Samsung Debuts Galaxy S 4 Smartphone

With hundreds waiting in line and hundreds of thousands watching online, Samsung unveiled the flagship smartphone in its lineup, the Galaxy S4, at what seemed to be the center of the universe ,Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

If Apple has long been renowned for throwing spectacular events, Samsung proved itself equal to the task. Where Apple relied on the sheer charisma and magnetic personality of Steve Jobs in a black turtleneck, Samsung went for pizzazz, enlisting the talent of a myriad of dancers, a full orchestra and extravagant sets, at one point, a car was suspended sideways in midair , during the highly choreographed event. 

Radio City was packed with not just the media but also fans of the new kid on the block.

Samsung wasted little time before revealing its new flagship phone, accompanied with the tagline, “life companion.” More than just a smartphone, Samsung pushed the idea that the new Galaxy S4 is a constant friend, a willing companion and able assistant.

"For each of us, life is a journey. What you want is a device that can help us on the journey,” Samsung's CEO JK Shin said on stage later adding that “We will make life richer, simpler, and fuller.” (Shin proved himself a showman as well, though perhaps no Jobs; he appeared as several different characters throughout the hour-long, staged unveiling event.)

The smartphone will be available at the end of April in 155 countries, although Samsung did not reveal the price yet. Sprint immediately announced plans to carry the device, though it did not say when. 

“Sprint is excited to bring the benefit of Truly Unlimited 4G LTE data to the U.S. variant of Galaxy S 4 in the second quarter of this year,” Fared Adib, senior vice president of product development, said in a statement.

As expected, the phone is best in class against most quantifiable measures.

“It’s slimmer, yet stronger,” Shin said, who at one point appeared on stage dressed in full costume. The new phone is visually almost identical to its predecessor, the SIII, but slightly larger with a 5-inch 1080p AMOLED screen and a 13-megapixel camera, all of which is enclosed in a polycarbonate case that comes in white and black. It feels thin yet solid in the hand, and the screens transitioned smoothly and looked sharp.

The S4 is powered by a 1.9-Ghz processor, 2GB of RAM, and 4G LTE, running on a 2,600-mAh removable battery.

Samsung emphasized more “human” modes of interaction through eight sensors, including infrared “air” gesture and eye-tracking, enabling users to manipulate the device without actually touching it. 

An advanced touchscreen accepts input even with gloves on. The phone can also detect the temperature, humidity and your heartbeat.

More than impressive specs, Samsung showed off a plethora of new software features that includes instant translation, pictures with sound, and numerous TouchWiz updates. Samsung wants the Galaxy S4 to be central to your interconnected life, allowing seamless interaction with the cloud and also the ability to control your television or car. S-Health can then tell you how many calories you’ve burned and detect your sleeping patterns.

In the end, however, the S4 appears to be a continued evolution more than revolution. While every category appears to have been improved, there’s nothing that resoundingly screams “breakthrough,” despite the energy of the event, which was at once enthusiastic but sometimes also awkward. It also remains to be seen whether users embrace the mountain of new features.

But what is clear is that Samsung has once again raised the bar, leaving no stone unturned for the next generation of the world’s most popular Android phone, and will put further pressure on Apple with a new flagship that more or less lives up to expectations.

Samsung Releases Android Powered Refrigerator

Samsung is revamping its strategy to become world’s leading company, releasing products of technical marvel.

Its latest gift to the consumer this year is pioneered with an innovative refrigerator that claims to run on advanced Android Jelly Bean.

The refrigerator is even equipped with a Wi-Fi enabled ten-inch touchscreen, on its door.

 World’s first Android enabled refrigerator is reportedly to be available at a price of $3,999.

For now, all Android supported applications cannot be installed in the product.

Yet, refrigerator T9000, from Samsung electronics, is said to run a number of applications that helps its user to browse variety of recipes, manage the duration of expiration of different perishable food items such as, milk, yogurt etc., and even make list for shopping.

For people who find it hard to keep track of their food’s expiration date, an application of Android refrigerator will help them in following the expiration date of such perishable products.

Apart from these advantages, the user can also use applications like that of Epicurious and Evernote.

