Samsung highlights the importance of tracking heart-related stats

Health is increasingly becoming a major area of interest for many technology companies around the world. Samsung Electronics is one of them and has been offering many health-focused products and services to its users for many users now. The company’s offerings in this space mainly consist of wearables and smartphones with health-tracking features and software to complement them.

Considering the perils of cardiovascular diseases, Samsung’s health products have been rightfully focusing on helping users with tools to track and maintain a healthy heart. This has been a key theme of many of the Samsung’s latest products and services, including the recently launched Galaxy Watch, collaborations with the medical community, and the redesigned Samsung Health app.

Samsung Health app brings all the data together

Highlighting some of its recent endeavors in this space, Samsung has published an infographic about six heart-related stats that users can track with its products and services. These include blood pressure, Resting Heart Rate (RHR), different sleep cycles, diet, stress, and exercise. Samsung Health app brings together all of this data to provide meaningful insights to develop and main a healthy lifestyle. The infographic also explains how Samsung’s partnerships and product capabilities assist with the abovementioned aspects of health.

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Samsung Music updated with new design and Spotify recommendations

A major update has been released today for Samsung Music. It’s the company’s own music player that’s optimized for Samsung’s Android devices. The user experience has been developed to easily interact with Samsung smart devices such as TVs, wearables and tablets.

Today’s update brings a new design for the music player that’s simple and immersive. It also adds a Spotify tab which will surface playlist recommendations from the world’s most popular music streaming service.

Samsung Music gets a new design

The new Samsung Music update has a user interface that’s designed to be simple. The tab design change will allow users to easily swipe through their favorites, playlists, tracks, albums and more. A sort option has been added as well for effective sorting of tracks.

The app has also received a crossfade feature. It means that when you close the music player, the music will not cut off abruptly. It will fade out slowly, getting quieter before it ends completely. This is certainly going to be appreciated by many Samsung Music users.

Last but not the least, there’s a new Spotify tab in Samsung Music. It doesn’t really link the two apps together. All it does is provide playlist recommendations from Spotify. This tab will only be available in countries where Spotify offers its service.

It’s not surprising to see Spotify get prime real estate inside Samsung Music. Samsung confirmed at the Galaxy Note 9 event in August that it has inked a long-term partnership with Spotify. It will now be Samsung’s go-to music service across all of its devices.

Samsung Music v16.2.14.14 is now available for download from Galaxy Apps. You can also download it from our APK page.

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AT&T launches the Galaxy A6 (2018) in the US

Samsung launched the Galaxy A6 about five months ago. The company said back then that it would release this handset in select markets across Asia, Europe and Latin America. A North America release was not mentioned at that point in time. Subsequent reports suggested that a US launch was possible for this handset.

The reports had also mentioned that AT&T could be the carrier partner for this device in the country. That’s precisely what has happened as the country’s second largest mobile carrier has now launched the Galaxy A6 (2018) in the United States.

Galaxy A6 (2018) in the US

It was first reported about four months ago that the Galaxy A6 is headed Stateside and that it would be released by AT&T with the model number SM-A600A. The carrier has now listed this device as being available for purchase. AT&T will deliver it to customers in a couple of days. It’s also possible to pick up the device at AT&T retail stores across the country.

The Galaxy A6 is a proper mid-range device complete with a sleek design. It has a 5.6-inch 720×1480 pixel resolution 18.5:9 aspect ratio flat Infinity Display, a 1.6GHz quadcore processor, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. It supports microSD cards of up to 256GB. There’s a fingerprint sensor at the back in addition to the 16-megapixel camera with f/1.7 aperture. A 16-megapixel camera is present upfront with f/1.9 aperture and an adjustable LED flash.

Interested customers can purchase the Galaxy A6 (2018) from AT&T in the United States for $419.99 at full retail. Customers will also have the option to split the cost over a 30 month installment agreement and pay $14 per month for the device.

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Galaxy P30 pictures show no in-display fingerprint sensor

Some Galaxy P30 pictures have surfaced online and they don’t show the rumored in-display fingerprint sensor. Samsung is expected to release a separate handset this year with a display-based fingerprint sensor. Recent reports have suggested that this device will get an optical fingerprint sensor. That’s because Samsung is saving the more advanced ultrasonic sensor for the Galaxy S10 that’s due next year.

The Galaxy P30 was thus expected to be that device. Multiple rumors had claimed that this device, bearing model number SM-G6200, will be Samsung’s first smartphone with an in-display fingerprint sensor.

Galaxy P30 pictures

The Galaxy P30 pictures have now surfaced from China where the device has been submitted to TENAA for certification. It’s the Chinese certification body that has to approve devices before they can be sold in the country.

