why people say it's not always a good idea to be an early adopter. but what is the use? evidently it combines the convenience of the phone with a screen the size of a tablet, and some apps support flex mode, which splits the folding display in two, so you can watch youtube videos like this, and in the camera, you can take photos like this, although i'm not exactly sure why you would want to. although with the external display, you can use the phone as its own stand for video calls, which is quite useful. i think it would be quite nice if you could keep it on your desk sideways to see notifications and calendar events, although the lock screen is vertical only so it's not really optimised for this, and you get that feeling for a lot of apps. samsung acknowledges it needs more developers to modify their apps for this format and, in time, it will improve, but this disconnect extends to the operating system. you can put your favourite apps on a wallpaper on the home screen, close the phone, and they're gone, because

they're two independent home screens which is not how i expected it to work. the category of folding phones has definitely put some excitement back into smartphones, but it's difficult to say what will become the most popular format, if any. companies are still figuring out what works best. samsung has its z flip — instead of expanding into a tablet, it unfolds in half, and the new microsoft surface duo has two displays, but the screens themselves don't fold. the latest effort from samsung still doesn't fold completely flat, there is still a gap between two screens which i expect they will change in the future and, crucially, unlike otherflagship smartphones, this isn't water— or even dust—resistant, and i think if people are spending £1,800 on a smartphone, probably don't want to get it broken by dust, although if you are rich enough to spend that much on the phone, you can probably just buy a second one to spare. that was chris. now, over the summer, one of the many festivals to be

cancelled was the edinburgh fringe. usually thousands of performers descend upon scotland, bringing comedy, dance and theatre. this is a really big deal, i love this festival, and i especially love watching all the comedians testing out their new material. but you have been making up for it online, haven't you? i have. so, i have been going to quite a few virtual comedy gigs and this is where comedians are finding new ways to get themselves heard. welcome to the covid arms, give me a massive cheer for the start of the show! drop into the online comedy club the covid arms and you will find landlady kerry pritcha rd maclean introducing a host of stand—ups, and while they do their gigs, the club has so far raised over £100,000 for charity. one of the things about lockdown is you get to know your kids a lot better because you are with them 24/7 so, like, you have thoughts like, "i need to give the teachers a big present."

but doing stand—up without being able to hear the audience's reaction is a tough gig. and you really have to craft your routine carefully. new material is very hard to do online without an audience because it's so symbiotic, that relationship working with new material, because you are basically taking this precious butterfly of an idea and like, "is this rubbish" and they are like, "yes," or "no, let it fly," so you definitely need some kind of live audience when you do new material but if you are doing tried and tested, you know where funnies are. what's the point of saying anything amusing? there's no—one want to hear it. comedy panel shows on tv and radio have also gone out without an audience and in many cases, without a studio. ijust realised, weirdly, i've never been to your house. that's true. well, we're certainly not to be inviting you anytime soon, nish. yeah, good — because of the lockdown. mm...sure.

one of the first was the mash report where rachel parris and nish kumar went from feeding off live laughs to hoping theirjokes hit home, at home. as a performer, i miss the audience is so much and i can tell the difference between my performances when i'm in front of a live audience are not and when you've got an audience, this light comes on. it's rachel parris and marcus brigstocke! and now, rachel, and her husband, fellow comedian marcus brigstocke, can hear the laughs again. you keep chatting, and i'll give it a go. alright, i'll keep chatting. we had a conversation... that's the most upstaging thing you could do. that's made it worse. this is their weekly online show at the always be comedy club, and it has a live front row. i think the front row that we hear and see on these

online gigs is only 10 people, and it makes such a huge difference. it changes the gig, in my mind, completely, and it improves, it means you can do yourjokes with the correct timing. and, as we heard earlier, a live audience is vital in helping comedians to workshop new material. after all, barnstorming routines don't arrive fully formed. so i would be going out at least five nights a week to play tiny venues with a brand—new hour, you know, and they pay a very small amount of money and, i suppose, in a sense, that's what the tuesday night abc shows, it's £3, which we regret, that is a bit too low, but it's £3 of us tumbling through a string of ideas, some of which will turn into, hopefully, great and long—lasting routines that we do for the next year. james gill is the mc and warm—up for the couple, and he's found that there are certain hazards to having

an audience who are live in their own living rooms. two of our regulars, and they are such lovely people, but they got a dog, and so a couple of... again, you know, you don't get this at the palladium. but a couple of times, a comedian might be in the middle of a set, and you can hear... barks. so i know that tim, quick as a flash is finding that box, clicking mute. this is a different world for comedians who are so used to a microphone, a stage and very little else, and some are experimenting. # i am, isay...#. harry hill hides on the edge of his web shots. 56, it's 56, init? al murray's pub landlord character now preaches from a virtual beer cellar. straight on the van. and the virtual background video feature means that stuart laws is sometimes upstaged by himself during his gig. probably hp, but they are both brown sauces, leave it.

