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Nothing’s Carl Pei feels Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is useless
Flashy Phone (1) maker Nothing’s CEO Carl Pei feels Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is kind of useless. Despite the growing market, Carl asks about the use cases of smartwatches and says “I don’t know what to use it for.”
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Earlier, Nothing’s Carl Pei owned the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro smartwatch. He claims to have it to learn about smartwatches and asks users about what they do use smartwatches for.
Got the Samsung Galaxy Watch5 Pro on Sunday to learn about smart watches, but I don't know what to use it for… Feels kind of useless? What do you use smart watches for?
— Carl Pei (@getpeid) February 22, 2023
Pay attention, Carl picked Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 5 Pro to learn about smartwatches, even, though there are a lot of brands in the market including Apple, Google, and Fitbit.
This shows Android vendors including Nothing also admit that Samsung makes great smartwatches over Apple and Google. However, this indicates that Carl is wondering to enter the smartwatch market with a product from Nothing.
“Got the Samsung Galaxy Watch5 Pro on Sunday to learn about smart watches, but I don’t know what to use it for… Feels kind of useless? What do you use smart watches for? – Carl Pei, CEO of Nothing”
Well, the features and advantages of Samsung’s latest Galaxy Watch 5 Pro are well-known by its owners worldwide. However, we are listing some great new features and benefits of having a Watch 5 Pro on your wrist below:
- The all-new Route Workout feature lets you import GPX format workout routes from your smartphone to your watch, syncing your route list.
- Go the distance, then use Track Back to return right back where you started. Staying on track is easy thanks to voice or vibration-guided turn-by-turn navigation for cyclists and hikers.
- Go hard knowing that your watch can keep up, with the biggest battery capacity among our wearable series.
- The powerful Samsung BioActive Sensor controls the health sensors effectively. Optical Heart Rate and Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA).
- Manage your body from the inside out with body fat percentage (BIA) to skeletal muscle weight insights. All the personal feedback you need to stay on track.
- Count steps, calories, and more. Your watch will detect physical activity to track your routines — supporting over 90 exercises. Then, check your progress there.
- Samsung’s improved sleep tracking technology tracks your sleep stages to help you create healthier sleep habits and identify your sleep type via 8 animal sleep symbols. You’ll also receive nightly sleep reports, so you can rest easy.
Eyeing Exynos advancements, Samsung joined RISC-V, an open-source software development project to build and spread an advanced semiconductor ecosystem. Recently, the company announced that it has become a member of the operating board of directors for “RISC-V.”
To be noted RISC-V is an open source software development project launched by the Linux Foundation, an open source non-profit organization. This is an organization launched to develop software using RISC-V, n open source (open) semiconductor design asset (IP, Intellectual Property).
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Including Samsung, global IT and semiconductor companies such as Google, Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm are participating. Companies participating in the RISE project, including Samsung, plan to jointly develop software based on RISC-V.
“We will participate in the RISE project and collaborate with other companies to build a sustainable RISC-V-based open source software ecosystem,” said Park Soo-hong, head of the Open Source Group at Samsung Research and a member of the Linux Foundation board of directors.
It is easy to implement applications or services, which operate on RISC-V-based chipsets, and resources required for development and maintenance can be reduced. It’s expected to be used in various fields such as mobile, home appliances, data centers, and vehicle applications.
Meanwhile, RISE operating board members include Samsung Electronics, Google, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Red Hat, Mediatek, Andes, and Imae Thirteen companies including Imagination Rivos, SiFive, Ventana, T-Head are Samsung participating.
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Samsung Biometric Card IC is an all-in-one security solution, which offers biometric cards a variety of things they need to make everyday transactions safer and PIN free. Notably, this technology was selected as a winner of the CES 2023 Best of Innovation Awards in the Cybersecurity & Personal Privacy category.
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Let’s take a look at how Samsung Biometric Card IC can make card transactions PIN free and convenient, solving one of the world’s most pressing payment and identification problems. The video mentioned below gives you a high-level understanding of how it will change the way people pay in the future.
What the video below:
Samsung Biometric Card IC
An innovative payment card technology called a biometric card offers cardholders a secure and convenient way to authenticate themselves at the point of sale (POS) by using their fingerprint instead of a personal identification number (PIN) or signature.
Cardholders don’t need to enter a PIN for high-value transactions, making transactions faster and easier. An added layer of security reduces concerns about the card or PIN theft and increases confidence in using the card, especially when traveling because you don’t have to worry about fraudulent payments even if your card is stolen or lost.
Samsung’s latest Galaxy S23 series brings some of the best camera smartphones out there. Following the launch, it was noticed that the non-Ultra models of Samsung Galaxy S23 have some issues, causing blurry close-up shots, which are now officially acknowledged.
What’s the issue?
Some Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23 Plus smartphone users noticed that the area around the subject looks a bit blurred when taking a close-up shot. The impact of this problem is limited to both low-end models of the lineup, while the Ultra remains issue-free.
What’s the reason?
Samsung disclosed through its community post that Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus use a 50-megapixel primary camera powered by AI features and machine learning. The blurry close-up problem causes due to the sensor’s bright aperture, which makes stunning Nitghtography possible.
Fix coming in the future!
Samsung not only explained the issue and shared the reason, but also confirmed that the blurry close-up shots problem on Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus is planned to improve (fix) in a future software update. However, when this software update will release, remains a question for now.
Workarounds
If you are experiencing this on your Samsung Galaxy S23 or S23+, there are a few solutions you can try:
- Try taking a picture from a bit further away; if the subject you are photographing is about 30 cm away, move back a hand’s width
- Try to take a photo holding the phone vertically; if you hold the phone horizontally or diagonally, the background may appear blurred.
Why S23 Ultra is unimpacted?
Galaxy S23 Ultra remains unimpacted from the blurry shot issue as its camera automatically switches to the wide-angle camera and activates the focus booster to prevent blur. But do note that the focus enhancer stops working in high-resolution image mode, possibly resulting in a blurry close-up.