Samsung will be introducing its latest Galaxy S smart phone this evening at Radio City Music Hall. The following article about the launch makes an interesting point about the evolution of the smart phone market:
New Samsung Galaxy S IV to launch today, will face stiff competition http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/03/14/new-samsung-phone-to-face-stronger-competition/?intcmp=HPBucket#ixzz2NWLLl7v6"At this point it comes down to going beyond the hardware, into the software," he said. "Increasingly, as consumers are looking at ecosystem, beyond just the device ... how the phone relates to the tablet and relates back to the computer and relates to the television set -- those things become far more important over time. While Samsung has shown a tremendous capability around devices, it remains to be seen how effective their larger ecosystem story is."
So here is part of that story: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zappotvsamsung&hl=enTurns out that Samsung has developed apps for their smartphones, and probably their tablets as well, to control their smart TV products.
Looking over the page cited above one can see a number of trends in this area, and rthe reality that "we're" not quite there yet.
And one more thing... Samsung also makes these TV remote apps available for iOS devices. Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org
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