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Samsung Pay and Naver Pay unites ahead of Apple’s entry in South Korea
Samsung Electronics collaborated with Naver Financial on 20 February 2023, to promote mobile payment experiences. After the Naver Pay partnership, Samsung Pay users will surely enjoy an enhanced online payment experience.
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The company signed an official agreement at the Naver 1784 office building in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. Both companies began collaborating in the field of payment and wallet, promising to continue cooperation to provide users with a more convenient digital life.
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Naver Pay is one of the best offline payment services in Korea. Through its partnership with Samsung Pay, users will be able to use a simple payment method at merchants (including 550,000 Naver Smart Stores) to order at Naver Pay online through Samsung Pay. The offline payment experience of Naver Pay users will be further improved.
Naver Pay users will be able to use Samsung Pay’s MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) payment method to use Naver Pay offline payments at all offline merchants that accept Samsung Pay for payments nationwide.
The two companies plan to accelerate the collaboration so that each service can be implemented in the first half of this year. In the future, the company continues to seek various ways of cooperation to provide users with a better digital life.
Jini Han, vice president of the digital wallet team at Samsung Electronics’ MX division said
“Through collaboration with Naver Pay, Samsung Pay users can now enjoy a convenient mobile payment experience both offline and online. We will provide a better user experience.”
By the end of 2023, Samsung Display is likely to supply nearly 70 million units of OLED for the iPhone 15 series to Apple. The company’s OLED volume by model is estimated to be in the low 20 million units for the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus, 9 to 10 million for Pro, and ~ 30 million for Pro Max.
Among the four iPhone 15 models, the 15 Pro Max OLED estimate, which Apple plans to produce the most, is four times higher for Samsung than for LG Display. Industry watchers say that Samsung Display’s iPhone 15 Pro Max OLED volume is in the mid-20 million units, three times that of LG Display.
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The prevailing view is that LG Display will have 15% more OLED volume than Samsung Display (9 million to early 10 million units). Those who see it differently predict that Samsung Display will secure around 20 million units of 15% OLED, which will be more than LG Display.
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Apple’s Surprising Victory: Takes the Crown in Indian Smartphone Exports, Samsung Drops to Second
For the first time, Apple surpassed Samsung in smartphone export from India. The company shipped 49% of the country’s total 12 million shipments in the second quarter. Samsung, on the other hand, secured 45% of India’s total smartphone shipments in the same period.
Apple clocked a rapid growth in export volumes in the last year by making iPhones through contract manufacturers in India. The Cupertino-based company’s share of exports soared from just 9% of the roughly 8 million smartphones shipped in Q2 2022, to almost half the total smartphone exports in Q2 2023.
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Samsung’s share of export volumes fell from 50% in Q1 2023 to 45% in Q2 2023. This marks a sharp decline from Q2 2022 when the company had a dominating 84% of the export market from India. Meanwhile, exports by other Android brands (Xiaomi, Motorola, Vivo) declined from 10% in Q1 2023, to 6% in Q2 2023.
Google Messages is getting a new look for its voice recorder UI. The microphone icon in the text field will change to a waveform icon, which is different from the voice typing button in Gboard.
Instead of holding down the mic to record, you will now see a panel with a start/stop button and options to cancel, delete, or attach the recording. You will also see a waveform and a timer while recording, and you can play back the recording before sending it.
The voice messages preview will also show a waveform between the play/pause button and the timer, making it more noticeable than the current straight line.
These changes are not widely available yet, but some users have reported seeing them on their phones. These new changes are part of a bigger redesign that Google is working on for Messages, which includes a revamped home screen that is still in beta testing. Google might announce new features soon.
