Wednesday 3 September 2014
Samsung reveals Gear VR headset and Galaxy pick your way smartphone
Samsung has unveiled a virtual authenticity headset and a smartphone whose screen bends around single of its sides.
The new-found kit was revealed by the side of the Ifa tech parade in the field of Berlin.
In the field of addition to the Gear VR and Galaxy be aware of pick your way, the company too showed inedible the fourth standard version of its large-screened be aware of smartphone, which introduces an ultraviolet light sensor.
The announcements happen by the side of a occasion as soon as Samsung Electronics is perceived to take place on its back base.
In the field of July the division reported a 20% year-on-year dive in the field of its mesh profit and dozens of executives voluntarily agreed to return part of their bonuses.
The company's smartphone sell share fell from 32.2% in the field of the April-to-June quarter of 2013 to 24.9% in the field of the same full stop this time, according to study press down IDC, despite the actuality it has single of the biggest ranges of handsets.
By contrast, its machine rivals Lenovo, Huawei, Xiaomi and Motorola all made gains.
Galaxy be aware of pick your way
The screen of the Galaxy be aware of pick your way wraps around part of the right-hand elevation of the handset
By the side of Ifa, DJ Lee, Samsung Electronic's marketing chief, assumed his press down was "focused on accelerating the hurry of innovation" and promised to "never long-drawn-out down".
The virtual authenticity headset is the consequence of an alliance with Facebook-owned Oculus and acts since an add-on in support of the Galaxy be aware of 4.
It uses the phone's 5.7in (14.5cm) screen and speakers, and adds a main adjustment lens - allowing it to adjust in support of nearly and intuitive eyes - and a variety of sensors to track take precedence whereabouts.
The press down assumed the device would offer a 96-degree line of work of inspection, giving an experience like to looking by the side of a giant 175in (4.4m) screen from two metres away.
Gear VR
The VR headset comes with a controller but requires a Galaxy be aware of 4 handset to exert yourself
The Gear VR desire take place sold with a microSD certificate containing a insignificant collection of 360-degree videos and virtual authenticity games.
Curved pick your way
Samsung assumed the thrust of wrapping the screen of the Galaxy be aware of pick your way around its elevation was to offer a new-found way to access recurrently used apps and alerts, which would take place nifty by the side of time as soon as the lay of the screen was obscured by a caring cover.
It acts since a kind of scrollable stop before toolbar so as to can take place controlled with a swing at of the thumb.
But single expert suggested the functions unfilled by the Gear VR and Galaxy be aware of pick your way might take a while to attain their chubby capability.
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