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Lauren Goode
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Back at a giant Samsung event and this tweet will haunt me forever
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Lauren Goode
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At the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event and they’ve hired a company called CrowdRX to scan for fevers (!) as people walk into the Palace of Fine Arts. There are stations for hand sanitizer. Executives are greeting people with elbow bumps
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We’ve officially entered era of feature creep. Samsung showing off stunning photography/videography but will it matter in a slowing smartphone market?
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Analyst from CCS Insight, Leo Gebbie: “The Galaxy S23 demonstrates just how hard it is to tell a new story in today’s market…The latest devices from Samsung are undoubtedly impressive but the emphasis on improvements to camera capabilities and battery life is nothing new.”
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Samsung has been relatively quiet about VR aside from its Gear VR headset, which it launched several iterations of between 2015 and 2017; says there's more demand now. "Now we believe that we have reached a certain threshold." cnet.com/tech/mobile/sa via
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Samsung, Google and Qualcomm Team Up to Build a New Mixed-Reality Platform
But no real products have been announced yet.
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