Samsung, Nokia and Facebook have different visions of the Internet [REPORT FROM ... - Newsweek Poland

selling our smartphones and mobile gadgets Samsung perfected the art of making, but Nokia and Facebook are trying to come up with our digital world for five years.

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premiere industry new technologies have not yet seen. In Barcelona, ??shown on Monday, the latest model Samsung Galaxy S5. At the world’s largest at the Mobile World Congress meets every year 70 thousand. people. Nevertheless, Samsung decided that he needed something bigger – hired a separate convention center, invited 6,5 thousand. visitors to show Galaxy S5. This is for a Korean company for the next year’s flagship product (so far sold on the world 200 million devices in this series).

Although the difference compared to the previous model, the Galaxy is not at first sight appear, progress, as always, was packed in the middle – faster electronics, better camera, longer battery operated. It should, however, pay attention to the setting of the event, at which the lavish premiere in Hollywood is a piece of cake – guests counted in the thousands, the world’s largest screens for presentations, speeches prepared in the style of Steve Jobs.

new Samsungu all prepared for the affluent client. But also a phone that will hit the market in early April, the cheapest belonged not be – the so-called smarfton from the top shelf. Similarly, as shown for the first time new smart-watches: Gear 2 and Gear Fit. Especially the latter made a big impression: design and color, curved touchscreen display. Both watches – with a multitude of exercise and a healthy lifestyle, it is also the product for the customer cares about himself, obsessively focused on being fit (more pictures of phones and gadgets, I’m referring to – in the gallery to the text).

Korean giant clearly stared at the patterns of Apple. He started with cheap electronics, now tempts customers with premium category who buy expensive gadgets will give more to earn the manufacturer. The ability to squeeze money from the richest 20 percent. population is great news for the owners and shareholders of Samsung, but it is not a major trend in which will develop the world of technology and the Internet in the coming years. The future is elsewhere.