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By Samsung Newsroom
Starting in 2026, Samsung will enhance its Auto Blocker feature on Galaxy phones and tablets running Android to provide users with greater flexibility while maintaining strong security protections. With this update, users will be able to directly install third-party Android app stores and their apps without Auto Blocker preventing installation, as long as the stores meet certain security and compliance requirements.
Auto Blocker is a sophisticated security tool designed to give users more control over their device protection, primarily by preventing app installations from unauthorized sources. This upcoming enhancement builds on that foundation by supporting additional app distribution channels, while continuing to apply platform protections across the broader Galaxy security framework.
Further details will be announced and implemented later this year.
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By Samsung Newsroom
May 2025 New Application Promotion Feature to Highlight Your Application in Galaxy Store
Introducing a new opportunity to increase your application’s visibility on the Galaxy Store! The Seller Portal has launched a new application promotion feature to highlight your application on the Galaxy Store. Developers can now request that their game, application, or theme is showcased in an editorial created for the Galaxy Store’s "Discover" tab. Available to users in the US and South Korea, the "Discover" tab is where discovery meets inspiration, highlighting the best content and original stories on mobile and tablet. The tab’s editorials provide users with curated recommendations on the latest trends, benefits and features exclusive to Galaxy, seasonal events, editors’ tips, and more, combining storytelling and visuals to enrich the user experience and showcase innovation. Check out our Seller Portal to learn more about having your application appear in an editorial and what you need to apply.
Learn More Integrate Your Devices Easily with Device Profile Builder
SmartThings continues to invest in the Developer Center by creating new tools for partners and has recently added the Device Profile Builder, a web-based tool that helps developers create a profile to define a device and its features on the SmartThings platform. The tool makes designing your device for SmartThings easier than ever. There are templates for different smart home device types, making it easy to get started, along with opportunities for customization.
To learn more about the Device Profile Builder, see our blog article on the new tool. Meet the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge: an Engineering Marvel of New Slim Hardware Innovation
On May 13, Samsung unveiled their latest ultra-slim smartphone at the "Galaxy S25 Edge: Beyond Slim" event. At just 5.8 mm thin and weighing only 163 g, the Galaxy S25 Edge is the slimmest device in the Galaxy S series to date, combining sleek style with portability. The device features a titanium frame as well as Corning® Gorilla® Glass Ceramic 2 on the front display, a next-generation material designed to boost durability. Equipped with a 200-megapixel camera and enhanced AI capabilities, the Galaxy S25 Edge delivers an even more intelligent and powerful experience. Learn more about the Galaxy S25 Edge and its spectacular performance at the Samsung Electronics Newsroom.
Learn More Tutorial: Reading and Converting Galaxy Watch Accelerometer Data
Accessing accelerometer data from your Galaxy Watch opens up endless opportunities to build motion-aware applications—from fitness tools to gesture-controlled interfaces. With the proper setup and data handling, an application running on Galaxy Watch powered by Wear OS can deliver accurate, real-time motion insights to users. This tutorial walks you through everything you need to know, from setting up your Wear OS project to reading and converting sensor data. Explore the sample application included with the guide to test motion features yourself!
Learn More Exploring a Simple Siamese Network for High-Resolution Video Quality Assessment
Video Quality Assessment (VQA) is becoming increasingly important as popular smart devices make producing high-quality video and high-resolution user-generated content (UGC) part of everyday life. However, the computational burden for high-resolution video and the diversity of content present new challenges for efficient and effective VQA.
To address these challenges, Samsung R&D Institute China-Nanjing presents SiamVQA, a Siamese network that considers both technical and aesthetic quality perspectives. Sharing a common feature extractor (Swin-T), SiamVQA employs a simple network design based on dual cross-attention to enhance the semantic perception ability for more accurate quality prediction. As a result, SiamVQA has achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on high-resolution benchmarks, proving to be both efficient and effective. Learn more about the next-generation VQA model that opens up the possibilities for Siamese networks on the Samsung Research blog.
Learn More On-Device Hand Model for Robust Gesture Detection
Hand gesture recognition technology enables more natural and intuitive ways to communicate. Unlike traditional input methods like keyboards or touchscreens, users can express intentions and commands through everyday movements and postures. Gesture-based interaction is also inclusive, offering greater accessibility for people with physical disabilities who may have difficulty using conventional input methods. Thanks to these advantages, hand gesture recognition is becoming an increasingly important area of research in different fields such as human-computer interaction systems, sign language translation, VR/AR, and remote-control applications.
