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November 2024 Samsung Health Data SDK: Unlock Health Data Insights
We are proud to introduce the newly released Samsung Health Data SDK, which is an innovative tool that helps developers to integrate health insights into their applications. The Health Data SDK lets you integrate different data including sleep, activity level, and heart rate. You can provide customized health experiences that ultimately enhance user support, engagement, in-depth analysis, and overall user health based on the data. Learn more about the Samsung Health Data SDK that provides data-driven insights benefiting users throughout their health journey.
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Our One UI Design Guidelines for application developers have been updated. The latest design system changes for One UI including changes to Home screen and notifications are included in this update. It also includes application design guidelines and related use cases for providing an optimized user experience for a variety of devices such as Galaxy tablets, Fold, and Flip. Read through the new design guidelines to design your application to be optimized for different devices.
Learn more SDC24 Korea Hosted Online on November 21
Samsung Developer Conference Korea (SDC24 Korea) was successfully held on November 21. Having started with the CTO's opening speech, the event included keynote speeches from prominent speakers about Samsung Electronics' achievements in generative AI technology research & development and enhancement of the user experience on software and device platforms.
Over 29 in-depth tech sessions took place as well as some interesting small events. Moreover, the event built on the Samsung Developer Conference 2024 (SDC24) held in the USA on October 3, creating a lively platform for exchange where the participants could learn, share, and connect through a wealth of content. Watch the videos on the official SDC24 website (www.sdc-korea.com).
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At the recently concluded Samsung Developer Conference 2024 (SDC24), one of the standout programs was the Code Lab, where attendees could try different hands-on labs and dive deep into the latest Samsung SDKs and tools. The Code Lab covered a wide range of technologies, including SmartThings, Samsung Health, Samsung Wallet, and Automotive. Check out the Code Lab highlights from SDC24.
Learn more Tutorial: Maintain Galaxy Store Compatibility for Unity Games with Play Asset Delivery (PAD)
The Unity game engine is one of the leading engines for Android game development. It allows developers to take advantage of Android application bundle format features such as Play Asset Delivery (PAD). However, since PAD is exclusive to Google Play, uploading Unity games using PAD to Galaxy Store without any changes may cause various issues.
This tutorial walks you through the implementation of PAD in your Unity Games while maintaining compatibility with the Galaxy Store. It discusses how to implement PAD properly in Unity games and make simple changes to make them compatible with Galaxy Store. The changes required to make existing games compatible with PAD are also covered. Click the link below to learn more.
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SmartThings At SmartThings, we’re committed to making it quick and easy for you to become part of our ecosystem. We are excited to introduce our latest certification features: Product Cloning and Certification by Similarity.
Many smart home device manufacturers have product portfolios across various categories. These products may have different colors, shapes, or differences in specifications by country but are often essentially similar. However, getting them all certified one by one can be time-consuming and costly. Product Cloning and Certification by Similarity were developed to make it easier, faster, and cheaper to obtain the Works with SmartThings certification. Click the link below to learn more.
Learn more Blind Face Video Restoration with Temporally Consistent Generative Prior and Degradation-Aware Prompt
In real-world scenarios, both face images and videos may suffer from various types of degradation, such as downsampling, noise, blur, and compression. Blind Face Restoration (BFR) is a challenging task that aims to restore low-quality face images and videos that suffer from unknown degradation. Existing BFR methods have used facial priors such as reference prior, geometry prior, and generative prior in the network structure to perform restoration. However, they mostly focused on blind face image restoration (BFIR) with still images and have not been fully utilized for video restoration.
In this study, we present a new method called Stable Blind Face Video Restoration (StableBFVR). With StableBFVR, we have introduced temporal layers in the Stable Diffusion model that can preserve temporal consistency. The temporal layers are designed using two core technologies: Shift-Resblock that handles long-term information, and Nearby-Frame Attention that utilizes short-term information. Find out more about StableBFVR and how it performs better than existing methods at the Samsung Research blog.
Learn more SAMSEMO: New Dataset for Multilingual and Multimodal Emotion Recognition
Multimodal emotion recognition, recently gaining popularity, is a study area that analyzes a variety of communication signals including images, voices, and text in a multilateral way. However, the list of large-scale multimodal datasets is very short and the available datasets have various limitations. Hence, Samsung R&D Institute Poland presents a new dataset for multimodal and multilingual emotion recognition: Samsung Multimodal and Multilingual Dataset for Emotion Recognition (SAESEMO).