These dedicated applications, enabled in the said Android installed refrigerator to search for innumerable recipes and even note them down on the screen and memory of the revolutionary device.

The multi-purpose display screen even provides the user with information such as weather reports, current news updates and even inputs from Twitter accounts.

It even displays integrated Google calendars, by replacing hand-written ones.

The advanced system is even programmed to display photo slides according to user’s preference.

Vice President of Samsung, dealing with division of home appliance at Canada, Warner Doell, is right when he attributes the technical marvel as a hub of kitchen and family.

Since refrigerators constitute an essential part of a kitchen, upgrading its operating nature for betterment of kitchen-management is absolutely necessary.

With such an innovative refrigerator, users now-a-day need not to carry their tablet or other internet-facilitated gadgets into their kitchen for screening through new recipes.

In addition to these facilities, Android applications of Evernote and Epicurious will surely provide their useful contribution.

According to vice president, Doell, the Android powered refrigerator will definitely help the users in a leading manner.

They can enter the ingredients that they have in the refrigerator into the application which would thereby search over the internet and show some of the tastiest recipes that can be produced with them.

Another important characteristic that the refrigerator provides is the shopping list created on the screen of the device can be easily transferred to the smartphones and tablets for carrying them to the grocery stores.

The vice president of Samsung home appliance division of Canada even mentioned that the modern era would evolve as a period of converging technology across every category of product, binding them into a single platform of operating software.

Samsung is making its way into this genre and taking measures to lead the world in this arena of technical revolution.

How can the Android powered refrigerator helpful in the present world of smartphones and tablets?

There are such so many advanced technical gadgets of smartphones, tablets and other upcoming devices for accessing internet in order to get innumerable recipes and other ingredients for making tasty dishes.

Yet, the advent of such Android powered and internet accessing application oriented refrigerator has resulted in questioning their relevance by many experts.

Warner Doell has countered this argument with his visionary structure of future world.

He may be right when he urged that the device might look as an unrealistic hi-end product at this age; however, it would surely be regarded as a necessary product in the coming years.

Technical advancement and human being’s dependence on technology was never the same in recent past, as it is of now.

Android refrigerator will certainly be useful in easing setting’s management of several features regarding temperature and other preferences of user.

The vice president even stressed on the fact that this Android featured refrigerator is a path-breaking equipment that would eventually lead to encroachment of such advanced operating software into other home appliances like air conditioners, lighting etc., in the near future.

In such a case, it is rightly concluded that refrigerator T9000 (android powered) is a vital invention that would become a delight for the modern generation who loves to use technology for their convenience.

Samsung and Apple Leading In Smartphone Business

According to reports from IDC, smartphones are dominating over 50 percent of overall market share of the present age,

Samsung and Apple being the dominant companies enjoying a lion’s share of business in smart devices and enjoying high market reliability.

Although it is argued that there is ample scope of growth for the companies, yet, there is virtually no sign that can become obvious reason resulting in their displacement from the position.

With the present trend of smartphone market, it can be concluded that the war of grabbing a respectable position among the customers and global market is over, as of now, with Apple and Samsung trying to gain a lion’s share.

Recent observations have revealed that Android has emerged as a winner in this extensive battle, exploiting the greatest share of smarphone business in global market.

Although records are showing that there is a slight dip in overall expectation on part of Apple, yet it would be tremendous mistake on part of experts to conclude that the company would leave the arena shortly.

Even the same can be said in terms of Samsung.

According to IDC, Apple has recorded 21.8 per cent of share in the global market of smartphones, while that of Samsung occupies 29 percent.

However, the latest figures of market sales regarding mobile gadgets released by research company of IDC hails Samsung and Apple for being able to secure the leading position in global market.

Accordingly, Samsung engaged in shipping 63.7 m devices during fourth quarter,
on the other hand, Apple is said to have shipped 47.8 m gadgets.

These two companies together emerged holding half of the entire smartphone market throughout the world, recording 45.5% total market share of mobile devices.

With no signs of danger from Nokia’s Windows Phone, experts throughout the world has determined that the war between grabbing market shares between the companies have nearly come to an end.

Android claiming to be the highest gainer out of this market, while Apple can be termed as the second best in leading the world market of smartphones.

