Samsung has been growing the number of displays it sells over the last few years, adding professional-grade and gaming monitors to its line-up. Now, Samsung is attempting to add another category to its list – Smart Monitors. Samsung's Smart Monitor range is expanding this week, with a new 43-inch 4K …
Read More »Samsung announces the Gear S2 smart watch
Samsung is bringing Tizen to smart-watches with its new circular Gear S2. Samsung announced its latest device at the IFA press conference and as we can see, the watch has clearly taken some design tips from the Moto 360, which was the first circular Android Wear smart watch. On top …
Read More »Samsung’s Tizen OS will be making its way to Smart TVs this year
Samsung's Tizen operating system has been in development for some time, originally for smartphones. However, now it looks like the OS will also be making its way over to smart TVs in hopes that it will make it easier for TVs to connect to other devices. Samsung announced the move …
Read More »Samsung Z1 Tizen smartphone to launch next month
Samsung has sat on its Tizen mobile operating system for an awfully long time since its initial unveiling but it looks like the company is willing to finally launch its own smartphone powered by the home-made software. The Samsung Z1 will supposedly launch next month, running Tizen. There were some …
Read More »TAG Heuer mulls smartwatch-related acquisitions and partnerships
TAG Heuer, a leading timepiece brand, understands all the potential challenges that emerging smartwatches bring to it. As a result, the company is serious about not only releasing their own smartwatches, but competing against consumer electronics companies head to head. While this means serious approach that will lead to a …
Read More »TAG Heuer’s smartwatch to feature Intel chip inside – report
TAG Heuer, a leading Swiss watchmaker, plans to announce its first smartwatch as early as next month and intends to use an Intel system-on-chip inside the device, according to a media report. The fact that the manufacturer of fine timepieces decided to integrate an Intel processor into its first smart …
Read More »Intel teams up with Luxottica for premium smart eyewear, wearable gadgets
Google Glass 2 will not be the only smart eyewear based on silicon from Intel Corp. as the company has just signed a multi-year deal with Luxottica Group, a company that owns multiple premium and luxury eyewear brands. Starting next year we could see Google Glass-like devices from brands like …
Read More »Samsung shifts resources from smartphones to other projects
Less than a month after reporting lower-than-expected revenues and profits because of challenges on the market of smartphones, Samsung Electronics is reconsidering its investments in development of handsets. Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones and smartphones, has the broadest family of smartphones among all suppliers. While this …
Read More »Apple Watch to grab 35% of wearables market in 2015
Many analysts expect the market of wearable computing devices to grow significantly next year after Apple launches its Watch. The stylish timepiece will allow the company to grab a significant share on the market of wearables. Still, the Android operating system (in different forms) will continue to almost dominate the …
Read More »Samsung introduces smartwatch with phone capabilities, curved display
Samsung Electronics on Thursday introduced its Gear S, the world’s first smartwatch with smartphone capabilities, including voice calling. The Gear S comes with a stylish curved AMOLED display and seems to be considerably more advanced compared to all of its predecessors. The Samsung Gear S is not just a companion …
Read More »Huawei: Windows Phone-based phones ‘on hold’, Tizen has no chances
Huawei is one of the fastest-growing smartphone vendor in the world. Last year the company shipped 52 million smartphones and this year it aims to sell 80 million units. At present the company only sells phones based on Google Android operating system and despite obvious risks the firm has no …
Read More »Samsung delays launch of Tizen smartphone due to lack of programs
Samsung Electronics has once again decided to delay commercial launch of its Galaxy Z smartphone based on the Tizen operating system. The new postponement was conditioned by the lack of programs for the smartphone. “To further enhance the Tizen ecosystem, Samsung plans to postpone the launch of Samsung Z in …
Read More »Google not happy with Samsung’s wearables based on Tizen OS
Since Samsung Electronics is the largest maker of smartphones based on the Android operating system, it is a strategically important partner of Google. Since the search giant pins a lot of hopes on Samsung, it is naturally very frustrated that the South Korean company invests into Tizen operating system in …
Read More »Samsung: Tizen will be an operating system for everything
The open-source Tizen operating system, which is jointly developed by Intel Corp., Samsung Electronics and a number of other hardware and software companies, yet has to prove that it can be competitive against Google’s Android and Microsoft Corp.’s Windows. Samsung appears to be a strong believer in the OS. The …
Read More »Samsung unveils Tizen-based smartphone with Intel chip inside
Samsung Electronics on Monday introduced the world’s first smartphone based on the Tizen operating system. The new Samsung Z smartphone will help the company to lower its dependence on Google Android platform that powers the majority of Samsung’s handsets and tablets. The Tizen will also aid Samsung to offer unique …
Read More »Samsung captures 70 per cent of emerging smart-watch market
While Samsung Electronics was not the first to market with its own smartwatch, it managed to capture 70 per cent of the smart-watch market in the first quarter of this year, according to Strategy Analytics. While the market of such devices is on an early stage of development, it is …
Read More »Samsung to unleash its ‘Gear Glass’ smart eyewear this September
At present when it comes to wearable electronics gadgets, all eyes are on smart-watches, smart-bands and other similar devices, which are already available on the market. A lot of people are interested in Google Glass are watching in different directions since it is not available. Now it seems like they …
Read More »Samsung sells-out initial batch of Gear Fit smart-watch in 10 days
While wearable electronics gadgets in general and smart-watches in particular remain a mystery for the vast majority of users, the interest towards such gadgets seem to be growing. A media report claims that Samsung Electronics has sold-out the first batch of the Gear Fit smart-band, the most affordable product of …
Read More »Samsung preps high-end, mainstream phones based on Tizen
Samsung Electronics said this week that was working on two smartphones based on Tizen operating system. The company said that thus far it had delayed introductions of Tizen-based handsets due to various reasons, but in the second quarter of 2014 it would introduce two models on select markets. Samsung planned …
Read More »Samsung readies smartwatch with integrated SIM card
Samsung Electronics is working on a version of its Gear smartwatch with integrated SIM card. The device will allow to make phone calls directly from the watch and will eliminate the need for joint operation of Gear smart-watches with Samsung handsets. While the decision to create “independent” smart watch seems …
Read More »Samsung’s smart-watches may work with other makers’ smartphones
Samsung Electronics’ Gear smart-watches seem to be rather promising solutions for those who want to have an additional mobile companion device that monitors things like heart-rate. Unfortunately, they only work with Samsung’s own Galaxy smartphones at present. However, that might change in the future. The Samsung Gear 2 and Gear …
Read More »Samsung introduces two new Gear 2 smart-watches
Samsung Electronics has introduced two new smart-watches at the Mobile World Congress 2014 trade-show. The Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo have become more powerful and more independent than their predecessor launched just about half a year ago. The devices now run a special version of Tizen operating system and …
Read More »Tizen association gets 15 new members, still no hardware
Tizen Association, an industry consortium that supports the development of an open source Tizen software platform and operating system, last week announced that it had been joined by 15 new members. The expansion of the Tizen team will likely speed up its adoption and will make the platform more competitive …
Read More »Samsung will launch multiple Tizen devices this year
Tizen is another open source mobile platform, similar to Google's Android, that is instead maintained by a primary decision making group. As you might have guessed from the title, one half of this governing body is Samsung; the other is Intel. Other partners include Huawei, Panasonic and the United States' …
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