In this blog article, we introduce an on-device AI model that delivers fast and accurate performance across a range of environments. Explore this key solution from Samsung R&D Institute Ukraine, from a neural network architecture to resolve multimodal tasks to a novel multi-cascade structure for handling simultaneous tasks at once.
Learn More Single-Channel Distance-Based Source Separation for Mobile GPU in Outdoor and Indoor Environments
Distance-based source separation (DSS) separates audio sources into "near" or "far" groups based on their distance from a microphone. Unlike traditional source separation approaches, DSS uses spatial cues—such as the inverse square law of sound intensity, direct-to-reverberation ratio (DRR), and other distance-based acoustic effects—to separate a mixed audio signal into components by distance. However, most previous DSS research has focused on indoor scenarios. This makes it difficult to address the challenges of ambient noise and unclear reverberant boundaries in outdoor environments, and of real-time processing speed and accuracy on mobile devices.
To tackle this difficulty, AI Solution Team at Samsung Research proposes a new single-channel DSS model for on-device mobile environments. This model performs robustly in both indoor and outdoor scenarios. Key innovations of the model include a two-stage Conformer architecture for capturing complex audio dependencies, a linear relation-aware self-attention (RSA) mechanism for efficiency, and mobile GPU acceleration optimization using the TensorFlow Lite (TFLite) GPU delegate, which enables real-time running on mobile devices. Learn about how this new model achieves accurate and effective far/near voice and sound separation even in noisy outdoor environments and its on-device performance on the Samsung Research blog.
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By Samsung Newsroom
April 2025 New & Updated Features of Samsung Health Accessory SDK
Introducing the newly updated Samsung Health Accessory SDK.
The innovative bridge for integrating Samsung Health with partner device data, the Accessory SDK has been enhanced with new features such as Cycling Power Sensor, Cycling Speed & Cadence Sensor, and Thermometer. Existing features have also been improved.
The SDK consolidates scattered user health data from various devices into Samsung Health, enabling more precise, data-driven health management and ultimately delivering greater value to our users. Enrich user health journey with the new and improved Accessory SDK.
Learn More Samsung IAP Unity Plugin v6.3.0
Samsung In-App Purchase (IAP) supports not only the Android SDK, but also the Unity Plugin for applications built with Unity.
On March 19, the Unity Plugin with the latest version of Samsung IAP 6.3.0 was released, and the programming guide was also partially updated for developer convenience.
This update has added new APIs for checking subscription promotion eligibility and changing subscription plans. It is also possible to check price changes for active subscriptions, enabling more flexible and precise subscription management. Learn more on the Samsung Developer Portal.
Learn More Your First Step Towards Becoming a Samsung Wallet Partner
Are you considering a partnership with Samsung Wallet? Check out the onboarding video and blog content created by the Samsung Wallet team that provide clear and easy guidance for the partner onboarding process. The Samsung Wallet team is always committed to communicating with and growing alongside more partners. Get familiar with the onboarding process on the blog today and register as a Samsung Wallet partner!
Learn More Samsung Electronics Unveils Latest SmartThings Update
SmartThings strives to make the platform more valuable for our end users, partners, and developers, with our goal to empower users to create exceptional experiences. In Q1 2025, Samsung SmartThings launched key updates to enhance home AI. The highlight of this quarter is the integration of SmartThings with Samsung Health, which is designed to improve users' sleep environments while enabling more personalized automation experiences. The update also expands Calm Onboarding to support a wider range of devices and adds compatibility with the Matter 1.4 standard.
Learn more about all the updates here. Tutorial: How to Apply LUT Profiles to Samsung Log Videos in Premiere Pro
Did you know that you can create cinematic videos like a pro with just a Galaxy device, without professional equipment? Samsung Log is a new camera application feature introduced with the Galaxy S25 series. It brings the power of log filming, once exclusive to professional cameras, to your smartphone. Log is a flat, desaturated color profile that preserves more image data, optimizing it for color correction and post-production. Filming in Log profiling is favored by professional videographers for its flexibility in color grading, allowing them to bring out more cinematic and visually appealing videos.
Check out the tutorial video to learn how you can easily color grade your Samsung Log video clips in Adobe Premiere Pro using LUT profiles created by Samsung. Get professional-looking results with just a few clicks! Configuring Instant Server Notifications for Samsung IAP
Samsung IAP's Instant Server Notification (ISN) service ensures developers stay informed about user actions. When users trigger events such as completing in-app purchases or modifying subscriptions, the developer receives notifications with the details of the event, enabling them to track and manage user transactions more effectively. It's a seamless way to ensure developers stay up to date.
