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Kamis, 01 Mei 2014

Samsung’s apps aren’t appreciated by application samsung galaxy s

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Samsung’s Galaxy branded devices might run Android, but it’s no secret that the company has worked hard to differentiate its software experience from the competition by adding its own custom touches. Beyond just providing a unique ‘look and feel’ through TouchWiz, Samsung has went so far as to create its own ecosystem of apps that often rival services offered by Google and by popular 3rd party app developers.
Although some of Samsung’s apps are well-appreciated by Galaxy fans, others feel that Samsung’s continued push towards bundled apps adds up to nothing more than a bloated smartphone experience — especially since many of these included apps can’t be deleted without root access.
it’s no secret that the company has worked hard to differentiate its software experience from the competition by adding its own custom touches
The big question is whether or not the average user actually utilizes the bundled apps that Samsung includes. With this in mind, research firm Strategy Analytics recently conducted a study that tracked more than 250 U.S.-based users of the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy S4 to get a better feel for what apps Samsung owners use the most. Although 250 users isn’t a large number, it’s enough for the research firm to form a rough picture.
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The results? Strategy Analytics noted that some of the most popular apps among these users included Facebook, Instragram, Youtube and Twitter. Facebook commanded roughly 664 minutes of monthly use, 151 minutes for Instagram, 146.7 minutes for Youtube and 47.4 minutes for Twitter. To likely no one’s surprise, Google Play and Google Search were also high up on the list.
As for Samsung’s apps? ChatOn only commanded six seconds of use per month on average, and apps like Hub, Link, S Memo and S Voice didn’t fare much better. Other apps like S Health weren’t even specifically mentioned, though were apparently included in the broader “Samsung apps” category found within the chart above.
If Strategy Anayltics study is correct, it makes it rather clear that, despite Samsung’s best attempts, Samsung’s ecosystem takes a backseat position to Google’s own apps and to popular 3rd party apps and services found on Google Play.
What’s your own take? Based on your own experience, do you find Samsung’s included apps to be welcome additions that further enhance your Android experience? Vote in the poll and tell us what you think in the comments below.

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Sabtu, 26 April 2014

Samsung’s no-cost ad-free Milk Music isn’t ad free after all

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A month ago Samsung introduced its own radio streaming service powered by Slacker, under the odd name of Milk Music. At the time it was announced as an ad-free experience with no subscription costs and the ability to skip up to 6 songs in hour. The only catch was that the service was only compatible with a few select Galaxy devices.

Fast-forwarding to today, Samsung has apparently changed its mind on the whole ‘free’ part. While the service will continue to be offered, Samsung isn’t giving it away for nothing anymore, and has formally announced its plans to bring ads to the service.

Let’s be honest, this is an annoying move, especially since the service was only announced a month ago. Of course, we can’t say we are surprised,offering free unlimited radio with no ads seemed too good to be true at the time — and we were right.

For those that don’t mind putting up with ads, Milk Music is still free to use and could possibly be worth keeping around. For those that can’t stand ads? Samsung will offer a $4 monthly subscription that removes the ads and is said to bring a few premium features, though Samsung hasn’t specified what exactly. Hopefully the subscription at least gives us unlimited skips.

Anyone currently using Milk Music? Will Samsung’s addition of ads and a ‘premium’ subscription drive you away?

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Selasa, 15 April 2014

Apple closes the gap on Samsung’s advertising budget

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The US smartphone market is a big competitive business, to keep yourself ahead of the pack you have to spend big bucks on making sure that consumers know about your products. Samsung is still the biggest spender on advertising in the US, but it’s rival, Apple, is quickly closing the gap.

Research conducted by Kantar Media shows that Samsung spent a $68 million more on advertising than Apple in 2012, but last year the gap closed to just $12 million. This swing came from a combination of Samsung dialing back its ad spending, whilst Apple embarked on an expensive TV-led campaign.

As for the actual figures, Samsung splashed about $363 million on US phone ads, down 10 percent from 2012’s cost of $401 million. Samsung was also the only smartphone company to cut its advertising budget last year. Apple, on the other hand, spent around $351 million on phone advertising in 2013, up 5 percent from $333 million in the previous year. As a side note, Apple spent more on TV ads in 2013 than it spent on all advertising in 2012.

To give you an idea of just how big the smartphone advertising market is, seven of the biggest smartphone manufacturers spent a little over $1.3 billion on advertisements in the US last year. This covers a wide range of advertising mediums, including TV, print, radio, and online ads. Total spending for 2013 was up a staggering 33 percent from 2012, when manufacturers spent roughly $1 billion on advertising.

It probably comes as no surprise in this day and age that spending on telecommunication ads — that’s TV and internet content — is growing the fastest. Spending in this sector grew by 8 percent through 2013, which is nine times faster than the wider US ad industry’s growth figure of just 0.9 percent.

2013 Ad Spending

Samsung’s and Apple’s ad budgets dwarf those of the five other largest spenders.

As for the other big US spenders, Nokia came in third place and was the company which increased its spending by the largest amount year over year. Nokia paid out $221 million in 2013, which is 15 times the amount that the company spent in 2012. Motorola was a similarly high spender, throwing $189 million into the advertising pot. The company tripled its ad spending following the acquisition by Google in mid-2012.