SAESEMO contains over 23,000 video scenes in 5 languages (Korean, English, German, Spanish, and Polish) collected from diverse sources. All video scenes are accompanied with rich metadata and emotion connotations collected manually. The study also analyzes balance and energy of audio features for the most important emotion classes and compares them with CMU-MOSEI data. Moreover, it carries out multimodal experiments for emotion recognition with SAESEMO and shows how to use a multilingual model to improve the detection of imbalanced classes. Learn more at the Samsung Research blog.
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Most existing FWA systems operate in Frequency Range 1 (FR1), meaning frequencies of 6 GHz or below. However, using Frequency Range 2 (FR2), which uses frequencies ranging from 24.25 to 71 GHz, can help improve FWS coverage and data demands. This article discusses key technology innovations that enable improved coverage and capacity for FR2-based FWA systems of 5G and 6G. Learn more at the Samsung Research blog.
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Samsung will take the stage in its home country later this week to unveil the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5 foldables. This marks the first time the summer Unpacked event is being held at home rather than in an international market. It’s also the first time the mid-summer Unpacked press conference will take place in July rather than August or September.
I thought the arrival of Google’s Pixel Fold might have scared Samsung into moving up the launch event. But what if Samsung is really looking to deal with the iPhone ticking time bomb at home by looking to launch the new foldables as soon as possible?
Until this year, Samsung has had virtually no competition in the foldables space since the first Galaxy Fold. Samsung could take its time to upgrade the Fold and Flip each year without delivering massive redesigns. But Chinese vendors started putting pressure on Samsung in previous years. And some of those devices launched in Europe and other international markets in early 2023.
The Google Pixel Fold is perhaps the biggest threat to Samsung’s dominant position in the industry despite some of its obvious faults.
Samsung is responding to these threats with the kind of big Fold and Flip design updates we’ve been waiting for. The Fold 5 will be slimmer than before, thanks to a no-gap hinge. The Flip 5 will feature a large external display occupying almost the entire surface of one of the phone’s halves.
Google Pixel Fold smartphone unfolded. Image source: Jonathan S. Geller, BGR On top of that, Samsung set its Unpacked press event for July 26th, the earliest date ever. As a reminder, this Unpacked event used to be the home of the Galaxy Note series. And it used to happen in early September before Samsung detached it from the German IFA tradeshow. The reason Samsung went to early August was the iPhone’s early September launch which would routinely obliterate Note sales.
All that is to say that Samsung might be worried about increased competition in the foldables space. But the iPhone might be the real reason it’s focusing on the Korean market.
The big iPhone problem
Samsung might want to make an impression on a specific category of smartphone buyers in its home market. Per The Korea Herald, a new Gallup survey shows that young adults in the country prefer the iPhone overwhelmingly to a Samsung phone.
The study indicates that Samsung is the main smartphone vendor in Korea, with 69% of adults owning a Galaxy phone. Only 23% of respondents have an iPhone.
But younger millennials and Gen Z like the iPhone increasingly more than Samsung phones. In the 30-39 age group, 41% of respondents have an iPhone. The percentage goes to 60% in the 18-29 group.
Samsung vs. iPhone market share in Korea for different age groups. Image source: Gallup Korea via The Korea Herald This is a major problem for Samsung. These young adults are growing with the iPhone and the entire ecosystem of apps and hardware. Switching from iPhone to Android becomes increasingly difficult the more you use the products.
As a longtime iPhone user, I can attest to that. I’ve been on iPhone and Mac for over a decade, and there’s nothing to make me switch to a different combo. And I was in the 18-29 group when I started using Apple for my main computing needs.
The young adults who bought iPhone over Samsung cited Apple’s premium branding as one of the reasons. They’d buy the iPhone even if the same storage device is more expensive than the Galaxy S equivalent. For example, the 128GB iPhone 14 costs 1,250,000 won in the country, or $980. The Galaxy S23 is 100,000 won ($78) cheaper.
Various Galaxy Fold 4 and Flip 4 foldable phones. Image source: Samsung Apple Pay, which arrived in Korea earlier this year, is another factor that convinces young adults to buy iPhones.
