Dr. TM Roh has been the President & Head of Mobile Communications Business of Samsung Electronics for almost a year now. In a newly-published blog post, he penned the predictions of where mobile innovation is heading for the upcoming year of 2021, and TM Roh also teased the strategic product portfolio priorities.
When we first heard about the name TM Roh, it was reported that he is responsible for strategic outsourcing to lower the prices of phones and was also the leader of Samsung’s Galaxy mobile division as the mobile development head, and he is also reportedly known as the “engineering maven” internally. With an engineer in the lead, things will take a turn – but the transitional period is definitely going to be… a little weird.
In the blog post, TM Roh highlighted that Samsung is pushing forward advancements in IoT, AI, and also 5G connectivity. Particularly for the last point, Samsung has twenty devices in the Galaxy ecosystem now that supports 5G. Foldable phones are also catching up as both the Galaxy Z Flip and Galaxy Z Fold2 (which I really love) is now getting more mature in terms of hardware and software too, making the entire user experience coherent and synergistic.
There’s also another app called Samsung Global Goals which – in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Galaxy device users can contribute phones to charity by displaying ads. Samsung is also making the product lifecycle to be longer, and help to extend the product life, using sustainable materials for packaging, and creating environmentally-conscious products and accessories.
For the year 2021, Samsung continues to develop an on-device AI engine for the products and still strongly support open-source research and collaborations to share ideas and further improve together. Privacy is also a focus for the upcoming year, and Samsung aims to heavily protect data even more.
One of Samsung’s promise is to continue its heritage of bringing revolutionary tech to the consumers. We’ve seen that with foldable devices, and TM Roh said that the foldable category of products will be expanding, and it will be more accessible to everyone.
Another highlight is the focus on usual pro-grade video and photography with AI, but one of the sentences that caught my attention was this:
We’ve also been paying attention to people’s favorite aspects of the Galaxy Note experience and are excited to add some of its most well-loved features to other devices in our lineup.
Going by the leaks, the Galaxy S21 is going to support the S Pen. But I’m not sure what TM Roh means by “other devices”… I mean, even the Galaxy A series? What will happen to the Note series then?
Either way, TM Roh ends his blog post with the sentence “I look forward to sharing more in January!” which I think there’s another Unpacked event happening. Again, going by the leaks, seems like it’s the Galaxy S21.
We’ll have to see what’s up in the upcoming Unpacked event.
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