(10 Jul 2024)
SOUTH KOREA SAMSUNG SMARTPHONES
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seoul, South Korea - 8 July 2024
1. Various of new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 smartphone
2. Various of new Samsung Galaxy Fold 6 smartphone
3. Various of Samsung unveiling event
4. Various of Samsung Galaxy Ring
5. Various of Samsung Galaxy Watch
6. Various of Samsung Galaxy Buds
7. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Hans Lee, head of wearable product planning group, Samsung:
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"In 2024, Galaxy AI will be expanded to wearables and Galaxy Ring will be a game-changer in the wearable market."
8. Various of Samsung Galaxy Ring on finger
9. Various of Samsung Galaxy Watch
10. Various of Samsung officials demonstrating features on Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Z Flip 6
11. Various of Samsung event
STORYLINE:
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Samsung is dressing up its wearable devices in technology's latest fashion - artificial intelligence.
The South Korean electronics giant on Wednesday revealed that both its first-ever premium smartwatch and a smart ring - heralding its entry into a niche market - will include AI features that are supposed to help people monitor and manage their health.
STORYLINE:
Both the Galaxy Watch Ultra, priced at $650, and the Galaxy Ring, priced at $400, are extensions of a push that Samsung launched six months ago when it introduced its first smartphones to feature AI technology as a main attraction.
"In 2024, Galaxy AI will be expanded to wearables and Galaxy Ring will be a game-changer in the wearable market," says Hans Lee, head of wearable product planning group at Samsung.
The high-end smartwatch costs nearly twice as much as Samsung's latest standard model, the Galaxy Watch 7, which will sell for $350.
Tethering AI to people's essential devices has become an accelerating trend.
The technology already has been implanted on smartphones made by Google and Apple that compete against Samsung and also on the latest personal computers powered by Microsoft's Windows software.
The AI deployment on Samsung's new premium watch and ring is narrowly focused on improving and maintaining personal health - the main reason most people buy wearable technology.
Both Samsung's watch and ring are leaning on AI to do a better job of analyzing the wearer's biometric data to customize assessments of their well-being through an “energy score” that will deliver ratings on a one to 100 scale and also make recommendations like a virtual fitness coach.
Most of the information will be collected on the devices themselves. But some data will require analysis through data centers with security that Samsung likens to a virtual Fort Knox.
The premium watch is the more sophisticated of Samsung's latest wearable devices, capable of performing some functions - such as flagging sleep apnea - that the Galaxy Ring can't.
The ring, though, requires less frequent recharging, equipped with a battery that can last six to seven days before needing to be replenished.
But the smartwatch is also in a much more crowded market currently led by Apple, which has been intensifying its focus on health features since entering the market a decade ago.
More than 60 million people already use the Samsung Health app that works in tandem with its smartwatches.
The health benefits associated with wearable technology have helped spur more people to buy smartwatches, with worldwide sales of the devices expected to approach about $29 billion this year, based on a forecast by the research firm Gartner Inc.
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