The study also says that 85% of respondents say they are likely to stick with their current brand. That’s great for Samsung in the older groups. But if young adults stay with iPhone, we might be looking at decades of problems for Samsung. Especially if the teenage generation in Korea positions itself in favor of the iPhone. That wouldn’t be a surprise if their parents also use iPhones.
The unsung heroes in this survey are the older smartphone users who still have LG phones. LG is no longer making Android handsets, of course.
Samsung is apparently aware of the iPhone problem. The Herald says the Korean giant opened a flagship retail store in Gangnam last month, branding it a “playground for millennials and Gen Z.” The store is less than a kilometer away from Apple Gangnam store.
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The global smartphone market suffered its fifth consecutive quarterly decline, falling by 12% YoY in Q1 2023, according to a Canalys survey. That said, iPhone sales have grown year over year from 18% to 21% due to the solid demand for the iPhone 14 Pro series after supply constraints made the company sell fewer models during the last holiday quarter.
Another interesting piece of information regards Samsung, which was the only leading vendor to achieve a quarter-on-quarter recovery and struggled back to number one with a 22% market share. That said, the South Korean company still sold fewer phones than last year when it had 24% of the market share.
“The smartphone market’s decline in the first quarter of 2023 was within expectations throughout the industry,” said Canalys Analyst Sanyam Chaurasia. “The local macroeconomic conditions continued to hinder vendors’ investments and operations in several markets. Despite price cuts and heavy promotions from vendors, consumer demand remained sluggish, particularly in the low-end segment due to high inflation affecting consumer confidence and spending.”
While Canalys predicts the inventory of the smartphone industry can reach a relatively healthy level by the end of the second quarter of 2023, it’s still too early to predict the recovery of overall consumer demand.
Image source: Canalys Of all the top vendors, only Apple and OPPO had a YoY increase with their flagship phones during the first trimester. Samsung and Xiaomi had a decrease in market share, and Vivo retained its 8% from last year.
“The sell-in volume of the global smartphone market is expected to improve due to the reduction in inventories in the next few quarters. In addition, vendors have focused more on innovations and raising production and channel efficiencies after a round of fluctuations, shifting from growing for volumes and shares to growing for quality. 5G popularization and foldable phones are also becoming the new driving forces in the industry,” said Chaurasia.
For Apple, the company could be preparing for new highs with the iPhone 15 series. Without the fear of supply constraints for another quarter, the company is still selling iPhone 14 models while preparing a solid lineup of four new iPhone versions.
With a new design, better cameras, and processors, the Cupertino firm could see a new high during the holiday quarter later this year, which could also positively impact the first quarter of next year.
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By BGR
Over the last year, BGR has highlighted differences between the Samsung Galaxy S23, Apple iPhone 14, and Google Pixel 7. In the latest analysis by SellCell, the company looked at depreciation data between these smartphone lineups since their launches.
While consumers need to know which new phone has the best camera, battery, or processor, eventually, they will plan to sell their old smartphone for a new model. But when the time comes, which smartphone holds the best value?
Like previous reports, the iPhone 14 retains the most value, while Samsung’s S23 lineup averages 40% lower resale prices, and Google Pixel 7 models are 48% weaker than the iPhone 14 prices. That said, the latest iPhone model is worth 5.7% less than the iPhone 13 after six months, with the 14-series depreciating by 31.5% while the 13-series was at 25.8% in the same timeframe.
For Galaxy S23 owners, the worst phone to be sold is the Ultra with 1TB. It lost 55.6% of its value in the two months since its launch. On the other hand, the best Galaxy S23 is the Plus model with 256GB. It regained some of its lost value, and it’s worth 36.4% less after two months of its launch.
Image source: sellcell One of the sellcell charts shows that the iPhone 14 Pro Max with 128GB version held the best value after two months of its launch, losing 13.6% of its total price. It’s followed by the base-model iPhone 14 with 29% of depreciation, its Plus version, and then the regular Pro model.
The Galaxy S23 Plus with 256GB appears next, followed by the Pixel 7 Pro. The phone with the most depreciation was the Pixel 7 with 128GB, which lost 44.7% in two months.
The full report can be found here. It highlights the different storage options between the Galaxy S23, iPhone 14, and Pixel 7 lineups and which could be better for you to buy or resell.
Don't Miss: Galaxy S23 Ultra beats iPhone 14 Pro Max and Pixel 7 Pro in hardcore performance testThe post Samsung Galaxy phones depreciate much faster than iPhone models after launch appeared first on BGR.
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