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Samsung Galaxy Watch will get incredible AI features: Kencor Health, XRHealth and beyond
Samsung today announced that it has expanded its Privileged Health SDK program to offer a broader range of tools for preventive health and fostering healthcare innovations through partnerships.
The company revealed that its collab with health and wellness stars allows users to check their vital signs in real-time and manage their health intelligently and preemptively, thanks to the Galaxy Watch’s advanced sensor technology.
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The Biofourmis remote patient monitoring platform delivers personalized care to thousands of patients each month, deploying its solutions. Boosted by the Galaxy Watch’s comprehensive biometric data, the service has become better equipped for patient-centered care through its dashboard.
Kencor Health combines Galaxy Watch with its platform for personalized remote monitoring and specifically monitors. It predicts hyperkalemia in chronic kidney disease patients by using biometric feedback collected from the Galaxy Watch.
Additionally, Medical AI software provides advanced ECG services that detect arrhythmia in daily life. By combining its own AI algorithms and the Galaxy Watch’s ECG technology, the service provides smarter predictions and prompt alerts for patients.
Oova is an AI-powered women’s health and fertility platform that remotely monitors hormone levels, connects to medical providers, and merges the Galaxy Watch’s biometric data with hormonal changes. This integration allows for more guidance through unique cycles, including perimenopause.
XR Therapy
Samsung partner XRHealth is a virtual clinic that provides physical and mental health therapy. Upon starting the exercise, the Galaxy Watch monitors the user’s heart rate and vibrates when the assigned range is reached, serving as a pacer that tracks the user’s heart rate in real time.
The Healium is a bio-feedback video platform and technology that turns heart rate data from the Galaxy Watch into immersive stories and colorful animations. This visual feedback helps users see their stress levels so they can understand their heart rate more intuitively.
Apart from this, Samsung is also expanding its capabilities to include smart mattresses that set the perfect temperature for quality sleep. Samsung partner 3Boon1 provides smart mattresses equipped with sensors and an AI algorithm that automatically regulates the temperature of the bed.
- When the user lies down, the mattress monitors their vital signs to detect what stage of sleep they are in, adjusting the temperature between 20 to 40 degrees Celsius throughout the night to ensure uninterrupted rest.
- Combining the Galaxy Watch’s skin temperature and heart rate measurements, the AI algorithm can further personalize the temperature in real time to fine tune the sleep environment.
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OnePlus joins Android 15 race with OxygenOS 15 announcement; Samsung lagging due to delay in One UI 7
Samsung and OnePlus, two companies in the Android ecosystem, are taking different approaches with their Android 15 update rollout plans, and tech fans are talking about it.
OnePlus has officially confirmed, via an announcement on its social media account and its community forum, that the Android 15-based OxygenOS 15 beta program is coming on October 24th, 2024. The upcoming OxygenOS update will probably bring a refreshed design inspired by iOS, featuring fresh lock screen customization choices and an updated UI.
Devices like the OnePlus 12 and OnePlus Open will be first in line to get the OxygenOS 15 update by mid or late November, with other models following soon after.
With the OxygenOS 15 announcement, OnePlus now joins other leading manufacturers in rolling out Android 15. The smartphone companies like Google, Vivo, Motorola, Nothing, and ROG have already started the stable or beta rollout.
However, Samsung, a key contributor to the Android OS ecosystem, has delayed the One UI 7.0 beta program, causing it to lag in its update schedule. This delay has upset the Samsung Galaxy users waiting for Android 15, as Samsung is taking time to ensure the OS stability rather than rushing updates.
While Samsung hasn’t rushed to release a beta or full update like OnePlus, the company is expected to bring significant visual and functional changes.
As per official information, the Android 15-based One UI 7.0 stable update won’t be available until 2025. The company is going to bring the stable full-featured One UI 7 with the Galaxy S25 series next year.
Samsung developed the 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM for AI and next-gen GPU. The company’s advanced GDDR7 memory chipset introduces faster speed and enhanced power efficiency to become an optimum solution for next-generation applications.
The South Korean tech giant also announced that the validation for the 24Gb GDDR7 in next-generation AI computing systems from major GPU customers will begin this year, with plans for commercialization early next year.
24Gb GDDR7
Thanks to high capacity and powerful performance, Samsung’s latest memory chip will be widely utilized in various fields. It’s a pretty big induction in fields that require high-performance memory solutions, such as data centers and AI workstations.
Beyond that, the GDDR7 will also be utilized beyond the traditional applications of graphics DRAM in graphics cards, gaming consoles and autonomous driving. It minimizes current leakage by using power gating design tech to boost operational stability.
Samsung claims that the GDDR7 achieved industry-leading speed for graphics DRAM of 40 Gbps, a whopping 25% boost over its predecessor. The performances can also be enhanced to up to 42.5Gbps, depending on the usage environment.
The company has also expanded mobile SoC-inspired methods such as clock control management and dual VDD design. It’s aimed at reducing unnecessary power consumption, improving power efficiency by over 30%.
Samsung faced a key technology leak that could have ruined its semiconductor investments and efforts. As cases surface, South Korea vowed to tighten tech leak prevention to safeguard home-grown innovation by Samsung and others.
Reuters reports that South Korea is preparing big decisions to protect Samsung and other local firms from the leak of key tech and business secrets. The Korean govt will prepare stronger measures to shield advanced technologies from leak.
A former Samsung employee was recently arrested over allegations of stealing semiconductor information. The person was accused of transferring key semiconductor secrets to a Chinese firm as part of establishing a facility.
South Korea’s finance minister announced that the Government is working on the preparation of stronger measures to prevent overseas leaks of business secrets amid intensifying competition for advanced technologies.
“We will prevent illegal leaks of advanced technologies to raise the global competitiveness of our companies and strengthen technology leadership,” Minister Choi Sang-mok said.
Korean FM disclosed that the government will set up a “big data” system. It will be aimed at preventing tech leaks at the patent agency and bringing new regulations to ensure stronger punishment and penalties for culprits.