different sources for different courses. and some comedians have gone even more interactive. boop. boop! beautiful, great. this is how comedian monica gaga teaches improvisation in online lessons. she's also part of an online improv show called hell yeah where they line up, react, and improvise remotely with each other. she says it's a skill which is useful in life and work as well is on the stage. it's all of those key skills, like listening, being able to be open to failure, it's about listening to yourself and notjudging yourself, and also it's about playing and creativity, something that i find, as an adult, we kind of condition ourselves out of. if a situation happens and it's like, "i know what i'm doing," and all of a sudden, it changes, and that's not panic inducing for you, it means that whatever situation you are put into,

you're able to deal with it. comedy clubs are now starting to reopen, and the comedians that i've spoken to are gagging to get back to them but online gigs may just stick around. one thing that's come out of this is, i think, that when, and if, my tour comes back, i will have a digital date on the tour. also it means that anyone who wasn't able to get a babysitter that night or whatever, you know, or has anxiety, gets to go and see it as well. but if anyone can visit a gig anywhere in the world, it does cause a problem for comedians who are still honing their act. you're just blasting through material. when i do a tour, each night is special, and you can talk about where you are with the rest of it. broadly speaking, i do that same show every time with some stuff that's special to that night. you can't do that online, and therefore what you develop...

that's true. ..it can't get good in the same way. because you can't repeat it. but who knows? maybe a new generation of live comics will be borne out of this situation who can make the medium work in new ways. after all, how many gigs have you been to that and like this? # saturday night, saturday night, da da da dum.# and that's it for this week. we hope you've enjoyed the programme. as ever, you can keep up with the team on social media on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching, and we'll see you soon. bye— bye.

hello there. it's going to feel rather cool this weekend, certainly for the time of year, and that's because of where our air mass is coming from — from the north—west on a brisk breeze. that's going to feed in some showers into northern and western parts of uk, but there will be some sunshine around too. the winds maybe not quite as strong as what we had over the last few days. low pressure to the north—east of the uk, high pressure to the south—west, that's why we see these north—westerly winds, which will feed in showers from the word go across northern and western areas. some good spells of sunshine further east, mind you, but then we could see some longer spells of rain and more cloud pushing into northern ireland and then south—west scotland, north—west england, north wales through the day. some of these showers will be driving through the cheshire gap into the midlands. temperature—wise, 18 degrees at best in the sunshine in the south—east, generally the low—mid teens further north. now, through saturday night, it looks like a weather front will move into western areas to bring more prolonged showery rains through northern ireland and across the irish sea into wales and the south—west of england. there could be odd shower

elsewhere too, probably driest and clearest across south—east england and north—east scotland. but it's going to be another quite cool night. now, as we head on into sunday, you will see fewer isobars on the chart, so less windy, but we have had this weather front which would've been moving across the irish sea then pushing into england and wales during the course of sunday. that's going to enhance the shower activity for england and wales. there could be the odd heavy, maybe even thundery one. fewer showers for scotland and northern ireland, and more sunshine here. because the winds will be lighter, it might feel a degree or so warmer, a high of 19 degrees in the south—east. then, as we head on into next week monday, we see a new area of low pressure skirting to the north of the uk. that's going to bring some wet and windy weather to many northern parts of the uk. some of that rain getting into northern and western england and wales through the day, but not really reaching the south—east here. after a bit of a foggy start, it will tend to stay dry with variable cloud and some sunshine. notice the temperatures creeping up, especially in the south, a high of perhaps 21 degrees. that warmer air mass will be with us as we move

through tuesday and wednesday, as you can see with the deeper orange colours here. but it is short—lived — cooler air will make a return from the north by the end of the week. given some sunshine in the south, because it's going to be rather cloudy, i think, next week, we could see 211—25 degrees. but hen it cools down for all areas by the end of the week.

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