly. I mean, she drives an Audi through the Hollywood Hills. Her life is pretty amazing. 'Just tops'Does she ever think about the Mustang experience? “My Audi is an automatic,” Molly said. “With the Mustang, you’re not just putting it into drive and going. You have to be present at every moment. It’s much more of a dance. Perhaps mine is more like a two-step. And I’d like to turn it into a waltz.” She added, “I do think about the experience. For me, it’s more like, ‘I can’t wait to do it again.’” Molly's famous grandfather died before she was born. She has said many times that she knows him only through films and stories her mother told. But somehow, Molly said, driving in a car that all the world associates with Steve McQueen makes her feel closer to her grandfather. It is often experiences with cars that take us back to people we love.  Papa doesn’t remember every detail about the past, but he does vividly remember his Camaro and our time together in it — going to school or hauling the Hobie Cat on a trailer to catamaran regattas around the state. “I bought that Camaro new and kept it a long time,” Papa said. “The steering, V8 performance? Just tops. That Camaro was a rust bucket when I finally got rid of it. I really, really liked that car, honey." Phoebe Wall Howard is an auto reporter who writes commentary periodically about how cars fit into everyday life. Contact her at phoward@freepress.com or 313-222-6512. Follow her on Twitter @phoebesaid |
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