Samsung’s fabled foldable smartphone has been in the works for quite some time. In fact, Samsung has hinted in the past and display concepts they tend to show. Now, if ETNews’ sources are to be believed, Samsung’s foldable smartphone will go into mass production in November with an announcement slated in late 2018/early 2019. The […]
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Samsung’s graphene ball solution can fully charge battery in 12 mins
Lithium-ion batteries were first commercialised in 1991 and while the battery use has increased by leaps and bounds over the years, performance improvement is still limited with difficulties to increase battery capacity that still takes over an hour to fully charge. Enter the graphene ball. Developed at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), researchers have […]
Samsung to showcase stretchable display tech and more
The Society for Information Display or SID 2017 kicks off from tomorrow and Samsung has confirmed to show some exciting display tech. The interesting reveal at the show will be the stretchable AMOLED display. The prototype screen measures 9.1-inches and unlike the current generation of flexible OLEDs that can bend, fold or roll on one […]
Samsung, Amazon announce HDR10+ for TVs
Samsung and Amazon have collaborated to bring a new open HDR standard for TVs called HDR10+. The new standard claims to “elevate” the existing HDR10 standard with the addition of Dynamic Tone Mapping that integrates dynamic metadata instead of HDR’s way of static metadata. In other words, Samsung and Amazon claim that HDR10+ allows the […]
Acquisition of Viv will help Samsung to build Artificial Intelligence ecosystem
Samsung has announced its acquisition of Viv Labs that offers an open artificial intelligence (AI) platform to companies to build “conversational assistants and integrate a natural language-based interface into renowned applications and services”. Samsung has not revealed the details of the transaction but says they’re committed to virtual personal assistants and the acquisition will help […]