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Lately, Samsung Electronics has been in the news headlines too often for the wrong reasons. Workers are striking, the company is losing key semiconductor clients, the mass production roadmap for the Texas chip factory got pushed back to 2026, the public One UI 7.0 update isn't coming this year, and more and more people are beginning to think that the company lost its spirit of innovation.

Samsung is well aware of all this, and today, Samsung Electronics DS Division Vice Chairman Jun Young-hyun issued an apology to customers, investors, and employees worldwide.

“Many people are talking about Samsung's crisis,” the letter says. “All of this responsibility lies with us who are leading the business.”

Samsung vows to do better, innovate, and be proactive

“Dear customers, investors, and employees,” says Samsung in its letter. “The performance that fell short of market expectations has raised concerns about the fundamental technological competitiveness and the future of the company.”

Samsung added it has a history of “challenge, innovation, and overcoming that has always turned crises into opportunities.” Now appears to be one of those times when the company has to turn a bad situation into a good one.

“Our management will take the lead in overcoming the crisis,” states the letter before listing three major talking points about the ongoing issues and how to solve them.

“Above all, we will restore the fundamental competitiveness of technology. Technology and quality are our lifeblood. It is Samsung Electronics' pride that we can never compromise on.”

Samsung wants to secure fundamental competitiveness rather than seek short-term solutions. And this statement seemingly rings true with Samsung leader Jay Y. Lee's recent discussion about not wanting to spin off Foundry and System LSI and continuing to think long-term.

The only way to make a comeback, Samsung says, is through “new technologies that do not exist in the world and perfect quality competitiveness.”

The second big talking point in Samsung's apology letter had to do with passion for pioneering. The company states it will better prepare for the future. “We will rekindle our unique passion to fearlessly pioneer the future and to cling to our goals until the end and achieve them.”

Instead of a defensive mindset armed to protect what Samsung already has, the company will “Re-arm [itself] with a challenging spirit to run toward a higher goal.”

Last but not least, the third major point was that Samsung vows to reexamine its “Organizational culture and work methods and immediately fix what needs to be fixed.” Samsung says that if it finds a problem in the field, it will “expose it and have a heated discussion to improve it.”

According to a report from Business Korea, Samsung is facing yield-related issues with its 3nm Exynos 2500 chips. Yield refers to the percentage of all chips that pass the quality certification while the rest are discarded. While Samsung has expressed faith in its second-generation 3nm process and the Exynos 2500 chip, the Business Korea report claims the yields are low and has failed to offer actual figures.

TL;DR

• The Samsung Galaxy Ring supports Qi2 charging according to a certification filing.
• Despite this, the Galaxy Ring’s charging case doesn’t magnetically attach to any Qi2 chargers or MagSafe accessories.
• This is because the case doesn’t have any magnets.

TL;DR

• Samsung has raised Quick Share’s daily transfer limit and individual file size limit to 10GB.
• That’s a huge leap from the previous 5GB daily transfer limit.

Pros

• Week-long battery life
• Stylish aesthetic
• Light and comfortable
• Automatic walking and running tracking
• Automatic sleep tracking
• Lots of visible health data

Cons

• Very limited fitness tracking capabilities
• Mediocre sleep tracking accuracy
• No AFib detection
• Gestures are gimicky
• Find my device is severely limited on non-Samsung phones
• Some insights limited to Samsung phones with Galaxy AI

TL;DR

• One UI 6.1.1 adds an option to boost the dialogue volume in videos playing from your Galaxy device.
• It also adds an option to normalize the overall volume levels of media.
• Both options work with media played through the device’s speakers or any connected headset.

After it was discovered that Samsung would begin blocking any attempt to sideload apps Epic Games has made the decision to remove Fortnite, among other titles, from the Galaxy Store.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16007814

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