The TENAA listing includes images of the SM-G6200 which clearly show a rear fingerprint sensor alongside the dual camera system. This puts to rest the rumors of the Galaxy P30 being Samsung’s first smartphone with an in-display fingerprint sensor. We had reported on this possibility a few days back as well.

The 5.9-inch display doesn’t appear to have a notch. There’s no word as yet on the specs of this device but it would most likely be a bonafide mid-ranger. The listing does mention a 3,300mAh battery which isn’t really anything to write home about.

There’s a possibility that the SM-G6200 may not be launched as the Galaxy P30 and the rumors about this moniker have been wrong all along. It’s also possible that there could be two variants of this device and one may have the in-display fingerprint sensor.

Samsung is yet to confirm when it’s going to launch this device. It’s possible that it may first be made available in China only before being released in other markets across the globe.

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Samsung’s new Odyssey+ WMR headset receives 3C certification

Microsoft added a Mixed Reality platform to the Windows 10 as part of the Fall Creators Update released in October last year. Responding to Microsoft’s mainstream push into AR and VR, many PC OEMs launched Windows Mixed Reality (WMR) headsets towards the end of last year. Samsung also joined the party with its Odyssey headset and motion controllers.

Though not a major PC maker, Samsung’s WMR headset was the best of the available lot last year and received praise from many reviewers. Unfortunately, the Windows Mixed Reality platform hasn’t really taken off and all the MR headsets, including Samsung’s Odyssey, remained mostly a niche offering in the market. Nevertheless, Samsung seems to be interested in giving the platform another try by launching a successor to the last year’s Odyssey headset.

Samsung Odyssey+ inches closer to launch

The new model was first spotted last month on the FCC website, where the Odyssey+ name and specifications were revealed. The same headset has now received 3C certification (Chinese approval) as well, indicating an imminent launch. It carries the model number XE800ZBA, which lines up as a successor to the last year’s XE800ZAA model.

The 3C certification doesn’t reveal any other significant information about the headset, but that shouldn’t be an issue as the FCC filing disclosed almost everything about the new device. The FCC documents showed that the Odyssey+ would be mostly similar to the previous version, barring few minor design changes to make it more comfortable to wear. The only significant change in the spec sheet seems to be the mentioning of AMOLED+SFS as the display type.

We don’t know when Samsung is planning to launch the new WMR headset, but it would be a safe bet to say the company will probably target the holiday quarter. Microsoft has an event scheduled for October 2 where the company might offer some information about its latest Windows Mixed Reality efforts and new partner devices.

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Recap: What we discussed in our YouTube live stream this week

We just concluded this week’s YouTube live stream. These live streams give us a great opportunity to interact with you, our loyal readers, live and discuss all of the latest Samsung-related news.

We had a full agenda in this live stream as well. The new Galaxy A7 was the star of the show. It’s Samsung’s first smartphone with three rear cameras and we had it with us in the live stream. We also talked about Samsung’s bold new marketing stunt involving a community in the Netherlands that’s called Apple.

Other Samsung news that was discussed included the possibility of the Galaxy J series being discontinued, the big camera update released today for the Galaxy Note 9 and the free Samsung smartphone covers that our premium members can claim. General discussion on the state of Android was on the agenda as well.

The live stream is embedded below so do check it out. Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel as well for more videos.

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Samsung gave the Galaxy S9 for free to an Apple community

Apple is Samsung’s main competitor in the premium smartphone segment. The Cupertino company, however, enjoys a much loyal fanbase when compared to Samsung, or for that matter any other brand on the planet. This makes Samsung go to great extent to convince Apple fans users to switch to its products through various marketing campaigns.

The Korean company has often mocked devoted Apple fans with its ads, but the company has taken a slightly different approach for its new marketing campaign in the Netherlands. A team from Samsung went to a village named Appel, which literally means Apple (the fruit) in Dutch, in the Gelderland province and handed over free Galaxy S9 smartphones to 50 of the village’s 312 inhabitants.

Galaxy S9 takes over Appel

Samsung took help from an 18-year old Apple fan in the village named Manouk to carry out the campaign. You can watch the video below to see how people reacted after receiving a brand-new Galaxy S9.

“With our innovative products and services, we have been off the beaten track for years to make everyday life more fun and easy. With this marketing campaign we do exactly the same. We are off the beaten track to get our message across. Our goal is to introduce as many people as possible to the possibilities of the Samsung Galaxy S9,” said (translated) Gerben van Walt Meijer, Marketing Manager, Samsung Mobiles, Netherland.

It’s a bold marketing stunt that Samsung has employed, seizing on the similarity between the names of this village and its biggest rival. It has helped the company get the message across about the Galaxy S9 which it would rather have customers buying over the new iPhones.

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