Check out our blog post to find out how to configure a server to manage the supported events sent by the Samsung IAP ISN service.
Learn More Evaluation of Wearable Head BCG for PTT Measurement in Blood Pressure Intervention
Managing hypertension and cardiovascular risk demands frequent and accurate blood pressure monitoring. Traditional cuff-based methods, however, have limitations in their portability and real-time measuring aspect.
Samsung Research America has proposed a new system that enables continuous blood pressure tracking using an over-the-ear wireless wearable device. The system uses sensors to capture both ballistocardiography (BCG) and photoplethysmography (PPG) signals, and calculate the pulse transit time (PTT) by combining these two bio-signals. Learn about the potential of a future healthcare solution that lets you track blood pressure with everyday wireless earphones on the Samsung Research blog.
Learn More CheapNVS: Real-Time On-Device Novel View Synthesis for Mobile Applications
Novel View Synthesis (NVS) is an innovative technology as it lets you reconstruct a scene from various perspectives. However, as NVS requires a lot of computation, it relies heavily on high-performance GPUs or cloud servers. Accordingly, it has limitations related to the cost, and is difficult to apply in real time on mobile devices.
In order to tackle these issues, Samsung R&D Institute United Kingdom presents CheapNVS, a lightweight NVS system based on neural networks that you can run even on your smartphone. This model takes in a single input image and a new camera pose, and then leverages hardware-friendly network design to both perform image warping and then inpainting to fill in the occluded areas. With its novel parallelizable NVS formulation, it manages to speed-up execution while avoiding the use of costly structures such as multi-plane images. CheapNVS, implementable without complex 3D modeling or expensive computations, is a next-generation technology that can be used for a variety of mobile applications including video calls and 3D image conversion. It is more lightweight than conventional methods by a factor of 20 or more, running quickly and efficiently even on mobile SoC environments. Learn more about this innovative technology on the Samsung Research blog.
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By Samsung Newsroom
Samsung Electronics today announced that its proprietary cryptography module, Samsung CryptoCore,1 has earned the prestigious FIPS 140-3 certification2 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This certification underscores Samsung’s commitment to providing industry-leading security and data protection for Smart TV users.
“As home entertainment systems become more connected, it becomes critical for technology companies to safeguard the personal data that enables the seamless connectivity enjoyed by so many,” said Yongjae Kim, Executive Vice President and Head of the R&D Team, Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics. “By integrating the FIPS 140-3-certified CryptoCore into our Smart TVs, Samsung is taking our commitment to secure home entertainment a step further and ensuring that our users can freely experience the value of our products.”
Beginning in 2025, Samsung CryptoCore will be fully integrated into Tizen OS,3 Samsung’s Smart TV operating system, enhancing the security of key products such as TVs, monitors and digital signage. With Samsung CryptoCore embedded in Tizen OS, personal data linked to Samsung accounts will be securely encrypted, SmartThings authentication information will be protected from external hacking threats and content viewed on TVs will benefit from enhanced copyright protection.
Since 2015, Samsung has equipped its Smart TVs with Samsung Knox,4 a security platform that has earned Common Criteria (CC) certification5 for 10 consecutive years. But with its newly acquired FIPS 140-3 certification, Samsung has strengthened its defenses against hacking and data breaches even further, proactively protecting personal information with advanced encryption technology.
Recognized by governments in 10 countries,6 the FIPS 140-3 certification requires comprehensive testing of cryptographic modules to ensure their security, integrity and reliability. For users, this means Samsung Smart TVs offer cutting-edge protection against privacy breaches, allowing them to enjoy their content, connect smart devices and engage with IoT services securely and without concerns.
1 Samsung CryptoCore is a software library that encrypts and decrypts data during both transmission and storage.
2 Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 covers the security requirements for cryptographic modules.
3 Tizen OS 9.0.
4 Samsung Knox provides privacy protection on its Smart TVs through features like Tizen OS Monitoring, Phishing Site Blocking and Knox Vault. Knox Vault is available only on the QN900D and QN800D models.
5 Common Criteria (CC) certification is a global security standard recognized by 31 countries for IT product integrity.
6 Recognized in the United States, Canada, UK, Germany, France, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
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By Samsung Newsroom
▲ Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” (detail) (1889) shown on The Frame by Samsung. Photo: Samsung
Twenty-seven well-known artworks from MoMA’s collection, including those by artists Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse and Georgia O’Keeffe, are available on the Samsung Art Store today, exclusively to The Frame by Samsung, a best-selling Lifestyle TV that doubles as a piece of art. When it’s on, use The Frame to watch your favorite movies and shows in brilliant 4K resolution. When it’s off, explore the Samsung Art Store to transform any space in your home with a vast catalog of artworks that are handpicked and curated from hundreds of institutions, artists and collectors around the world.
