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Samsung Adds ‘SmartThings Energy’, A Power Saving Mode To ‘SmartThings Home Life’
Highlights
- ‘SmartThings Energy‘ service to reduce summer energy consumption.
- AI will reduce a total of 21% power consumption monthly.
- Hygiene-related functions will also be updated during the month in response to the hot and humid summer.
On June 29th, Samsung Electronics informed that it would release an update for the products that support the ‘SmartThings Energy’ service to reduce summer energy consumption. This will effectively reduce the energy consumption across various appliances, Samsung informed today.
SmartThings Energy is a part of ‘SmartThings Home Life,’ an integrated home appliance solution introduced in February targeting summer energy consumption reduction.
SmartThings service can be used by Samsung’s 200 partners. Cooking, energy control, clothing care, pet care, and air system control services are available via remote control.
Samsung informed this earlier month that the SmartThings Home Life system will also get updated with (IoT) service, which allows users to remotely control various home appliances in 97 countries.
Recently Samsung also provided an update ‘SmartThings Home Life‘ to the ‘Bespoke Refrigerator.’
Released on June 13th, the Bespoke series –Bespoke Cube and Bespoke refrigerators dubbed ‘Sommelier at Home‘ function.
Earlier this month, on June 7th, at the annual Bespoke event, Samsung unveiled many of its appliance’s capabilities. Samsung extended the lineup by adding a Bespoke AI washer and dryer as well as the Bespoke kitchen package, comprised of an oven, dishwasher, and induction cooktop, to its product lineup for overseas markets.
This service utilizes ‘AI saving mode,’ which checks the progressive loading by providing initial maintenance via operating in a power-saving mode for various appliances, especially the AC.
The AI saving mode will be extended to the bespoke washer & dryer too.
The AI saving mode collects data from Korea Electric Power Corporation and compares and informs the daily power target and predicted usage to the user for desired consumption.
AI will reduce consumption and enter power-saving mode if the predictions exceed the set goal by the user, resulting in a total of 21% consumption monthly reduction.
Samsung also informed that Hygiene-related functions would also be updated during the month in response to the hot and humid summer.
The UV LED sterilization function for the 2022 ‘Bespoke Jet‘ series will operate 120 minutes instead of 90 minutes every 5 hours.
An automatic dust discharge system, an ‘integrated cleaning station’ which collects the dust and discharges 99% of it.
“We are providing SmartThings energy updates so that consumers can lessen the burden of electricity bills in the summertime. We will do our best to expand the value of our products in line with this.”
-Mi-Young Yoo, Vice President of Home Appliances at Samsung Electronics.
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The smartphone has been spotted with the model number as an identification code – SM-M356B on the Geekbench 6.2.2 database. Not only this, but it also confirmed the presence of 6GB of RAM and Android 14 OS. The chipset also came to know which is the latest Exynos 1380.
The codename for the motherboard is also mentioned, which is ‘s5e8835.’ The reports say that it has scored 656 and 1967 points in performance scores on the benchmarking platform. Exynos 1380 is the latest chipset of the Korean brand, which is a 5 nm processor. It consists of 4 Cortex A78 cores, which clock at 2.4GHz, and 4 Cortex A55 cores, which clock at 2.0GHz. It is coupled with a Mali g68 MP5 GPU. It also has an AI Engine.
This also offers connectivity options, which include the latest Bluetooth version 5.3 and Wi-Fi 802.11 ax with three bands. It supports a camera resolution of at least 200MP for capturing images, and for video recording, there is support for up to 30fps 4K recording. The storage supported is UFS v3.1, and RAM will be of the LPDDR4x/5 type.
Samsung has recently debuted its two smartphones, Galaxy A55, and Galaxy A35; the Galaxy A35 5G smartphone is powered by Exynos 1380 chipset. From this perspective, Galaxy M35 5G could be a variant of Galaxy A35.
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Firmware
Verizon rolls out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 devices
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The Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 are spotted getting new updates with the firmware version numbers F926USQS5HXBD and F711USQS6HXBD, respectively. It is worth noticing the update is currently available for the devices locked to Verizon, but it will soon be available on more carriers.
For your information, the latest update for Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 doesn’t bring any significant changes, but as it is the latest security patch, it will provide some internal fixes to maintain the security of the devices.
If you are getting some other issues from the last update, you should also update the device to the latest update, as it may also address some issues. Along with the update, other improvements may also be made to enhance the overall performance of the devices.
Suppose you use the Galaxy Z Fold 3 or Flip 3 device in the US. In that case, you can update the device to the latest version by simply going to the system settings and then to the software update. If you haven’t received the update, you should wait for some time, as it may arrive in the next few days.
Firmware
Samsung rolls out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy S23 FE devices in the US
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Notably, the Galaxy S23 FE devices are getting a new update in the carrier-unlocked version with the firmware version number S711U1UES2BXBF. The update has already been rolled out to almost all carriers, including AT&T, Bluegrass Cellular, C-Spire, Cellular South, Comcast, Cricket, DISH, MetroPCS, T-Mobile, Tracfone, US Cellular, Verizon, and Xfinity Mobile.
According to the official changelog, the March 2024 security patch is one of the standard maintenance updates that provides some internal improvements for the device, and there will be no visible changes available. In other words, users may experience some improvement in the functioning of devices, but it doesn’t particularly bring any specific changes for the device.
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Suppose you are using the Galaxy S23 FE in the US. In that case, you can update the devices to the latest version by following the simple steps: first, go to the system settings, tap on the software update, and tap on the download and install button; if it shows a new update available, tap on the download button.