Apps & Services
After the US, Samsung News officially arrived in Canada
Samsung has come up with a new feature to reach its user’s everyday news in a more reliable way. In order to provide Canadians with a new method to get daily news in a convenient location on their Samsung Galaxy mobile, Samsung Canada has introduced Samsung News. The main purpose of the feature is to benefit the users with the necessary updates that they can get to know from anywhere and everywhere. Samsung News is an upgrade to Samsung Free and has begun its testing phase.
Currently, Samsung News is accessible in only a few countries, primarily the USA, where it was initially launched and exclusively available. However, the service has now expanded its reach to Canada, and there are indications that it may soon become available in other regions, including Europe.
Try Samsung News before it’s released in your country: Here’s how to download & install
Samsung News offers the news divided into three categories, Daily Briefings, News feed, and podcasts so that the users can easily find what they want. Daily Briefings will deliver two sets of briefings every day, which hold the most important news of the day, one in the morning and the other in the evening.
News feeds allow the user to read a stream of news from Samsung’s partners, and in other ways, it is just like the feeds on social media, where you can view the content posted by your following list of pages. And as for podcasts everyone knows about podcasts; here, the users can access news and entertainment that they wish as digitally available audio files.
The firm said that the customers who already have Samsung Free installed on their smartphones will see the icon change to Samsung News when their applications are updated. Not only to the region but the feature, Samsung News will also give accessibility only to a few selected smartphones, but we need to wait for a complete rollout of the feature to all addressable devices. Coming to how to access this for users who don’t have Samsung free earlier, the software can be directly downloaded from the Samsung Galaxy Store.
Jihoon Lee, President and CEO of Samsung Canada, opened up that,” With Samsung News, Canadians can enjoy access to a timely, curated selection of news tailored to their individual preferences. We recognize many Canadians are increasingly consuming news on their devices and we are proud to offer Galaxy users a seamless, personalized news experience in the palm of their hand.”
Instagram has brought several new stickers for the stories that will give users more creativity in creating stories. Whether you want to share your favorite song of the day or create your own custom stickers from your photos or videos, the new stickers will give more options to highlight the stories. Let’s explore all the new stickers and understand how we can use them.
Customize Music
Music stickers bring the utility of adding your favorite song to the stories, and now, to make it more interesting, they have grabbed the new ability for your followers to add their music to the same stories shared by you.
Highlight your stories with a new frame sticker
When you share precious memories or want to bring any special moment into the spotlight, you can use the new frame sticker that turns it into instant print. To reveal the content inside, your followers will have to shake their phones to develop the image.
Get more engagement with the new reveal sticker
Instagram users can post a hidden photo on the Instagram story and attach the reveal sticker to it. This will provide an interesting way for followers to uncover the stories by just messaging and tapping on the sticker. These tools will work as the ultimate attention grabber and will play an important role in gaining engagement.
Add cutouts to stories to make them more interesting
With the new cutout feature, users can easily make a cutout of their own photos and add it to any casual photos, which will provide a new way to make the stores more interesting and reveal the creativity they share with their friends and followers.
Availability of new stickers
Meta has officially rolled out all the stickers for Instagram users, but if you haven’t received them yet, it is advised to install them to update the application to the latest version. If you don’t revise the changes even after updating the application to the latest version, then you should wait some more time as it serves it with other features.
Samsung is preparing to introduce its new’smart forward’ service, which will leverage SmartThings to continuously update its SmartThings-connected smart home devices.
For your information, Smart Forward Service aims to provide regular and continuous software updates and offers fresh features to the products, irrespective of their debut in their market, whether they are new or old.
The latest development, the new smart forward update, brings some new features to several smart home-based devices, including the Bespoke refrigerator, 4-door family hub, Bespoke air dresser, and dehumidifier.
For the Family Hub refrigerators that were released after 2017, the latest 2024 model of the bespoke family hub was applied, including the functionality to quickly view photos and videos saved on your smartphone through the ‘Quick Share’ function on the refrigerator’s screen. Along with this, you can also run the ‘YouTube’ app right away to enjoy the content you want. Apart from this, it also gives the functionality to continue watching on the internet while the refrigerator screams from the smartphone.
The dehumidifier devices released last year now feature a “custom dying” function that automatically dries the interiors, making it more convenient to remove humidity regardless of the weather.
Meanwhile, the Bespoke Air Dressers released last year will take advantage of the ‘AI saving mode’ option. This feature will optimize Air Dressers’ energy consumption and help users save up to 15% of energy. However, it is worth noticing that when you use the AI saving mode, it may increase the drying time.
Samsung has released a new update for the “Samsung Core Services” application, version 3.1.01.1. With the latest update, the company has brought many significant changes to its applications, but they will surely improve their functionality.
According to the changelog, the latest update for the Samsung Core Services application includes new improvements, minor bug fixes, and some device performance enhancements.
For your information, Samsung Core Services is an application that provides the primary features used by Samsung applications quickly and easily through application updates, as opposed to software updates.
If you want to get the constant service of the Korean giant’s original application, then you should keep the “Samsung Core Services” application up-to-date. To do that, simply go to the Galaxy Store, select the menu option, then tap on the update option. If the update is available, tap the update button.
For starters, the Samsung Core Services application gives several utility options, such as Samsung Search. It provides a device search engine platform that enhances the functionality of various Samsung applications, including Contacts, Settings, and Finder. Along with this, the application also offers query suggestions to users, manages the incoming message, and extracts the verification to provide inline suggestions in the keyboard.