MoMA was founded in 1929 by three progressive women who championed modern and contemporary art and wanted to establish a museum that could be a catalyst for experimentation, learning and creativity. In collaboration with MoMA, the Samsung Art Store includes highlights from MoMA’s collection that were selected by Daria Greene, Global Curator of the Samsung Art Store, to honor the institution’s history and vision, and includes Frida Kahlo’s “Fulang Chang and I” (1937), which is the first artwork by the legendary Mexican artist to arrive on the platform.
▲ Piet Mondrian’s “Trafalgar Square” (1939-43) shown on The Frame by Samsung. Photo: Samsung
“MoMA is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds and provides inspiration. Through our relationship with Samsung, we are broadening access to MoMA’s collection in a truly innovative way to millions of people,” said Robin Sayetta, Head of Business Development at The Museum of Modern Art. “We were purposeful in building this new digital collection and hope to enrich the lives of art enthusiasts with culture and history at an extraordinary scale.”
▲ A view of the fifth-floor collection galleries. Shown: Claude Monet. “Water Lilies.” 1914–26. Oil on canvas, three panels. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund. © 2024 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Noah Kalina
Expanding Access to Art Through Innovation
Included in the more than two dozen artworks from MoMA are celebrated works such as Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” (1889), Henri Rousseau’s “The Dream” (1910) and Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Evening Star III” (1917). This selection represents a diverse range of styles and points in time, offering something for every art lover and Samsung Art Store subscriber.
▲ A view of the fifth-floor collection galleries. Shown: Vincent van Gogh. “The Starry Night.” 1889. Oil on canvas. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. © 2024 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Noah Kalina
“At Samsung, we strive to redefine the home entertainment experience through continual innovation. Our collaboration with MoMA allows us to bring culturally significant works into millions of homes, allowing people to engage with renowned art in a truly remarkable way,” said Sang Yoon Kim, EVP and General Manager of the North America Service Business at Samsung Electronics. “This endeavor exemplifies Samsung’s mission to use technology to deliver exceptional experiences into the everyday lives of consumers.”
“For nearly 100 years, MoMA has been instrumental in expanding the reach and impact of Modern and Contemporary art, cementing its position as one of the most dynamic and diverse institutions globally. Through this collaboration, we are able to share works by incredible artists, including 20th century female trailblazers, on the Samsung Art Store,” adds Daria Greene, Global Curator of Samsung Art Store.
▲ Hannah Höch’s “Untitled (Dada)” (detail) (1922) shown on The Frame by Samsung. Photo: Samsung
The Samsung Art Store is available only on The Frame, which has been refreshed in 2024 to deliver an even more complete artistic and aesthetic experience. That includes ArtfulColor validation from Pantone,1 the industry leading color experts. As the world’s first and only art TV to achieve this validation, The Frame delivers natural and realistic visuals that wouldn’t look out of place in a gallery. It hangs just like a picture flush against the wall and is available in class sizes ranging from 32 to 85 inches. The bezels2 can also be swapped out with various colors and designs, giving you more ways than ever to customize The Frame for your unique style and décor.
The Frame also delivers value-add features that you can only find from Samsung — the #1 global TV brand for 18 years and counting.3 Samsung AI technology makes everything you watch look clearer and crisper, while you enjoy access to 2,700+ free channels, including 400+ Samsung TV Plus4 premium channels. You can also use your TV as your smart home hub and ensure your personal data is protected by Samsung Knox security.
The Frame is available for purchase at MoMA Design Store at store.moma.org, Samsung.com and other select retailers.
The Introduction of Highlights from MoMA’s Collection follows the Samsung Art Store’s relationships with world-class museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Musée d’Orsay, and the release of several collections this year featuring René Magritte, Jean-Michel Basquiat and over 40 Marimekko artworks. Samsung remains committed to being the premier destination for experiencing a wide breadth of high-quality digital art.
1 Pantone company provides a universal language of color, called Pantone Matching System, that enables color-critical decisions through every stage of the workflow for brands and manufacturers.
2 Bezels sold separately.
3 Source: Omdia, Jan 2024. Results are not an endorsement of Samsung. Any reliance on these results is at the third party’s own risk.
4 Available for free on Samsung Smart TVs released after 2016, Galaxy devices, Smart Monitors, Family Hub refrigerators and the web.
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