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Samsung and Vodafone at the forefront of Open RAN innovation in Europe
Samsung electronics and Vodafone today announced their partnership to continue their partnership for expanding the 5G Open RAN in more European countries, while they have successfully worked together and enhanced the 5G network in the UK.
According to the information, the collaboration between the two companies aims for the betterment of the network, which aims to enhance the performance and capacity of Vodafone UK’s commercial network. It also targets increased performance levels and power saving in the Open RAN sites.
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In Germany, Vodafone will do some new pilot projects for the Open RAN using Samsung’s 2G/4G vRAN and O-RAN-compliant radio solutions. In these projects, Vodafone will use Samsung’s mature solutions- proven in large-scale commercial networks- which demonstrate outstanding performance, stability and reliability.
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While in Spain, Samsung joined Vodafone and tested in Ciudad Real, which was created to benchmark mature RAN providers and compare performance across both traditional and open RAN. Samsung will share its new edge technology for the betterment of the network. It will deploy its massive MIMO radios and 4G/5G vRAN in CREATE (Ciudad Real España Advanced Testing Environment) to evaluate and verify their performance in Spain’s urban environment.
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Thomas Riedel, Head of Samsung, said “Samsung’s virtualized Open RAN solutions are successfully running in Vodafone’s commercial network in the UK, delivering performance on par with traditional mobile radio networks and providing Vodafone with an agile network on which to deploy new services and features,”
Moreover, these two companies( Vodafone and Samsung) will hold hands to provide strong coverage of 5G across Europe by expanding the Open vRAN innovation; the partnership also aims to lead the 5G technology to the next level.
The Korean electronics firm ‘Samsung Electronics’ is now setting up to apply its latest 3-nm processing technology to the forthcoming Galaxy smartphones and smart wearable watches. It is expected that, initially, the brand will power the next Galaxy Watch 7 with this process.
The Korean giant will start operations of its second-generation 3-nm production line in its home country by the end of the year. If the reports are to be believed, the Galaxy Watch 7 could be the first product to be powered by the latest chip process technology, the Exynos W1000 application processor (AP) chip, taking on its competitors Apple and TSMC.
The Exynos W1000 is based on the 3-nm process node, the most advanced technology available in the chip industry yet, which is expected to upgrade computational performance and power efficiency by over 20%. Once Samsung debuts its forthcoming Galaxy Watch 7 powered by 3-nm AP, this will be the most powerful smartwatch to compete with the Apple Watch Series 9 powered by 5-nm AP.
Apple leads the wearable smartwatch industry with a 45% market share, as per the metrics of the third quarter of 2023, followed by Samsung with a 20% share. On the other hand, Samsung is planning to introduce its latest wearable device, the Galaxy Watch 7, and the very first Galaxy Ring at the Galaxy Unpacked event in Paris.
Next-generation foldable phones, the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6, are also scheduled for the unpacked event in Paris. Jumping on the next year, the Galaxy S25 series is supposed to debut in early 2025 and is expected to use a powerful 3nm Exynos W1000 chip.
Samsung is cooking up a new market strategy as it sets up to hold an Unpacked event, a new product launch event to expand the smart wearable family, around July 10.
Samsung fans are already eagerly waiting for the July Unpack event, as Samsung is expected to introduce next-generation foldables, the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6. Samsung Electronics says its Mobile Experience (MX) Division will hold an Unpacked event in Paris, France, around July 10.
The referees suggest that the key reason behind holding this event is just to maximize marketing effects ahead of the Paris Olympic Games, which are scheduled for July 26, 2024. The main focus of the giant appears to be unveiling the sixth-generation foldable phones, which are expected to bring more new generative AI features.
Apart from the next-generation foldable phones, the Korean brand is also looking forward to wearable devices at this Unpack event, as it is expected to introduce the Galaxy Watch 7 and the Galaxy Ring, which can be worn like a ring.
The forthcoming Galaxy Watch 7 will be powered by the new AP Exynos W1000, based on the second-generation 3-nm process. This is a state-of-the-art process developed by Samsung Electronics’ foundry division to catch up with TSMC. Reportedly, the chips based on the 3-nm process are 20% more power-efficient as compared to current 5-nm chips.
Samsung’s forthcoming Galaxy Watch 7 will be the first to detect sleep apnea and is expected to introduce blood sugar monitoring using AI and various health data. It can be used for at least up to nine days after charging.
Samsung brings a mesmerizing feature named ‘Super HDR’ to enhance the shooting and viewing of photos and videos experience for its newly launched Galaxy S24 series. Now it seems that the giant could add a button to turn off Super HDR on Instagram.
Super HDR is a feature that captures images and videos in a new format, based on Google’s Ultra HDR format. It delivers photos that are pretty bright in particular areas and have more detailed shadows when viewed on compatible displays.
However, despite many facilities, some people don’t prefer how Super-HDR works while viewing images and videos onInstagram. Now, as per their request, Samsung is looking for a way to permit users to turn off Super HDR.
The reports reveal that Samsung is looking forward to offering a toggle button to disable or enable Super HDR inside Instagram. This is because some people prefer and want to avoid how Super HDR images and video display (width, higher brightness, color volume, and wider dynamic range) while scrolling Instagram.
It is being speculated by one of the South Korean firm’s official forum moderators that the company is setting up with Instagram to bring a toggle to disable or enable Super HDR, similar to a toggle that is already housed in the OS version of Instagram.
Super HDR is based on Google’s Ultra HDR and captures photos and videos with vibrant colors and more balanced lightning. You can easily catch the difference in both the camera preview and the final results. After uploading the content on Instagram, the super HDR effects will be maintained for a more vivid viewing experience. Then users scroll through images and videos in Super HDR on Instagram, and the display brightens up to match the tone map of the Super HDR file, but some of them don’t prefer the sudden brightness of the screen as they complain regarding this on social media. Now it appears that Samsung is working on it.