Select Samsung Smart TVs get 2 years of Disney+ free in the Netherlands

Samsung Netherlands is running an interesting offer on smart TVs, whereby prospective buyers can receive up to 2 years of subscription to Disney+ for free. The offer is valid for six of the company’s smart TV models, including the QLED 4K 55Q70R at the lowest price point of € 1.449, and the 82-inch QLED 8K 82Q950R model which goes for € 8.999.

Both of these TV models, along with the 75Q90R and 75Q85R, are now paired with 2 years of free access to Disney+. Meanwhile, the 55-inch and 65-inch 55Q70R / 65Q80R smart TVs have been paired with 1 year of free Disney+ access.

The offer stands until January but could remain exclusive to the Netherlands

The ongoing offer will last until January 19, and every eligible smart TV purchased before then will come with 1 or 2 years of Disney+. It’s unclear whether the freebie will remain exclusive to the Netherlands, but it might, especially because the Netherlands was the market of choice for The Walt Disney Company to test its new streaming service on Samsung TVs before it launched more widely.

Disney+ costs € 6.99 a month in the Netherlands, meaning that the ongoing offer can save you up to € 168 over the course of two years. Not a bad deal, especially if you’re going through subscription fatigue and the idea of signing up to yet another subscription service turns you off, yet you still want to see if The Mandalorian lives up to the hype.

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Samsung CES 2020 booth is the largest, Galaxy Home Mini could be there

Samsung’s appearance at CES 2020 will be unmatched, as the company’s 3,370 square meeters booth will be the largest among all the other participants. Although Samsung’s entire CES 2020 schedule remains unknown, the company is expected to unveil numerous products across different categories, ranging from IoT, AI, and 5G networking to home appliances and TVs.

Additionally, Samsung might also be bringing the Galaxy Home Mini at CES 2020, according to a recent report from The Korea Times. However, even if the smart speaker will be showcased in Las Vegas, there’s no guarantee that it will be released around the same time given Samsung’s slow progress in this area. Its first smart speaker dubbed the Galaxy Home has been eluding the market for over a year now. It, too, was showcased at CES 2019, yet it’s still nowhere to be found.

What else can we expect from Samsung at CES 2020?

As reported a few weeks ago, Samsung Electronics CEO, Kim Huyn-seok, will host a keynote at CES 2020 discussing the company’s role in ‘shaping a new consumer experience for global citizens.’

More to the point, the company is expected to showcase a digital vehicle cockpit system – presumably, the same one we’ve seen at IFA 2019 – as well as ‘robotic products that utilize our AI, IoT, and 5G technologies.’ It’s also expected to unveil an improved 8K upscaling solution for smart TVs.

Although not every product demonstrated at CES 2020 will be commercialized in or around January, Samsung is already turning heads as it secured 46 CES 2020 Innovation Awards for outstanding design and engineering. Its booth will likely be the shining jewel of the event and we’re eager to see all of this new tech in action. We’ll be on the show floor bringing you all the information you need, so make sure you tune in after New Year’s Day.

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Daily Deal: 42% off Samsung EVO MicroSD card 256 GB

Smartphones often don’t come with a lot of internal storage capacity, or so we feel after we have filled it all up with our videos, selfies and apps. That’s especially true if your budget is limited and you get a device that doesn’t have a lot of internal storage to begin with. Luckily, many of these devices do come with a slot for a MicroSD card so it’s very simple and also cheap to extend your memory.

By extending your device’s storage capacity, you will have more room to store music, videos or photos. The Samsung EVO is a high quality MicroSD card that is verydurable as it resists water, extreme temperatures and is shock proof. At 42% off, this is a steal. This is the perfect time to get a couple of before the prices rise again!

Hit the Buy Now button below to get them while still discounted.

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Samsung’s Galaxy Upcycling program still lives, and it could take off soon

Some of our readers might recall Samsung’s Galaxy Upcycling program unveiled a couple of years ago. It was meant to give mobile users ideas on how they can repurpose older Galaxy hardware and reduce e-waste.

Not a lot has come out of this idea over the past couple of years and the program is still technically not live yet, but Samsung hasn’t forgotten about it and it might bring it to some markets, including Vietnam, soon. Not through hardware repurposed as a Bitcoin mining rig, but through a medical eye screening device made out of old Galaxy phones.

Mark Newton, head of corporate sustainability at Samsung Electronics America, talked again about the program at a recent conference, where the company also demonstrated the concept of a medical device capable of screening for eye diseases. Following the Galaxy Upcycling program philosophy, the device was built from an older camera-equipped Galaxy phone that’s no longer used for its original primary function. There’s no word on when this concept might become a reality, but it did show that older devices can still be useful.

‘This is the highest order of a circular economy strategy‘

Samsung has been making great progress in reducing e-waste and achieving a circular economy. The company has had at least a couple of campaigns this year to promote recycling, and Samsung Display was recently awarded a Gold certificate by UL for its waste-recycling efforts.