On the other hand, BlackBerry and Windows Phone are able to cater a meager part of share in world market.

According to market analysis, smartphones are clearly taking charge in the market wiping out traces of featurephones.

Accordingly, the last quarter of previous year witnessed a fall of about fifteen percent in sales of featurephone, while popularity of smartphones showing rise to a whopping forty percent each quarter.

It is even calculated that given such expansion and demand of smartphones in the market, the wonder gadgets will surely capture more than fifty percent of world market at the end of ongoing quarter of the year. 

Strategies by companies to get hold of smartphone market

With the growing market of smartphones, competitors are now looking towards some low-end Android handsets and even lower specifications of smartphones to fill the gaps and attracting a section of buyers.

Many experts are terming Nokia’s Asha to fulfill such promises.

However, many experts are unwilling to categorize Asha as a smartphone since it does not provide facility of third party application through the handsets.

On the other hand, the device helps in operating Opera as an internet browser to connect to the web world. 

Growth factor for smartphones

However, experts still believe that there is ample scope for Apple and Samsung to increase their market in respect to smartphones.

According to studies and analysis, experts are pitching for further room for rise in at least sixty percent of smartphone market globally and that too at each quarter, for coming year or so.

On the other hand, experts also believe that there is much less a market of such advanced devices other than the companies of Apple or Samsung.

However, with many experts terming this era gradually proceeding towards closing down the battle of smartphones, questions ponder regarding the future of such devices and the companies.

Well, critics are pointing towards unfolding of another technical revolution that has been marked with rumors of futuristic Google Glass.

Even gadgets

Pocketable and even wearable, equipped with voice alerts might emerge in near future.

Hopefully, those gadgets will surely make life even easier and better that what the smart devices of present times are offering.

Smartwatch Samsung GALAXY Altius Leaked

Amid speculations of iWatch from Apple, a collection of innumerable screenshots representing a smartwatch from Samsung has fueled speculation in the entire market.

Several images displayed on a Korean message board have created ripples of speculation regarding such a smart device that can actually get into a head on collision with iWatch from Apple.

However, both the products are yet to come to surface and declared as of now by various experts, that they are at a speculative stage.

The series of screenshots, as presented over a Korean message board, had exposed a product by the name of GALAXY Altius.

However, there is also a speculation that Samsung is going to market another device, Galaxy S IV, very soon.

The message board has also flashed several shots of SKTelecom and SKT at numeral occasions, fuelling speculation that the device would be launched along with data plan from a definite mobile operator of South Korea, initially.

Speculated features of smartwatch

According to what has appeared on the screenshots, experts have deducted that software of the product resembles something related to an Android platform.

It can also be a basic interface powered by Java, maybe something of REX series from the company.

It is speculated that the upcoming speculated smartwatch from Samsung would probably come with 500 x 500 resolution of pixels, which is even possible given the technical developments that Samsung has been able to achieve recently.

Screenshots revealed, has also indicated a code name "Samsung-GA7".

The device is featured with an LCD display along with AltiusOS beta2 software version.

The Korean message board also revealed that the upcoming smartwatch would come with 125MB internal storage.

A certain percentage of internal storage would be used for other purpose, making it a symbiotic gadget.

The Korean massage board has even featured screenshots of the smartwatch, revealing a series of various tiles – email connection, clock and a music player.

A notification associated with email would also indicate the number of unread messages on the screen itself.

A bar at the lower portion of the screen also suggests that the device would have the facility of touch screen. 

Speculation regarding brand naming

It is also mention worthy that the brand name of ‘Samsung Galaxy Altius’ was proposed to SamMobile, at a later part of last month.

Experts had also speculated that Altius would be revealed as a flagship device of Samsung. In the mean time, Samsung has already confirmed that they are working GT-19500 and have so far considered the name of an upcoming device to be Samsung Galaxy S IV.

This has further fuelled the rumors that the company is certainly working on the smartwatch and it could be revealed as Samsung Galaxy Altius.

Experts are also considering the fact that Samsung might be working on its upcoming devices of smartphone and smartwatch under the same name of Altius.

They might come up with a series of next generation smart gadgets under the brand name, Altius.

However, such intentions are also not clear and the experts are quite apprehensive of such action by Samsung.