https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQoJexGN_k Anything But Idle is currently on hiatus but Ray Sidney-Smith (🌐 https://twominuterule.com) and Augusto Pinaud (🌐 https://productivityvoice.com/) are occasionally doing episodes for commentary on major news/events in the world of personal productivity and related technologies. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://anythingbutidle.com for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If you'd like to continue discussing any news from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Commentary on Samsung Galaxy Unpacked January 2024 Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Art Gelwicks Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at Gelwicks Tech, and host of the Being Productive podcast, CrossPlatform podcast, as well as a collaborator on ProductivityCast Podcast. Headlines & Show Notes | Commentary on Samsung Galaxy Unpacked January 2024 Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7x0E0hLaJ8&t=12228s Summary (Auto-Generated) Samsung Galaxy Unpacked initial impressions. Art Gelwicks felt the Samsung Galaxy unpacked show had an "awkward" start but improved with a live audience. Art Gelwicks found the presentation to be lacking in energy and enthusiasm, with a few notable exceptions. Ray Sidney-Smith contrasted the pre-recorded and live elements of the presentation, finding the latter to be less engaging. Samsung's commitment to security updates and AI-powered call features. (4:25) Ray Sidney-Smith: Samsung's commitment to 7 years of security updates and 7 operating system updates for flagship devices shows their dedication to customer satisfaction. Art Gelwicks: Samsung's decision to make updates backward compatible for 7 years highlights the power and longevity of their hardware. Art Gelwicks highlights the on-device AI component in Samsung's new phones, which processes language translation and live calls without relying on the cloud. AI-powered real-time language translation technology. (9:14) Art Gelwicks and Ray Sidney-Smith discuss the benefits of real-time language translation technology, including smooth and accurate translations, and the ability to choose between speaking and listening to translations in different languages. Art Gelwicks and Ray Sidney-Smith discuss the potential of AI in making communication more efficient, with examples of language translation features in Samsung Keyboard app. The speakers highlight the benefits of seeing both languages side by side during conversations, rather than relying on post-typing translations. Samsung's AI-powered note-taking features. (13:35) Art Gelwicks: Samsung notes getting AI functionality, handwriting realignment, and note summarization. Gelwicks: Samsung's focus on making phone the "do all be all" for productivity and photo editing. Art Gelwicks and Ray Sidney-Smith discuss the limitations of Samsung Notes, a feature that uses AI to clean up handwriting and typing. They agree that while the feature is useful for some users, it's not a practical solution for most people due to the limitations of the Samsung ecosystem and the inefficiency of using the app on a phone. AI-powered note-taking features on Samsung devices. (19:20) Ray Sidney-Smith: Photomoji capabilities in Google Messages are powerful and seamless, but RCS availability is crucial for full functionality. Art Gelwicks: RCS standardization across backends makes this feature more useful, but personal interest is low due to limited use case. Samsung Notes is designed to be a competitor to Apple Notes or Google Keep, not OneNote,
