Samsung to reveal next-gen foldables, new gadgets at Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event in July

The South Korean tech giant's Galaxy Unpacked event, where it usually launches new smartphones and other gadgets, is reportedly taking place sometime in July, and for the first time, it will be held in South Korea's Seoul.

Seems like Samsung doesn't want to wait any longer to one up Apple, its rival in the tech industry. The South Korean tech giant's Galaxy Unpacked event, where it usually launches new smartphones and other gadgets, is reportedly taking place sometime in July, and for the first time, it will be held in South Korea's Seoul.

At the Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event, Samsung will be launching its next-generation of foldable smartphones along with other new products.

The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event will be held at the Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) in Samseong-dong. "This unique location offers the world an opportunity to experience the captivating blend of past, present and future that defines Seoul," Samsung said in a statement.So far, Samsung has held the Galaxy Unpacked in several key cities including New York, London, Barcelona and Berlin after kick starting the first event in March 2o10 in Las Vegas.

Seoul was chosen this year due to its influence on global trends through its innovative and dynamic culture, and it also shows Samsung's strong confidence in the foldable category. 

"The foldable category embodies Samsung's philosophy of delivering breakthrough innovation that pushes boundaries to reshape the future of mobile experiences," said TM Roh, President and Head of Mobile eXperience (MX) Business at Samsung Electronics.

"Hosting Unpacked in Seoul holds great significance both as it is a city that has become an emerging epicenter of innovation and culture as well as the foldable category," he added. Over the years, Samsung has improved its foldable smartphones and innovated the user experience since the release of the first Galaxy Fold in 2019.

 In February, Samsung held its last Galaxy Unpacked event in San Francisco to introduce three models of the Galaxy S23 series -- Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Plus and Galaxy S23 Ultra -- and Galaxy Book3 laptops, among others.

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Samsung Updates Android Nougat Beta For Galaxy S7 Devices

Samsung Updates Android Nougat Beta For Galaxy S7 Devices

Samsung announced the beta release of Android 7.0 Nougat for its 2016 Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge devices a week ago in three important smartphone markets: the United Kingdom, United States of America and South Korea. Beta programs are designed to allow customers or users to experience an unfinished product so as to provide feedback to the company. For a major software version such as Android Nougat, a developer – or in this case the smartphone manufacturer – will conduct a large number of internal tests, but because smartphones are both extremely complicated and customers can download and install large numbers of third party applications, it is useful to allow the pre-release version of the operating system to be tested “in the wild.” This way, Samsung can hope to capture many different device configurations and uncover bugs and glitches that might otherwise not be found until the software is officially released.

Samsung introduces 4TB SSD

Samsung introduces 4TB SSD for a cool $1,500

Samsung Solid State Drive

Traditional spinning hard drives have typically enjoyed two advantages over their solid-state brethren. They’re vastly cheaper in terms of their cost-per-GB, and they could hold far more information in a single enclosure. Both of these advantages have been steadily eroded over the past few years as SSD costs have fallen and capacities have increased, but hard drives have still eked out a win in both categories (at least at price points that consumers are going to pay).

Bit by bit, however, SSDs have closed the gap. Samsung’s new 4TB SSD is a $1,500 solid state drive that aims to replace your HDD altogether, provided you’ve got four figures to drop on a storage medium in the first place. Samsung’s TLC-based 850 EVO combines a 40nm process node with 48-layer vertical NAND (aka 3D NAND). Anandtech had a chance to put the drive through a battery of tests and reports that it performs well, even if it doesn’t break any particular new ground beyond price.

With SSD prices continuing to fall year-on-year thanks to 3D stacked NAND, why bother buying a hard drive at all? In a word: Price. 4TB HDDs currently sell for as little as $100, which puts them in the 2.5 cents per GB market. A 4TB SSD comes out at $1,500 — 15x as much money, and a cost-per-GB ratio of 37.5 cents per GB. That’s not bad at all for SSDs, which were $1 per GB not so long ago, but it’s still a vast gulf to cross as far as high-capacity drives are concerned. Keep in mind, these are retail prices; manufacturers negotiating with Western Digital or Seagate can undoubtedly get much better deals on a cost-per-GB basis.

