Articles tagged "Samsung"

While drivers around the world enjoy the increasing connectivity of their electric cars, Samsung has quietly rolled out its own car connectivity suite, Samsung Auto, as but with a catch – it's only available in China. Since China doesn't get Android...

Last week, Samsung announced its Exynos Auto UA100 UWB chip for vehicles and now the company unveiled a more advanced Exynos Auto UA200 version with some advanced features in addition to the UWB connectivity. The Exynos Auto UA200 is...

Samsung and Audi have partnered up to allow the Samsung Wallet app on your phone to unlock select Audi cars, even if you don’t have the physical key with you. The app also lets you open the trunk and start the car, so you can leave the fob at...

Samsung has announced the industry’s first PCIe 4.0 automotive SSD, which is based on eighth generation V-NAND flash. It’s dubbed the AM9C1 and replaces the AM991 that came before it. The key upgrades this generation are much improved power...

Perhaps one of the biggest, if not the biggest, ecosystem for connected devices is Samsung's SmartThings and with its recent move, the service become far more useful. SmartThings now allows integration with Hyundai and Kia EVs through its...

Samsung's SmartThings is possibly the biggest smart home platform in the world and is now offering integration with EvLoop's EV charging network. The integration is also working with some EVs. The SmartThings app now allows you to track and...

Korean tech giant Samsung SDI announced a seven-year contract to deliver electric vehicle batteries to Hyundai Motor, starting in 2026. Not only does this spell a significant stride for both companies, but it also serves as their first-ever...

With an increasing number of car manufacturers shifting their focus to EVs, the EV battery market is getting really busy. On this exciting highway towards electrification, two significant players - Stellantis and Samsung SDI - are stepping on the...

Samsung just launched a portable projector called Freestyle EV9 Edition as it has matching looks of the recently launched Kia EV9 in South Korea. However, contrary to the projector, the vehicle is available outside of South Korea and Kia is now...

The last few years have seen greatly accelerated development of in-car infotainment. In the space of the last 4 or 5 years, we went from the 90s-looking icon-based graphic UI to a fully-blown animated experience in the highest quality imaginable....

Samsung is launching its Digital Car Key in Brazil. The company partnered up with BMW and from now on, owners of the selected models can lock and unlock their vehicles using the Samsung Galaxy phones running Android 13. The phones capable of...

Samsung electronics has a new EVP and Head of the Mobile Experience (MX) Design team – Hubert H. Lee. Previously, Lee was at Mercedes-Benz for over two decades and most recently was Chief Design Officer of Mercedes-Benz China. As a leader of the...

Samsung is reportedly becoming Tesla's biggest supplier of camera modules for its cars, following a recent multi-billion-dollar deal between the two companies. So far, LG Innotek was supplying around 70% of the camera modules Tesla needed, with...

Stellantis, the automaker merger between Fiat Chrysler and PSA (owner of Peugeot and Opel), has announced a joint venture with battery maker Samsung SDI to build a plant in the US. The venture will invest over $2.5b (€2.3b) to build a battery...