I attended last week’s Samsung Developer conference in San Francisco and saw them introduce the first flexible smartphone from a major player. If you follow my columns here on Techpinions, you know that I have been writing about flexible displays since I saw the first ones from BOE displayed at the Society of Displays (SID) … Continue reading Samsung’s Flexible Display Smartphone Gamble
This week’s Tech.pinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing Samsung’s Developer Conference and the announcements around their Bixby assistant platform and Infinity Flex foldable smartphone display, AMD’s unveiling of their 7nm Epyc CPU and Instinct GPU for the cloud and datacenter market, and Google’s recent internal policy changes on harassment and other issues. … Continue reading Podcast: Samsung Developer Conference, AMD 7nm, Google Policies
This week’s Tech.pinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing the Huawei product launch event in London, the release of several tiny smart phones, the debut of Samsung’s Qualcomm-powered Galaxy Book Always Connected PC, and the Arm TechCon conference. If you happen to use a podcast aggregator or want to add it to iTunes … Continue reading Podcast: Huawei Product Launch, Tiny Smart Phones, Samsung Galaxy Book, Arm TechCon
It looks like Samsung’s long-rumored flexible or foldable smartphone will hit the market later this year. According to Toms’ s Guide-
“Speaking to CNBC in an interview published on Tuesday (Sept. 4), Samsung’s mobile division chief DJ Koh said that the foldable phone would launch later this year, possibly as soon as the company’s developer conference in November.” It kicks off Nov. 7.
In early June, after I came back from the industries premier display conference known as SID, I shared in my PC Mag column some of the significant developments I saw there in flexible displays. The two major players who were very vocal about their breakthrough flexible displays were Visionox and BOE. However, while I was … Continue reading Samsung Joins the Flexible Display Wars
This week’s Tech.pinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing Mark Zuckerberg’s European testimony, analyzing the impact of the GDPR data privacy rules, debating the meaning of the Alexa private recording issue, chatting about Samsung’s Bixby, and talking about Intel’s AI Developer Conference. If you happen to use a podcast aggregator or want to … Continue reading Podcast: Facebook, GDPR, Alexa Recording, Samsung Bixby, Intel AI
This week’s Tech.pinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing important developments from the Mobile World Congress trade show, analyzing the impact of Samsung’s new Galaxy S9 smartphones, and describing the 5G modem introductions from Qualcomm, Intel and Huawei and what they mean for the rollout of 5G. If you happen to use a … Continue reading Podcast: MWC 2018, Samsung Galaxy S9, Qualcomm, Intel, Huawei 5G Modems
On Sunday, Feb 25, on the eve of Mobile World Congress, in Spain, Samsung launched its latest flagship smartphones the Samsung Galaxy S9 (S9) and the Galaxy S9+ (S9+). The products build on a successful formula of design and technology that we have been accustom to with the Galaxy S line. The Infinity Display that … Continue reading Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ are not the Perfect 10 but will not disappoint You
Why limit your opportunities by choosing just one possible winner when you can back them all? That seems to be Samsung’s current operating principle when it comes to throwing its weight behind the major players in the brewing virtual reality platform wars. At this point, the company has now announced hardware that supports the VR … Continue reading Samsung’s Multi-Platform Virtual Reality Push
This week’s Tech.pinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing the recent Samsung Developer Conference and Bixby 2.0, the Alphabet investment in Lyft and its implications for the ride-hailing market, and formal release of Microsoft’s Windows 10 Creators Update, Windows Mixed Reality headsets and the Surface Book 2. If you happen to use a … Continue reading Podcast: Samsung Developer Conference, Alphabet-Lyft, Microsoft Windows 10 Creators Update
Samsung is holding its annual Developer Conference this week in San Francisco. At the day one keynote on Wednesday, it pushed a vision centered on “Connected Thinking” as its major theme for not only the conference but its strategy in relation to its software and services in the coming year. That was reflected in a … Continue reading Samsung Aims for Connected Thinking at Developer Conference
This week’s Tech.pinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi, Jan Dawson and Bob O’Donnell discussing Samsung’s Note 8 launch event, analyzing the evolution of smartphones overall, and debating the importance of Apple’s future auto-related plans. If you happen to use a podcast aggregator or want to add it to iTunes manually the feed to our podcast is: … Continue reading Podcast: Samsung Note 8, Smartphones, Apple Auto Plans
Last week I was in Korea to experience a new direct-lit LED Cinema Screen recently launched at a Lotte Cinema in Seoul. While I was there I had the chance to sit down with the President of Samsung Electronics Mobile Communications, D.J. Koh, and CMO Younghee Lee to talk broadly about Samsung’s future. The focus … Continue reading Samsung’s Users are Ready for the Galaxy Note8 and so is Samsung!