But recycling and upcycling are two different concepts. The former aims to recycle raw materials from older products and use those materials in newer devices. The latter aims to repurpose existing products, such as Galaxy smartphones, and put that processing power to use in different ways.

‘These products have enough processing power to do a lot of things‘ claimed Mark Newton, adding that the Upcycling program represents ‘the highest order of a circular economy strategy.’

A medical device built from an old Galaxy smartphone, capable of screening for eye diseases, is a prime example of how old hardware can be repurposed with the help of custom software. If a real product based on this concept would exist, it could prove useful in countries with emerging economies, where healthcare diagnostic tools may be in short supply.

According to the recent report by GreenBiz citing Mark Newton, Samsung wants to test the eye screening solution presented at the conference in several markets, with Vietnam being the first. Having said that, we might start hearing more about Samsung’s Galaxy Upcycling program in the near future. Readers who might want to be updated on the company’s progress on the matter can visit the official Galaxy Upcycling page and subscribe via email.

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PSA: Samsung didn’t remove the Wi-Fi sharing option in One UI 2.0

Samsung has started rolling out the Android 10-based One UI 2.0 update to its Galaxy devices since last month. Some of the users who received the update might have observed that the Wi-Fi sharing option is missing from the Mobile Hotspot toggle menu in the quick settings panel. While it is true Samsung has removed the shortcut, the functionality itself is not gone. The company has just buried the feature and made it a little difficult to discover in the latest version of One UI.

You can still access the Wi-Fi sharing option in One UI 2.0 by long-pressing the Mobile Hotspot toggle and tapping the three dots on the top-right corner of the subsequent screen. Compared to the older shortcut, the new placement takes two additional taps to enable Wi-Fi sharing. It’s unclear why Samsung decided to make this seemingly inefficient UI tweak.

Though many Galaxy users will encounter and possibly hate this change in One UI 2.0, Samsung appears to have implemented this with One UI 1.5 itself. Devices like the Galaxy Note 10 and the A50s, which launched with One UI 1.5 onboard, don’t have the Wi-Fi sharing shortcut even on Android Pie. So, this change will impact only those who are upgrading from One UI 1.0/1.1 to One UI 2.0.

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Check out these nice Galaxy A51 macro camera samples

It has been a week since Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A51. This is the first of Samsung’s 2020 Galaxy A series. One major difference this phone has compared to its predecessor is the addition of a macro camera.

We took it for a spin at the Galaxy A51 launch event in Vietnam and were fairly impressed by it. Some nice Galaxy A51 macro camera samples have now been posted online as well, giving us a good idea of what this camera is capable of.

Galaxy A51 macro camera samples show great detail

The Galaxy A51 is Samsung’s first Galaxy smartphone to feature a macro camera. It’s a 5-megapixel camera that will let you get very close to a subject and capture much more detail than you normally would using a telephoto lens.

As we pointed out in our Galaxy A51 hands-on, you do have to get really close to the subject in order to get it into focus. Once the subject is in focus, the results are surprisingly good. That’s something we see in these samples as well. The camera manages to capture considerable detail so it will be quite possible to take some good-looking artsy photos with the Galaxy A51.

You can expect a similar result on the Galaxy A71 as well which also features the same macro camera. It’s also highly likely that we’ll see Samsung use the macro camera in more handsets next year.

Do you like what you see so far? Would you be willing to purchase the Galaxy A51 because of its macro camera? Let us know in the comments below.

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Samsung loses Vietnam market share but enjoys Galaxy Note 10 success

Samsung’s smartphone market share in Vietnam has been following a declining trajectory throughout the year, and a recent report citing research firm GfK reveals that October has been the company’s lowest-performing month of 2019.

That’s not necessarily saying that Samsung has recorded its lowest revenues in Vietnam in October. Samsung may have sold fewer handsets leading to a smaller market share, but the ones it did sell have had a higher price tag than usual.

Galaxy Note 10 was in high demand in Vietnam throughout October

According to VnExpress citing a retailer in Vietnam, roughly 45% of all the smartphone models sold by Samsung in October were part of the Galaxy Note 10 lineup. The company’s smartphone market share stood at 38.45% at the end of October, down from 40.75% a month earlier.

The company recorded an impressive 50.86% market share in March 2019, which was its highest point of the year. Except for July and August when it spiked up a couple of points, its overall market share throughout the year has been declining. Perhaps with the release of the new Galaxy A (2020) series, the company will regain some of that lost chunk of the market in the next couple of quarters.

Thankfully, even if the company lost roughly 12% of the market compared to where it was 10 months ago, Samsung has maintained its spot as the leading smartphone vendor in Vietnam. It’s followed by OPPO and Xiaomi, whose mobile products account for 25.2% and 10.2% of the market, respectively.

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