SSDs have gradually become more common in lower-end systems, but not as quickly as one might expect. Apple may have moved to an all-SSD distribution, but most companies haven’t followed suit yet — plenty of systems are still either based on HDDs or use cache drives to improve performance without adding much to overall costs. Long term, we still expect SSDs to replace spinning disks for most tasks, but the hard drive still has some life in yet. Meanwhile, if you’re lucky enough to have the money to drop on an SSD and need 4TB worth of storage, the 850 EVO looks like a great option.

Incidentally, it looks like 3-6TB drives are all in the sweet spot between 2 cents and 2.5 cents per GB if you’re willing to buy white-label (off-brand) drives. These are drives created for the OEM market that aren’t branded by the manufacturer but are sold to OEMs like Dell, HP, and other builders. Name-brand drives cost significantly more than the white label drives Newegg currently stocks, but it’s not clear if there’s any performance or reliability differences between these products and other hardware (other than potentially different warranty terms).




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Samsung Gear Fit 2

How to set up your Samsung Gear Fit 2

The process is a bit different depending on the manufacturer of your Android device. Here's what you need to know.

You just got your hands on the shiny new Samsung Gear Fit 2. You've unboxed it, charged it up, and drooled over the screen -- it sure is pretty. Now what? Set it up and start exercising, of course.

Or if you're on the fence about buying the Gear Fit 2, be sure to read through CNET's review for the ins and outs of Samsung's latest wearable.

The setup process for the Gear Fit 2 will vary depending on whether you're using a Samsung device, or an Android device made by a competing manufacture.

Setup on any ol' Android phone

Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET

The Gear Fit 2 will work with any Android device running Android 4.4 and above. The first thing you'll need to do is install the Samsung Gear app from the Play store.

With the app installed, follow the prompts to connect your phone and the Fit 2 via Bluetooth. During the process you'll see a few different prompts asking you to install three total apps in addition to the Samsung Gear app: S Health, Samsung Accessory Service and Gear Fit 2 Plugin. You can install the apps ahead of time to speed up the setup process.

These apps are required for the Fit 2 to interact and work properly with your device. It's annoying having to bounce between the Play store and the Gear app to finish the setup process, but there's not much we can do about it.

Setup on a Galaxy phone

The process for setting up a Samsung product on a Samsung device is a bit more streamlined than a competing Android phone. To begin, you'll need to open the Galaxy Apps app on your phone and install the Samsung Gear app if it's not already installed. Even if the Gear app is installed, odds are there will be a pending update.

With the Gear app installed or updated, launch it and follow the prompts. Once gain, you'll need to install additional apps and services but instead of having to manually install each one your phone will handle the process on its own.

You're not quite done yet

Just before you finish the setup process, you'll need to go through the list of installed apps on your phone and check the box next to each one you want the Gear app to push alerts to your wrist. One thing to watch for is the lack of the Gear app automatically activating the default SMS application on your device; find it in the list and check its box.
Now that you have the Fit 2 and your phone talking to one another and playing nice, take a second and update the apps that are currently installed on the Gear.

Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET

To update the included Gear Fit 2 apps:

Launch Samsung Gear app.
Under "Get new apps" tap on Samsung Galaxy Apps.
You can tall which apps have an update waiting thanks to the two arrows forming a circle (for lack of a better name) to the right of each app's icon. Open each app, and update.
That wasn't too bad, now was it? Now it's time to figure out just how to use it.


source: www.cnet.com

Samsung plotting two bendable smartphones for 2017

Samsung plotting two bendable smartphones for 2017, report says

One of the two rumoured mobiles is said to fold in half like a makeup compact.

Two new Samsung phones with folding screens could be unveiled next year, if reports concerning the South Korean tech giant's smartphone plans are to be believed.

Samsung is mulling the release of two smartphones with bendable screens as soon as next year, according to a report in Bloomberg, which cites anonymous sources "familiar with the matter."

One of the phones, which could reportedly see the light of day in early 2017, is said to fold in half like a makeup compact. The other could serve as a 5-inch smartphone, but fold out into a larger tablet-style gadget.

Samsung's official comment is, "We can't comment on market speculation." It's sensible to take this rumour with a pinch or two of salt, but Samsung certainly has form when it comes to pushing the boundaries of display tech. We were great fans of the company's S7 Edge smartphone , which features two curved edges at the sides of the screen. 
Meanwhile Samsung has been showing off futuristic curving screens as far back as 2013.

source: Cnet