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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday September 05 2018, @06:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the whatever-it-takes dept.

Samsung says new features could come to mid-range phones before flagships

Flashy new features almost always arrive on the most expensive smartphones first, but Samsung may start taking a different approach. DJ Koh, head of Samsung's mobile division, tells CNBC that the company is now focused on differentiating mid-range phones ahead of flagship phones, as sales lag on higher-end models.

"In the past, I brought the new technology and differentiation to the flagship model and then moved to the mid-end. But I have changed my strategy from this year to bring technology and differentiation points starting from the mid-end," Koh told CNBC.

[...] Samsung hasn't avoided bringing higher-end features to mid-range phones — this year's Galaxy A series, for instance, included an 18:9 screen and dual front-facing cameras. But it was going up against phones that offered screens with notches, the clear symbol of a 2018 device. That kind of difference makes it harder to compete with companies like OnePlus, which are quicker to bring these features to mid-range phones.

That all said, Koh told CNBC the changes are really just about "focusing on millennials who cannot afford the flagship."


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Wednesday September 05 2018, @09:02PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday September 05 2018, @09:02PM (#730950) Journal

    So, smartphone guts in the watch/bracelet, watch/bracelet is a touchpad that you don't look at constantly, and you only need to slightly lift your arms in front of you while walking in order to interact with it. And then you have AR glasses up top, accepting input from the watch/bracelet. I dunno, it might work. It gives you a worse experience for video viewing (small watch screen) unless the glasses can display video in a "VR mode".

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 06 2018, @10:42AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 06 2018, @10:42AM (#731239)

    We could use kinematics to identify people who are dumbwalking using smart glasses. In the same vein as the phone's camera has to make a shutter noise by law in some countries (Japan springs to mind).

    For example, to keep the screen on and/or the connection active, a user might have to walk with his knees making more exaggerated outward motions, or move his neck back and forward with each stride. That would work.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 06 2018, @11:03AM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday September 06 2018, @11:03AM (#731248) Journal

      Shutter noise laws are bullshit. If I want to take a picture of something in silence, I should be able to do that, whether it's a bird, a dog, a worm's eye view of a pair of panties, whatever.

      There is no need to make smartglasses "dumbwalkers" identifiable. If they are looking up and forward, that is already better than a distracted smartphone user. If that's not enough, you could also use the camera system and speaker/vibration to alert the user if they are about to collide with an obstacle.

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