Across 2022, the annual CES (International Consumer Electronics Exhibition) conference has arrived. After the previous year's online exhibition, this year's CES 2022 finally returned to offline and was held as scheduled in the familiar Las Vegas.
As the largest exhibition in the consumer electronics category, CES 2022 should become a stage for major manufacturers to show their muscles, but because the new crown epidemic is still severe, manufacturers including Microsoft, Google, Panasonic, BMW, etc. have announced their withdrawal or cancellation of the activities originally scheduled to be held at CES, and it seems that only Samsung, which can shoulder the responsibility of "hardware carnival", is only Samsung, which covers all categories.
Before the CES conference began, Samsung has released a series of new products including mobile phones, TVs, monitors, etc., making the originally slightly deserted CES 2022 lively.
The Galaxy S21 FE arrived as scheduled
The Galaxy S20 FE (Fan Edition) launched by Samsung last year was one of Samsung's best-selling Galaxy phones last year, and achieved very good sales results in the global mobile phone market, which proves that Samsung's market strategy of using the appearance of flagship machines to reduce the dimensionality of mid-range machines is successful.
As a result, the S21 also attracted FE versions at the end of the product cycle to satisfy fans who wanted to get the unique look of the S21 series at a more affordable price.
Looking at the iconic back first, the S21 FE is almost identical to the S21 in the arrangement of the camera. S21 FE has a total of black, white, green, purple four colors, the difference is that the S21 FE camera module does not use the S21 color block design, but with the back cover integrated.
As can be seen from the side bezel, the camera module of the S21 is extended by the metal bezel, while the S21 FE is simply separated from the back cover.
Although slightly inferior in design and texture, the core configuration of the S21 FE is still full of sincerity. The S21 FE, like the S21, has two versions of the Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100 chipsets, with a choice of 6GB and 8GB of memory.
The S21 FE features a 6.4-inch 1080P AMOLED screen on the front, with a refresh rate of 120Hz of the flagship standard, which is slightly larger than the S21's 6.2-inch screen.
The increase in size has won more space for the battery, and the battery capacity of the S21 FE has reached 4500 mAh, which is 500 mAh more than the S21, and it is believed that the battery life will also improve.
The S21 FE's front camera maintains a mid-shot knockout design, but the specifications have been improved, from 10 megapixels on the S21 to 32 megapixels.
In terms of rear, the telephoto camera, which is also 3x optical zoom (but no optical image stabilization), has shrunk from 64 megapixels to 8 megapixels, forming a triple camera combination with a 12MP main camera and a 12MP ultra-wide-angle lens.
As for the price that fans care about most, the S21 FE starts at $699, which is $100 less than the S21. So the question is, is the more cost-effective S21 FE worth starting? As S22 comes to an upcoming release, I suggest you wait and see.
Picture frame TV is the best home for NFTs
Before the emergence of The Frame and The Serif series of televisions, few people would regard TVs as decorations in the living room, replacing art paintings to carry the family's pursuit of art and beauty.
The success of the Frame series of picture frame TVs is largely due to its simple design, the slim body with wooden border, people at first glance can hardly tell the difference between it and the real picture frame, you can make any art you like, photos into the wall.
However, The Frame and the display effect is not perfect, when its screen in complex light conditions (direct sunlight, surrounded by light) will appear different degrees of glare and reflection, affecting the appearance of the screen. On the 2022 Model's The Frame TV, this issue was finally solved.
Samsung has applied technologies such as matting coating and low-reflection panels to The Frame's TV, making The Frame's screen look as natural as paper, closer to the look and feel of the museum exhibition.
In terms of content, The Frame's art store has over 1,600 pieces to choose from, and what's more, you can now display the NFT artwork you bought at a great price!
Samsung announced that it will equip the 2022 Smart TV with a new version of the Smart Hub, which includes 4 important features:
The "Gaming Hub" where you can play cloud games, the "Watch Together" where you can video chat while watching movies, the "NFT Platform" that integrates NFT display and sales, and the "Smart Calibration" that quickly calibrates the screen quality.
