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Samsung Pay Could Get a Major Upgrade For Better NFC Support
Samsung Pay, like an NFC-enabled card, employs NFC Technology to communicate credit or debit card information to an NFC-enabled payment terminal. The NFC Forum, the primary standards body for Near Field Communications(NFC) technology, today announced the release of its Technology Roadmap, which details important initiatives and research efforts through 2028. A panel of Forum senior experts delivered the Technology Roadmap at a public webcast on June 27, 2023, at 9.00 am Eastern.
The present NFC Wireless Charging standard provides up to 1 watts of electricity, which can be extended to 3 watts. This change can provide wireless power and charge to newer and small form factors. NFC connections are now restricted to a 50mm range; the NFC Forum’s new roadmap intends to improve the range of NFC four to six times above the current level. This indicates that in the near future, it will be able to work up to the 30mm range. This function allows people to make payments without their smartphones and the PoS terminal touching each other. This makes antenna alignment more usable by reducing the accuracy needed.
Samsung Pay will charge credit card companies: No more free service
Enables contactless user experience by allowing them to do several operations in a single tap. Use cases include Point-to-point receipt distribution and loyalty identification. Designed to enable NFC-enabled smartphones to have SoftPOS capabilities allowing the users to accept payments anywhere. Enabling NFC for data communication about a product’s composition and its recycling method can help users in fulfilling their needs and regulatory obligations. Following lengthy conversations with commercial and technical stakeholders, it was concluded that roadmap creation assists in raising awareness and interest in this effort. With high hopes, it is expected that through NFC-enabled smartphones, users can charge their Galaxy Watch or Galaxy Buds other than wireless charging.
“The exponential growth of NFC technology is a testament to our members’ forward-thinking approach and unwavering dedication to innovation,” said NFC Forum Executive Director Mike McCamon. “Through our continuously evolving standards, business-line managers and product designers will be able to create new and exciting products and services that customers will love.As NFC technology becomes more prevalent in our daily lives, our planned features have the potential to significantly enhance the way we pay and receive payments; engage with our favourite brands; power our devices; and access sustainable products and services.”
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Google Android Auto is successful in making its place in the hearts of the hearts of a lot of car drivers. With its convenience features and useful navigation system, infotainment has become very popular, and to maintain its popularity and consumer engagement in its service, Google frequently provides new updates where it aims to refine the usage of the application.
Google plans to reshape Android auto functionality in the future
Google is planning to unlock the potential of Android Auto with compatibility enhancement. The company is focused on bringing new applications for streaming and gaming, and cars equipped with Android Auto would like to see an increase in compatible apps thanks to the growing size of the in-car display. This will provide a new space to play games and stream more comfortably.
What’s new for developers?
Google is simplifying the process of adding new apps to Android Auto and cars with built-in Google software; this includes new guidelines for developing apps compatible with various screen sizes and shapes. The app’s development can require early review for streamlined authorization.
For more comfort for developers, the company will introduce a new tiered system where an app developer will make the application pass all three levels to finally publish on Android Auto.
Several new apps are coming to Android Auto and Android Automotive
There are several new apps that will be introduced for both Android Auto and Android Automotive. There will be some new streaming services, including Max and Peacock coming to cars with built-in Google from Renault, Polestar, and Volvo. Alongside the Angry Birds game, an Uber Driver app is arriving on Android, which will allow the user to accept rides, manage deliveries, and get directions directly on the car display.
Additionally, Google is testing some more messaging and weather-related apps for Android Auto, as well as videos, games, and browsers that are marked as coming soon.
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PUBG Mobile has 20 million daily active players; now to enhance the gaming experience of millions of players PUBG Mobile is introducing new support for playing the game at a 120 fps frame rate on specific devices. Here’s the eligible device list.
PUBG Mobile Ultra Extreme Graphics Settings
Despite offering a high refresh rate option for a couple of years, PUBG Mobile ran at a maximum of 90 fps on all devices, but now a new version of the game brings convenient support for playing the game at a 120 fps frame rate (Ultra Extreme).
The latest PUBG Mobile 3.2 arrived in app stores on both Android and iOS on May 13 and added 120 fps (Ultra Extreme) to the graphics settings on select devices. A couple of days ago, before the release of the game’s 3.2 update, Samsung already revealed a list of supported devices, including some Galaxy smartphones, that are eligible for the new support.
List of Samsung Galaxy Devices that can run PUBG Mobile at 120 fps/ Ultra Extreme Graphics
- Galaxy S24 Ultra
- Galaxy S24+
- Galaxy S24
- Galaxy S23 Ultra
- Galaxy S23+
- Galaxy S23
- Galaxy Z Fold 5
All the Galaxy devices mentioned above are eligible to support PUGB Mobile’s 120 fps mode, although the specific variant of the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ devices based on Exynos and Snapdragon doesn’t matter. By this point, we can expect the same will be true for any other Galaxy flagship that uses both Exynos and Snapdragon chips and receives support for running PUBG Mobile at 120 fps in the coming time.
You can easily download the PUBG Mobile update from both the Galaxy Store and the Google Play Store on Galaxy smartphones, or you can also prefer the official PUBG Mobile website to download it directly.
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Google to Expand Circle to Search Feature Over 200 Million Devices, Thanks to Samsung
Finally, we’re anticipating the start of Google’s annual I/O developer conference today, and our expectations have been met as a dedicated section of the event focuses on intelligent tools.
As we expected, Google’s AI will be the focus of its upcoming event, and finally, as expected, Google’s upcoming annual I/O developer conference will reveal more about the generative AI tools to make our daily lives more convenient. Among all the announcements, the expansion of the Circle to Search feature is one of them.
Google promised to expand the availability of the Circle to Search feature to 200 million devices by the end of 2024. Presently, this feature is running on over 100 million smartphones.
Initially, Samsung introduced this feature exclusively on its Galaxy S24 series under the Galaxy AI package. Later, Google expanded its availability and made it available on the Pixel 8 and Pixel 7 series. On Galaxy devices, users can easily use this Circle to Search with Google feature by pressing and holding the bottom navigation bar. users can circle to highlight text or images from the screen, and then it instantly triggers a Google search for related information.
After the Galaxy S24 series, Samsung, along with the One UI 6.1 update, expanded this Circle to Search feature under theGalaxy AI. It is expected that this feature will become a standard offering on next-generation Google and Samsung smartphones later this year. It is also revealed that Google is also looking forward to bringing Circle to Search into the classroom so that students can now use the Circle to Search feature to get step-by-step help with tricky physics and math problems right from their phones or tablets effortlessly.
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