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Samsung Bespoke Expansion Via SmartThings Home Life Upgrade
Recently Samsung provided an update ‘SmartThings Home Life’ to the ‘Bespoke Refrigerator’. Starting on the 13th, the Bespoke series Bespoke Cube and Bespoke refrigerators will receive a ‘Sommelier at Home’ function.
‘Sommelier’ means steward or wine waiter, which is what Samsung targets in the high-end markets. Earlier this function was provided exclusively for wine refrigerators.
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SmartThings Home Life: The application and service optimizes home appliances compatible with it and enables users to control and access them, i.e., remotely, an integrated home appliance solution powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
SmartThings Home Life is a service that was newly introduced in 6 categories in February, including cooking, air care, pet care, clothing care, energy, and home care.
Sommelier at home function: To manage wines, this function enables the user to record wine types and vintages by clicking pics of wine labels through a smartphone and recommends dishes that go well with the current wine inventory.
Optical character reading (OCR) technology by Samsung recognizes the wine name, country of origin, and vintage of the label photographed with a smartphone.
Consisting of a database of more than 70,000 wines & basic information on types of wine, production regions, wineries, vintages, and information such as alcohol content, body, acidity, and tannins can be checked by the Sommelier function.
Samsung Family Hub remotely looks inside as you shop, sends notes and sync schedules, sees who’s at the door, and allows the user to watch videos right from your fridge, making it an IoT hub(internet of things).
Via a dongle user can control Samsung Electronics home appliances, lights, blinds, switches, motion sensors, and doors. Some models without a dongle installation space are excluded and will be updated sequentially by model until September.
With Bixby, users can play news on Samsung TV Plus and watch the channels starting from July.
With this move, Samsung has targeted the market with more purchasing power, such US and Europe regions, as well as the home country S.Korea.
“We have prepared this update so that consumers with existing refrigerators can enjoy the latest features through software upgrades,” We will continue to provide the best experience through SmartThings Home Life updates. “
-Yu Mi-young, vice president of Samsung Electronics Home Appliance Business Division.
You can read more about the Samsung SmartThings & Bespoke lineup and recent developments in AI-powered smart living in the below links. Be sure to check them out for more information.
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Samsung is launching its 2024 smart TVs in the UK. It’s a golden chance to get free devices as a treat for the buyers, since those who will pre-order these smart TVs as fast as possible.
Samsung made its latest OLED, Neo QLED, and Frame TVs available for pre-order in the UK. Interested customers should hurry up since the pre-order deadline is May 14. The Korean giant is not only introducing the new smart TV but also offering a golden chance to win high-end Galaxy devices such as the Galaxy S24+ or Galaxy S24.
The pre-order bonuses are worth up to £999. In some scenarios, the giant offers free Galaxy S24 smartphones as pre-order bonuses for its 2024 TV lineup. Apart from this, the other early adopter bonuses include free soundbars. Let’s take a closer look at Samsung’s pre-order offers for the UK market:
You can get a Galaxy S24+ that is worth £999 for free when you pre-order any one of these Samsung TVs:
- Samsung QN900D, QN800D, QN95D, or QN90D TV
You can get a Galaxy S24 that is worth £799 for free when you pre-order a device mentioned below:
- Samsung S95D, QN95D, QN93D, QN90D, QN88D, or QN85D TV
You can get a free soundbar worth £599 when you pre-order a Neo QLED 4K or The Frame (2024).
Samsung is also introducing the Music Frame wireless speaker, which is also available for pre-order, and customers who buy two Music Frames will claim a SEE Tickets voucher worth £100. While trading in your old TV for a new one, the giant offers discounts of up to £500.
In a meeting at Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, Dr. Hon Pak, SVP, and head of Samsung’s Digital Health Team discussed AI, wearables, and their ability to revolutionize healthcare.
The discussion in the meeting emerged around two key themes: first, how advancements such as generative AI could be harnessed to improve healthcare, and second, Samsung’s ability to contribute to the future of healthcare was a key focus, possibly due to their ongoing innovations.
Professor Myung Jin Chung, Director of the Samsung AI Research Center at Samsung Medical Center, highlights the necessity of “lifelog” data assembled by wearable devices for a better understanding of the patient’s medical history. According to him, the future of AI is to extract this information straight from the user’s daily life and offer a better understanding of their health status.
A cardiologist, Dr. Blum, states that it will be better to continue health monitoring through smartwatches, which is key for early disease detection. He also highlights scenarios such as high blood pressure and atrial fibrillation where previous intervention is essential. He believes that smartwatches can offer valuable data for doctors to understand the root causes of the disease whereas AI helps to analyze this data and translate it into actionable insights for patients.
A diabetes specialist, Dr. Klonoff, punctuates the growing use of glucose monitoring, not only for diabetics but also for those pursuing a healthier lifestyle. He also considers it an essential as well as powerful tool when combined with other health data such as sleep, blood pressure, and activity. It is expected that this data, analyzed by wearables and AI, could offer a better understanding of overall metabolic health.
Recent reports reveal that the South Korean giant is also working on the implementation of wearable technologies capable of reading the glucose levels of its users. Apart from this, the giant is also deciding to develop non-invasive solutions for blood glucose monitoring, which would lead the company to get ahead of its long-time rival Apple in this area.
Samsung fans are eagerly waiting for the next Galaxy Unpacked event, which was previously supposed to be held in the second week of July. Now, finally, the exclusive date has been revealed for the event.
The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event will take place on July 10, 2024, as the report says. The Korean giant is gearing up to introduce sixth-generation foldable phones and smart wearable gadgets.
- Galaxy Z Fold 6
- Galaxy Z Flip 6
- Galaxy Ring
This much-awaited Galaxy Unpacked event will take place in Paris. It appears to be a great choice, as Paris will host the 2024 Summer Olympics after that month, and Samsung is one of the leading worldwide sponsors of the games.
Before any official announcement, the leaks and rumors have already revealed much more regarding the specs, features, and design of the forthcoming devices, according to which the brand could also introduce an extra variant of the Flip 6 under the name Galaxy Z Fold 6 FE. This time, the giant will also reveal more about its very first Galaxy Ring.
Apart from these devices, we can also expect the Galaxy Watch 7 and at least one new pair of wireless earbuds to be introduced at the event; however, regarding these devices, nothing has officially been cleared yet, but it will be interesting to be a part of the event.