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Samsung brings Good Lock apps to more countries
Good Lock gives users the ability to customize the lock screen, edge lighting effects, and everything in between.
According to GalaxyClub (via RPRNA), the South Korean tech giant expanding the Good Lock app and its impressive modules to several European countries. The app should available in Germany, Netherlands, and Switzerland in the coming days/weeks to download from Galaxy Store.
If you are also from a European country, so it will not necessary to download the Good Lock app from third-party websites, you can directly get it from Samsung’s official Galaxy Store app.
Samsung was started releasing the Good Lock app in 2016 as an experimental customization app for limited countries later this becomes a popular platform for the Galaxy users. Samsung smartphone users demanding for a long time to provide the Good Lock app and its modules worldwide. Now it seems that the company is ready to reveal the popular customization app to more regions.
Some of Good Lock’s main modules:
Wonderland: Create moving wallpapers with exciting new animations.
Pentastic: It allows you to personalize how your S Pen responds to you by providing different themes and sound options for features such as Air command and Hover pointer.
Theme Park: This module enables you to manually create a theme of your choice for your Galaxy device.
Edgelighting +: It lets you additional options for edge lighting effect.
NavStar: It gives you a number of options to customize your navigation bar.
Good Lock and its modules work on several Galaxy devices according to their hardware and software capabilities. The app cannot be found on those devices that are running on One UI Core including the Galaxy M series and some Galaxy A series devices.
We have to wait until Samsung officially introduces Good Lock in Europe or it becomes available in every region. It would be a relevant and significant movement by Samsung to release the helpful apps there.
Samsung’s executive chairman Jay Y. Lee (Lee Jae-yong in Korean) topped the Forbes 2024 Richest Korean list for the first time. On April 17, Forbes revealed that the Samsung boss is the richest in South Korea, with his assets increasing by $3.5 billion, bringing his total net worth to $11.5 billion.
Thanks to a rise in Samsung’s stocks, Samsung’s Lee jumped to the top of the Forbes 2024 Richest Korean list. Notably, the company’s stocks significantly hiked after the revelation that it’s developing high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI computing for NVIDIA.
Forbes 2023 Richest Korean, Kim Byung-ju, slipped to second this year with assets worth $9.7 billion. The third place went to Seo Jung-jin, honorary chairman of Celltrion, with assets of $7.5 billion.
Cho Jung-ho, chairman of Meritz Financial Group, ranked fourth with $6.2 billion, and Chung Mong-koo, honorary chairman of Hyundai Motor Group, was fifth with $4.6 billion.
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Samsung established an AI chip design-dedicated Advanced Processor Lab in Silicon Valley, US. Formerly known as the Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung’s SAIT is said to have formed the new Lab to strengthen its AI chip R&D in the US.
BusinessKorea reports that the new Samsung Advanced Processor Lab to focus on developing next-gen AI semiconductor design assets in the US. The assets are said to be focused on the RISC-V area, which serves as a foundational design asset for semiconductor chip design.
Samsung’s initiative with RISC-V is interpreted as a move towards technological independence. Therefore, the company is expanding its R&D organization in Silicon Valley, aiming to enhance design capabilities to disrupt the market currently dominated by NVIDIA.
Amid the booming AI era, the market of advanced semiconductors is also expanding. Samsung has completed the development of its Mach-1 AI semiconductor and supplied prototypes to global firms including Korea’s Naver. The company has also started the development of Mach-2.
Under the CHIPS Act, Samsung received huge subsidies to boost investment in the US. It’s worth noting that the Biden govt awarded a 12% subsidy of Samsung’s total investment, which is significantly higher than Intel and TSMC’s subsidy.
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Samsung’s first 3nm Exynos 2500 chip could outpace Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 in power efficiency. Both chipsets will power the next-gen Galaxy flagships, scheduled for an early 2025 launch. Recent input suggests that Exynos is returning as a tough rival to Snapdragon.
The Exynos 2500 will be made on Samsung’s 2nd-gen 3nm process technology. The S24’s Exynos 2400 chipset impressed the industry with significant improvements over its predecessor. The company appears to be leveling up the game next year.
Thanks to the cutting-edge process node, Samsung’s next Exynos could finally surpass its Snapdragon counterpart in power efficiency. The company may utilize its advanced FOWLP in the Exynos 2500 to make it run at higher clock speeds at the same power consumption level.
Qualcomm is facing power efficiency concerns with its recent Snapdragon chips. Due to reduced efficiency, phone makers are forced to bring up to 5000mAh battery. Samsung apparently seized this opportunity to bring back its in-house Exynos back to the contest.
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