Blackberry, HTC, and LG form up the lower ranks of the seven largest spenders, purchasing $90 million, $76 million, and $46 million worth of advertisements respectively.

With such huge budgets dedicated just to advertising products, it’s easy to see why many smartphone companies are starting to feel a pinch in their profits. But I suppose the most important thing is that all this money spent on advertising appears to be working. Well, at least most of the time.

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Senin, 14 April 2014

Why is Samsung’s breakthrough in graphene research so promising for next generation electronics?

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Samsung has announced some great news, they’ve made a breakthrough in graphene manufacturing. Graphene is that magical carbon substance that is destined to provide the world with next generation efficiency and flexibility for electronic components, such as flexible displays and wearable technology.

The Samsung partnership between the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, has figured out a way to produce large amounts of graphene using methods that could prove economical to full scale commercial manufacturing. As the cost to create graphene has been the largest barrier to its use in everyday electronics, this is a breakthrough that we should all be pleased about.

Why is this important?

As we demand more and more out of our everyday electronics like smartphones, tablets, and especially wearables like smartwatches, manufacturers face constant limitations of current building materials. Silicon is the predominant material utilized to build the individual electronic components within your favorite touchscreen enabled devices. As compared to silicon, graphene is said to have one hundred times the electron mobility. The use of graphene as a replacement for silicon would result in a faster, cooler and more efficient flow of electricity within our devices.

In addition to the electrical conductivity benefits of graphene, its physical makeup allows it to be extremely flexible and durable. In fact, it can stretch upwards of 20% of its initial length and is up to 300 times more durable than steel. As an added bonus, it has high heat conductivity as well. Basically, you would have to balance the weight of an elephant onto a pin-point to damage the one atom thick sheet of graphene.

“This is one of the most significant breakthroughs in graphene research in history. We expect this discovery to accelerate the commercialization of graphene, which could unlock the next era of consumer electronic technology.” - SAIT Labs

All of these characteristics make graphene the ideal material to build next generation flexible displays, flexible devices, vastly improved individual electronic components and much more.

What is graphene exactly?

Simply put, graphene is a one atom thick sheet of carbon atoms. Graphene measures in at 0.33nm, that’s almost one million times thinner than a human hair, 97.7% transparent and is made of carbon, which is far less expensive than the rare earth materials used in most current electronics manufacturing.

Although ideally suited to the production of flexible displays, graphene has been used to build ultra capacitors, faster transistors and processors and other nanotechnology. We took a good look at graphene, in relation to flexible displays, I encourage you to check that out here.

So, what exactly is Samsung’s breakthrough with graphene?

Samsung calls the new method “wafer-scale growth of single-crystal monolayer graphene on
reusable hydrogen-terminated germanium.”

Traditionally, graphene has proven difficult, and therefore expensive, to produce. This has been due almost exclusively to the fact that producing graphene, especially in larger contiguous sheets, required a destructive process to transfer the material from its production environment over to the components it is being used to help build. The next biggest difficulty is actually growing graphene from individual ‘seeds,’ as they call them, into a single sheet.

Graphene Single Sheet Growth

In the science journal, Science Magazine and ScienceExpress, Samsung describes their new process of uniform growth of single-crystal graphene over wafer-scale areas. They focus on how graphene could be made commercially viable through their new etch-free dry transfer technique that allows them to re-use the production environment for further graphene growth. Previous methods required a liquid based transfer of the graphene, but now, the germanium substrate layer that graphene is produced on top of can be re-used for continual growth of graphene, instead of being destroyed in the transfer process. Here is the abstract introduction to the science journal, just for a good read.

ABSTRACTThe uniform growth of single-crystal graphene over wafer-scale areas remains a challenge in the commercial-level manufacturability of various electronic, photonic, mechanical, and other devices based on graphene. Here, we describe wafer-scale growth of wrinkle-free single-crystal monolayer graphene on silicon wafer using a hydrogen-terminated germanium buffer layer. The anisotropic twofold symmetry of the germanium (110) surface allowed unidirectional alignment of multiple seeds, which were merged to uniform single-crystal graphene with predefined orientation. Furthermore, the weak interaction between graphene and underlying hydrogen-terminated germanium surface enabled the facile etch-free dry transfer of graphene and the recycling of the germanium substrate for continual graphene growth.

The final result is larger and far more efficient production of graphene sheets. With this technique, Samsung could enable the use of graphene in our commercially available everyday electronics. Stronger, more energy and heat efficient flexible touchscreens and devices are all possible.

What’s next?

Companies like Nokia, which invested $1.36 billion into graphene research last year, and schools like the University of Manchester, with £50 million from the UK and EU governments, have nearly ten thousand patent applications filed for graphene research. Even then, graphene requires a lot more innovation before it can be produced economically at scale.

Samsung’s breakthrough in graphene production helps overcome one of the major hurdles that has been preventing widespread adoption of graphene in electronics manufacturing. However, it is not mentioned what overall cost savings are expected, nor at what scale the new techniques will allow graphene to be produced. We’ll be anxiously awaiting the next steps that Samsung takes to bring graphene to the market. 

So, Samsung Fingers – April Fools’ Day joke, or product teaser?

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