As I was digesting Samsung’s Q2 2017 results last week, I realized that I’ve never really taken the time to come up with a robust mental picture of Samsung Electronics as a company, where its revenues come from, and how it all hangs together. I have lots of charts that I produce every quarter for … Continue reading A Deep Dive on Samsung Electronics
This week’s Tech.pinions podcast features Tim Bajarin and Bob O’Donnell discussing AMD’s quarterly earnings, Microsoft’s announcement of custom AI-enabled chip for the next HoloLens, Samsung earnings, and rumors of Apple building three manufacturing plants in the US. If you happen to use a podcast aggregator or want to add it to iTunes manually the feed … Continue reading Podcast: AMD Earnings, Microsoft AI Silicon, Samsung, Apple Plants
This week’s Tech.pinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing the recent earnings report from Microsoft, the release of Samsung’s Bixby Voice-based UI, the re-introduction of Google Glass, and more. If you happen to use a podcast aggregator or want to add it to iTunes manually the feed to our podcast is: techpinions.com/feed/podcast
In this week’s Tech.pinions podcast Carolina Milanesi, Jan Dawson and Bob O’Donnell discuss this week’s earnings announcements from a number of the tech industry’s biggest players and analyze what they mean for the future of several key tech products and trends. If you happen to use a podcast aggregator or want to add it to … Continue reading Podcast: Tech Earnings From Alphabet, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon and Samsung
With the upcoming availability of the Samsung Galaxy S8, we were curious what consumers thought of the device and how interested they are in purchasing one. We teamed up with SurveyMonkey Audience to do some research on US consumers to better understand their interest level of the phone and its newest features. We also explored … Continue reading Interest in the Samsung Galaxy S8 – Consumers Have Spoken
For the last 20+ years, the traditional thinking in the tech industry has been that in order to have any real power and influence, you had to have an operating system. Companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Google have turned their OS offerings into platforms, which could then be leveraged to provide additional revenue-generating services, as … Continue reading Samsung Building a Platform Without an OS
In this week’s Tech.pinions podcast Carolina Milanesi, Jan Dawson and Bob O’Donnell discuss the recent Samsung Unpacked 17 launch event, which included the debut of the Samsung S8 smart phone, their Dex desktop docking station, Bixby assistant and Samsung Connect Home device. If you happen to use a podcast aggregator or want to add it … Continue reading Podcast: Samsung S8, Dex, Bixby, Connect Home
Samsung’s events always get a lot of attention but the scrutiny around the launch of the Galaxy S8 is somewhat unprecedented — the same can be said about the product leaks. We would do the S8 a disservice, however, if we thought that such a level of attention is because it is the first phone … Continue reading Samsung’s S8/S8+ Offer the Promise of a Bigger Picture and not just Thanks to the Infinity Screen
Back in 1989, after being fed up with lugging around 10-pound portable computers on flights around the world, I began to fantasize about a day when a personal computer could be truly portable. However, I did not imagine a lighter, slimmer clamshell. Instead, my idea was to create what I called a portable brick or … Continue reading Why Samsung’s DeX could be a Mobile Game Changer
On Wednesday of this week, Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S8, its latest flagship smartphone, at an event in New York. Along with a couple of other members of the Tech.pinions team, I’ll be at the event and I’ve been asked quite often by reporters over the last few days what Samsung needs to do … Continue reading What Samsung Needs to Show Us with the Galaxy S8
In this week’s Tech.pinions podcast Tim Bajarin and Bob O’Donnell discuss the recent arrest of the Samsung heir apparent, chat about iPhone rumors and Apple’s potential plans for Augmented Reality, debate Apple’s efforts in creating original content, and discuss the implications of Mark Zuckerberg’s massive tome on social media in the modern era. If you … Continue reading Podcast: Samsung Arrest, iPhone AR, Apple Content, Facebook Manifesto
Samsung just hosted a press conference in Korea to share the findings of an investigation into what caused several Galaxy Note7 smartphones to catch fire. You can find all the details of the findings here but, in summary, there were two distinct battery issues, from two different manufacturers, that lead to the positive and negative … Continue reading Samsung’s Galaxy Note7 Investigation becomes the Cornerstone for Improved QA
