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Samsung announced a campaign in February to sign on indie developers to Samsung Apps, offering 100 percent of all revenue from software sold there to developers. Samsung Apps itself isn’t new, but a key effort from the Korean company to attract more developers to that platform is aiming to make it more of a destination for developers and consumers.
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Samsung also offers its own Samsung Apps for delivering software specific to its devices, and has signed on Swiftkey to provide its software keyboard, another way to differentiate itself from those using stock or skinned Android input mechanisms.
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The list of features that were Samsung-specific was long, and many of those actually included services that can be considered alternatives to Google’s own offerings: S-Voice and S-Translator can do a lot of what Google’s own software offerings can provide, for example, and use Nuance tech, not Google’s, to get it done.Įven leaving the major software service announcements aside, small things like the new Bluetooth controller and ability for S-Health to plug into third-party devices signal a desire to start attracting more content to Samsung’s own OEM-specific ecosystem. More than any other Android device manufacturer, Samsung made a point with its latest generation of flagship device to outline software features that help it stand apart: Dual-Shot, Sound Shot, Drama Shot, Air Gesture, Air View, S-Travel, S-Health, S-Voice, S-Translator, S-Voice Drive Knox, Smart Scroll, Smart Pause, Group Play, etc. The more control Samsung has over the OS running on its devices, the greater its take of revenue resulting from software and media use, and the better it can solidify its position at the top of the global smartphone market. Which isn’t to say it would get rid of Android altogether – just that it might choose to follow Amazon’s example and build a version of Android that’s virtually unrecognizable on the surface from the Google mobile OS that will be running on the vast majority of other OEM handsets. Maybe the company was too busy trying to cram as many song and dance numbers into the show as possible, but maybe that’s because Samsung will soon take what it needs from Android and go its own way. Will there be an eye scroll? Will it work? It will certainly be the center of attention.įollow me on Twitter or join me on Facebook.Samsung did something fairly surprising given that it included the most recent version of Android, 4.2.2, on its brand new Galaxy S 4 smartphone: it didn’t talk about that much at all last night at the special launch event. There's not much sexy left now that Apple has music and movies and Google has YouTube. Samsung is chiefly a manufacturing company but the innovation race is all about integrating services. Given Samsung's extensive operations in the medical sector this would seem a more substantive route for it to explore right now. On the other hand Samsung is rumored to have some kind of medical monitoring service up its sleeve. But it looks more likely that the technology is in its infancy and will require users to train the system, and be patient with its errors. That's about where it stands for a feature that might make the S4 a stellar success.
And it turns out that Samsung has registered a trade mark "eye scroll". A staffer at Samsung leaked the feature to the New York Times last week. Information about eye-scroll in the S 4 comes from two sources. Nokia in fact announced, in 2010, that it was working on eye-scrolling software for mobile phones but has never announced being near to a commercialized product. Still, it shows the Koreans have a track history, as does the video pause facility in the S3. They are intended for people with degenerative diseases.
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On the other hand, a small group of Samsung engineers has been working on medical applications of eye tracking, using open source code from Eyecan and the Not Impossible Foundation. But who is Samsung's provider? None of these companies acknowledge a partnership on eye scroll with Samsung on their websites.Īnother market leader, SMI, perhaps the most advanced research-led company in the space, carries no information about a partnership with Samsung on its website either. LG and EON Reality both released screen-based, glasses-free, eye tracking products in 2011. The commercialization of what some people call gaze control is led by Swedish company Tobii but they were only at the stage of a prototype tablet with NTT DoCoMo in 2012, anticipating a commercial launch in 2014/2015.Įxtremetech recently pointed out that Tobii's device is far too large to fit into a smartphone (see this Economist piece on eye tracking for more background).
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