NFTs are often recognized as digital artworks, and compared to mobile phones and computers, it is obviously more appropriate to showcase NFTs with an artistic picture frame TV (of course, other smart TVs released by Samsung in 2022 also support this feature).
Samsung says users can showcase, browse and buy NFTs on their TVs through the NFT Platform, a groundbreaking platform.
At the moment of NFT popularity, the use of displays to display an invisible digital collection has indeed become the demand of many "crypto people", and more and more manufacturers may follow the pace of Samsung in the future to launch displays for displaying digital content, and digital photo albums that have become tears of the times will also be resurrected.
Remote control for charging via WiFi
At last year's CES conference, Samsung equipped its new QLED TV with an interesting solar remote control with a conspicuous solar panel behind the remote control to replace the traditional dry cell energy source with solar power, which Samsung said aimed to save 99 million dry batteries in 7 years.
A year later, the remote control, which was born for environmental protection, launched a new version again, and went further on the road to environmental protection - not only with the help of solar power, but also by converting the RF signal of WiFi into energy, realizing "WiFi charging" and keeping the remote control powered at all times.
WiFi power generation is not a fantasy, and a 2019 article by MIT professor Tomás Palacios in the scientific journal Nature mentioned that researchers can produce about 40 microwatts of power when they put a new two-dimensional material called molybdenum disulfide in a WiFi environment.
While WiFi generates very little energy, it's suitable for low-power devices like wearables, sensors, and remote controls.
This is different from the concept of air charging proposed by Xiaomi and Motorola, which requires a high-power transmitter, while Samsung's remote control only needs to be charged in a general WiFi environment.
New remote control that can charge WiFi
In addition to WiFi charging, Samsung is also exploring "shake charging", the former is to convert the kinetic energy of the shaking remote control into electricity, and the latter is to use the kinetic energy of the microphone diaphragm vibration to generate electricity.
However, at present, this environmental remote control is only equipped with expensive series such as QLED, and if you want to fully practice the concept of environmental protection, Samsung also needs to put it into more products.
The display family is here
Samsung released three monitors in one go, corresponding to three different scenarios of gaming, home and professional office.
The Odyssey Neo G8, which positions the top gaming display, has a similar design to the flagship Odyssey Neo G9 (49-inch fish screen), and the lighting on the back can change the lighting effect according to the game screen, extending the immersion of the screen.
G8 screen size of 32 inches, is the world's first 4K, 1000R curved screen, screen refresh rate of 240Hz, reaction time of 1ms, equipped with Quantum Mini LED, Quantum HDR 2000 technology, peak brightness up to 2000 nits, almost touched the picture quality ceiling of e-sports displays.
Another Smart Monitor M8, which is positioned to work from home, is much simpler in design, and the M8 is a smart display that allows you to watch videos wirelessly or run cloud games directly when you're not connected to a computer.
M8 also integrates an IoT center called SmartThings, which can control smart devices in your home through SmartThing, becoming the hub of a smart home network.
Positioning the professional office monitor S8 to meet the strict requirements of color accuracy creative work, S8 is available in 27-inch and 32-inch sizes, both with a resolution of 4K UHD and a screen brightness of 400 nits.
The S8 is certified to the Video Electronics Standards Institute 's (VESA) DisplayHDRTM 600 standard and uses the world's first UL-certified Glare Free glare-free screen that can truthfully present detailed and colorful pictures.
Overall, the content released by Samsung is still full of highlights, from the people-friendly flagship Galaxy S21 FE to the Micro LED TV positioning the future, so that all types of audiences can feast their eyes and make a good start for CES 2022.
This CES conference will end in 5 days, in the next few days LG, Sony, Intel and other manufacturers will bring more interesting products, love fan will continue to pay attention to, bring the first time to interpret.
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