Category Archives: Samsung
Will Samsung pay Apple $30 - $40 per Galaxy device?
- Friday, 26 July 2013 07:05
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Samsung and Apple are arch rivals and the rivalry goes a step forward when it comes to patents. Both the companies are fighting in different patent claims in different courtrooms across the globe. Is there any immediate solution of this problem? Answer is NO.
From a latest report from Koran news agency it is now clear that why Samsung does not want to settle down all the differences with Apple.
In one stage Samsung was looking to enter a cross-licensing agreement with Apple. But Apple is not in a mood to do that. Apple wants a whopping fee of $30 - $40 per tablet to license with patents. Apart from that Apple also wants $600 million for Samsung’s 20 million Galaxy S4 sale. This is definitely a dual policy of Apple as it charges $5 to HTC for each smartphone.
That is not the end of the story, Apple also wants Samsung to sign a anti-cloning agreement. This will stop Samsung from implementing any Apple related patents on Galaxy devices.
With all these demands Samsung stopped to proceed with any talks with Apple when it comes to patents and cross-licensing agreements.
It is also worth to mention that it is reported that Apple signed agreement with Samsung to obtain iPhone chips in 2015 from the Korean electronics giant.
Samsung will once again provide Apple iPhone 7 chips
- Monday, 15 July 2013 12:24
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Samsung was the provider of Apple iPhone chipset from 2007, when the original iPhone came up. Beginning from first generation iPhone till the latest iPhone 5 Samsung was the sole provider of iPhone chips which changed this year when Apple grabbed TSMC as their chip provider of choice for iPhone 6.
Reportedly Apple once again signed contract with Samsung for it’s future generation iPhone expected in 2015. This may be the iPhone 7 which will arrive late 2015. According to local Korean media, Samsung will produce chipsets with 14 nanometer FinFET technology for Apple.
So TSMC will only provide chipsets for only Apple iPhone 6?
There is no official words yet, neither from Samsung or Apple about this deal. It seems like we have to wait a bit to get some concrete information.
Samsung confirms Tizen is not dead, smartphone coming soon
- Sunday, 07 July 2013 10:55
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There were some report that Samsung’s Tizen OS is already dead and there won’s be any product from Samsung on the new OS. This was first posted by Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin on Twitter. He also wrote that Samsung is gong to abandon the project completely.
But now Samsung come in defense and confirms in an official statement that Tizen development is in fact in progress and there will be products released on the new mobile OS.
Here is the statement in full:
“Samsung has been Actively working on Tizen eco-system together with Tizen Association members and partners. The first Tizen based smartphone will be released in cooperation with mobile operators and eco-system partners. Samsung is committed to delivering the best mobile experience based on the open platform and a fully ready eco-system around it. “
Samsung has already delayed the release of its first Tizen based smartphone. This was due to some major problem with the App Store.
Samsung announces pre-earnings guidance - missed forecast
- Friday, 05 July 2013 09:48
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Samsung announces earning report and although th figures look good but it missed expectation for it’s quarterly earnings guidance. The main reason for the low results is mainly because of slow sale of its flagship device Samsung Galaxy S4. Samsung already lost market value of 39 trillion won ($34.2 billion) and it’s share prices already dropped 17 percent from June.
Here are the details from press release
- Sales: Approximately 57 trillion Won
- Operating Profit: Approximately 9.5 trillion Won
The above figures are consolidated earnings estimates based on K-IFRS. Korean disclosure regulations do not allow earnings estimates to be given in a range. Therefore, the above figures are the median of the earnings estimate range given below.
- Sales: 56 ~ 58 trillion Won
- Operating Profit: 9.3 ~ 9.7 trillion Won
Boxee is now a Samsung company
- Thursday, 04 July 2013 09:55
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Samsung confirmed that it has acquired Boxee, the multimedia company which produce Boxee Box multimedia players. It is believed that Samsung purchased the start-up for $30 million.
“Samsung has acquired key talent and assets from Boxee,” the spokeswoman said in a statement. “This will help us continue to improve the overall user experience across our connected devices.”
Samsung already offers Smart TVs with not so famous inbuilt multimedia features called Samsung HUB. In this regard Boxee will definitely help Samsung to improve its Smart TV solutions.